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If you are behaving like a beggar then you must be playing a role, must have learned from others; the society must have taught you to be a beggar.
Sannyas is an effort to undo what the society has done to you so that the natural is revealed again; and the revelation of the natural is the greatest joy possible.
Anand Uli. Anand means blissful, uli means a ruler, a king -- a blissful king. You are not yet... but you can be! And if you are not, nobody else is responsible except yourself. It is your birthright but you have not claimed it; it is your treasure but you have neglected it. It is yours just for the asking.
Jesus says: Knock and the doors shall be opened, ask and it shall be given. But we don't even ask for that which is ours. In fact we are more interested in things which are not ours. We are interested in things which are others', and we go on asking for those things. That's how a man goes on rushing from this point to that, desiring this and desiring that, never really asking for that which is already his. Once you know it, once you have it, you will be fulfilled. You can have all the things the world can provide and you will still remain unfulfilled, because that will not help your nature to grow; it may even hinder it. The more possessions a man has, the more he becomes possessed by his own possessions -- burdened, worried. k does not make him really blissful, on the contrary it creates anxiety.
A blissful person is one who possesses his own self, one who is a ruler of his own being. That dimension, of being a master of oneself, is the dimension of sannyas.
Anand Isabel. Anand means blissful, isabel means goddess -- a blissful goddess. That's how I see you all. You have to learn to see yourself in the same way, and not only yourself but everyone else too. It is only on the surface that people are not gods. The deeper we penetrate into them, the more godly they are. The devil exists only on the surface. The devil is the circumference and God is the center; and we have to look at the center because that is from where we really live.
To forget the center and to become too obsessed with the circumference is the misery
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