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I signed it in the name of one of my professors. He said, "But you are signing with somebody else's name. I know this man, S.S. Roy; he is your professor. What are you going to tell him?"
I said, "You don't be worried. This a copy of the original, the original I will take from him." I said, "This is done everyday; the original is taken, then copies are made. This is just the reverse: the copy is given to you, the original I will make."
I went to S.S. Roy. I told him that this had happened and, "This is the character certificate I have written. You give me the original."
He looked at the certificate. He said, "You should have come to me, because you have not written anything good. I would have given you a beautiful character certificate."
I said, "It was something spontaneous. That man was in a difficulty and I could not write more than this about myself. What more can I write?"
He said, "But this is not a character certificate at all, because you are saying that you are a human being -- this is very ordinary. You ask me to sign it, and it says that you have all the weaknesses of human beings, that one cannot trust you, you are not reliable. Now I have to sign it," he said, "and you will show it to people."
I said, "No, I will not show it. The original I will give to you. The original you can keep in case it is needed."
He said, "Then it is okay because I don't want people to see that I have written this character certificate about you. I love you and I know you. These are not your qualities."
I said, "But when I have to write about myself, do you think I should write, `He is the only begotten son of God'? Do you want me to be crucified? Once was enough."
Coming along with me you will have to drop almost the whole of you. Only the essential will remain, only that which you cannot drop. Even if you want to drop it you cannot. Only that will remain.
It is a great surgery in which all the cancerous growth that surrounds you has to be cut out completely. It is painful, it is hard. Just because it is so painful and so hard, I make it as light as possible, as joyous as possible. I try to make it a joke
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