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Just explain to them lovingly, humbly. There is no need to argue -- because these things are not for argument.
If they love you -- and I see that they love you and that they are loving people -- they will understand. If they can understand love, they can understand everything. Love is vast.
And their concern is natural -- nothing wrong in it. Mm? they may be worried about what you have chosen and where you are going; maybe you will go astray, maybe it will become difficult. Their concern is natural, and you should be grateful that they are concerned. They still care for you... their love is intact.
So feel grateful, and tell them that you feel grateful that they are concerned, but make it clear. And there is no argument in it -- just make it clear... a simple statement that this is the thing, and this is your way to reach christ.
If they love you they will understand, and if they love christ there is every possibility that they will come to me too.
Nobody can reach christ through the church. It has never been so; it is not in the nature of things. Nobody can reach Buddha through the priesthood.
Once I am gone you will not be able to make any contact with me through somebody else -- an organisation, priests, apostles... they won't help. The only way will be either to be directly with me -- which needs rare awareness -- or go to a living master who may not even have heard about me, and to be with him. Either you have the awareness to contact me directly or you come in contact with somebody who has that awareness. He may not have heard about me -- that is not the point -- but through his presence you will be immediately connected with me. He will function as a bridge.
Masters who are no more on the earth can be connected only through living masters -- there is no other way. And as far as masters are concerned, there is no Christian, no Hindu and no Buddhist. A master is a door to the infinite, and the infinite has no adjective to it.
So if you simply are there, happy, flowing, meditative, praying.... Let them watch, let them just see by the side. Passing the room they will see you are meditating; in the garden
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