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Mahal? Later on I am going to make a beautiful album of the whole journey. Then I can sit and see things."
This is 'kodakomania': interested more in pictures than in the reality. Become more interested in reality. And whenever your mind tries to pull you away from reality -- in pictures, fictions, dreams -- become alert, come back. Come back to the present moment.
One doctor used to come here; now he has been transferred from Poona. He was continuously taking notes; while I was speaking, he would take notes. I told him, "While I am speaking, try to understand it."
He said, "But taking notes is good, because later on, at home, with ease, I can go through them and understand."
Now this man will never be able to understand what I am saying, because it is not a question of taking notes; it is a transfer of a certain vision. He never looked at me because he was looking at his copy. And I don't think that he could write notes either, because by the time he wrote, something else had been said and he missed this. They would be just fragmentary. And then he would make a whole out of them -- that whole would be his, not mine.
You have to be here with me in reality, totally here with me. Then... then a new understanding arises. And that should become your way of life, the very style. Constantly be engaged in reality, participate in reality. Don't be an onlooker, and don't get too much interested in pictures; otherwise, by and by, you will lose the capacity to be aware of reality. But mind has old, deep habits, and it is going to be a constant struggle in the beginning. The mind is like a salesman.
I have heard an anecdote:
The salesman for a junior encyclopedia got his foot in the doorway and was trying to fast-talk the young mother of a five-year-old into taking a set of the books.
"These books will answer any question your child will ever ask," he assured her. "You will never be at a loss for an answer with these." He patted the boy on the head, "Go ahead, sonny. Ask me a question, any question, and I'll show your mother how easy it is to answer by looking in one of these books."
The little fellow thought a moment,
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