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many enlightened people dead. And with a man like Ma Tzu, when he says to someone, "Come follow me," he has to.
But Nansen's own disciples remained without any answer; they missed the point.
And Nansen has shown such a beauty of his heart; although he was not the successor of Ma Tzu, he had become enlightened under him.
TOMORROW WE WILL OFFER VEGETARIAN FOOD TO MASTER MA TZU. DO YOU THINK HE WILL COME?
An enlightened being can visit. There are hundreds of cases when enlightened people have visited. The only condition to be fulfilled is your loving invitation.
And that's what Nansen is saying, "We are sending the loving invitation to Ma Tzu, and we promise him..." because Nansen has deviated from vegetarianism, he has allowed non-vegetarians into the monastery. His attitude was that if the whole of humanity -- and the argument is worth consideration -- if the whole of humanity becomes vegetarian, it will be impossible to supply food to everybody. Almost ninety-nine percent of humanity is non-vegetarian. From where can you get so much vegetarian food?
So his consideration was very practical and pragmatic. He said, "Just because of the food, don't prevent their spiritual growth. Yes, it is true that with vegetarian food they can enter into meditative states more easily, but that is their problem. With non-vegetarian food their entry into higher consciousnesses is more difficult, but it is not impossible."
Non-vegetarian masters have simply followed a harder path, but the situation of the world is that we cannot supply everybody with vegetarian food.
That's why he says that, "We are sending the invitation to Ma Tzu's enlightened soul, freed from the body. We will offer vegetarian food -- we promise. DO YOU THINK HE WILL COME? I think he will come; he has to come."
An enlightened man is simply living in total freedom out of the body, floating like a white cloud, without any roots in the earth, and without any destination. Just out of freedom -- to the north, to the west, to the east -- wherever spontaneously a movement occurs, he moves. If with love, with prayer, with deep meditation he is invited,
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