"He really wanted to give it the title Go On. He mentions it in the introduction, but it didn't feel very appealing, Go On, so he changed the title. But Go On was more appropriate.

"Gautam Buddha's constant use of it makes it emphatically significant. Whenever somebody would come to Gautam Buddha and would describe his experience of his meditation – how beautiful it is, how joyous he is feeling, how blissful he is – in the end Gautam Buddha would say, 'Go on, don't be stuck by it; there is much more ahead.'

"And this was a constant thing, whatever you would bring to him he would say, 'Go on. Don't stop. I know you want to stop because you cannot conceive what more there can be, but I know there is much more.' And one day would come when the disciple will approach Gautam Buddha, touch the master's feet, sit silently by his side. And Buddha would ask, 'How is the experience going?'

"And he would start laughing and he would say, 'You pushed me and pushed me and pushed me. Now there is no experience at all, just a pure isness. The beauty of it, the benediction of it, is qualitatively different.

"'You cannot say ten thousand times more, that will not be right; no quantity will be able to describe it. It is qualitatively different, and I have come just to thank you for your patience – I went on coming with experiences, and you went on sending me back with only the same one sentence, 'Go on. Don't stop.''

"Because of Gautam Buddha's 'Go on,' Christmas Humphreys wanted to use it as the title to his book, but he finally changed it, thinking that it would not appeal in the market. And perhaps he was right; 'Go On' seems to be very flat for a book title.

"This parable, Homer's story, has not been understood in the West the way it has to be understood. It is the story of spiritual growth. You will come many times to stages which give you the feeling that the time has come to stop – because the experience is so much that it is beyond your comprehension that there can be anything more."