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try to forget it; don't try to get involved with something else that takes you away from it. Dig it deep. Go into it wholeheartedly. It is going to be a treasure.
So just meditate... sit silently. If you feel like doing something, then do things which don't make you a doer. Any simple thing -- working in the garden... nothing much that the ego can claim. Cooking, looking after the children, washing the clothes, rubbing the floor and cleaning it. Anything that gives you a good feel of doing, energy, exercise, but no food for the ego. So doing is there, but the doer is not supported.
And everything is going well.
[A sannyasin said that he had been with the Krishna Consciousness movement prior to taking sannyas. He was concerned because he had read in the Bhagavad Gita that one could only attain through Krishna.]
Have you read the Bible? Because in the Bible, Jesus says 'Only through me'. And have you read the Koran? In the Koran, Mohammed says 'Only through me'.
So you are like the husband who went to the marketplace and said to people, 'I have got the most beautiful woman in the world.'
So they asked, 'How did you come to know?'
He said, 'She says so!'
So that is not the question. Every teacher has said that, and when a teacher says that, he is right in a way. If you follow him, you will attain through him. But he is saying 'only through me' so that you can trust totally. If he says that you can go through others also, you are already in doubt. It will be impossible for you to be certain. Just to make you certain, Krishna says 'Only through me', Jesus says 'Only through me. I am the truth, I am the way, I am the gate!' These things are said to help you so that you can become certain -- don't take them literally.
To make it perfectly clear to you, I say to you 'only through me' (laughter). Now who are you going to believe -- a book or me, an alive person?...
Krishna is perfectly beautiful, but these Krishna Consciousness people are simply stupid. Krishna is perfectly beautiful! Read Bhagavad Gita -- enjoy it as much as you can; it is one of the best expressions of the divine. But be alert. Don't
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