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to happen, let it happen. And help other people there! Be a bodhisattva! You have to enlighten many people in Japan, mm?
[A sannyasin says she is undecided whether to living in Germany or in Poona: I might regret it one day. It might turn out to be a failure.]
It is so with every alternative. So one has to choose whatsoever gives you more possibilities, that's all. And it is not only with you; with everybody the future is unknown. One has to move in the dark; it is like groping. And there is no other way; whatsoever you do will be a groping.
So it is not a question of whether to choose or not to choose; something has to be chosen. Even if you don't choose, it will be chosen, so one has to weigh the alternatives. Remaining in Germany... You have remained there for so many years; what else do you think is possible there? You have lived that alternative. You can give a chance to this new alternative. And I am not saying that it is going to succeed; it may fail -- because it depends on you, it doesn't depend on me. It will fail for a few people, it will succeed for a few people; it will depend.
I can do whatsoever I can, but the basic thing, whether you will receive it or not, is always in your hands. But my feeling is that even to fail with me will be far better than to succeed in germany!
Sometimes failure is better than success. If you fail in search of god it is far better than if you search for money and succeed. That success is worthless. This failure is immensely valuable; at least you have the joy that you tried. Even if you fail, you were searching for god. You failed in finding god; that is not a small joy. A man may succeed in accumulating money after a whole life's work, and all he can say is 'I have succeeded in accumulating money. '
To fail with great things is far more beautiful than to succeed with small things, because in searching for small things, you become small; in searching for bigger things, you become big. Failure and success is not the point.
Whatsoever you seek and search for, you become by and by.
And there is no other problem -- just security, mm?
[The sannyasin answers: I depend
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