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the ice can remain only if melting is prevented. Relaxation is a melting, and the frozen ice of the ego cannot exist if things start melting. The ego can exist only if you remain frozen, shrunk, tense.
Something immensely valuable is by the corner.
Don't be frightened; I am with you. That's my purpose here, that is the meaning of sannyas: that when danger arises you can always ask for help, you can always trust and go ahead. You can continuously remember that I am there: if something goes wrong, I will take care.
So next time, when you relax just take hold of the locket in your hand, close your eyes and go into it. Let relaxation happen and let the fear be there. Just take note of it, that it is there, but don't be disturbed by it, don't be distracted by it. Say, 'Fear... fear,' and relax!
And you will be surprised -- it cannot do anything to you if you don't get affected by it, it cannot disturb you even a little bit. It has no power. You give power to it when you cooperate with it; when you stand behind it, it is powerful. When you slip out of it and you say, 'Okay, you be there and I am not going to cooperate any more'... when you cop out, it is impotent, it is a dead snake it can't do anything. You give life to it, you pour energy into it, because you have energy; it has no energy, it is just an idea. So allow it.
[A sannyasin whose son and grandson are here says: I've still been too much involved with my sons and grandsons and daughters-in-law this time. I hope next time I'll be freer.]
That will be good, mm? -- it is time to become disengaged from everything. You have remained engaged your whole life; now it is time, mm? -- you should look more and more inwards. Not that one becomes unloving... in fact, one becomes more loving, but one is no more obsessed, one is no more worried. One starts preparing for the real purpose of life. The real purpose is to know oneself, and if that is not fulfilled before death then life has been a wastage; then whatsoever you have done makes no sense.
You may have many children and children's children and prestige and money and fame, respectability, everything -- but that doesn't
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