"They are also waiting.

"And waiting is not greed, waiting is simply our nature, waiting means that our doors are open and we are ready to welcome the guest whenever he comes.

"A beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore, 'The King of the Night'…. There used to be a very huge temple, so huge that there were one hundred priests to worship the statues of gods in the temple. One night the chief priest dreamt, and the dream was such that it made him wake up – he could not believe it, but he could not disbelieve it either.

"In the dream he saw God himself saying to him, 'Tomorrow is the full moon night. Clean the whole temple, get ready – I may come any moment. For thousands of years this temple has been calling me, but the call was professional; hence it was not heard. Your call is not professional. You are the first chief priest in this temple whose heart is full of longing, full of prayer, full of waiting. You are not simply doing the rituals, your whole life is in it. So don't forget: tomorrow I am coming and I am giving you an advance notice, so that the temple is ready to receive the guest for which it was made many, many centuries before.'

"It was difficult to believe that God would speak to him – he is nobody, he does not deserve it. On the contrary, he has so many weaknesses, so many frailties which every human being is prone to…but on the other hand, how to disbelieve? The dream was truer than our so-called true life.

"He was worried about what he was going to say to the other priests, because they will make him a laughingstock. The temple has been there for centuries and God has never come. But even if it looks awkward, embarrassing, he has to tell them, because he alone cannot clean the whole temple; it is so big, so huge….

"He woke up all the priests and said, 'Forgive me for disturbing your sleep. I am in a dilemma: I have seen this dream….'And all the priests laughed – because priests are the only people who don't believe in God."