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and to some mother is there no more. It is Raman no more. Suddenly Raman has disappeared. A Bhagwan is born: he has become divine.
When you reach to the bottom-most core of your being, the deathless, you are God. God means nothing else -- God means the immortal, the deathless!
`NOTHING CAN YOU HAVE FROM ME,' REPLIED THE GENEROUS MAN, `UNTIL YOU DIE.'
And nothing can you have from me either, until you die.
And nothing can you have from God either, until you die.
In fact, until you die, you live a death, you live dead. Your life is nothing but a slow suicide -- spread over seventy, eighty years, but a slow suicide, a slow death. From the very moment you are born, you are dying and dying and dying.
Until you die, you will live a dead life. And if you are courageous and you can take the jump into death, suddenly, for the first time, life dawns upon you. For the first time, the deathless dances within you. For the first time, what Jesus calls life abundant -- you overflow with it! Now you are no more a tiny stream in the summer, just somehow pulling together, with vast sand all around, desert. You become a flooded Ganges in the rains: overflowing, broken all bonds, broken all limitations -- life abundant.
But that never happens until you die.
So this is the paradox. Jesus says if you cling to life you will miss it; if you try to save the life, you will not have it. The only way to have it is to lose it. And this is what I call SANNYAS. It is an inner mutation. It is readiness to die, a readiness to die to the ego. One door closes, the door of the ego; another opens, the door of the deathless.
THIS IS THE MEANING OF THE CRYPTIC PHRASE `MAN MUST DIE BEFORE HE DIES.'
You have died many times -- but we are not talking about that death. That you have done many times. It has not done anything to you. You remain the same. You survive. You need a greater death.
There is a death which happens naturally, because anything that is born will die, anything that is combined together will fall apart. So your body is going to die, that is natural. It has happened millions of times, and it will go on happening
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