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If you have really listened in love, then for years and years and lives I can go on talking and every morning you will be again excited. Love makes everything new, because love never accumulates the past. Love never becomes a burden; it never collects dust. The mirror remains clean.

If you are listening through the mind then it will be difficult. Then even one year is too much. Then you will have collected so much head you will have become heavy, and you will start getting restless and the excitement will be lost– because the mind becomes always old. Mind is old because it accumulates past.

If you have heard me through the heart then there is no accumulation. Every morning you come as a morning– fresh like the morning dew, a newly-opened bud of a flower. And what I am doing here is not really saying something. Rather, I am playing on your innermost core of being. The words are just excuses. The words are just to keep you engaged somewhere so that I can go on penetrating deeper in you. The words simply create a climate in which I can penetrate deep in you and reach to your innermost core.

If you listen from the heart, then this can go on and on and you will always be excited. Love is always excited because love is always new. The heart is always excited– never bored, never burdened. Mind is always bored and burdened.

Feel happy and blessed. It is a benediction– rarely happens... to very few people. These birds have been singing here continuously, but when they sing again, it is again new. Because that singing does not mean anything. If I have some meaning to convey to you, then sooner or later the mind will feel, ’Now, it is enough.’ I have nothing to convey. I have no message. On the contrary, I am the message. I have nothing to convey to you except myself. I am not giving you a doctrine. I am not a teacher. Remember me as a singer, as a poet, as a dancer– that will be truer.

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And the last question:

Bhagwan, a love-letter. You talk too much...

Since I became enlightened I have not uttered a single word. You must have been listening to somebody else, not to me. I am keeping silence. Try to listen again and you will not find a single word uttered. Somewhere there has been a mistake. In your dream you may have heard me talking. I have not talked. When you are unconscious you talk. When you become conscious you become silent.

An anecdote:
George Johnson, a hard-bitten man of early middle-age, had evaded many a marital trap, but was now helplessly in love with a pretty young girl. Finally he said, ’Will you marry me, Nancy?’
She smiled and said, ’Oh yes, George.’
There followed a long silence until Nancy said, ’Well, say something more, George.’
And Johnson said hollowly, ’I think I have said too much as it is.’

In your unconsciousness, even if you don’t say much, you say much. And you are caught in whatsoever you say. If people who are unconscious remain silent, the world will be very much better. When you become conscious, you can go on saying– it is never enough. And people who have attained, if they remain silent, the world will be very much poorer.

Enough for today.