"They are skillful, very skillful and efficient, as far as the delicate, subtle waves of words, imagination, dreams is concerned, but all that they go on doing is utterly unconscious.

"John Lennon on the one hand sings:

'Love is the answer, and you know that's for sure.'

"He himself does not know it. He says:

'Love is the flower, you got to let it grow.'

"But to know it you have to be absolutely awakened, because love is the ultimate peak of consciousness. The poet can imagine about it, the singer can sing about it, the painter can paint about it, but they have seen only reflections of the moon in the lake; they have not seen the moon itself. And, of course, the moon reflected in the lake is just made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. The poets, the singers, are dreamers, they are not seers. So he says:

'Yes is the answer, and you know that's for sure'

"But he himself is not so sure. If he was sure then this statement that he was in love with me, yet he declared that he was not ready to become a disciple…What does it mean to be a disciple? It simply means a love affair. It simply means the highest form of relatedness, of communion, of saying yes totally, not holding back anything.

'Yes is surrender and you got to let it grow…'

"His words sound true, but they are only reflections of the moon in the lake. If you dive in the lake you will not find the moon there. In fact, the moment you jump into the water, the reflection will disappear, will be broken into thousands of pieces. It will spread all over the lake; you will not be able to catch hold of it. The reflection is beautiful, but one has not to forget that it is only a reflection and it cannot transform your being.

"So he sings: 'Love is the answer…Love is the flower…Yes is the answer…Yes is surrender…And you know that's for sure' – but he himself is absolutely unaware of it; he has not experienced it. A beautiful man, but still lost in dreams and imagination."