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I am not a way at all, I am just a presence. You have to understand it because you are going to be with me. You have to understand it as deeply as possible.

I am not a way. A way leads you somewhere, it connects you with the there, and my whole effort is to bring you here.

A way is there-oriented, and I am here-oriented. A way is needed if the goal is far away from you. If the goal is away, distant, then the way is needed. As I see it, the goal is within you; you are the goal, you are the target.

So there is nowhere to go, a way is not needed.

In fact, dropping all the ways, dropping the very search and just being yourself is enough. Because you cannot do that, you have to be shown a few ways to walk and get tired. That is just to exhaust you.

The whole effort is to exhaust you. When the effort is exhausted and you are really tired and you fall down, and you say, “Now I don’t want to go anywhere,” and you relax, you reach. Seeking is not the way to reach, but seeking is needed because you are very active.

Even to reach God, ways are needed – and God is herenow. He is your surround, he is within you and without.

It is as foolish as a fish seeking the ocean and living already in the ocean. You are in truth because there is no other way; only in truth can you be. You may have forgotten it, or you may not be able to recognize it because it is so obvious.

It is so close that there is no distance to see it – distance is needed to have a perspective, you cannot see things from very close. And God is not only close, he is not only the closest – he is you. God is not a “seen,” he is in the seer; and God is not a goal, he is in the seeker. The seeker is the sought.

So I am not a way. I talk about ways because you are mad. I talk about medicines because you are ill, and you cannot understand the vision of no-way. You will have to walk, seek, get frustrated.

When I say there are two ways, I mean there are two ways to get frustrated. One is of love, and another is of meditation.

But I am not a way. I am just a presence.

And those who will understand me will not need anything more than just being with me. That’s what in the East we call satsang – just being with me, just being in my presence, just relaxing in my presence, just allowing me to enter you, not resisting, not fighting with me.

And suddenly one day you will start dancing, singing, celebrating.

One day suddenly you will start laughing. What were you seeking? You were seeking yourself. How can you seek yourself?

You are already that.