"It will be possible for me to communicate with you more easily. Your questions can be intellectual, my answers will not be. Questions don't matter; what matters is the answer. And what matters even more than the answer is who is answering – whether he is simply answering the question or responding to a living human being. I don't answer questions, I answer you.

"I have to reach to your heart, not to your mind. And I know your heart is already beating – so better you start. And don't be worried; whatsoever the question is, I am open and available, for any kind of question, any curiosity. You cannot ask me a question that has not been asked thousands of times."

I had sort of felt that.

"But I always answer differently. I don't care much about the question; whatever I want to answer, I answer. I use the question only as a jumping board."

Well, one thing I was curious about is that I had heard that you don't dream. And I'm wondering if that's true, and why. Why you don't dream?

"It is true. One has to understand why one dreams. One dreams because there are unfulfilled moments, repressed desires, things that you wanted to do but could not because of the society, because of the culture, because of the religion. Animals don't dream. Primitive people don't dream. I have come across aboriginal tribes in India which are still living five thousand years back, they don't dream. The more a man becomes repressed, civilized, starts repressing his nature and projecting a certain personality which is respectable, then there are dreams.

"Dreams are simply to help you: what you could not do in your waking hours you can do in your sleep. They are a kind of substitute. That's why Sigmund Freud and his school of psychoanalysis were so interested in your dreams. They were not at all interested in what you think in the day; that is all hypocrisy. What they were interested in was what you dream in the night, because that will give them a clue to the true person.

"But a Sigmund Freud would be absolutely amazed if he met me, because I never leave anything incomplete."