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basically your attitude which determines it. Even chains can become a deliverance; it depends on you. And you can make chains out of your freedom too.
HE IS DEAR TO ME INDEED
WHO HAS POWER TO DIVE DEEP INTO GOD;
WHOSE MIND LOSES ITSELF WITH EASE IN HIS CONTEMPLATION.
`... WITH EASE in His contemplation': who easily, without any tense effort, dissolves into God. `He is dear to me indeed who has power to dive deep into God; whose mind loses itself with ease...'
HE IS DEAR TO ME WHO KNOWS GOD,
AND CAN DWELL IN HIS SUPREME TRUTH IN MEDITATION;
AND WHO CAN PLAY THE MELODY OF THE INFINITE
BY UNITING LOVE AND RENUNCIATION IN LIFE.
That is the highest harmony: uniting love and renunciation. People come to me and they say, `You are creating a new type of sannyasin who lives in the house; then what type of sannyasins are they?' Because the old concept is: the sannyasin is one who leaves the world, leaves the family, goes into the forest, becomes a wanderer. `Then why do you call your sannyasins `sannyasins' if they don't leave the house, if they live with with their wives and with their children, and if they live in love -- then why do you call them sannyasins?'
I call them real sannyasins, more real than the older type -- because the older type was not in harmony. He was divided. He was not total, he was partial.
My neo-sannyasins are total: they have renounced, and yet they have not escaped. They will live in love and they will not cling to love; that is their renunciation. They will love in the world and they will not be possessive; that is their renunciation. They will live in love but they will not be jealous; that is their renunciation. They will use things but they will not be used by things; that is their renunciation. They will find the creator in the creation, and they will not divide the creator and the creation; they will not tolerate any division. They will try to find the harmony in the opposites.
HE IS DEAR TO ME WHO KNOWS GOD...
... AND WHO CAN PLAY THE MELODY OF THE INFINITE
BY UNITING LOVE AND RENUNCIATION IN LIFE. KABIR SAYS:
THE HOME IS THE ABIDING
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