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of God ... And he is absolutely right. The really ripe and mature person is one who in his old age again becomes as innocent as a child. The circle is complete: life has come to its ultimate peak and we are ready to go back home.
If the circle is incomplete you will have to be born again, because the circle has to be completed; that is the task that has been given to us. Unless we fulfil it we cannot be called back by God. This is our work in life: to become a child again -- innocent, full of wonder an awe.
Mind is good as a mechanism; use it but don't be used by it. Don't become a servant of it, don't be possessed by it. Remain the master.
And that's what sannyas is all about; becoming the master of your own mind so that when you want to put it aside you can put it aside, when you want to turn it off you can turn it off.
(to Marko)
In India we have one of the greatest scriptures, the BHAGAVAD GITA. It is the story of a great warrior, Arjuna, trying to escape from the war-field. His master, who was functioning as a charioteer for Arjuna in the war, persuades him to stay in the war; there is no need to renounce it. The basic argument that the Master gives, that Krishna gives to Arjuna, is that if you fight for your own self then the war is ugly, but ifyou allow God to fight through you then you need not be worried; then you are simply a vehicle, a medium. Then if God decides to escape from the war it is perfectly okay; of he decides to be in the war that's perfectly okay.
Life becomes a blissfulness whenever you allow God to flow through you, whenever you are just an instrument in his hands, when you don't have any will of your own. That is real war: not to have one's own will, not to have one's own ego. And that is real victory: to drop it, to get rid of it, and to be utterly in the hands of god.
(to Nick)
Love is the fragrance of the victorious heart. Ordinarily the head is victorious over the heart, hence man becomes incapable of love. Love cannot arises out of the head. Out of the head logic is possible, mathematics is possible, science is possible, business is possible, politics is possible -- but not
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