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used to say that truth has to be stolen. One has to be almost a thief, because truth is so closely guarded by the oppressors. They don't allow anybody to know about it, because any leakage of the secret will bring revolution in the world.
And this is one of the very guarded secrets, that bliss is virtue. People have been told to be serious and sad, not blissful. Down the ages religion has become associated with seriousness. It is a lie! Religion is a dance, a song, a celebration... because only the blissful can give bliss to others. You can only give that which you have; you cannot give that which you don't have. And virtue is sharing your bliss with others.
The miserable person cannot be religious. He is ill, he is unhealthy -- how he can be religious? Religion means inner health, sanity, wholeness. The miserable person can only pretend. And ninety-nine point nine percent of your saints in the past have been miserable peopLe. And because they were miserable they wanted everybody to be miserable. They created a very negative approach towards God. They created a very pathological religion.
My effort is to bring health to religion again. My sannyasin has to be blissful. He has to make bliss his only religion.
Prem Kutira. Prem means love; Kutira means a small house -- a small house of love.
A sannyasin has to become a house of love, a temple of love: not love in the ordinary sense, as a relationship, but in a totally different sense -- as a flavor of your being, as a state of your being. Not love addressed to somebody in particular, but just being loving in general -- loving to the trees, loving to the river, loving to people, loving to the stars.
The emphasis is not on the object of love; any object will do. Any object is an opportunity, a great opportunity, to express your love. The emphasis is on your subjective feeling: be loving. Even if you are sitting silently in your room and there is nobody, still be loving. Fill that empty space of the room with the vibe of love. Pulsate with love. Let love become like breathing: it is always there even while you are asleep.
When love attains to that height it becomes the
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