Sitting With The Master

When you sit with the master, the Upanishad … the sitting … happens; some strange process starts happening in you, which can neither be called a technique, nor a no-

technique. It is literally like cooking, or boiling! By tomorrow evening, you are expected to be completely boiled. In Sanskrit

we have a word Siddha. Siddha has two meanings: 1) enlightened 2) cooked, boiled. So, by tomorrow evening you are expected to be completely boiled or cooked! It is just like adding something to you and taking something away from you, both simultaneously. Whatever can be taken away will be taken away, and whatever needs to be added will be added. The master's presence is like the cooking fire. Just like in cooking you add some ingredients, remove some ingredients, and in the presence of

fire, when you do this, cooking happens. In the same manner when you just sit in the presence of the master, cooking happens. It is more of a process.