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the more darkness; the less the ego, more light.
Let sannyas become the beginning of the disappearance of your ego. Slowly slowly drop it. Become more and more conscious so that it no more possesses you. Deliberately remember to drop it whenever it comes just because of an old habit. Forget yourself, because that is the only way to remember God....
Be here as long as you can be... till you disappear! Just be here. This is your home!
Veet means going beyond, mauro means darkness -- going beyond darkness. That is the essence of all prayer, the essence of all religious effort: how to go beyond darkness, how to go beyond blindness, how to surpass oneself.
The ego is dark, the soul is light; but the soul is hidden behind layers and layers of the ego. We have to penetrate all those layers; we have to dig deep within our own being. It is just like digging a well in the earth: many layers of earth will have to be removed and then the fresh waters become available. In the same way many layers of ego have to be removed, and one day suddenly all becomes luminous inside: light simply explodes.
That experience is what liberation is all about. Light has to be liberated from darkness. The soul has to be liberated from the ego.
Deva Heike. Deva means divine; and it does not matter what Heike means! One thing is certain, that whoever you are, you are divine! So your full name will mean divine Heike.
All that needs to be remembered is that we are part of a divine cosmos, that we are not separate from God. Even if we want to be, we cannot be separate. The only thing that is impossible is separation from God. We can believe ourselves separate, but that is just a belief; it is not the truth. We can think, we can live with the idea that we are separate, but it doesn't make any difference: we remain one with God.
To remember this is to become new. To remember this is to be reborn; and that's what sannyas is all about: a rebirth. So count your life from today onwards. This is your birthday, and your first birthday.
This used to be the way with Buddha: his disciples used to count their lives only from when they became sannyasins.
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