"But the door to the kingdom of God is exactly the opposite. There, no calculation is needed, no cleverness is needed. Mind is not needed at all, because mind is just a mechanism to calculate, a mechanism to be clever. If you don't need any cleverness, any calculation, mind is useless. Then the heart becomes the source of your being, and heart is innocence.

"Why do we go on being clever? Why does the mind go on thinking about how to deceive? – because that is the only way in this world to succeed. So those who want to succeed in this world will be failures in the kingdom of God. If you are ready to accept your failure in this world, then you are ready to enter the other world. The moment one is ready to recognize, 'The success of this world is not for me, I am not for it,' immediately a conversion happens, a turning. Then the consciousness doesn't move outward, it starts moving inward.

"Jesus emphasizes innocence very much. Hence, he goes on talking about the beauty of children, or the innocence of the flowers, of lilies, or the innocence of the birds. But that type of innocence won't help: you have already lost it. So don't imitate him verbally, don't try to understand literally, it is just symbolic.

"How is it possible to be a child again? Once you have tasted knowledge you cannot fall back. You can transcend it but you cannot go back, there is no way to go back. You can go ahead, you can go beyond it, but you cannot go behind it now; there is no way. You cannot be an ordinary child again. How? How can you lose that which you have known? But you can go beyond, you can transcend.

"Remember this, otherwise you may start imitating a child and that imitation will be a cunningness, it will again be a calculation: because Jesus says, 'Be like a child,' so you start practicing how to be like a child. But a child never practices. A child is simply a child, he doesn't even know that he is a child, he is not aware of his innocence."