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Knock and the doors shall be opened unto you. I say there is no need to even knock; just say yes, amen, and you will find that the doors have always remained open; it is just that your eyes were covered with nos. Yes opens the heart, no closes it. The whole art of sannyas is the art of saying yes.
[Araguacy means a sky open to friends.] Deva means divine. A sky open to friends is a human sky. Open it to the enemies too and it becomes a divine sky. It is human to love one's friends; it is divine to love one's enemies too. And the moment one can love one's enemies, only then can one really love one's friends. If one cannot love the enemy, one is always suspicious of the friend too, because the friend can turn into the enemy any moment.
Machiavelli says: Don't say anything to your friends that you would not like to be known by your enemies, because today's friend can become tomorrow's enemy.
One who cannot love the enemy cannot totally love the friend either, hence the great statement of Jesus: Love thine enemies as thyself.
Anand means bliss, ursula is the name of a constellation of stars, Ursa Major. The full name will mean a blissful constellation of stars. That's what every being is.
Man looks so small; he is not so small. He contains universes in him. He has an inner sky as big as the outer sky, and he has inner stars, a sun and a moon, as there are in the outer world. The inner and the outer are in an absolute balance: whatsoever is out is in the inner too.
The ancient saying of the mystics is: As above. so below. And I say to you: As outer, so inner.
Let sannyas be a search for the inner sky, a search for the inner light, a search for inner infinity, endlessness, eternity. It is possible, it is within our reach; all that is needed is a one-hundred-and-eighty degree turn.
Deva means divine, ugo means intelligence. Intellect is human; intelligence is divine. Intellect is of the mind; intelligence is of the heart. Intellect can be cultivated. taught; intelligence can only be dug up from deep in your being. Nobody can make you intelligent, but everybody is born intelligent. Then many layers of conditionings...
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