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I am not saying to you to prepare. I am not teaching any preparation.

I am simply saying look – this is the ego, and this is the block that is hindering the path. Drop it right now! Who is saying to you to prepare?

If you prepare, then you will prepare for ever and ever. Have you not lived long enough already? Have you not been here so many millions of times? You have been repeating like a circle, a wheel... moving again and again – the same wheel. Birth, youth, old age, death, birth again. It goes on moving.

When I am talking about dropping the ego, I am not saying prepare for it.

If you are not yet prepared, then when will you be prepared? Enough is enough! Drop it right now! Either you drop it right now or you don’t drop it.

Don’t befool anybody that you are preparing. Preparation is a trick of deceiving others, and, more basically, yourself ’I am preparing. One day I am going to drop the ego.’ But why ’preparing’, and why ’one day’? Why not today? If you have seen the fact, then what is the need?

When you come across a snake on the path, do you prepare to jump? You simply jump out of the way. You don’t say, ’How can I jump right now? I see the snake, I see the danger, I see death standing in front of me, but how can I just immediately jump? It needs preparation, it needs rehearsal. First I will prepare and then I will jump.’ No, your mind simply stops when you see a snake on the path. The mind has no space to think, no time to waste. You jump first and later on you think. Then you can think as much as you want, but first you jump.

What I am showing you is – the snake is not so dangerous as your ego. It is your ego which is the real snake.