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been conscious of what you were really searching for. All travellers are basically in search of something -- they don't know what. They go on moving from one place to another, thinking that somewhere something will happen. It can't happen that way because it is not a question of changing places, it is a question of changing spaces. It is an inner question. Places are outside, spaces are inside. But they look alike and the words can be very confusing.
The real search is for the inner journey but we go on journeying from one country to another, from one city to another, from one hotel to another. And they all are becoming so alike that really there is no point any more -- moving from one intercontinental hotel to another intercontinental hotel -- it is the same. The world has become very small; now it is not worth travelling, all is known about it. There are small differences which don't mean much. And this is good in a way because in the future the traveller will not have anything to go outside for; he will have to go inside. Every traveller will have to go inside, the outer is finished. Through scientific technology it has no more any meaning.
And sometimes things seen on the screen, on the TV screen, on the movie screen, are far more beautiful than when you actually go and see them, because photography can do miracles. So really, when you see the Himalayas in the film and then you go to the real Himalayas, they look a little paler, they are not so colourful. They simply look as if they have been copying the film, imitating the film.
Once it happened that a painter painted a picture of some beautiful mountains. A woman came to him; she wanted to appreciate his work so she said 'This morning I went to the mountains and they were exactly like your painting.' The painter said 'Yes, sometimes nature imitates art.'
This is happening! So the outer journey is finished, at least your outer journey is finished. Now a far deeper, a far more valuable journey starts with your sannyas. It is going to be a turning point in your life. You will go on moving -- I am all for movement -- but now you will go in a totally different dimension, diametrically
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