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you change the society, the change is very drastic. And coming from the west to the east is a drastic change, mm? All the categories are different -- and particularly when you come to a person like me, the change is even more drastic. If you come from London to Bombay there is not much of a problem because Bombay is just as western as London. But to come to this ashram....
We have a totally different philosophy of life, the values differ, so it takes a few days to get acquainted. But this is nothing to be worried about. It is not such a confusion that it becomes a problem. It is not a problem at all.
It is just as when the body goes through an adjustment. The body clock is disturbed, and the body takes two, three days, to resettle. The mind takes a little longer -- a week, two weeks... at the most three weeks.
And it is good to come here and to go back many times; to come here and to go back. By and by you will become more fluid, and it will not take so much time; it will not create so much confusion. Then you can just change as one changes the gear in a car. In the beginning when you learn to change the gear, it is a difficult thing, but by and by you become so efficient that not even a slight jerk is felt. In the beginning it is very jerky.
So my whole effort here is to help you to know what the east is -- or once was... to bring you to the eastern freedom, the eastern spiritual freedom, the eastern spiritual consciousness, the vast, empty space of the universe -- and to send you back to the west.... I don't want you to be here permanently.
Go back -- go back to the world and try to carry this inner space in those contrary situations. Sooner or later you will find that the space remains unaffected. You will be able to move in the very materialistic, technological, scientific world, without losing yourself at all. And come again and again to be refreshed, so that the inner space does not become contaminated, is not polluted -- and then go back again.
Once you have become perfectly in tune, there is no need to come. Be wherever you are and I will be with you.
This confusion is nothing to be worried about, mm ? It
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