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that you say that from now onwards, you will not think in terms of your past -- it no more belongs to you... that now you are beginning a new beginning... that you will function on a new nucleus... that you will not carry the past any more.
Sannyas is a declaration that you have decided to drop the past -- hence the change of name and the change of dress. It is simply symbolic, to make it more penetrating, real, memorable.
So from this moment think of yourself as a new born child. The night is over and you are born to the morning.
It is not going to be easy, because the hold of the past is deep. The morning is very fragile and the new rays of the sun cannot be very strong, but they will be proving stronger and stronger every moment. Nourish them, nurture them,. And don't identify with the past. If any old habit comes past, simply watch it. Remain aloof as if it belongs to somebody else... as if the postman has delivered a letter wrongly. It is not addressed to you, so you return it to the post office.
The mind will go on believing just because of the old habit, because the mind will take time to know that the address is changed. Mm? it takes a little time. The mind moves very slowly; then the unconscious moves even more slowly. The body is very lethargic. Mm? they have different time-systems.
You are taking sannyas from your conscious mind. For the conscious mind it has happened. For the unconscious mind it will take a little longer time, and for your body still a little more time. Mm? they don't function in the same time-system. But it has started,and you can declare tO the world that the night is over.
This ochre colour is just the colour of the first morning sun rays... the redness that comes to the east. It is the colour of the east.
Veet means beyond, nirvana means enlightenment. This is a paradox, but of tremendous import -- that enlightenment becomes possible only when you forget about it. When the desire for enlightenment disappears, only then does it become possible You desire money or you desire meditation -- it makes no difference -- the desire is the same... the nature of the desire is the same.
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