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One never knows.
He was hungry, puzzled. The map looked absolutely absurd. What to do? The river was creating trouble.
Silently alone, floating on the river, he started to meditate: what to do? Scriptures have not helped, advise has been useless -- what to do now? He started meditating. Suddenly a realization arose: 'The river is not creating the trouble; my maps are. The river is not creating any trouble. The river is not even aware that I am here. And the river cannot be inimical to me.'
He threw the maps in the river. The trouble stopped. Now he started floating with the river, with no expectations. He was never frustrated again.
If you float with the river of life, you will come to find your question and you will come to find your answer.
But the trouble is you have already found the answer. You have maps, scriptures, advice -- and many fakers who go on advising you. They feel good in advising. You are just a victim, an excuse. They want to advise. They are not concerned with your need. They don't look at you. They have a fixed idea.
Go to a Christian; he has a fixed idea of God. Even rivers don't move in a fixed way -- how can you have a fixed idea of God? He is the river of consciousness. Maybe somewhere in the past somebody had known the river in a certain way. It is no longer in the same place. Says old Heraclitus: 'You cannot step in the same river twice.' The river is always floating and changing and flowing. Always moving. The river does not have a fixed route.
Life is free. Life is freedom. God is absolutely a freedom. You cannot have any fixed attitudes, fixed ideas. If you have, then you will be in trouble, and you will think that God is putting you in trouble. No -- just throw your scriptures into the river. Move with the river and everything is beautiful.
Forget the answers if you want to find your question. You are so surrounded by the answers that it is almost impossible in this confusion and crowd to find the right question -- and the right question is the key.
I don't give you any answer. If you have come to me for any answer, you have come to the wrong person. I don't give you any
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