"If you listen silently you will find, somewhere or other, the question is being answered, just your name is not mentioned – and that is immaterial.

"My experience is that when I mention somebody's name and answer the question, he is the one who is going to understand it the least. The reason is obvious. He becomes tense – it is his question – and a little worried, a little afraid. I may say something which is shocking; I may hit him, I may slap him. By asking the question he has become vulnerable; hence the moment it is your question you are listening with a tense mind. It won't reach your heart.

"Others are listening with absolute relaxedness. It is not their question. In this state of relaxedness they may be able to hear much more than the person whose question is being answered. But I take every care that all the questions that reach me are answered – if not today, then tomorrow. And you are saying, 'Why don't you answer my questions?' I have answered them all. Just because your name was not mentioned you could not get them.

"You are saying, 'Is there a certain selection before they reach you?' There is no selection. All the questions reach me. And you are asking, 'If so, then these are wrong persons at the right place.' There are no persons. All the questions that come are sent to me without any selection. I go through all the questions, but take out four or five questions. And I try in every way that those other questions which have not been taken are also answered.

"You are saying that these people who choose, '…choose the stupid ones instead of mine, which have some quality' – but these people have chosen your question. Nobody is choosing; otherwise, certainly this question would not have been chosen. That can be said with absolute certainty. If somebody was choosing, this question would have been thrown away; it would not have reached me.

"And as far as stupid questions…all questions are stupid. The wise ones never ask, only the other-wise. Those who are silent and intelligent simply try to understand existence, rather than making a question."