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was very close by and you missed it. Many times it was within your reach but you go tired, or just when the tide was going to turn you left the effort; you turned back or you went astray into some other thing....
That's how you have been missing. Please, don't miss this time!
[A sannyasin's mother says: I feel it very difficult to call my son by his new name... It seems to annihilate him... ]
It is difficult for mothers!
It is difficult because from his very childhood you have been calling him his old name. But try to call him with the new name; he will be happy. It is difficult, but try.
It is difficult always because you are so much accustomed to the old name and the new name seems to be so foreign...
The very word annihilation seems to be very frightening.
But each moment one should die to the past; that is the only way to live totally. Each moment one should forget the past. The past is gone; it is not there. It is just a smoke in the head, nothing else. One should die to the past each moment so that one can be in the present totally; that is the only meaning of it. Dying to the past is the only way to live rightly. But we all live in the past and we cling to the past and we think it is very valuable. It is nothing to be.... It is gone already. It is nowhere except in the mind, but we cling to it.
But if you cannot call him by the new name, you can continue to call him the old. Nothing to worry about. He will understand.
[A sannyasin says her sexual energy has disappeared: It never crosses my mind.]
It is a blessing. Something very significant has happened in the body: the body energy is not functioning as male or female.
But I can understand your difficulty, because in the world, and particularly in the West, you will feel very strange...
It is perfectly good; it is how it should be. And now you can move higher very easily because sex remains the basic problem and sex holds a person down, keeps one earthly. Now you can fly! Now the roots are gone you can grow wings.
The same energy that appears as sex, now can appear in different forms, higher forms. It has disappeared
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