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CHAPTER 18
18 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Deva means divine, karin means rejoice – rejoice in the divine. The world is full of god, each particle is overflowing with his existence, but we cannot see him unless we rejoice, because when we rejoice we function at the optimum. When we rejoice we become total, when we rejoice then we are not holding anything back. Because of that optimum energy – holding nothing back – the contact with the divine is possible. God is there. we are here, but the bridge is missing. Rejoice and you make the bridge: rejoicing is the bridge.
Prem means love, mari means rebellion, angela means message or messenger. Love is the rebellion and love is the message. Love is the rebellion because society is very much against it. The society is centred around the concept of war; its whole structure has arisen out of violence, hence it cannot be for love. If love comes into the world all the societies will simply collapse, because basically they are all war-oriented. rooted in conflict, rooted in competition, rooted in jealousy. How can they allow love to happen? So instead of love they supply plastic substitutes – marriage, etcetera.
Love is also the greatest revolution because in love you have to drop your ego, otherwise love remains a dream and never becomes a reality. One has to sacrifice the ego at the altar of love. That’s the only way to bring it down from the beyond into the heart.
The ego is like a rock: remove the ego and you become available to love. God is nothing but the most intense experience of love, another name for the orgasmic experience of love. All the Buddhas, all the awakened ones, have been giving this simple message. But it has not been heard yet; man is deaf and blind.
By becoming a sannyasin you are taking a vow against deafness and blindness, that now you will try to be open to reality, vulnerable to existence, available to god.
CHAPTER 18.
Deva means divine. Sabine does not have a very significant meaning – it is the name of an ancient Italian tribe but the sound is beautiful, hence I will keep it; and it is really the sound that matters, not the meaning.
So remember that language is not significant, but music. That which can be said is not important, but only that which cannot be said. But that which cannot be said can be shown. And your energy is ready to see it. Your energy is already in a divine dance.
I am waiting for people like you. You have come in the right time. Anywhere else you will be thought mad – here, voU will become holy! It is rare to see such a liquid German!...
In fact you don’t need much; just being here is going to do the miracle!
Anand means bliss. narayan means god. Bliss is god, and to be blissful is to be godly. To be miserable is to isolate yourself from god and his existence. Misery is a by-product of isolation, disconnection. You are unplugged from the divine source, then you are in misery. Misery exists only when you become an island; and we are taught to become islands, we are taught to become egos, small islands, hence there is so much misery in the world.
We are not meant to be islands, we are continents. We are not separate; nothing is separate from anything else. This whole existence is an interdependence, everything is interconnected. To see that interconnection is to see god. To see that interdependence is to drop the idea of the ego, and in that very dropping bliss arises. To be blissful is to be godly. And the ultimate peak is that you are not blissful, you are simply bliss; then you are god.
That is the meaning of your name; let it become the meaning of your life too! It is a long journey, arduous. hazardous, but not impossible.
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