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enter into my kingdom of god." I agree absolutely. One has to become a child again, one has to drop all knowledge, all experience, because all knowledge, all experience, is nothing but dust collected on the mirror of your consciousness. If you are capable of cleaning your mirror and again becoming like a child, full of wonder and awe, knowing nothing but enquiring about everything, functioning out of a state of not-knowing, only then will you have your first glimpses of god, never before it. Only then will bliss start reaching you from all dimensions, from all planes of existence.
Innocence is the most significant religious quality. Become innocent and a child again -- that's what sannyas is all about.'
[From bliss he began talking of love -- and of wolves!]
The wolf is a very loyal animal, tremendously trustworthy; it can lose its life for the master. Its loyalty is unconditional and because of its loyalty it has a certain grace, a certain beauty. It is a wild animal but full of love and compassion.
All around the earth it has happened many times that wolves have raised human children. If they have found a human child abandoned somewhere, they have taken it to their caves and in every way they have helped the child to survive. These children have been found and these children have been studied. It is one of the strangest phenomena -- a wild animal like the wolf raising a human child whose parents were not compassionate enough, who abandoned him, who had thrown him away. They were more cruel.
The wolves provided milk for the child, protection for the child, shelter for the child and they have taken every care.
In 1920, near Calcutta two girls who had been raised by wolves were found. One was eleven, the other was thirteen. Just three years ago near Lucknow a child was found in a thick jungle living with wolves. He was fourteen years of age. He could not speak a single human word, he could not stand on two legs -- but what beauty and what strength! Nobody was capable of running like that child. Even our greatest runners would have been defeated by the child very easily. He was running on all fours and had tremendous energy,
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