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ON SAINTS LIKE MAHESH YOGI, MOTHER TERESA, PRABHUPAD, MUKTANANDA, SATYA SAI BABA, J. KRISHNAMURTI, ANAND MAI, ET CETERA?
One gets a Master one deserves -- and that's natural, inevitable. So I divide these saints in three categories. First, the idiots -- there are millions of idiots in the world; they need their own saints, and they have every right. And what else they can do? They are idiots -- whatsoever they do will be idiotic! And whenever there is demand there is supply. So Prabhupad, Muktananda, Satya Sai Baba fulfill their needs. They are absolutely needed, otherwise the needs of the idiots will be neglected! Who will take care of them? They have every right to have their own saints, swamis and godmen.
The second category belongs to the average IQs. Anand Mai, Mother Teresa, Mahesh Yogi, these belong to the average -- neither idiots nor intellectuals, just middlers -- the followers of the golden mean. Cautiously they move, calculatingly they move. These are the people who will follow Anand Mai, Mother Teresa, Mahesh Yogi.
And the third category is of the intellectuals; they will follow people like J. Krishnamurti. His whole approach is purely intellectual.
I don't belong to any of these categories. I belong to a fourth category: the crazies, the mad! And they are the most beautiful people on the earth -- they are the real people! In fact, these mad people were around Jesus, around Socrates, around Buddha, around Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. These are the people who have created the greatest flowers of mysticism, because mysticism is a kind of madness -- a madness with a method -- it is going beyond mind.
When somebody goes out of mind you call him mad; going beyond mind is also going out of mind. The madman falls below the mind and the mystic falls above the mind, but both go outside the mind; that much is similar. Hence every mystic has some similarity with the madman, and every madman also has some similarity with the mystic. You will find some place where they overlap. But this fourth category is the real category.
For the first category:
There was once a man who traveled to a far distant land to seek enlightenment.
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