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disciples was sariputra. When he himself became enlightened -- when Sariputra became enlightened -- Buddha said, 'Now you can go and spread my message. There is no need now to hang around me. You can go. Wherever you go I am with you.' So, very reluctantly... even though he had become enlightened so he could not say no, but very reluctantly -- because he didn't want to leave buddha; he wanted just to be in his shadow forever and forever... even though he had become enlightened, and now there was no attachment left, but still, reluctantly he left. But wherever he was -- morning, evening -- he would bow down in the direction of the buddha.
His disciples enquired, 'What do you do? Why do you bow down in a certain direction every day morning and evening?'
Sariputra said, 'There moves my master.'
But they said, 'You have become enlightened yourself!'
He said, 'That doesn't matter. Even when the sunflower has completely flowered it goes on moving towards the sun. The gratitude remains.'
So the fear is natural... nothing to be worried about it. But because of fear, don't close. And when you open here as a sannyasin, you open towards me. That's why I insist so much for sannyas, because I see the danger and the problem. If people are here they say, 'Can't we work without taking sannyas?' I say, 'You can work -- because it will be too much for them to understand what exactly the meaning of sannyas is. They can work, but if something goes wrong, or if they start opening, they won't have any direction. And if you don't have any direction when you become vulnerable, it is very dangerous, because anything can enter in you. Sometimes evil forces can enter you.
If you are not a sunflower and you don't move towards the sun continuously and you don't keep track of the sun, then any evil force can enter you, and all efforts will be destroyed. You will get into such a mess that it will be difficult to take you out of it.
But when you love a master, naturally your heart flower goes on moving; not that you have to make any effort. Wherever you are -- anywhere in the world -- you will be facing me. So remain vulnerable to me. Just become
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