Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.

The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of intimacy it is beautiful but if you are hoping that intimacy will arise out of marriage, you are hoping in vain. Of course, I know that many people, millions of people, have settled for marriage rather than for intimacy - because intimacy is growth and it is painful.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.