"only you are responsible and nobody else. That creates fear. So man has always been creating gods who Give meaning to Life. What exactly is the notion of a God? Someone to look to, somebody to look up to, somebody who will give meaning to you, somebody who will give salvation, bliss, moksha. You want to be on the receiving end, that's why people go to the churches, to the temples, to the mosques – just to pray 'Give us meaning.'

"This prayer is impotent The right prayer is to do something to create meaning. Existence cooperates, it cooperates with you – whatsoever you are doing, God is always there to cooperate. Even if you are going against him, he cooperates with you. That's the meaning of Jesus' saying that when the clouds shower, they shower on both the just and the unjust, the good and the bad. When the sun rays fall, they fall on all unconditionally – the sinner and the saint; they don't make any distinction.

"If you are simply waiting for some meaning to come into your life, you are waiting like a beggar with a begging bowl. Then you will never get it. And because you are waiting, you will continuously feel meaninglessness. You have an idea of meaning and you don't create it, and then you go on comparing your life with that idea and life is always falling short…great anxiety. You are creating both.

"First this idea that 'I am only to be on the receiving end' that 'I am not to be creative'; and second, carrying this great idea that 'Life should be like this, only then it is life, only then there is significance' – and then comparing it with your life. You will not find anywhere that poetry which gives you significance unless you bring it into existence, unless you create it.

"Sannyas means a creative approach towards God. Your prayer should not be just impotent. It should show that you really want it to be that way. You should do all that you can do – no stone should be left unturned, only then God's help arises, comes, descends, transforms. God certainly comes, but only when you have done all that you could do, never before."