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to happen next moment, but waiting alert, watchful, that "Whatsoever is going to happen, I am going to live it in its totality"... that makes you a sannyasin.
A consciousness free from past and future is a consciousness who knows what freedom is and who knows what love is and who knows what bliss is. And the consciousness free from past and future has only the present moment to live. Naturally life becomes very simple and very spontaneous. And also life becomes tremendously intense and total, because there is only this moment so your whole energy pours into it.
When you have a long past your energy is spread all over it. And projected by the past is a long future; your energy is spread all over. You don't have much energy to live in this moment. That's why people are living so half-heartedly. People are living lukewarm lives.
Many times it happens a person comes who has the name Luke. I don't give it to him again, because it seems to be a short form of lukewarm! But people are living like Lukes -- just so-so, somehow, just at the very minimum. You cannot know God at the minimum.
God is known when you live at the maximum, when your torch of life burns from both the ends together. Those are the moments which can be called divine. When you are totally in a certain moment, that very totality becomes the door to God.
By becoming a sannyasin you are becoming committed to a totally new life: the life of the present, the life of consciousness, the life of love, and the life of intense passion. Because the only way to live is to live passionately, and to live passionately one needs commitment, involvement.
You are getting involved with me, with my people. This is what initiation into sannyas means: you are becoming part of a strange endeavor that is going on here. It is strange because the whole world is living at the minimum and we are trying to live at the maximum.
And as the commune grows I will go on demanding more and more intensity. It is far better to live a single moment of totality than to live for thousands of years dragging, pretending, just hoping that something will turn up tomorrow. But the tomorrow never comes!
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