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unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy typed. It is for reference purposes only.]
(to nine-year-old Lisa): You need a big mala or a small one?
(Lisa): A big one!
Big? -- That's good. This is your new name: Ma Anand Rupam. Anand means bliss. Rupam means beauty. Bliss is beautiful; in fact the only real beauty comes out of being blissful. It is not of the body, it is of the soul, but it transforms the body too. When one is miserable inside, the body also goes into an ugly form. When one is blissful inside, the body follows like a shadow: it becomes beautiful. The body is a shadow of the soul, the body simply reflects that which is inside us.
My sannyasins have to be totally beautiful -- inside, outside, in every possible way -- because beauty is divine, beauty is another name for God!
How long will you be here?
(Rupam): About a year.
That's very good, Rupam. Good!
Everybody is potentially a Christ or a Buddha. Feel blessed that god has already given you the seed of the ultimate. All that is needed is to find the right soil and to be ready to die in the soil.
Sannyas is the right soil, and to be with a Master means to be ready to die in him. The moment the seed dies a tree is born. The tree cannot be born without the death of the seed. It is only through death that the new arrives.
One who knows this secret of life goes on dying every day, every moment, because then death is the process of renewal, of renewing yourself, of rebirth.
Feel blessed that Christ is within you. One need not be Christian -that is also one of the meanings of Christoph. One need not be a Christian. Why settle for being a Christian when you can be a christ? Why settle for being a Buddhist when to be a buddha is within your grasp?
My suggestion to all of my sannyasins is: never settle for any small thing. Only the ultimate can make you contented and fulfilled.
(to Moshe) Basically Moshe comes from the Egyptian; the Egyptian form is Moses. The child was saved from the water, hence he was called Moses, the saved one. Moshe is the Hebrew form of Moses.
Be blissful
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