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like taking your skin off. It is painful.
But this pain is worth it. It is almost the pain of a surgery, to remove the cancer from your soul. And once you have passed through the pain, the fear is gone, the ambition is gone.
Pratito, your observation is immensely significant for everybody, because all ambition is out of fear. All ambition is out of an inferiority complex, because you are afraid to be yourself. You want to be somebody else -- a president of a country, a prime minister of a country, the richest man... and people find different ways because so many people cannot be the president, cannot be the richest, cannot be the prime ministers. Then they create a Rotary Club.
Man's stupidity knows no limits. In a Rotary Club, the presidents go in rotation. Everybody becomes the president, everybody's ambition is fulfilled. But the Rotary Club chooses only the topmost people from every profession. What about others? They create a Lions Club! And there are many other clubs. Their whole function is to give you some solace, that you are a president, that you are a secretary, that you are not just nobody.
The Hindu shankaracharyas, who are equal to the Christian popes, call themselves "world teachers" -- jagat guru. I used to live in a place -- Raipur. And I was surprised that a man in that city called himself Jagat Guru, the "world teacher." And he was not a shankaracharya.
Even the shankaracharyas are not jagat guru, because the whole world does not recognize them as masters. Even the pope, who has the greatest number of followers in the world -- seven hundred million people -- cannot call himself a world teacher. And this man was living just close by my house. So one day, I went there.
He was having a massage session; one of his disciples was massaging him. So I asked him, "I heard so much about you; just one problem has been puzzling me. How did you become the world teacher, Jagat Guru?"
He said, "It is a long story."
I said, "Howsoever long it is, you tell it."
And it turned out to be the shortest story I have heard! The whole story was that the man who was massaging him, was named Jagat. And this
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