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that a witch doctor gave me and if you take one, it will take years of your life.'
He came home a few weeks later, and there was a beautiful young woman outside his house rocking a pram in which a baby lay sucking a bottle.
`Where's my mother?' he asked.
`Arrah, don't be silly,' she said. `I'm your mother and these pills were marvellous.'
`Imagine!' said Sean. `One pill, and you're as beautiful as anyone could be -- and what's more, you were able to have a baby. Lord, but they were powerful!'
`You madman!' she cried. `That's not a baby, that's your father. He took two;'
Avoid greed -- otherwise you will take two pills. And there are many people who are selling things like that. Witch doctors....
A Master is not here to fulfill your greed, he is here to destroy your greed. Because once greed is destroyed, you become available to yourself. If you are greedy you are never available to yourself. Greed becomes desire, desire becomes a projection in the future. And you are always wandering somewhere in the future; you are never herenow. Greed takes you away from yourself: greed has to be destroyed.
A Master never promises you anything -- but only in the presence of a Master something becomes possible. He will not tell you: `I will take death away from you', or `You will become immortal'. He is not giving you nectar, elixir, ambrosia. Of course, being with a Master one becomes immortal -- but not that he MAKES you immortal. He simply takes you deep into the existence of death.
Just look at it: he takes you deep into the experience of death. That is what deep meditation is all about -- a death *experience. And when you have known your death, watched it, suddenly you realize you are separate from it. It happens, but it never happens to you. It happens on the periphery, it never reaches to the center. It happens to the body, it never happens to you. And the body is nothing but your abode. You have changed many bodies, and you will change many more -- but you are immortal. But a real Master does not promise it. He delivers it one day, but there is no promise for it. If you are seeking one state where fear will
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