"The magic glass was placed on a crossroad so that everyone can look through it and be transformed, so that it was available to everybody. But this is how people reacted….

"The great majority gave a name to the glass and worshipped it as if it was a superhuman being, but they never looked through it. They worshipped, but they never looked through it; in fact, their worship was a way of avoiding the magic glass.

"Another part of the people were skeptical from the very beginning. They said, 'This is simply foolish. How can a glass help to see things as they are? It is superstitious.' They never experimented, they never even gave a try to the glass. They were the skeptical people. But skeptical or superstitious, deep down, both groups are the same because they both avoided; one by worshipping, one by saying that this is superstitious and useless.

"That's what has happened in the whole world: theists and atheists, both have been avoiding meditation; one by saying that there is no God, one by saying that there is God and only worship is needed. Deep down they are not different.

"Then there was a third part of the people – practical, pragmatic, empirical. They said, 'The magic glass is interesting, but we cannot imagine how it is going to help us in the practical things of the world. It is impractical.' They also never looked through it – the scientists, the empirical mind.

"Then there was a fourth part of the people who said, 'Not only is the glass useless, it is dangerous, because whosoever looks through it is distorted.' They were against it and they were planning to destroy it whenever the opportunity arises. They also have not looked through it!

"Then there was another group who avoided it. They stopped walking through those streets where the glass came nearer and closer. They never passed through that crossroad because they said, 'We are happy as we are.' They were not happy, but they thought, 'It may disturb our usual pattern of life.'

"But a few people were there – simple, innocent: they looked through it and they were transformed, they became totally new beings."