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am destroying." So when you come out of your bathtub, you are an ordinary man, fresh, humble, clean.
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed. My sannyasins have to be aware of it. Hence, my insistence for being just ordinary. And it is so beautiful, because I am saying it out of my experience.
No egoist in the whole history of humanity has said that ego is beautiful, that it has given him great ecstasies. All the egoists have died in frustration, despair, because the ego knows no limits. So you are always frustrated.
I can tell you from my experience of being just an ordinary human being that it is the ultimate ecstasy. It merges you with existence. There is no barrier. It merges you with the stars, and with the sky, and with the earth. You are no more separate.
Ego separates you.
And the feeling of oneness with this exquisite existence is religion to me.
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT SINGLE-POINTEDNESS, BEING TOTAL, SPACING OUT, WORK, AND WORSHIP?
There has always been a confusion in people's minds about singlemindedness -- in other words, concentration -- and meditation. They think both are the same.
The reality is just the opposite. When you are single-minded, you are one dimensional. Your mind becomes narrower and narrower and narrower, and remains focused on one point. This is concentration.
If you are learning shooting, the art of archery, and things like that, it will be helpful.
There is a story in ancient Indian scriptures. The great master archer, Dronacharya, asked his disciples to shoot their arrows at a bird sitting on a tree. They were all ready with their bows and arrows, and he said, "Before you shoot, I want to ask a question, and each one has to answer."
He asked the first one. The question was, "What are you seeing?"
He said, "I am seeing everything: the tree, the sky, other trees, the birds flying."
He went on asking the same question to the other disciples. One disciple said, "I can see only the tree on which the bird is sitting."
He was far better,
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