When You Say That I Have Followers,

Meditation Is Not A Withdrawal From Life. Meditation Is A Process Of Understanding Oneself.

Aloneness Is Obviously Not Isolation, And It Is Not Uniqueness. To Be Unique Is Merely To Be Exceptional In Some Way, Whereas To Be Completely Alone Demands Extraordinary Sensitivity, Intelligence, Understanding.

Religion, It Seems To Me, Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Any Belief, With Any Priest, With Any Church Or So-called Sacred Book. The State Of The Religious Mind Can Be Understood Only When We Begin To Understand What Beauty Is; And The Understanding Of Beauty Must Be Approached Through Total Aloneness.

The Purpose Of Having The Title 'world-teacher' Is To Acknowledge, To Show, The Condition Of Mind And Heart When You Have Achieved. It Is Like Saying: 'i Have Painted A Picture'. It Is Like Saying: 'i Have Written A Poem'. It Is An Assertion Of The Fact Of Attainment, Rather Than The Narrow Understanding That Is Given To Labels And Phrases. What The Phrase Indicates Is Of Importance.

The Description Is Not The Described; I Can Describe The Mountain, But The Description Is Not The Mountain, And If You Are Caught Up In The Description, As Most People Are, Then You Will Never See The Mountain