Be happy where you are. Do your duty. When we finish, we pay off the debt, we owe this world, and then honestly, we go. A practitioner should be honest. We say everything comes from God. That is for sure; that is for sure. But God needs good instruments, and the people who work for us are good instruments. We have to be also one of them. […] And if we put our effort in, then it goes forward. Is that not so? And the practitioners of enlightened beings should put even more effort, in every way, to lead the human beings into a better future, even if we don’t stay here very long. […]
I’m very particular about cleanliness, you know that. So, my bed is the only privacy that I have, two square meters, I guess. That’s the only private place that I have. That’s why I keep it clean, and I hate people to make it dirty or to touch it here and there with their dirty hands. […] I love cleanliness, I love privacy. It’s only because of you that I sacrifice everything. I can tell you that I want to shed tears, because I have nowhere to hide in this world, except that place. Therefore, if I forbid you to come near, you must understand. I need some time, rest, to recuperate in order to go out to serve you again. Not that I have anything reserved for my personal comfort. […]
Because I’m always in public, and whenever I retreat to my bed, my sleeping quarter, I wish to be completely private and alone, and that is all. […] You don’t understand this maybe, because you’re not always in the public eye. You don’t understand the feeling that people need privacy. But if you live in America, you would understand, because American people, they respect privacy, and they guard their privacy very dearly. Is that not so? So, you should learn this from them. […]
