"Somebody who has eyes is leading you. Then you will remain an undivided unity; and undivided, integrated, you will grow.

"Or, if you feel this is impossible and cannot be done, don't follow at all. Then follow yourself completely. Then too you will remain undivided. To remain undivided is the end, the aim. Both will do, the ultimate result will be the same. If you can be alone, without a master, if you can follow your own consciousness wheresoever it leads, it is the same, the result will be the same. So it depends on you.

"But the mind always says: 'Do both.' The mind says: 'Follow the master, but think about it.' Follow only those things which you think right. Then where is the following? Where is the surrender? If you are the judge, and you are to decide what to follow and what not to follow, then where is the surrender, where is the trust? Then it is better to follow your own consciousness. But don't deceive – at least there should be no deception; otherwise you go on following yourself and you think that you are following a master.

"If you are the deciding factor, if you have to choose, if you have to discard something, accept something, then you are following yourself. But you can create the impression around yourself and you can deceive yourself that you are following a master. Then nothing will come out of it. You will not grow, because through deception there can be no growth, and you will get more and more confused.

"If you are capable of deciding what is to be done and what is not to be done, if you have to choose from your master's guidance you will create a chaos. Because whenever a master guides you his guidance has an organic unity about it. Every instruction is related to another. It is a compact whole. You cannot discard something and follow something; you will become a ruin, a wreck. Even if a single thing is denied, then the whole has been disturbed. You don't know how things are interrelated.

"So this is my suggestion to you: Remain a unit, undivided. Decide."