Because I am so
certain about it, that's why I can play - that's why I can say, "Look for
a living master." I am so certain about you. My trust is absolute about
you - that's why I can say, "When I am gone, don't be bothered with me:
look for a living master.
But if you have
loved me, I will live for you forever. In your love I will live. If you
have loved me, my body will disappear but I cannot die for you. But I can
assert much nonsense because I know your love: I trust it.
When a master
says, "Don't go to anybody; cling to me. Even when I am gone, go on
continuously with me, don't move anywhere" - that simply means he does
not trust you. He is afraid, he has doubts - he knows that once he is
gone, you will be gone. In fact, he knows that even while he is alive, you
will be gone. He protects; he says, "Don't go to anybody else, I am the
only one." He is very monopolistic. He is so doubtful, that his marriage
with his disciples is a sort of monogamy. He's afraid. He is afraid
because the divorce is possible - he is afraid of it, and wants to
protect in every way so that it is not going to happen. He will say, "Never
worship anybody, never love anybody, never revere anybody, never listen to
anybody, never go to anybody - just look at me, and forget the whole
world. Exclusively love me."
I don't say that
to you. I know: even if I am gone, I know you will search for me. Yes, I
can trust you will hunt for me in every stone and flower, in every eye and
star...
And I can promise
you one thing: if you hunt for me, you will find me... in every star and
in every eye... because if you have really loved a master, you have moved
into eternity with him. The relationship is not of time, it is timeless.
There is going to
be no death. My body will disappear, your body will disappear - that will
not make any change. If the disappearance of the body makes any change,
that simply shows that love had not happened.
Love is something
beyond the body. Bodies come and go, love remains. Love has eternity in it, timelessness, deathlessness. That's why, Seeta
- the question is from
Seeta - that's why sometimes I can talk nonsense. I know you will find
sense even in my nonsense. I know you will understand, you will not
misunderstand - that's why.