WHAT DO YOU FEEL THE NEXT PHASE OF YOUR WORK WILL BE, ONCE
YOU HAVE FOUND A STABLE RESIDENCE, AND WHAT DO YOU SEE YOUR
SANNYASINS DOING?
That's really a problem -- an unanswerable one too, because I never think of tomorrow,
and I don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. I leave it up to tomorrow! I don't
burden myself too much. Today is enough unto itself.
Tomorrow I will be there, the problems will be there, the challenges will be there; and I
will be available to those challenges, to those problems.
My whole life I have lived this way -- without any predecision, without any commitment
for the future, without any promise to myself or to anybody else for the next moment.
And that has given me the most precious gift of life. I have become attuned with
existence; knowing not where I am going, I am going joyously.
One thing I know: existence has no goal, and as part of existence I cannot have any goal.
The moment you have a goal, you cut yourself away from existence. Then a small
dewdrop is trying to fight against the ocean. Unnecessary is the trouble, meaningless is
the struggle.
I never think of the yesterdays.
And I never think of the tomorrows.
That leaves me just a small moment, the present moment -- unburdened, uncluttered,
clean, free.
So I don't know the answer to your question. All that has happened in my life... if you try
to recapitulate it, you will find certainly a tremendously systematic program -- as if I had
planned everything from the very beginning in minute detail. But this is an absolutely
wrong idea.
As far as I am concerned, I have never planned anything; I have simply lived, wondering
what is going to happen next. I have kept my wondering eyes alive, just like a small
child.
Hasya has to plan, Jayesh has to plan, John has to plan -- so they are all suffering from
fever, tired. Just look at Jayesh!
But I am simply wondering what is going to happen.

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