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have been trained in your schools, colleges, universities, to answer. Everything and anything you have been trained to answer. You have never been trained to question, remember; you have been trained to answer. Your examination papers simply give you a few questions; you have to answer -- `Does God exist?' -- and you wait there. And of course there can only be two answers, yes or no. But will it be meaningful to say, `Yes, God exists'? Will it solve anything at all? You must have heard that answer before. Or, if it is answered, `No, God does not exist,' is it going to help you at all? You have heard that answer before too; both answers are known. What are you asking?
It is better to be silent, it is better to throb. It is better to cry and weep, it is better to open your heart. Your intensity, your thirst, will not be curiosity. Curiosity never exists with a strong thirst. And you say, `Curiosity and a strong thirst to have the eternal goal has brought me to your camp.' I don't think so. Curiosity may have brought you. And this person has been asking foolish questions; he must have asked at least a hundred questions within ten days.
Intense thirst will make one question out of all questions. If your thirst is intense, then all questions are reduced to one question, and that question is `Who am I?' Now all else is irrelevant.
A thirsty person is not worried about God, he is not worried about whether there is a hell or heaven, he is not worried about past lives, he is not worried about the theory of Karma and reincarnation. His whole problem is: I don't know who I am. This is the first and last question: `I have to know this. If I have known this, then everything else is secondary, can be known; but if I don't know myself, what is the point of knowing anything else?' When there is passion for truth, then you have only one question: Who am I? And in the hundred questions the man has asked, there has not been a single question about `Who am I?' He has not asked that question. The man is curious; and he says, `... to have the eternal goal' -- the man is greedy too.
You don't know yourself and you are hankering for the eternal goal. The greed,
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