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to know the world as a play is sannyas.
Then no one is small,
no one great,
no Ram and no enemy, Ravan,
and everything is a Ram-leela, God’s play.
Whichever part you are given play it well.
The part is not you
and as long as we identify with our part in the play
self-knowledge is impossible.
And from the day that this identification is broken
ignorance becomes impossible.
Play your part
but know well it isn’t you.
130. Love.
I have received your letter.
There is a great difference between love and pity.
There is pity in love
but there is no love in pity.
Therefore it is important to know things as they are:
love as love, pity as pity.
To take one for the other
is to create unnecessary worry.
Ordinarily, love has become impossible
because as he is man cannot be loving:
to be in love the mind must be completely empty
and we love only with our minds,
so that when our love is at its lowest it is sex
and at its highest it is compassion,
but love is a transcendence of both sex and compassion.
Therefore understand what is
and do not strive for what should be –
what should be flows out of
the acceptance and understanding of what is.
131. Love.
I received your letter.
Now never worry about me,
not even mistakenly for two reasons.
First: the day I surrendered myself for God
I transcended all anxiety –
because trying to look after oneself
is the only anxiety!
Ego is anxiety.
Beyond it: what anxiety? whose? and for whom?
Secondly: men like me are born to be crucified.
The cross is our throne
and our mission is fulfilled
only when stones are showered, not flowers.
But on the divine path
even stones turn into flowers,
and on the contrary path
even flowers turn out to be stones.
Therefore when the stones start raining on me,
be happy and thank God!
Truth is always received like this.
If you don’t agree
ask Socrates
ask Jesus
ask Buddha
ask Kabir
ask Meera.
My regards to all.
132. Love.
What does the seed know of its own potential?
It is the same with man:
he doesn’t know what he is nor what he can be!
The seed, perhaps, cannot look within but man can.
This looking in is called meditation.
To know one’s truth
as it is here and now is meditation.
Dive into it, deeper and deeper;
there, in the depths, all that is possible
can be clearly seen.
And once seen it begins to happen –
the awareness of what is possible turns it into a reality,
like a seed stirred by a vision of its potential
beginning to sprout.
Time, effort, energy – pour it all into meditation
because meditation is the gateless gate through which
the self becomes aware of itself.
133. Love.
Nothing in life is sure – except death,
otherwise life is another name for insecurity.
When this is realized
the desire for security simply vanishes.
To accept insecurity is to become free of it.
Uncertainty will stay in the mind
because that is its nature.
Don’t worry about it
because that will add fuel to it.
Just let the mind be, where it is,
and you go into meditation.
You are not the mind
so where is the problem of the mind?
Leave the darkness where it is
and just light your lamp.
Are you going to think carefully and then surrender?
O mad one! Surrender is a leap outside thought.
Either jump or don’t jump
but for God’s sake don’t ponder over it!
134. Love.
Theism is another name for infinite hope.
It is patience,
it is waiting,
it is trust in leela,
in the play of life,
and therefore with theism complaining cannot be.
Theism is acceptance,
it is surrender –
acceptance of what is beyond the self
and surrender to the source of the self.
In 1914 a fire broke out in
Thomas Edison’s laboratory.
Machinery worth millions
and all the papers pertaining to his lifelong research
were burnt to ashes.
Hearing of this tragedy his son Charles
came looking for him
and he found him standing by the side
enjoying the sight of the leaping flames.
On seeing Charles, Edison said to him: Where is your mother?
Go and find her and bring her here quickly;
such a sight she will never see again!
The next day, walking amidst the ashes
of his hopes and dreams,
the 67 year-old inventor said:
What benefit there is in destruction!
All our mistakes have been burnt to ashes, thank God!