From Darkness to Light Chapter 8 contd....

The Master is simply a proof that you don’t need to be afraid. If this man can find his center, passing
through all the agony, there is no reason why you cannot do it too. And once you know the taste of
ecstasy, your whole life, for the first time, has something that can be called godliness. A new quality
arises in you, a new flare, a new flame. But that is our nature, everybody’s nature.
I have never tried in my life to become anybody. I have simply allowed life to take me wherever it
wanted. One thing I can say to you, I have not been a loser; it was a great joy to be taken over by
nature. I have not at all interfered. I have not even been swimming, because in swimming you are at
least throwing your hands about. I have been just going with the stream, floating with wherever the
stream is going.
Fortunately all streams reach finally to the ocean. The small, the big, somehow or other they all find
their way to the oceanic. And the oceanic feeling I call the religious feeling.
When your small drop drops into the ocean ....
In one sense you are no more.
In one sense you are for the first time.
On one hand there is death, and on the other hand there is rebirth.