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Prem Andre. Prem means love, andre means courage. Courage without love is dangerous, because courage without love is bound to turn towards destruction. Courage with love is creative, is a blessing. So love should be the very foundation of one's courageousness. Courage only creates a warrior. With love, courage creates a sannyasin, a seeker of God, a lover of God. Remember it: it has been a great calamity down the ages because we have cultivated the qualities of courage in people without bothering about love. Hence we have created a history of war, murder, violence.


Now love has to become far more important than courage itself, then only can man be saved. Now love is the only hope and the only salvation.


Anand Kristin. Anand means blissful, kristin means a follower of Christ. One can follow a Christ, a Buddha, a Krishna, out of despair, but then the following remains superficial. One can follow out of fear, then the following remains pseudo. That's what the priests have been telling people: follow out of fear. The religious person in all the languages is called God-fearing. The truly religious person has no fear in him, not even of God. Fear simply does not exist in the true, religious person.


Following a master should arise out of bliss, not out of fear; it should arise out of gratitude. Just feeling the immense joy of life, one should fall in love with a Christ or a Buddha or a Krishna. But it should come out of your joy, then it has a totally different quality: it has positivity in it. It is sunlit; it is not dark and dismal.


Deva Ruth. Deva means divine, ruth means a vision of beauty. Your full name will mean a divine vision of beauty. To feel beauty is divine, to see beauty is divine. To be alert and aware about the beauty is to be divine. God expresses himself through beauty: the beauty of the flower, the beauty of the moon or the beauty of a bird on the wing, the beauty of human faces, the beauty of eyes. In a thousand and one ways God expresses himself through beauty.


To know God one needs to be a poet. One need not be a theologian; the theologian goes on missing. He only talks about God, he knows nothing about God. And he talks so much about God and he creates so much garbage in his mind that his vision becomes more and more unclear.


The poet has clear eyes because he has no knowledge. A poet is one who looks through innocence, wonder, awe. Be a poet, and by being a poet I don't mean compose poetry. Be a poet in your very being, live poetry, and you will be able to know God. God is spread all over the place -- we just need to be sensitive, more sensitive than we are. We have to look more deeply. Our eyes have to be more clear, clear of knowledge and the dust of experience that goes on gathering.


One should become completely disconnected from the past every day, one should die to the past every day, so that one remains pure, fresh, and so that one's eyes are clear, full of wonder, awe. Then the vision of beauty is revealed. God is the ultimate vision of beauty.


Deva Moda. Deva means divine, moda means joy -- divine joy. And it is waiting, it is always waiting, because we are made of it. But we go on rushing, searching for it everywhere except within. Hence the frustration -- everybody looks frustrated. And as one grows older, more and more frustration settles in; it seems more and more impossible to make it. But the difficulty is not in making it: the difficulty is that we search for it where it is not. And we never look within, where it is.


Just turning in, tuning in, is enough, and suddenly a thousand and one flowers start blooming, a thousand and one candles are suddenly lit; the whole inner being becomes luminous. That experience is the ultimate goal of life; without it one lives in vain.


Deva Toru. Deva means divine, toru means clarity -- divine clarity. Mind is confusion; no-mind is clarity. Thinking can never be clear; howsoever logical it is, it remains unclear. It can, at the most, pretend clarity. But there is a state of no-thought when the mind is utterly quiet -- no traffic of thoughts, no process of thoughts -- and one is not asleep, one is alert, awake, conscious, and there is no content in the mind. The mind is utterly empty and one is watching that emptiness. That is clarity, and only in that clarity is God known.


That clarity is the goal of meditation, the goal of sannyas. Attain it! Without it there is no knowing; without it there is no seeing. Without it we are in darkness; there is no light. Mind is our darkness, mind is our hell, mind is our death. Once mind is put aside, eternal life becomes available to you, and eternal light. And only eternal life and eternal light can satisfy; less than that won't do.


Deva Vedant. Deva means divine, and vedant means beyond the scriptures, beyond the Vedas, where the Vedas end -- God is beyond the scriptures. You cannot find God in the scriptures; you have to leave all the scriptures behind. You have to leave the mind behind also. You have to leave all thinking behind. You can go to God only in utter nudity of consciousness. When consciousness is no more clothed in knowledge, in experience, in virtue, when knowledge is utterly nude of virtue, experience, knowledge, when consciousness is simple consciousness, the consciousness of a small child -- innocent, innocent of all experience and knowledge -- then only is God known.


Scriptures make people parrots. And the so-called spiritual experiences are nothing but new ego-trips. God is not an experience in that sense, because in every experience, the experiencer is separate from the experience. But the moment that God is revealed, you are not separate from him. There is no experiencer and nothing as the experienced: the seer and the seen are one. Hence it cannot be called an ordinary experience either. It is beyond all descriptions and beyond all explanations and beyond all philosophies.


To renounce all philosophies, all religions, all systems of thought, is true renunciation. And that's what I mean by sannyas: not renouncing the world but renouncing the mind and all that the mind contains, and going into the unknown with no map, with no theory, trusting the unknown and going into it. That's what sannyas is: that great courage, that adventure.


Which meditation is going well with you?... Dynamic? Very good. Continue it, and in Kerala, much has to be done. Now start spreading the message: you have to become a vehicle for me there!
			

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