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someone near you, then shower on him the nectar of love, coronate him with your kinship, your gentleness. This pure love is the very basic element of non-violence.
There are two general traditions in the world—those of meditation and of devotion, Some religion would give importance to meditation, and some to devotion. But the aforesaid method is the equation of meditation and devotion. Meditation and love are the chief bases of the feeling of the supreme life.
Meditation is the journey within. The journey within is, but very short, neither a long nor a broad one, nor covering thousands of miles. Even these few steps for the inward journey would be very fine. The only means for the seeking of inside is that when a person enters into his meditation, he should prepare himself fully for that. He should become committed for that; for, without commitment meditation is not accomplished. He accomplishes cent-percent meditation, who enters meditation with a commitment to it.
Commitment means concentration of all your energy at some particular point. Commitment does not just mean becoming determined in the heart about something.
The things I will say are related to the blacksmith, I shall not indulge in talks related to the goldsmith. The goldsmith strikes slowly for hundred of days and makes ornaments. Contrary to this, the blacksmith completes his work by hammering hard in a single day. My hammer is similar to that of the blacksmith whose one single strike is equivalent to hundred strikes of the goldsmith
Either there will take place a metamorphosis in life, or you will be separated from me. I would rather strive to bring about a metamorphosis in your life-a change that would cause the life to get ordained. Therefore, let this hammer of the blacksmith enter deep inside you, because if I use the goldsmith's hammer then it would be futile. The goldsmith's hammer would be effective only where there are golden wires. But, where the iron has got rusted, only the blacksmith's hammer would be effective.
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