"The new question cannot get into you because there is no space, you are already filled by the old. And the mind has a persistent habit of repeating itself; it is more efficient. The mind is very stubborn. Even if it pretends to change, the change is not real, just a pretension, a modified form of the old. Maybe the language changes, the form changes, but the deep question remains the same…and the mind goes on persisting.

"You have to see it. This question is good. At least, this question is not old.

"This is from Saroj. She has been asking questions, and I have been never answering her, but today I decided to answer because this is a new glimpse, that she has understood one thing; that she has been asking again and again the same old thing. This understanding is new. A new morning, a new dawn has come to her mind. Her consciousness has become alert to a certain old pattern.

"Help this awareness; cooperate with it. By and by you will start seeing yourself in two dimensions the dimension of the mind – the old, the past; and the dimension of consciousness – always fresh and always new, always original. I will tell you one anecdote:

"A man excitedly ran up to another man on the street and slapped him heartily on the back. 'Paul Porter,' he greeted him, 'am I glad to see you! But tell me, Paul, what in the world happened to you? Last time I saw you, you were short and fat. All of a sudden you seem tall and thin.'

"'Look, sir,' the puzzled man answered, 'I am not Paul Porter.

"'Ah!' boomed the undaunted greeter, contemptuously.

"'Change your name too, eh?'

"The mind has a persistent habit to go on believing in itself – even against all facts. Even if your old mind goes on giving you nothing but misery and hell, you go on believing in it.

"People say that this is an age of unbelief. I don't see it. The same old belief in the mind continues. Somebody is a Hindu; he believes in Hinduism because his mind has been conditioned to be a Hindu."