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it is the most cunning, the most cruel, the most violent, who survive in this struggle. They are not the fittest. In fact the fittest person will find it very difficult, almost impossible, to survive.
Jesus could not survive, Buddha could not survive, Krishna could not survive, Socrates could not survive -- and these were the fittest people, the most beautiful people the earth has ever produced. Genghis Khan survived, Tamerlain survived, Adolf Hitler survived -- they became leaders of men.
Charles Darwin's whole idea supports something ugly.
Sannyas means dropping out of this rat-race. Sannyas is a totally different vision of life. It is so short -- don't waste it in struggling. And with whom are you struggling? They are the same people you can dance with, the same people you can sing with, the same people you can love -- and you are struggling with them.
My sannyasins have to learn rest, non-competitiveness, harmony, love, because life is so short, don't waste a moment in any stupid thing. Make it a joyous pilgrimage -- and it can be. When I say that I say it from my experience and through my experience of thousands of people who have entered into my world, my vision, who have become part of me.
Now you are also becoming part of me. Sannyas is falling into a deep love affair. But the word 'rest' is a key word, remember it!'
[Misery has become second nature to us, he'd told the first sannyasin. But bliss is our essential nature he went on to say.]
Bliss is a flame at the very core of your being. It is already there, covered with many layers of thoughts, memories, desires, expectations, anger, hurts, wounds. The crowd of all these things is such that you cannot see the small flame. This crowd has to be dispersed -- that can be done very easily. That's what we are doing here: dispersing the crowd.
And once this crowd is gone, these clouds are gone, you will be surprised: you have an eternal light within you. And once clouds are no more there that light starts spreading inside you, it fills you totally -- not only that, it starts radiating outside you. Those who have eyes will be able to see it and those who have
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