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the target. You are both the means and you are the end.

Unless one discovers oneself one remains just a means. The moment one has discovered oneself one has found the end. The circumference of your being is the means: the body, the mind, the heart. Use all of them to reach the innermost core, the very center -- and that is the end. In finding it one finds everything that is needed to be found. In knowing it all is known. In reaching it one reaches god.

(To Elmy): -- This is your new name: Yogo means the meeting -- the meeting of the dewdrop with the ocean, the meeting of the individual with the universal, the meeting of the part with the whole... and that's what we are seeking and searching for.

Sannyas is nothing but a bridge, a rainbow bridge, a bridge between the part and the whole, a bridge between you and god. But one thing has to be fulfilled: you have to slowly, slowly disappear. In the same proportion as you disappear, god starts appearing. As the ultimate meeting point you are not found at all, only god is found.

Sannyas is a death and a resurrection: death of the small ego and rebirth of the ultimate, death of the momentary and birth of the eternal.

(To Henk): -- This is your new name: Swami Pravasi. Pravasi means stranger.

We are all strangers here. This is not our home, our home is somewhere else. We are in a foreign land. To remain outside oneself is to remain homeless; to come in is to be back home.

Now ever effort has to be made to come in. No stone is to be left unturned, everything has to be risked, because nothing is more precious than this turning in. everything can be lost for it, sacrificed for it, because all else is trivia.

Remember that sannyas simply means the beginning of a long inward journey. But to take the first step is almost half the journey.

(To Peter): This is your new name: Swami Surodaya. Surodaya means the sunrise.

Sannyas is the beginning of a new day, it is sunrise; hence the color orange. It is the color of the morning when the east starts turning orange, ready for the sun, ready to welcome it. It is like spreading a red carpet for the sun.

Prepare the way for god to come in, be ready to receive the sun, the light. and the only thing that is needed is to become more and more aware, less and less in the mind and more and more outside the mind, watching it, not getting involved, just become a detached observer. That's exactly the meaning of the word 'ecstasy' -- to stand out.

Learn to stand out of the mind and you have learned all that there is to learn. All the religions, in different ways, in different languages, teach only one secret: how to stand out of your own mind. And the day you succeed is the greatest day in your life. That day you are reborn. That day you are no more part of the physical world, you become part of god.