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to kill people for god. Both the parties are fighting for god and both the parties are killing each other for god.
Now when man becomes a little more alert and aware this whole thing will seem so ridiculous, so primitive, and so stupid. And this has been done in the name of religion.
Hence my emphasis is on love, because if love happens then everything else happens. There is no question about it. A loving person cannot avoid encountering god for long. Even if he wants to escape he cannot escape; he will find god, he is bound to find him, it is inevitable.
But to know love needs one thing, and that is readiness to dissolve your ego. If you are not ready to dissolve yourself you can never know what love is. The dewdrop slipping into the ocean knows what love is. And that is the way of sannyas: be a dewdrop and slip into the ocean. Forget that you are somebody, from this moment you are a nobody, a non-entity, a nothingness.
In that nothingness the very kingdom of god happens. That nothingness opens the door to all the mysteries of life. It makes you aware of the infinite treasures of your being. Suddenly you are in tune with existence. It is the ego that is a jarring note. It never allows you to commune with existence, it always hinders. It is not a bridge, it is a wall -- it has to be dropped.
The only thing to be renounced in my sannyas is the ego. And the only thing to be experienced in my sannyas is love. And they are two sides of the same coin: dissolve the ego and you are capable, immediately capable, of entering into the world of love.
The Imprisoned Splendor
Chapter #7
Chapter title: None
7 June 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8006075
ShortTitle: IMPRIS07
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]
Bliss is a by-product of being consecrated to god. One cannot achieve it directly -- the way to bliss is via god. One has to surrender to god. In that very surrender bliss happens.
Misery
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