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a man of awareness never accumulates it. He goes on refining his process of knowing; there is no limit to it. He goes on sharpening his sword. But he is not interested in information, his interest is transformation. And through awareness, through knowing, transformation happens. You become a new man.
Through knowledge you remain the same old person with more knowledge added to you. But you are not new, you are the same old person, with new acquirements, that's all. With awareness you are new, and you are new in such a way that you know how to go on renewing yourself every moment so you are never old, never dull, never insensitive.
That's the way of sannyas, awareness, meditation, knowing, loving, These are the key words, And they are not just to be remembered, you have to experience them, then only do you know. Otherwise you can remember them, you can start repeating them -- and again you have missed the point, again you have transformed knowing into knowledge. Beware of that pitfall. Almost everybody falls into it.
Love is bliss, but very few people in the world are loving people, that's why there is so much misery. Everybody wants to be loving, everybody wants to be loved, but nobody learns the art of loving. It is a great art. You are born only with the potential, but the potential has to be transformed into the actual, it has to be made into reality. And the first requirement is to become more alert,
People are unconscious, hence they want love, they want to love, but because they are unconscious whatsoever they do is just the opposite. They destroy their own love, they destroy all the possibilities of love, and then they are miserable . And they blame fate, god -- they blame everything, except themselves. The alert person will always blame himself because he will become aware of the fact that his desires and his actions are opposite to each other, they contradict each other.
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the
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