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to happen. But behind the stage they sit together and drink tea and smoke. That's the reality. This whole world is a vast stage, a great drama is enacted.
But don't be too worried about it. Whatsoever part has been given you, fulfill it as joyously as possible and always remember that deep down you remain pure, you remain always in god. That is the meaning of 'deva punit'.
Deva means divine, dakshina means gift -- a divine gift.
And sannyas is a divine gift. Don't think that you are taking sannyas but think that I am giving it to you.
Rather than taking it, receive it, and the quality will be totally different. When you take it, you take it; when I give it, I give it!
And let that be the attitude about your whole life: don't think that you are born; god has given you birth. Don't think that you have fallen in love; god has made you fall in love. Think about each and every thing, about each breath and each heartbeat as a gift from god. Then naturally gratitude arises. And to live in gratitude is to be religious.
All is a gift; we have not earned it. Life is not a right; we cannot claim it. It is simply given out of god's abundance.
[A sannyasin says she is unhappy in her marriage to a german lawyer, but does not want to leave because of the child.]
In a better world people will be changing everything -- their job, their wife, their husband, in fact even their children; that's my vision of the future. One gets fed up with the children also; why not change? Give your child to [the groupleader sitting in the front row] and you take [his] son, and again feel happy: a new relationship! Why bother to have the same child continuously? If the child is bothered, if you are bothered, exchange! (laughter)
There will be great joy and the children will become richer because they will know many parents. They will know many women and many men, different kinds of daddies and different kinds of mummies, and they will become more and more enriched. By the time they become daddies and mummies they will have known a lot of the world. lust getting acquainted with one woman is so dangerous for a child; we are not aware of
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