"So the real work is not through the words – the real work is through the presence. If you stop thinking and you can put aside your mind, then there is no need for me to talk at all, then silence will do – because that which is going to happen is going to happen through silence. It is going to happen not through any verbal communication, it is going to happen on a deeper level than words can reach, on a deeper level of your being where mind has nothing to say.

"The mind is only the surface, the circumference of your being. It is not your center. But the circumference has become too strong. It surrounds you like a hard crust, it has become your prison. You need something so intriguing, so interesting, that your mind gets totally absorbed into it.

"And sometimes I will be shattering – I have to be. Sometimes I have to be merciless, because that is the only way to help you, that is the only way to destroy you, annihilate you, and give you an opportunity to be reborn. As you are you have to disappear. As you are you have to die, only then can the new arise out of you. The ego has to disappear for your real being to be. The mind has to cease for godliness to be. The known has to be dropped for the unknown to be welcomed.

"Sometimes I am persuasive. Sometimes I am shattering. Sometimes through affection and love I try to seduce you to drop the mind. Sometimes I hammer hard on it. I change like the climate around the year. And you have to be with me in all the climates, only then will you be able to know me. And you have to be with me in all of my forms, only then will you be able to see the formless.

"If you allow me easily, then the operation is very easy. If you don't allow me easily, if you struggle, resist, don't cooperate, you create conflict, then too the operation is going to be done. Once I have accepted you as my disciples, now it is my responsibility that you should be transformed – then the operation will be hard."