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step. I will tell you the next step so you can remember, but don't try it now....
The next step will be that you simply remain a watcher. The gold mist comes in; you are a watcher. Fill your heart -- you are a watcher; emptying out of your heart -- you are a watcher. You are neither: neither day nor night, neither emptiness nor fullness, just a witness. But that is a second step.
So this you continue, mm? It is going to make you a shunyadeva -- a god of emptiness!
[The sannyasin says his father is dependent on him psychologically, which makes it difficult for him to visit Osho.]
So go there [to a nearby center] and meditate, but continue with your father, mm? continue. And just as you were going, continue going. Now start talking about meditations to him and give him this meditation to do. Even if he says no, he will try.
Meditations are such that even if a person says 'No, I am not interested', if you simply explain to them, they will try; one becomes curious and one tries. And he needs meditation now. He is seventy-five; now he needs a preparation for another life, so just help him with meditation... and nothing to be worried about.
It is natural. He is old, and as a person becomes old, particularly in the West, all meaning is lost. In the East that is not so because in the East a joint family exists. A man, howsoever old, always remains in the family, is never isolated. Sons are there, daughters are there, sons' children are there, sons' wives are there, and brothers and brothers' children -- so many people; one is never isolated.
And the eldest person of the family, the oldest person, is respected very deeply in the East so he feels very significant and very happy. Psychologically he is as happy as he ever has been before; in fact never was he so happy! Everybody is respectful and everybody is loving. Everybody takes care of him and everybody listens to his advice.
And naturally the grandchildren become deeply connected with him because children and old people have a certain affinity. The circle is becoming completed -- coming to the very point from where a person starts his life. An old person becomes
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