"Mind goes on dividing – divisions within divisions within divisions. Even Christianity is not one, it is divided – into Catholics and Protestants. And the Protestants are not one, they are divided.

"Mind's whole function is to go on dividing.

"The function of the heart is to see the joining link about which the mind is completely blind.

"When someone finds contradictions in my statements, he has no understanding from the heart; otherwise things will be very simple.

"I have been answering different people. When I answer somebody, I am answering him, his needs; and he is the focus of my whole effort. When I am answering somebody else, the question may be the same, but the questioner is not the same.

"A philosopher remains consistent because he answers the question. The mystic cannot remain consistent because he answers the questioner – and the questioners are always different. Their qualities are different, their receptivities are different, their potentialities are different. Their past is different, their present is different, their future is different – although the question may be the same.

"The problem is whether to answer the question or the questioner. If you answer the question and do not care at all about the questioner, your answer is going to be bookish; it has no spirit in it. It is not a personal communion.

"This is one of the reasons that none of the enlightened masters of the world has ever written a book. It cannot be just coincidence. They were immensely educated, cultured people, most of them from royal families – very rich, very talented. But what happened when they became enlightened was that they always chose the spoken word. And the reason is this: they didn't want to answer the questions – in a book you can answer only the questions – they wanted to answer the questioner.

"In a book you cannot take care of the questioner. You don't know who is going to read it – it cannot have a personal intimacy. It is not addressed to anyone in particular; it is unaddressed – just to whomsoever it may concern.

"None of the enlightened masters has ever written a single word."