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inviting continuously Buddha, and he was not coming. And he has come to this small village out of the way -- and without any invitation, because the villagers never could gather courage to go and ask him to come their village -- just a small village, few huts, and he has come without any invitation. The whole village is afire with excitement, and he is sitting under the tree and not speaking.
And they said, "For whom you are waiting now? Everybody is here; the whole village is here. You start." Buddha said, "But I have to wait because I have come for someone who is not here. A promise has to be fulfilled, an account closed. I am waiting for that one." Then came a girl, and then Buddha started. Then after he talked, they asked, "Were you waiting for this girl?"
Because the girl belonged to the untouchables -- to the lowest caste, nobody could think of Buddha waiting for her. He said, "Yes, I was waiting for her. When I was coming she has met me on the road and she said, 'Wait, because I am going for some work to the other town. But I will come soon.' And in past lives somewhere I had given her a promise that when I become enlightened I will come and say whatsoever has happened to me. That account has to be closed. That promise is hanging on me, and if I can not fulfill it, I will have to come again."
A videha or a prakriti-laya: both words are beautiful. Videha means bodiless. When you attain to asamprajnata samadhi the body is there, but you become bodiless. You are no more the body. The body becomes the abode, you are not identified.
So these two terms are beautiful. videha means one who knows that he is not the body -- knows, remember -- not believes. And prakriti-laya, because one who knows that he is not the body, he is no more the prakriti -- the nature.
Body belongs to the material. Once you are not identified with the matter in you, you are not identified with the matter without, outside. A man who attains that he is no more the body, that he is no more the manifested -- the prakriti -- his nature is dissolved. There is no more world for him; he is not identified. He has become a witness to it. Such a man
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