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moment can become one of the most fortunate of your whole life if sannyas becomes a turning in, a one-hundred-and-eighty degree turn. It is possible; it is not difficult at all. It is our birthright.
Deva means divine, eva means life -- divine life. Life can be lived in two ways: one -- the mundane, the ordinary, the life of desires, possessions, things; the other -- the sacred, the life of non-possessiveness, the life of consciousness, of love, compassion. If one lives life only in the outside it remains mediocre and it does not satisfy. It cannot satisfy unless one starts living from the inner springs. Then life takes a quantum leap. It starts having a new flavor, a new joy -- a joy which is uncaused, and a flavor that comes from one's own innermost core. It is not given by anybody so it cannot be taken away. Even death cannot take it away; it is yours forever.
Life has to lived from the within. I am not against the without, but the without is not enough. That's why Jesus says: Man cannot live by bread alone. He does not mean that man can live without bread -- bread is a must, but to live by bread alone is not to live at all. Then life will not have any celebration, then it will not have any poetry. It will not have any beyond, any transcendence to it; and joy is in transcendence, in surpassing oneself again and again, in reaching to new peaks, in reaching to new heights, new plenitudes of being. Joy is always in that great adventure when you move from the known into the unknown. That moment, that movement, between the known and the unknown, is the moment of joy. Those rare moments are real moments, authentic moments. All else is dream stuff.
The Shadow of the Bamboo
Chapter #2
Chapter title: None
2 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7904025
ShortTitle: BAMBOO02
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Prem Nozomi. Prem means love, nozomi means hope. Love is the only hope because only love can become a bridge between man and God, because only love can be the boat between this shore and that. Except for love there is no hope. A man without love lives in hopelessness. With love enters
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