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are here -- if we are all going to die, we are all going to die, not only you.' But he is not in a state to listen.
The Sufi mystic is listening to the whole thing, watching, and he says 'If you give me a chance I can put him right,' and the king says 'Do anything!'
So the Sufi and his two or three disciples take the man up and throw him into the sea! Of course he shouts more loudly in the sea:'Save me! Take me out of it!'
For a few minutes he is left there and then the Sufi and the disciples rescue him and carry him back into the ship; now he is very calm and quiet. He sits very silently, and he is very happy that he has been saved. The king is surprised but the mystic says 'This is a simple application of a general law: People understand the beauty of something only when they have lost it.'
Your lover is there you understand the beauty of relationship; when you are gone from here you will understand the beauty of being here. This is the general rule. Beware of it!
So good. Keep to this -- being total there. Don't think of me and don't think of Poona at all.
Just be totally there. If you can be totally there, next time you can be totally here. And it is not a question of where you are total; wherever you are total you are with me. To be total is to be with me. To be partial is not to be with me.
So just go happily, with all my blessings, to be total there -- try!
Para means'of the beyond, transcendental'; prem means love -- love of the beyond, love for the transcendental.
Man is not confined to the body, neither is man confined to the mind. That's the beauty and the grandeur. In the innermost core, something exists in man which is transcendental, which is infinite, which has no beginning and no end, which is the eternal flow of life. To become too attached to the body, to the mind and to the things of the body and the mind, is to be lost in the mundane. To remember the transcendental -- to remember 'I am in the body but not the body, I am in the mind but not the mind' -- is the beginning of a great transformation. It takes you farther and farther away from things; and the farther away you are from things,
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