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find me! So this trip will be a great experience. You will not miss me in your innermost core. Physically, of course, you will miss me, but that is not important. The most important thing is not to miss in the heart.
There are many people who are here, physically close, and still they are missing but are not even aware of it. Because if I am not in their hearts, then they are simply deceiving themselves that they are with me or I am with them.
To be physically here has no value. The value of physical presence is very very superficial. At the most it is just an occasion to allow the other contact to happen. Once that contact has happened you can be anywhere you can move to another planet, it won't make any difference, it won't create any distance. There is a closeness in which no space exists, no time either, and that is a real closeness, that is intimacy. And a disciple in love with the master attains to those plenitudes.
So this trip will be good -- don't be shaken by it. You will come back very very happy because you will know that now you cannot lose me, now there is no way to lose me. And that becomes a great strength -- when you know that there is no way to lose me. Even by going far away you come and come closer and closer. That process has started, it has set in. So go happily, with great gladness and come back soon!
[A sannyas asks about sadness.]
A few things have to be understood.... One: every man is sad, every woman is sad. Sadness is the very situation of life. Sadness is not something like an accident -- on the contrary, happiness is an accident. Sadness is very natural. There is a reason why it is so.
Man is the only animal who is aware, no other animal is aware. And awareness basically is awareness of pain -- of illness, of disease. If you have a headache, you become aware that there is a headache and a head. If you don't have a headache, awareness disappears. If your body is perfectly healthy you will not know that you have a body. In fact that is the definition of health in the eastern medical science: not to be aware of the body is the definition of health. An ill person cannot lose that awareness. If
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