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task to reach there, because no buses go there, no roads go there. He had to find his path by just looking at the map and moving into the unknown.
Finally, he found an old man, a very old man. He thought in his mind that if there is any God, he must look like this man! He was very happy, although tired and tattered. He fell at the feet of the old man and he said, "I am coming from America. I am a super-rich man, but I am tired of the world; I have renounced everything."
The old man looked at him and said, "These matters we will discuss later on. Do you have a cigarette on you? Sixty years, and not a single idiot has come here with a cigarette."
The billionaire was very much shocked, but he gave his whole packet, and a lighter, and the old man said, "You are a very religious person."
"But," the billionaire said, "what am I to do now?"
He said, "Go back. And when you come again, bring as many cigarettes as possible."
He said, "This is strange! I had come here for enlightenment..."
The old man said, "Do what I have told you. Just this way -- going back and coming again, going back and coming again -- you will become enlightened."
Miserably, he went away. No one has ever heard that he came back again. But this man, for sixty years, had been waiting for a cigarette.
The second story is certainly fiction. This one that I have just told you may be true. The second is that when Edmund Hillary reached Everest he was surprised to see a Hindu sannyasin squatting on the ground there. He said, "My god! We used to think that nobody had ever reached here. How did you manage?"
He said, "I come here every day. This is a sort of toilet for me. I live just nearby. But these things we can discuss later on -- how much for your watch? Because here it is so difficult to know what time it is..."
These people who have escaped from the world, do you think they are thinking about anything else? They are thinking more of the world than you are, because you don't have to think -- it is there! These poor fellows have to think thousands of things which are not there. Mind always desires that which is not there. That
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