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no regulation." He had his book open: communists, anarchists are not allowed... but something more...?
He looked at me and he said, "You look like something more, but you will be in trouble and you will create trouble for us."
I said, "I am a silent man. I don't even leave my room."
He said, "That is the danger, but because in the rules there is no provision for preventing something more than the anarchist, I have to allow you."
And from that very moment the struggle began that lasted for five years.
The original man is simply a natural man not nurtured by the society. He has kept himself aloof and individual. He has not allowed anybody to condition him.
My father used to go to the temple to listen to the monks and the priests of Jainism, and he would ask me, "You are sitting here uselessly, why don't you come with me?"
I said, "You are going in search of something which I have found."
He said, "It is very difficult to talk with you."
I said, "It is."
He tried to persuade me many times: "A very learned monk is speaking today in the temple."
I said, "It does not matter who is speaking in the temple, in my temple there is absolute silence. Learning is all rubbish."
But my grandfather was a different kind of man. When my father had gone to the temple, he would say, "Now, come on. Let us have a little fun."
He was old but very childlike. He would provoke me, "Let us disturb the meeting. At my age it does not look right, but I will be your protector."
And he was one of the oldest persons in the community. So he said, "Don't you be worried, you just create as much chaos as possible. I will not support you directly, but I will be there to see that no harm is done to you."
I said, "That's okay."
Then my father would see that I had come with my grandfather, and then he would become afraid that now...
And small questions would create trouble. Those learned monks... I would stand up in the middle, and people would start shouting, "Don't stand up in the middle!"
And my grandfather would say, "He will stand. Nobody can stop my child from asking a relevant
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