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to follow you to the very end. Only at the very end, just on the steps of the temple of God, does mind leave you -- never before it. It goes on following you.
One businessman had died and gone to hell. He had hardly warmed up when he was slapped on the back by a hearty hand. Into his ear boomed the loud voice of a persistent salesman who had pestered him while on earth.
"Well," laughed the salesman, "I'm here for the appointment."
"What appointment?"
"Don't you remember?" the salesman asked. "Every time I called on you at your office on earth you said you would see me here!"
Now they are in hell.... The mind will persistently follow you to the very end. It leaves only at the last moment. Hence the struggle is difficult -- but not impossible. Difficult, but possible.
And once you have attained something of the no-mind, then you can see that whatsoever you have done was nothing compared to what you have got. You will feel as if you have not done anything -- so precious is the innermost experience of finding your own energy, your life energy.
The last thing: the bull is always waiting for you. That bull is not somewhere outside you. The bull is your innermost core. Between the bull and you there is a big wall of mind, of thoughts. Thoughts are the bricks, transparent bricks made of glass. So you can see through them and you may not even be aware that there is a wall between you and reality.
I have heard that a fish one day asked the queen fish in an ocean, "I have been hearing so much about the ocean, so much talk about the ocean -- but where is this ocean?"
And the queen fish laughed and she said, "You are born in that ocean, you are born out of that ocean, you live in that ocean. Right this moment you are in it and it is in you. And one day you will again disappear in the ocean."
But the question seems relevant, because how can the fish know? -- because the ocean has always been there, not missed for a single moment. It has been so obviously there, so naturally there, and so transparently there. One thing is certain: that the fish, the mind of a fish, is going to be the last thing to know anything
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