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- Nirvana is cessation of the ego -- and when the ego ceases, god
enters; when the host is no more there, then the guest comes.
- Your mind is your misery, your mind is
your bondage.
- Sannyas is desirelessness, and
desirelessness means living in the now.
- When the master knocks at your door, then drop everything
because nothing is more important than to know yourself, to be
yourself and experience the great beautitude and the ecstasy that is
your birthright.
- Religion is the science of how to find the
forgotten language of ecstasy. Whenever you are in tune with
existence, there is ecstasy, there is bliss, there is benediction.
- If you start living this very moment, here
and now, misery disappears.
- The greatest miracle in the world is trust. But remember, I am
not saying belief. Dictionaries go on confusing people. If you ask
dictionaries what trust is, they will say that it is belief, it is
faith. It is neither. Belief is always with a doubt hidden behind
it. Faith is blind, not your own experience. But trust is your own
experience. Once you have tasted the sweetness of trust, you don't
need any religion and you don't need any prayer.
- Don't leave this world without making it a little more beautiful
than you found it when you came into it.
- Enlightenment is not something that is
going to come to you from somewhere else. Desire dropped, and you
are a buddha. The only difference between you and a buddha is
desire.
- Surrender simply means an understanding:
Enough of this "I" -- now I drop it. The moment you drop "I", you
have dropped the whole hypnosis that the society has forced you to
go through. The moment you drop the ego, you have dropped the state,
the religion, the church, the society, the parents, the school, the
university, the civilization, the culture: you have dropped all
conditioning. And then suddenly you will see an upsurge of
tremendous bliss arising in you. It was there, waiting -- just
remove the weight, and the spring can flow again.
- The ego cannot exist without a sea of
suffering around it. The ego is like an island in a sea of
suffering. You are enjoying your ego. You are continuously
strengthening it, decorating it, making it more and more valuable.
This is your choice. Once you see that the ego is deeply connected
with suffering and without suffering it cannot exist, then if you
don't want to suffer, you drop the ego, you forget all about the
language of the ego. The language of the ego is the language of
agony. And then things are very simple.
- Sannyas is nothing but an effort to create
a mystery school where people can Support each other on the way. The
journey is arduous and long, and the goal is far away and there are
a thousand and one hazards on the way and pitfalls, and one can go
astray any moment. And the higher you move, the more difficult it
becomes. Even breathing becomes difficult. And the higher you move,
the greater is the danger of falling. But if many are moving they
can hold each other, they can support each other.
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