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with your nature. Then life has beauty, harmony, grace. And to live in harmony is to know god.
How long will you be staying?'
About one or two years' replied the new sannyasin.
That's very good! So the fire is going to do its work!
[Meditation is fire -- and rebellion, he went on to say to someone else.]
Meditation brings rebellion in life -- rebellion against all traditions, conventions, dogmas, creeds, rebellion against the whole past, because unless you are completely clean of the past you cannot be totally herenow. And unless you are totally herenow you will never know what the truth is.
Truth is never in the past, never in the future; truth is always here and now. Truth means that which is. You cannot use the word 'was' for truth or 'will be' for truth; truth is always 'is', isness is truth.
Our mind goes on moving from the past to the future. It is like a pendulum moving from one extreme to another extreme. It never stays in the middle, and the middle is the truth. From the past to the future, from the future to the past, we go on shuttling like a goods train. We never stay in the now, and the now is the nature of existence. Existence knows only one tense, the present tense.
That is the greatest rebellion in life, to drop all the traditions and all conventions -- Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism, the Koran, the Bible, the Gita -- to drop them all in toto. It needs guts, needs courage, it needs a man, not a child, It needs some integrity, some growth. And my whole work here is to help you to become more mature so that you can pass through this rebellion.
Once you have passed through this rebellion Christ is born in you, Buddha is born in you; they are different names for the same experience. But all this happens through meditation, hence sannyas revolves around the idea of meditation.
I don't give you any other thing, no character, no ordinary life style. I just tell you a simple and single thing: be meditative. In meditation is my whole philosophy of life. Out of it thousands of flowers bloom and blossom. Out of it everything that is needed comes by itself -- you need not search for
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