| |
not become sad and serious. Ordinarily the seekers become serious and sad. They think they are doing something great so they have to be serious. They cannot laugh, they cannot enjoy, they cannot be ordinary; they have to be continuously special, holier-than-thou. That becomes their basic mask. All those masks have to be dropped here.
I am not creating holy people; I am creating blissful people. I am not creating religious people; I am creating cheerful people. But one who is blissful and cheerful and is capable of love and laughter, he is religious. He may not be a Christian, he may not be a Hindu, but he is religious; and in that religiousness God has to come.
Become a blissful home, a host.
[A sannyasin, leaving, says she feels she's much more afraid here than anywhere else.]
That's natural, because the work here is to bring up all that is repressed in your unconscious; that is the only way to get rid of it. The unconscious is carrying much pus; and being here with me is being in surgery. When the pus starts coming out, one feels fear, one almost feels death approaching. One feels shaken in the roots. One sees one's ugliness which one has never seen before. It hurts, it goes against the ego, but if one can allow it to surface, it starts evaporating. Once it has evaporated, for the first time you will feel free. And in that freedom love is possible, and God too.
In fact you are going too soon. When can you come back?... Whenever it is possible, come back, and next time stay a little longer. Mm? you are escaping almost in the middle of the surgery. But there continue at least one meditation every day, help my people, be in communication with other sannyasinS; and come back!
Next time things will be finished -- they are incomplete. Allow me to finish you completely!
[A sannyasin, leaving, asks about writing poetry, which he used to do, but has dropped for some time now.]
Anything that you enjoy is worth doing... anything. If you enjoy it then anything is poetry; if you don't enjoy then nothing is worth doing. So let this be the criterion: if you enjoy writing poetry, beautiful; write! And don't be worried about
|
|
|