“Usually our mind always falls with the Master.”

Usually our mind always falls with the Master. Swing of moods. All our swing we attribute to the Master. If we are in high mood he is a great Master. If we are in a low mood, ‘No, no, no,’ (laughs) I don’t think, let us see the negative sides also. See, as long as you are in high mood everything is okay. When your mood is low, all these times I see are possible, let us see the negative moods also. We start thinking negative, we attribute all our negative swings, all our moods, on the Master. And, we never realize, he’s just beyond. He’s just beyond.

It’s like a, there’s a beautiful sad story:

Mood is reflected on a pond, small pond. All the fishes who are in the pond, they started enjoying. Some fishes just started jumping, ‘Oh, the moon has come down, let us play with it. And some fishes who are against these fishes, they started telling, ‘Oh let us kill this moon, let us destroy this moon. Let us remove this moon.’

Actually, the problem is when somebody with whom you are not comfortable, you’re not happy, that person is attached to some guru. You are always against that guru. I tell you. I tell you, the A and B, if you don’t get along, if B is attached to some guru, A is against that guru. If A is attached to that guru, B is against that guru. You play your same social game with gurus also, with enlightened Master’s also.

Some fishes are enjoying and celebrating, ‘Oh, moon has come down let us play with it let us enjoy.’ The other fishes who are enemies of these fishes, they start telling, ‘Let’s go and destroy this moon, this moon should not be allowed to come, be here. It is disturbing our sleep. The whole night these guys are jumping and dancing, our sleep is getting disturbed.

But, people don’t understand both fishes cannot affect the moon. The moon can never be affected by both the fishes. What, one thing, some fishes just enjoy and celebrate. They live their life happily. The fighting fishes, they continue to destroy themselves and disturb themselves, that’s all. But, no way Master is affected. No way Master is touched. It’s a wonderful story; just these fishes enjoying in the ether. The moon has come down. And they attribute their moods on the moon. But, moon has never come down; it is just reflection.

Same way, people attribute their moods on the Master’s and they play, but Master is never touched. He’s actually a possibility. He can be used as a stick. He can be used as a stick to get up and stand up, to walk, to realize our potential. Master is a promise. You see, always the seed is afraid to break and sprout, but the tree says, ‘Unless you break and sprout I can’t happen.’ The tree is waiting for the seed to break. But the seed is saying, ‘No, no, no, first let you happen, then I’ll break. How can I believe, how can I trust? If I break I may just die, I may not become a tree.’ Master is a person who gives you the courage, ‘Don’t worry, break, I was a seed, I opened now I am a tree. You can also become a tree, open.’ He’s assurance. He’s a promise. He gives you the courage to open up, to stand up to start your journey. He gives you the courage to make you realize you can also achieve. I was a seed and now I’m a tree just because I opened up. Open up. Don’t worry. He gives you the courage.