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lines again and again, you will not become enlightened; you will simply become crazy.
Underneath, something else is happening. While the master is speaking, the disciple is not only listening because he has ears. The disciple is listening with his total being, every fiber of his being; not only with ears, he is also listening with his eyes, looking at the master; he is also feeling the master, his vibe. It is a total phenomenon. He has forgotten himself and disappeared in the tremendous statement.
The moment you forget yourself and only a silent consciousness remains, you have come home. Enlightenment is not something special; it is hidden in you, your hidden splendor. It is just that you are so much occupied with the outside world that you can forget anything, particularly those things which are very obvious.
In the first world war rationing was introduced and everybody had to appear before the rationing officer to get a ration card. Thomas Alva Edison, a world-famous figure -- all your facilities and comforts, most of them are because of Edison; he discovered one thousand things -- he was also standing in the queue. And as he was coming closer to the top of the queue, people were leaving, taking their cards, and finally the clerk shouted, "Now it is time for Thomas Alva Edison."
Edison looked here and there; he could not see anybody. A long queue was behind him. Somebody from the back said, "As far as I know, the man who is standing in front of you is Thomas Alva Edison."
Edison said, "Perhaps I may be, but for fifty years nobody has used my name in front of me." He was so famous; in the university he was called `the professor', nobody used his name. And he was so engrossed and engaged in his experiments, he had no time to meet people, to talk to people. He was a man who was absolutely alone in the crowd. He had forgotten his own name -- fifty years is a long time.
If nobody uses your name, you will also forget, or you may think, "Perhaps I have heard this name somewhere far away, far back, as an echo, but I cannot guarantee it. I have to find witnesses."
Now, if your name is not used by others out of respect and
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