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so that even atheists are not offended, but truth and God are synonymous, interchangeable, they mean the same thing.
Then what is truth if it is not a tradition? It is a revolution, it is a turning-in. Tradition looks backwards, tradition looks at others, tradition wants something to be given to you. Revolution looks inwards. Nothing has to be given to you from any source; you have already got it, it is already the case. Just turning in, just looking inside, waiting, watching, going inwards to the core of your being -- and it is there.
Sufism is an inner journey. By revolution I don't mean a political revolution. Political revolutions are not revolutions at all; they only substitute one slavery for another slavery. The only revolution there is, is religious. The only revolution there is, is turning away from tradition and turning inwards to the source of your being.
Knowing "Who am I?" is the only revolutionary step -- the first and the last, the alpha and the omega.
That's the meaning of becoming a Sufi, or becoming a sannyasin. `Sannyasin' is my name for the Sufi: one who is fed up with the outside world, who has known its frustrations, who has known its utter futility, who has known all the anxiety and anguish of it and is ready to dive deep within oneself to know "Who am I?" Because unless one knows oneself, all knowledge is useless.
The foremost, the most fundamental thing, is to become aware at the core of your being. And it is a miracle to become aware of it, because at the core of your being you are always pure, always innocent, always virgin, always celibate. At the very core of your being, you have never left the Garden of Eden, you are still in paradise.
That is the name of Hakim Sanai's book: THE HADIQA. It means `the Garden' -- the Garden of God, paradise.
Where is this paradise? There are foolish people who have been searching for the Garden of Eden. A few think it was in Babylon, a few think it was on the continent of Atlantis which has gone down under the ocean -- there has been a search. This is complete stupidity.
The Garden exists in YOU Adam has not been expelled from the Garden of Eden,
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