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becomes telepathetic. If the other person thinks, 'You should die,' you will die immediately. That's why people remain with closed hearts -- to protect themselves.
So when the heart starts opening, one feels very much afraid -- but the heart is opening towards me, so you don't be worried about it, mm? Even if I kill you, it will be better than your life! So don't be worried. You are not going to be a loser.
[She answers: I'm scared of you killing me!]
That's right -- fear is natural, mm? But don't close. Let the fear be there -- remain open.
That is the beauty of a master-and-disciple relationship, because when you are a disciple, you become open only to your master. Your vulnerability is directed -- you are not just open.
Have you watched some hypnotist working? When the hypnotist works on somebody and he says, 'You are completely hypnotised; you are unconscious now, fallen deep asleep,' the person falls as if into a deep sleep. If somebody else shouts, he will not listen, but if the hypnotist even whispers, he will listen. He has fallen asleep to the whole world -- except the hypnotist. Just a small link remains between the hypnotist and the hypnotised.
Exactly the same happens between a master and a disciple. The hypnotist has to hypnotise; it is a deliberate effort. The master does not use any deliberate effort; his very being is hypnotising. It is not that he hypnotises you -- it is his very being that hypnotises you.
So when you start opening, your flower opens towards the master. You have seen the sunflower? It simply opens towards the sun, and when the sun moves, the flower moves. The sun is in the east, the flower faces the east. In the evening when the sun has gone to the west, the flower moves to the west. When the sun has gone below the horizon, the flower closes; it opens only for the sun. The sunflower is exactly the symbol for the disciple.
Have you watched mohammedans praying? Whenever they pray, they face mecca -- wherever they are, all over the world, mm? they bow down in the direction of mecca. That is very symbolic -- their master once lived there.
There is a story in Buddha's life.
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