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is the one side of the ego, or from superiority complex; that is another side of the same disease. But both arise out of comparison.
So when I am saying love yourself, I am saying simply as if you are alone here in the whole of existence. There is nobody else, so there is no possibility of comparing. Respect yourself not comparatively; simply respect yourself, just respect yourself. And in that respect you will respect life because you are life, and in that love you will love life because you are life. And in that love and respect you will respect and love the whole existence.
That's what prayer is all about, but it can arise only if you move in the right direction. Loving oneself, respecting oneself, is the right direction. And one then starts growing naturally.
Growth is not something which has to be forced upon one. We have only to create the context and the growth happens. You put the seed in the soil, you put on the manure, you water it, and you wait. You have created the context, you have created the space for the seed; now it is for the seed and its nature to sprout. And it will sprout in its time and it will grow. You need not pull it; it will grow on its own.
Growth is not an effort; it is an effortless, natural phenomenon. All that is needed is creating a right space, a right context. That's what sannyas is all about.
[To a sannyasin, returning after four years:]
Be very relaxed while you are here. Don't make it a tense affair. Move slowly; there is no hurry. Speed is more or less a hindrance and never a help. And the modern mind is too much speedy. And because of that tremendous craziness for speed we go on missing all that is significant.
Instant coffee is possible, but instant God is not possible, so if one insists that "I would like only that which is instantly possible," then only one will have coffee and no God. Then life becomes trivial, mundane; and it is a sacrilege to destroy life in small things.
Life has such immense potential that it can reach to the ultimate peaks of joy, ecstasy, celebration. It is not only for small things. Small things are good in their own place; I am not against
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