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love. people are very clever at giving beautiful name to ugly things. They have to give beautiful names, otherwise things look so absurd, so ridiculous. Man tries to create at least a beautiful facade; and behind the facade everything ugly can be continued.
The ordinary love contains so much jealousy, so much possessiveness, so much enmity, hatred. Just a little bit of it belongs to the beyond. But those who have known even that little bit say be able to understand it -- otherwise the phenomenon of disciplehood is bound to be ridiculed by those who have never tasted the nectar of it.
The disciple has to be courageous, courageous enough to be called a madman, courageous enough to be called blind, courageous enough to be thought hypnotised. And he has to take these things in a very loving way. He has to understand and he has to be compassionate, kind, sympathetic, because what can others do? They are functioning according to their minds, and this is something not of the mind.
No scripture can be of any help, only a living master can resurrect you, Only a Jesus can call forth Lazarus from the dead. The Bible cannot do it -- you can try it. You can put the Bible on a dead man's chest and try -- the Bible is there and the dead man is there, but Lazarus is not going to be resurrected. The Bible itself is dead, so are all the scriptures. A Jesus is needed, that magic touch of a living master is needed.
The parable is beautiful. That's the state of every disciple, when he comes to a master he is dead, he is almost in his grave. The master calls forth, 'Come out, Lazarus, come out of your grave,' and the disciple has to listen, has to learn how to listen and has to go into the beyond with the master. It is a journey into the uncharted, into the unknown, but without it life is not life. Without it we live in pain, we don't live at all.
Only with something of the transcendental penetrating you do you become alive, you are reborn. Jesus says, 'Unless you are born again, you shall not enter into my kingdom of god.' This is the rebirth he is talking about -- sannyas is a rebirth.
A sannyasin has to learn how to make life a festivity,
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