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Don't bring your mind in, in an effort to understand them otherwise you will stop the whole process.
The deepest is available only to intuition, not to intellect. It was an intuitive flash, a lightning, in the depth of your soul.
It will be happening more and more...
[A sannyasin who is leaving says: I feel quite happy about being here and uh... going back home is frightening.]
Now I am coming with you, don't be frightened. I will accompany you, don't be frightened. It happens to every new sannyasin: when for the first time you go back, a little fear. But once you are there, people will be afraid of you -- you just...
You need not be afraid. We are going to frighten the whole world. Just wait!
[A sannyasin says: Just that I feel very um... very much like lost.]
That's perfectly right, mm? But if you are lost you can be found; that is the beginning of the journey. First one has to lose one's identity, only then can one know who one is. It is through losing oneself that one finds. The really unfortunate people are those who never feel that they are lost. Then they remain superficial. Everybody is lost, but people are so afraid to feel it that they go on pretending they are not lost.
When you come here you cannot avoid the truth, the truth has to be accepted, faced: you are lost, as everybody else is lost. But to understand it is a good beginning. It is a blessing, because if one really feels that "I am lost", then one starts searching. Then inquiry begins, then life becomes a quest.
And you have started moving. To know that "I am lost", is the beginning of a long journey in which one finds oneself. That too will happen one day. I hope one day you will be able to say to me that "Now I have found myself."
It is a long, arduous journey, with many pains and with many pleasures, with many dark valleys and many sunlit peaks, many peaks of joy and many lows of sorrow and sadness. But one has to accept both and go on inquiring.
One day the witness arrives. One day you start feeling that you are just a witness: you are neither sad nor happy. Both things come and go and you abide, and that which always
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