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direction even the impossible becomes possible. And it is your birthright; it is not impossible.
(To Hans) -- Your name: Swami Gyandip. Gyandip means a lamp of wisdom.
Man is born with intrinsic capacity of being wise. It is not something to be learned. It is already there.
Maybe it needs a little polishing here and there but that's all, otherwise it is there. It is not like knowledge; knowledge is not there. You have to learn it, ;you have to learn it from others. You need teachers for knowledge. For wisdom you need a master.
A master is not a teacher -- the difference is great. The teacher teaches you, helps you to learn more and more, informs you. The master helps you to unlearn. He UNteaches you, he helps you to unburden, to drop all rubbish called knowledge. His function is just the opposite.
Ordinarily people think a teacher and a master are the same thing. They will even call Buddha a great teacher. They are not same things, their function is totally opposite. The teacher heaps you to become aware that there is much within you which is not your own: Drop it, disconnect yourself from it, get disidentified from it so that your inner being can have more space for itself to grow. You are hampered, cripples by knowledge, so much burdened that your self-nature cannot assert. All that is needed is a little space for you to grow and then the light burns bright within you and in that light, whatsoever you so is right. In that light you cannot do anything wrong. That light is the only certainty for a true virtue, for a true morality, for a true character.
(To Lis) -- This is your name: Ma Bhagvatta. Bhagvatta means godliness.
There is no god as a person. The idea of god as a person is a childish idea. Good to help children to understand. It is like the illustrated books which we prepare for children: Colour pictures are more because they are more interested in colour and pictures and through those colored pictures we can help them to learn language -- For example if we want to teach them what a potato is we have to give them a beautiful picture of a potato -- they will be immediately interested in the picture
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