I wonder why you have to go all this way to find your Master, because we have a lot in India. We should even import some Masters here. You came all this way to look for your Master? (You know it, Master, many “saints” are for materialistic living…) More on the material side? (Yes, and less on moksha [liberation].) […] (Everyone asks for donation.) (Master, You are the only one who never asks.) […] I myself don’t need anything, that’s why. You see, I delight in solitude and inside happiness. I delight in them. […]
When you give something, number one, you should not tell anybody. Number two, if you tell, it means you have to give more. It means you owe it. If you give one dollar and you tell somebody else, that’s finished. That means you have no merit from that dollar. And if you say one more time, then you owe one dollar. Understand? (Yes.) But I don’t care about merit. So, I tell you sometimes just to make an example for you. So you know I also do what I told you. But otherwise, a wise person should not tell what good things he does. […]
In the market, I saw them sometimes, they sell a bunch of that, freshly cut and sell, but I don’t want to cut anything. That’s why I use the dry leaves and the dried fruits. It’s already fallen or broken. But you could use also fresh leaves from this kind of tree because it is called laurus nobilis (bay tree) in Latin. […] And it’s very sweet, the fruit. I cook together the fruit and the leaves because it’s sweeter, it’s nicer. But they don’t always bear fruit, only this season. Normally you can just boil the water with the dried leaves just to drink. Sometimes if you don’t eat and you live in the forest, you boil some similar kind of leaves just to drink, to live on. […]
