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it is inhuman
love brings freedom to you
and also freedom to the person you love
let that be the criterion
if it brings freedom it is love
if it brings bondage it is attachment
attachment has to be dropped
and love has to be grown
the more loving you become
the closer you are to god
jesus is right when he says
god is love
man lives in words
the words can be beautiful but they are all empty
the word god is not god
the word love is not love either
you cannot be nourished by the word food
and you cannot quench your thirst
with the word water
words are dangerous
they can keep you in deception
they can give you the feeling as if you know
millions of people think they know god
because they know the word
millions of people think they know love
because they know the word
a sannyasin has to get beyond words
to the real content
he has to disperse words
and to see what is hidden behind them
that's the exploration
just as one goes on peeling an onion
one has to go on peeling words
so one can come to the very core of them
and the miracle is
when you go on peeling words like an onion
ultimately you come to emptiness, nothingness
is the ultimate sense of existence
that is silence
when all noise of the words has left you
and there is only profound silence
undisturbed, undistracted
in that silence knowing happens
seeing happens, being happens
bibles, korans, gitas cannot give it to you --
they are all words, they are beautiful
they were spoken by beautiful people
but that does not make any difference
even if buddha says the word rose
it does not become a rose
even if jesus says the word fire
it does not become fire
but beautiful people can be so hypnotic
that you start believing in their words
christians, hindus, mohammedans, buddhists
are all doing the same
they have all forgotten the reality
and
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