"In the running is the mind. The moment you stop, the mind disappears.

"And right now you are identified with the mind. You think you are it – from there comes the fear. If you are identified with the mind, naturally if mind stops you are finished, you are no more. And you don't know anything beyond mind.

"And the reality is you are not mind, you are something beyond mind. Hence it is absolutely necessary that the mind stops so that for the first time you can know that you are not mind because you are still there. Mind is gone, you are still there and with greater joy, greater glory, greater light, greater consciousness, greater being. Mind was pretending, and you had fallen into the trap.

"What you have to understand is the process of identification: how one can get identified with something which he is not.

"An ancient parable in the East is that a lioness was jumping from one hillock to another hillock, and just in the middle she gave birth to a kid. The kid fell down on the road where a big crowd of sheep was passing. Naturally he also mixed with the sheep, lived with the sheep, behaved like a sheep. He had no idea, not even in his dreams, that he is a lion. How could he have? All around him were sheep and more sheep. He had never roared like a lion: a sheep does not roar. He had never been alone like a lion: a sheep is never alone. She is always in the crowd; the crowd is cozy, secure, safe. If you see sheep walking, they walk so closely that they are almost stumbling on each other. They are so afraid to be alone.

"But the lion started growing up – it was a strange phenomenon. He was identified mentally with being a sheep, but biology does not go according to your identification; nature is not going to follow you.

"He became a beautiful young lion, but because things happened so slowly the sheep also became accustomed to the lion and the lion also became accustomed to the sheep. The sheep thought he is a little crazy, naturally."