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Samvad means communion. Man is living as an island, and that’s from where all misery arises.
Down the centuries man has been trying to live independently from existence. That is not possible
in the very nature of things. Man can neither be independent nor dependent. Existence is a state
of interdependence: everything depends on everything else. There is no hierarchy, nobody is lower
and nobody is higher. Existence is a communion, an eternal love affair.
But the idea that man has to be higher, more superior, special, creates trouble. Man has to be
nothing: man has to dissolve into the totality of things. And when we drop all the barriers, communion
happens, and that communion is a benediction. To be one with the whole is all. That is the very core
of religion.
Deva means divine, anando means bliss. Bliss is something which descends from the beyond.
It cannot be manufactured, man cannot make it. There is no possibility ever. No technology, no
methodology, can help man to create bliss; bliss is beyond human creativity. But still, man can
receive it; and the whole art of being blissful is the art of being receptive. One has to be in a kind of
let-go, then it comes. One has to be almost absent, then it pours in from all directions and fills you
to the full – not only that, it starts overflowing in you. Happiness is human, can be created. Bliss is
divine, cannot be created. It is always a gift from god, it is a grace; but man has forgotten how to
receive.
He has become too much of a doer and he feels that he can do everything: he can go to the moon,
he can make atom bombs and he can reach the secrets of nature. For the first time in the history
of human consciousness man has fallen deeply into the dream of being a doer. He has lost track
of something immensely valuable that can only be received. That’s why a few values are utterly
missing.