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know how you are making out."
Sure enough, the girl returned a week later, but this time she was even more disturbed than before.
"What is the matter now?" asked the rabbi.
"I stopped him from all that kissing," said the unhappy young lady, "but now -- well, I don't know how to put it...."
"Put, put!" urged the rabbi. "With me you got nothing to be ashamed."
"He's trying to -- er -- touch me with his hands," she stammered in embarrassment.
The rabbi rose from his chair in righteous anger. "You tell that no-goodnik he should keep his dirty hands to himself!" barked the rabbi. "What kind of a way is that to treat a decent Jewish girl? Tell him to stop at once, you hear?"
But when she visited the rabbi again she was almost in tears. "I did everything you said," moaned the girl, "but now he insists he wants to sleep with me."
"What!" yelled the outraged rabbi. "I never heard of such chutzpah in my whole life. You go right home and the next time you see him I want you to throw that bum out of the house. You understand? I am ordering you! Throw him out!"
A few days later she visited the rabbi once more. Her eyes were red from weeping and her face was a picture of misery.
"Did you do like I ordered?" demanded the rabbi.
She nodded, and, still sobbing, she said through her tears, "Now he wants a divorce!"
Your priests are as unconscious as you are, or even more. They are not even aware of the situation man is passing through. They go on handing out old recipes which are no more relevant. They go on giving you great advice which may have been useful sometime in the past but is utterly out of context in the present situation.
You don't need more priests and their help. You need a few awakened people in the world. You need more meditators -- not mediators. The priests have been mediators between you and God. You need more meditators, people who go deeper into their being, people who become centered, people who know the inner silence, the virgin silence and the tremendous beauty of it. They will help humanity, and they will not help humanity directly either. Their very presence will radiate
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