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one day you explode. In another, you start opening your aperture slowly, slowly. And the second process is more human, less drastic.
Just be patient, mm? Don't be worried. Good!
[A sannyas couple are present and say: we would like to have a child, and I think we are ready to have a child.]
It is good to wait a little longer, because this is just an unconscious desire, a biological desire. It happens to every man and every woman; more to a woman than to a man, but it is not very conscious.
You will be creating a situation in which you may get too involved; your own growth may suffer. A child is a great occupation and when one enters your life you can't be the same; you will change through it. Mm? that small child is not so small, that small child is a universe: it will change everything in your life. It will change your relationship too, because then it becomes a triangle. So my feeling is that you should wait a little more -- it is always good to wait -- and let it become more conscious, more deliberate.
Rather than just becoming a mother, first think of becoming a meditator; go as deeply into meditation as possible. First feel fulfilled, first feel contented, and then it is perfectly good to have a child. Then that child will come out of your contentment, out of your fulfilment, and that child will have a different quality to him. It will be a different kind of soul, it will be a more conscious soul. And when a conscious soul enters your womb that will also transform you but it will transform you for the better; it will also change your relationship but it will deepen it. If a conscious soul can come into your womb and become your child, your life will take on such richness that you have not known before. Just by becoming a mother that is not known.
It is just as anybody can paint a picture, anybody. If a canvas is available, colour is available, anybody can throw the colour on the canvas with the brush or directly from the tubes; but that is not going to give you satisfaction unless you create a masterpiece. If you can create a Van Gogh there will be great joy.
And that's what happens when a buddha is born: the
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