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day a great king came to see Buddha, an old sannyasin came -- he must have been beyond seventy. The sannyasin touched Buddha's feet, and as it was Buddha's usual way of enquiry, Buddha asked, "How old are you?" The old man said, "Only four years."
The king was puzzled; he could not believe what was happening. He said, "It is not good to interfere, but now I will remain puzzled if I don't enquire. This old man says that he is four years old, and you accept that.
Buddha said to the old man, "Explain to the king." The old man said, "It is only four years ago that I became a sannyasin. Before that I was so asleep -- how could I have lived at all? It is only in these four that I have lived, truly lived; before that I was just vegetating.
So count your life from today. You are reborn!
Anand Heinz. Anand means blissful, heinz means home -- a blissful home. That's what meditation creates in you; and once your heart has become a blissful home, God comes of his own accord. He becomes a guest. If you have a heart as a blissful home, you are ready as a host. But God cannot come to you unless you have an overflowing blissfulness. God can become a guest in your being only when you are a festival, a festivity, a dance of joy, a song of ecstasy.
And my work here consists in creating blissful people. I don't teach you how to find God: I teach you how to become so blissful that God has to find you. This is a totally different concept of religion. Man need not go in search of God, man has just to become worthy enough; and then wherever you are, God has to come. You have fulfilled the conditions; now it is up to him to fulfill his promise.
It is a promise, given a long long time before. Man has completely forgotten it; so much time has passed, but the promise stands. From God's side nothing has passed, no time has passed, because from God's side there is no question of time. The promise stands absolutely as it was given. You just fulfill the basic requirement of silence, of peace, of bliss, of an inner stillness, and immediately it is fulfilled.
But remember: the seeker should not become sad and serious. Ordinarily the seekers become
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