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simply an indication that you must be miserable. So rather than asking why you are here, ask why you are miserable. Then something can be done, because misery can be changed.
Buddha used to say to his disciples: Don't ask metaphysical questions, ask existential questions. Don't ask who created the world, don't ask why he created the world. These questions simply show that you are living in misery. Ask why you are miserable -- then the question is alive and something can be done about it, something which will change your misery, which will transform the energy that is involved in misery, will release it from the misery. And the same energy can become a flowering of your being.
You are here -- who are you? And that question you cannot ask me. A real question has to be faced by yourself. How can I answer your question -- who you are? If you cannot answer, then how can I answer your question, who you are? Whatsoever I say will be from the outside -- and you are there deep, very deep within yourself. You have to move deep, you have to fall into your own abyss, into that inner space where only you are and nobody else; not even a thought passes by.
Only in that space will you have the answer -- not a verbal answer, not that somebody will say from within you that you are a soul, or you are God. Nobody will say anything because there is nobody -- pure silence. But that silence is the answer. In that silence, you feel, you know. There is no need to give you any information. No words are needed. You have touched your rock bottom, your innermost core.
It happened -- a small boy was initiating his younger brother about the school:
Said the first grader to his four-year-old brother: "The smart thing for you to do is not to learn to spell your first word. The minute you learn to spell 'cat' you are trapped. From then on the words get longer and longer and longer."
If you are here, you have spelt the word cat. And the question is asked by one of my sannyasins, Yoga Pratima. You have spelt the word cat already. Now the words will become longer and longer and longer -- you are trapped! So rather than asking why you are here, use this opportunity.
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