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the meaning and they don't have any meaning... or even if they have any meaning, that is the very third-rate approach towards them. Their highest possibility is not that of meaning but of significance. They have a taste of the mysterious....
So each activity of life can be either like poetry or like prose. You can greet a person in a very matter-of-fact way; you can hold the hand of a person in a very calculative way. In a very calculative way it has to be done -- he is your husband or your friend and you have to hold his hand; then it has no significance. So duty is fulfilled but there is no contact and no warmth; there has been no communication, there is no communion.
But then suddenly one day you feel to hold somebody's hand. You are throbbing with some unknown message. Language cannot deliver it and there is no way to say it, so you hold the hand and you say it that way -- then it is poetry; then there is communion.
So whatsoever you do, remember that it has to be in the way of the poetry. Significant, certainly, but don't bother about its meaningfulness in the ordinary, mundane world. In the world of utility it may not be of much use.
Lao Tzu says again and again, 'Truth is known only by those who have come to know the usefulness of the useless.' Mm? that's what poetry is: the usefulness of the useless. And that is what a song is, so let singing be your very climate.
And the second thing is 'abha'. It means a very diffused light -- as it is sometimes seen around an enlightened master. It is not ordinary light.
In sanskrit we have many names for light, connotating different qualities. 'Abha' is a special name for that light which is shown around the face of one who has come home -- the peace, the serenity, the tranquility, the stillness... something like nectar showering. One needs to have certain qualities to feel it; one needs to have a certain receptivity to see it; one needs to have a certain type of vision to see it. Everybody will not be able to see it -- it is no ordinary light.
And you will always find that whenever somebody is in a poetic mood, the light will be there.
A master is continuously
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