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people are after you.
All these problems arise one by one out of a single root: the ego. The man of penetrating awareness cuts the invisible root; that's what sannyas is: surrendering the ego. And the moment you surrender the ego, immediately the meeting happens; immediately you are one with the whole. And to be one with the whole is bliss, is benediction, is ecstasy, is freedom, freedom from all diseases, freedom from all restlessness, freedom from all ugliness.
Love is the very essence of prayer. Those who pray without love, their prayer remains formal. It is an empty gesture with no reality, no significance. They can go on praying for lives together -- no transformation is going to happen through their prayer. They are deceiving themselves and nobody else.
Real prayer arises only out of love. And the irony is that all the so-called religions have been against love and for prayer. They destroy the very possibility of prayer and then they impose a false, a pseudo kind of prayer.
There is a reason why they do it; because if a man really comes to know prayer through love, he will not be Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan -- he will simply be religious. But Christians, Mohammedans, Hindus are not interested in somebody's being religious. Their interest is that the person should belong to their fold, to their flock, to their crowd.
The only way to prevent people from moving in the right direction is to cut the very source of real prayer -- that is love. So they all condemn love and they all praise prayer. It is like condemning rose bushes and praising roses: the natural outcome will be that people will have to purchase plastic roses. And that's what established religions have been doing: selling plastic roses.
Plastic roses can be Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan; they can be manufactured in different shapes, colours; they can even be perfumed. They are cheap and they are lasting. And the churches are not interested in your transformation, they have their vested interest.
All the churches in the world are interested in keeping their power intact; nobody wants to love power hence whenever there is a person who starts talking
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