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[A sannyasin says: When I'm in London working, I am very involved in my work and I feel how could I possibly leave it? So I'm really finding things difficult.]
Your work is good. You are doing good work there, but your own growth is far more important than your work. It is good work; if you continue, there is nothing wrong in it. But for your own growth, if you can stay a little longer, it will be helpful. And it will be helpful for the work also in the end, because you can help people only to the extent you yourself can go -- never beyond it. You can take people only so far. How can you take them beyond you? That's impossible.
So if you grow, your work also grows with you. Your help becomes deeper, goes to the very root of problems, and does not only solve other people's problems, but gives them a new direction, a new meaning. It is one thing to solve people's problems. Then you help them to become adjusted again. You make them normal again. You make them capable of being in the work.
But to help them to grow is totally different. In fact to help them to grow is to make them abnormal. To help them to grow means to make them rebellious. To help them means to take them beyond the society, beyond the rotten structure. To help them means to give them the hope for the impossible. They live surrounded by the impossible. They never think of the impossible.
God is the impossible. Religion itself is nothing but a passion for the impossible, the passion for the impossible.
So if a person only lives with the possible, he lives lukewarm. He lives only for the name's sake. Yes, he may be a good citizen, a healthy person, doing his job, not creating any trouble for his family or the society; he may not be a mischief-maker, may not be a troublesome individual, may be perfectly adjusted -- but what is the point? One simply lives and dies and never knows anything beyond that which goes beyond death.
So unless you can help a person to have a glimpse of the impossible, and you create a desire in him to long for the impossible, to desire the impossible, to be passionately, intensely in love with the impossible, you have not helped. If you can
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