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existence ... Even if you are sitting alone in a room you go on radiating love, the room becomes full of the vibe of your love. People who have eyes to see and hearts to feel, if they come into the room they will simply fell a different vibe in the room.
Sometimes even unconscious and blind people have glimpses of that. If in a certain house there has been a murder and you go in, you know nothing about the murder but suddenly you feel a tension growing in you for no reason at all. The whole air seems to be somehow heavy, dark, evil. If in some place people have been fighting, have been angry, shouting at each other -- they may have gone, but when you enter the room it is still echoing, resounding, with the anger, rage, hatred. You will feel it, as if the room were not empty.
So is the case if a loving person has been sitting there in the room alone, if a meditative person has been sitting in the room alone. You enter the room, suddenly you are showered with a totally new kind of energy -- nourishing. A joy arises in you. You may have been sad but suddenly entering into the room you feel great joy.
That's how temples were created in the beginning, but soon they became instruments for cunning people to exploit the innocent. Otherwise the motive was beautiful, there must be a place where nobody fights, nobody becomes angry, where everybody goes with a worshipful heart, love, gratitude, prayer. Slowly slowly the temple accumulates all these vibrations, it becomes richer and richer. Hence the idea that the more ancient the temple is, the more significant it is, because it contains so many people and their beautiful vibes. That was the motive. It didn't come true: priests jumped in and destroyed all the temples.
So remember these two things: be loving and be relaxed. These two commandments are for being a sannyasin.
(Joost becomes Swami Anand Svarup)
Bliss is not something external to you, it is something intrinsic to your very being, it is something that you are made of. So it is not a question of achieving it, it is only a question of recognizing it, remembering it. It is as if we had forgotten sothing. It is just on the tip
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