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philosophy is not a bridge between God and man: it is a wall.
Religion is existential. It has nothing to do with thinking, enquiring; it is not a question at all. Religion is a state of drunkenness, a state of being intoxicated with existence. It is something of the heart, and the heart has its own reasons that reason knows not.
So your sannyas is going to be a love affair; it has nothing to do with the mind. To be with me is going to be heart to heart, spirit to spirit.
Anand Samuel. Anand means rejoice. Samuel is Hebrew; it means God has heard -- rejoice, God has heard, your prayer has reached. Rejoice, you are no more alone. Rejoice, you are at home.
Deva Julia. Deva means divine, julia means youthful, young -- a divine youthfulness. God is always young, existence is always young. It is young because it is always in the present.
The child lives in the future; the old man lives in the past; the young mind lives in the present. That is the basic quality of youth: to be herenow. The child cannot be herenow. He has a great future, his time is to come. He plans, he dreams. The old man has no future; there is death and darkness and nothing else. But he has a great past. He goes into great nostalgia, he goes into memories. The child lives in dreams; the old man lives in memories. Between the two is the young man who lives herenow, in the present. And if a young man does not live in the present, then either he is immature and thinks of the future, or he is already old and has started thinking of the past.
There are very few young people in the world. It is very rarely that you find a young person -- only once in a while a Jesus, a Buddha; these are the really young people. I am not talking about the physical age, I am talking about their spiritual approach to existence. The body may be young, the body may be old, that doesn't matter; but if your consciousness lives in the herenow you will have a freshness to your being. That freshness is joy, that freshness is the door to God. That freshness has nothing to do with time, because the present is not part of time at all.
It has been taught for centuries that time has three
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