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a pebble with a rose-flower? They are unique; there is no comparison possible. Can you compare a man with a tree? Or a river with a mountain? You don't compare because you know they are different.
In fact each individual person is so different from everybody else that no comparison is possible. Nobody is superior and nobody is inferior; everybody is just himself. To understand that brings great freedom.
Anand Kiyoshi. Anand means bliss, kiyoshi means pure -- pure bliss. Bliss is pure when it comes from your innermost core, when it wells up within you; then it is uncontaminated, unpolluted. Anything that comes from the outside cannot be so pure. The very journey that it has to make from the outside to the inside makes it impure. Happiness is impure; it comes from the outside. You have to depend on somebody for it, and that is the very cause of impurity: the dependence. But bliss is not dependent on anybody it is simply your nature.
People are lost in the search for happiness. First, it is very difficult to attain; second, if by some miracle it happens, then it is impure, it is not satisfying. Only pure bliss can give you contentment. And the strange thing is that we go on looking for it on the outside while it is always waiting inside.
Turn in -- that is the message of sannyas.
Anand means bliss, purnima means full-moon night -- a full-moon night of bliss. The moon represents the most blissful phenomenon, the most beautiful. One can become that beauty, that splendor. It is within our reach; we can hold the moon in our hearts. Go ing to the moon is just useless. Far more significant is the process of bringing the moon in. It can be brought in. It can become a guest if you are ready to become a host. And when your inner being is full of moonlight great bliss starts happening.
The whole process of meditation is to release the imprisoned splendor within you, to release the imprisoned light within you.
We are carrying great potential, utterly unaware, oblivious of it. Just the hard shell that surrounds it has to be broken. It is painful to break that hard shell, but once you are ready to allow that much pain, to go through
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