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has been anti-life.
We have to change it. We have to create a new concept of religion: a religion that does not renounce but celebrates, a religion that is not against life but for life, a religion that worships life as god.
Prem means love, taro means a star -- a star of love. Love is the only light in the dark night of the soul, the only star; otherwise everything is dark inside. Those who don't know how to love remain afraid of going inwards, because the very idea of going in means going into a dark night of the soul where not even a distant star exists. It is frightening, the inward journey.
So Buddhas go on saying 'Go in.' Nobody listens. Socrates goes on saying 'Know thyself.' Nobody wants to know, and the fundamental reason is: it is so frightening to go in. Then what has to be done ?
My approach is that before you can go in, you have to go out in love. It is paradoxical, but the inward journey begins with an outward journey .
If you can love, if you can start feeling love-energy, then going in will be a totally different phenomenon. You will have a distant star of love there in the dark night, and that light is enough to take you to the ultimate goal.
So your name is a message to love so that you can meditate. Let love become your meditation.
Next time come for a longer period. This is just the beginning of the beginning.
Anand means bliss, alexis is a form of alexander. It has two meanings: one, the helper of mankind; the other, one who drives evil away. Both are beautiful meanings.
Bliss can do both. The blissful person is naturally a helper of mankind, and only a blissful person can be a helper. In fact he never thinks of helping people; he helps just out of his blissfulness. It is not a deliberate effort, it is not a contemplated act; it is as natural as the fragrance of a flower.
And the blissful person naturally drives evil away. It is only in misery that evil can get roots; misery is the right soil for evil. It is impossible for a blissful person to be evil; out of bliss no evil can ever happen. Evil is a negative phenomenon, evil is destructive. And bliss cannot be destructive,
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