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She only had attacks -- and only of two minutes duration -- when she was asleep.
She added that the fits left her feeling rather strange and empty.... ]
... don't be worried; it will disappear by and by. There is nothing wrong in it. Try and make it a meditation. Just do one thing: every night when you go to sleep, just repeat three times that whenever it is going to happen, it will be tremendously peaceful and silent and blissful. That's all. And next time when it happens, something of meditation will have entered into it and there will be a change. Epileptic fits and ecstatic fits are similar: the mechanism is the same, only the quality is different.
Ramkrishna used to have fits. Doctors diagnosed that they were epileptic and that he was going insane. Had he been in the West he would have immediately been given electric shocks and been put into a mental asylum. You have the fit for only two minutes. He used to sometimes have a fit for six hours, and once he remained unconscious for eighteen hours.
In India we know that the symptom is the same as in epilepsy, but that the person is only unconscious in the body -- deep inside the consciousness is there and he is perfectly peaceful.
Next time it happens you will have a very ecstatic and blissful experience -- deep silence and calm. And those two minutes will give you a tremendous insight into your being.
But use the same words every night and in the same order, so the mind doesn't get confused. Next time it will be beautiful, it will not be a disease anymore, mm?
[A sannyasin who runs a centre in the West says he is always being told to cut his hair]
Mm, don't cut it.
[The center leader adds: ... when I work in the centre, I often feel difficulties both working and meditating... I work much]
No, you work much. Working is never bad, and one can never work too much, never. We never work too much.
... We never work as much as we can, we never work to the maximum potential. In fact, at the most, people work fifteen percent of their potential -- and those are the very hard workers.
As I see it, you are not working more than seven or eight
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