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paradoxical
paradoxical in the sense that you have to manage
two logical contradictions together
you have to be effortlessly effortful
because both effort and relaxation
are needed for the experience to happen
but it can be managed because the contradictions
are only superficial
deep down they are complementaries
one should try a few experiments
for example, you can run: there is effort
but still you can remain very relaxed
you can bicycle: there is effort
but at the same time
your whole body
can remain very quiet calm and relaxed
you can move your hand: there is effort
but you can move the hand with such grace
with such a relaxedness that there is no effort at all
then it becomes the very foundation
for bliss to descend
this is the whole art of sannyas
one has to make tremendous effort
yet one has to remember that bliss is a gift of god
so, just by your effort it is not going to happen
and without your effort
it is not going to happen either
man has fallen into both extremes
there are people who think it is a gift of god
so nothing can be done we just have to wait
it will never happen, just waiting is not enough
through waiting with great effort
through doing whatsoever you can do
to the uttermost
and then waiting
it happens
the other extreme is: if it happens through our effort
then we will make every effort
what is the need of prayer
what is the need of god's help?
if it is going to happen through our effort
then we will manage
we will do all kinds of yoga, austerities, practices
we will have a discipline, a character
a morality. virtue
and it will happen
it does not happen
because whatsoever you can do will remain trivial
it prepares you to receive the gift
but it does not bring the gift itself
it makes you receptive, welcoming, but that's all
when the guest comes
it comes just by your opening of the
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