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-- And I also don't know, so...! You have such a beautiful name -- there is no need for a meaning. Ma Anand Kiffy -- we will call you blissful Kiffy. Whatsoever Kiffy means, be blissful! That is the real thing; that is the elephant. Kiffy is just the tail-end. If the elephant passes by, the tall will also go! How long will you be here? -- Till December, I think. -- That's good. Both the elephant and the tail will go!
The Golden Wind
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 July 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8007045
ShortTitle: GWIND04
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
Marianne is a very beautiful name, of great meaning. It also has a paradox in it. That paradox makes it even more beautiful, more truthful. So it is not only a name but becomes representative of something significant in life. It has two meanings. The first meaning is bitter grace.
The first time that one hears that it means bitter grace it appears a little bit strange, because we have always thought that grace is sweet -- why should grace be bitter? But in fact in the beginning it is bitter, because grace is possible only when one allows one's ego to die. That is its bitterness, its pain. It is very difficult to allow oneself to disappear; to drop the ego is the most difficult thing in life. People go on clinging to it in one way or another, because they think if the ego is totally gone then we are lost, completely lost. But that's an illusion. When the ego is gone you are found for the first time, not lost; hence the beginning is bitter, but the end is tremendously sweet.
And from that end part comes the second meaning... The second meaning of marianne is living fragrance; when one has allowed the ego to die then life becomes a fragrance; then all misery disappears. Misery stinks, it is dirty; it is a wound full of pus. Once the ego is gone one is healed and whole. Then life opens up like a lotus flower. There is great rejoicing -- one is fulfilled,
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