Water, when it rains, becomes a drop. But however many drops are there, the water remains water. The many drops do not affect the water. When it becomes a cloud hanging in the sky, the water is not affected. When it goes up the mountain and then falls from it, the water becomes a jharna (waterfall), but it is not affected. Water is water.
Swami ji: Yes. If you are not claiming the mind, not claiming the illusion, not claiming the intellect, not claiming the life, then automatically you are free.
Today nobody is coming and nobody is going. Therefore, you have enough time to begin with the practice of meditation—which you wait for, after somebody’s welcome is over or after somebody’s departure is over. Wherever there is no coming and no going, that is also some space.
So what is useful? The Source. Why? The Source is that which does not have to prove to you that you need a candle to see your undying nature. Everybody knows that “I will not die.” You do not need the sun for that, you do not need the stars for that, you do not need the body, skin and blood and eyes, for that, you do not need a person for that. You just need the one who is undying. And undying means unborn. So that which is the Source is free from taking birth. Why, then, will there be any fear of death, when the Source has not even taken birth?
Swami ji: You are right when you ask a question. A child does not have the chance to ask a question, but when he becomes big, he wants to know. So the knowing sense arises. In a child, at first the knowing sense is not found. It is hidden. But because it must be hidden in him, it arises, just like a sprout that is hidden in a seed. When you hear such examples, then you come to know what is hidden and what is obvious.