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that naturally one starts feeling that one's world is falling apart, disappearing; great panic is bound to arise. One is falling into an abyss! You immediately turn the TV on, you start reading the same newspaper that you have read twice since the morning. You start searching for some new occupation or some new entertainment or some new intoxicant. But nothing really helps. Unless one really searches for one's own being nothing ever helps.
The word 'svadesh' is far more meaningful than the word homeland. Sva means self and desh means country. It is not only one's own land, in fact it is one's very self too. Your very self is your country, and unless you are there you will remain on the surface, you will never know what depth is and what height is; you will never know what real life is.
Sannyas is a penetration into this country of the self, this inner world, the kingdom of god.
Sandip, sandipo, means eternal light, light that has no beginning and no end, light that is never born and never dies, light that needs no fuel. It is another name for your consciousness.
Consciousness is the real eternal light. It lives in the body but it doesn't depend on the body. The body is just an abode -- a beautiful abode, a temple, but still an abode. And one has to search for that which is beyond the body and yet lives in the body. It is very close by: it is you! One can plunge into it any moment. All that is needed is a state of disengagement from the outside world, and that's what meditation is all about. Meditation is the art of disengagement.
The mind is constantly engaged, occupied, involved. Whenever there is a moment of no engagement, no occupation, no-mind arises in you. That no-mind is the eternal light. All that is needed is turning in, tuning in. It is simple, it is easy, it is natural. It is not something very arduous, it is just that we have forgotten about it completely; a remembrance is enough. I am here to remind you that it has happened to me, it can happen to you; that you are in a state of dream but you can be awakened!
To become a sannyasin means that you are saying 'I am asleep. Please, wake me up!' Once you are ready
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