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your real being
not of the body, but of the being
and then one has a certain aristocracy
such a person may not have anything
he may be a beggar
but you will see the grace of the emperor in him
you will see him surrounded
by a subtle aura of the beyond
he is really born
others are only half-born
they are in a kind of limbo. physically born
but psychologically still waiting for birth
socrates says, i am a midwife
that s exactly the function of a master
to help you attain the second birth
in india, when a person becomes awakened
we call him twice-born, dwija
one who has been born again
the first birth
brings you out of the physical womb
the second birth
brings you out of the psychological womb
the first birth brings you out of the physical womb
into the psychological
it creates mind
the second birth takes you out of the psychological
and brings you to the spiritual
it gives you being
and being is immortality, deathlessness
the only criterion
that the second birth has happened
is total blissfulness
in all situations unaffected, untouched
by whatsoever happens around
failure or success, richness or poverty
youth or old age, life or death
the wheel of the opposites goes on moving
but the man who knows bliss
remains centred, unmoved
he is the unmoving centre of a moving wheel
the centre of the cyclone
there are many kinds of beauties
there is the physical beauty
which is only momentary
it may be there today and tomorrow it is gone
in fact it is bound to
in fact it is already going down the drain
slipping out of your hands every moment
the second layer of beauty is psychological
it is of intellect, of aesthetic sensibility
the man who has a musical ear
or the man who has the sensitivity
of a painter in his eyes
his beauty is far deeper than the physical
sometimes it happens
that the person may
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