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new life. Not that you manage, not that you have to plan for it. All that you need to do is to be in a deep let-go. Mm? that's what tao is and that's what sannyas is.
So from this moment, feel surrendered to god. Every night before you go to sleep, at least for five minutes just sit silently, feel surrendered, then go to sleep. And in the morning also when you get up, the first thing is: sit in your bed, remember your surrendered state. Just bow down to the divine.
Start living a very natural life. Not in many ways enforcing anything upon yourself.... And much is going to happen!
[To a sannyasin who has been practicing Tibetan techniques in the Himalayas.]
Those methods are good but they were meant for a totally different kind of people... and a different era. And in fact Tibet has lived in a different era, Tibet has not been contemporary. It has lived very secluded, isolated. It has not known anything of the twentieth century, so it is the most ancient, primitive, innocent culture.
Those techniques are good but to be helped by them you will have to prepare something which is not in those techniques themselves. You will have to pass through other methods, then one day you can do them and they will be helpful.
Prem means love, upasika means a worshipper, worship -- a loving worshipper. Worship can be of two types: either you can worship only out of the feeling of duty -- as people go every sunday to the church.... They have to, so they go: there is no inner pull; it is a formality, something which has to be observed if you want to remain respectable. It is just a social formality; that is not real worship.
Real worship is out of love. It needs no church, it needs no temple. You can go into the temple, you can go into the church, but your house is as okay as any other place. It needs only a loving heart; that is the real temple.
So never worship out of duty; that is fake and meaningless. And when you start being pseudo even with god, where else will you be honest and true?
So worship only out of love. You can worship a tree; if love is there you have worshipped god. You can worship a child; if love is
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