You Have Slept Long Enough

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The followers of the awakened awake....

 

Those who are really followers of the awakened are awake. That's the only way to

be a follower of the awakened -- to be awake. It is not a question of worship,

not a question of respect. It is a question of inner transformation. It is going

through inner alchemy.

 

How can you go through inner alchemy if the master is not present? The gap of

thousands of years cannot be bridged. But there is no need to bridge it either

because whenever there is one who is awakened he is the same, the fire is the

same. It does not make any difference in what lamp the flame is alive. The lamp

may be of this shape or that shape, the lamp may be made of this metal or that

metal, it is irrelevant. The flame has nothing to do with the metal and the

shape of the lamp; the flame is always the same. But you will have to seek a

lamp which can still show you the path.

 

The moment you see an enlightened person, if you allow yourself to see the

enlightened person, three things happen in your life. The first is, you become a

student. A student means one who becomes intellectually involved, who becomes

intellectually intrigued, who starts feeling that his questions are being

answered for the first time, his curiosities are dissolving for the first time.

For the first time there is someone who can answer him and his answers are not

borrowed; his answers are on his own authority. His answers are not coming from

his memory; his answers are welling up from his very center.

 

And you can feel the difference, the difference is great. It is the difference

between a plastic rose and a real rose. You can see that his answers are fresh,

young, breathing. They have a heartbeat to them, they are not dead information.

He has not collected knowledge; he has known, he has seen, he has become. And

you will feel his being. The first step is to become a student; that's how the

journey starts.