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gesture that 'I am ready to do something to change my old gestalt', that 'I will not resist the change', that 'I will not fight the change', that 'I am willing, even if it is painful' -- because if your neck has become stiff then it will take a little time and it will be painful too. But it is tremendously paying.
Once you can look at what you are in your innermost core, you will be surprised that you were born a king and you were living like a beggar, that you had all the treasures of the world within you and yet you were begging, that you had all the bliss that you could ever contain and there was no need to desire anything more. Nothing more can be desired, nothing more is possible: all that is possible has already happened at the deepest core of your being. But we live on the periphery, unaware of the centre.
The name will remind you again and again that the light is within. Look in, turn in, tune in.
[The new sannyasin says: Give me the key!]
It is getting ready to be given to you. You just have to get ready to receive it. It is going to happen!
All that you need is the art of praying; and it will not be difficult for you to learn, it will be very easy, very natural.
Prayer does not mean any formality, ritual. It simply means a pouring of the heart. It can be crying, it can be laughing, it can be silent, or it can be a spontaneous dialogue, a heart-to-heart talk with existence. But it has to be informal; that is the first, basic requirement. That is where millions of people are missing: they pray, but their prayer is a formality, it is not spontaneous. It is a ritual that has been taught to them -- the Christian prayer, the Hindu prayer, the Mohammedan prayer. They have been taught it, they perform it well, they repeat it word by word, but it is meaningless.
The meaning can come only through an informal communion, so if you are feeling to say something to god, you can say it, but the words have to be yours, not the words of Jesus. When Jesus used those words they were spontaneous. He was not repeating Moses, he was simply pouring out his heart. When he calls god he does not call him father, he calls him abba;
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