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disciple, my mother, my all brothers, my uncles -- my whole family.
It needs guts. They have taken a great step.
Q: YOUR MOTHER IS A LADY OF WHAT, SEVENTY-FIVE OR EIGHTY?
A: Must be seventy-five.
Q: AND YOUR FATHER WAS A CLOTH MERCHANT?
A: He was a cloth merchant.
Q: DID HE WISH THAT YOU WENT INTO THE FAMILY BUSINESS?
A: In my childhood certainly and the ...(inaudible). From my very childhood I was a problem to him and to my family because whatever I wanted to do I will only do that; whatever the cost and whatever the consequence. It took few years for them to understand me but finally they realized that it is better to let me go on my way and not to interfere but just to help me whatever I want to become, let me become.
And before my father died he had tears in his eyes and he said, "Please forgive me if I have been rude to you in your childhood and sometimes tried to force you to do things that you never wanted to do. Just forgive me, because I was not aware what you can become and it was out of simple ignorance that I was trying to force things on you and I am sorry for that"... just before he died.
Q: YOU SAID IN AN INTERVIEW LAST WEEK OR THE WEEK BEFORE THAT WHEN YOU DIE YOU WANTED TO BE FORGOTTEN AS AN (INAUDIBLE). DID YOU REALLY SAY THAT?
A: That's true.
Q: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
A: That simply means my whole approach to life is that the past should not be a burden on the present.
The past is like dust covering a mirror. It distorts the vision and it becomes heavier and heavier and does not allow you to live in freedom in the present and the same is true about the future.
If you think too much of the future while you are thinking of the future the present is slipping by from your hands which is the only reality.
If this is my approach about others, that the past should be forgotten, I don't want to be a burden for anybody in the future, because then I will be a past. I would like to be forgotten completely as if I had never been here. Just the way a bird flies in the sky and leaves no footprints in the sky, I would like to disappear like those footprints.
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