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or playing chess -- everything is false... but people can get very serious about the false too. Then the false also looks like the real.
Try just the opposite -- if you are non-serious, even the real becomes false. Hence in the east we say that the world is illusory, maya. The meaning is not to take it seriously. The word'maya' basically means magic show. You don't take the magician seriously -- you know that he is playing tricks. If he has produced a pigeon, he must be hiding it somewhere -- you don't take it seriously.
In the east we say that the whole world is a magic play -- god is the magician. Nothing is serious here.
And this is my message for you on your sannyas birth, mm? -- to take life very very non-seriously... in the spirit of a picnic.
[The new sannyasin says: I've done the vipassana here, in India... it was very difficult for me to get into.]
Yes, it is difficult. You got into a serious thing in the beginning (laughter). Mm? these vipassana people are serious people.... You got into wrong company from the very beginning!
Do some other groups first, mm? Then I will give you vipassana again. But one should first prepare. Vipassana directly is not good -- it becomes a heavy trip. It is a hard thing.
.... Whenever there is no group, continue all that is available here, but keep alert not to be serious. And when I have seen that you have learned how not to be serious, I will send you into vipassana. Right?
Prem means love, shakti means energy -- love energy. And that is the stuff the whole universe is made of -- love energy. From the lowest to the highest, it is one energy... manifesting in many ways -- gross and subtle -- but it is one energy. On the lowest it appears as electricity, on the highest it appears as prayer, but it is one energy.
So do a few things. One: more and more feel that you are less solid and fluid. Feel more and more that you are energy rather than a solid body. Relax the solidity... Let it melt. Mm? just as you can melt ice -- it becomes water; then you can heat water and it becomes vapour. Ice was solid like stone; when it is vapour, you cannot even see it -- it has
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