"The basic requirement has to be fulfilled. Only love finds the beloved. Eyes find beauty. end the ears find music and melodies.

"But there are people, and they are many – the majority consists of those – who go on searching and seeking something out there without creating a corresponding receptivity in themselves. I have come across many seekers who are searching or a master – not at all aware that the disciple is completely absent. The disciple is not there at all. How can you find a master?

"The master is not just an objective phenomenon there. First he has to be something interior in you. That's what disciple hood is: a preparation, a thirst, a passionate desire, a great passion for truth. That is lacking. And then people go on searching. And if they don't find, it is not surprising. They are not going to find! They may come across many masters, but they will go on missing.

"How can you see the master if you are not vulnerable to him? How can you see the master if you don't know even what it is to be a disciple? The beginning of the finding of a master starts by being a disciple. The real seeker does not worry about the master, where he is. His whole concern is how to create the disciple in himself, how to be a learner, open to reality; how to function from innocence, and how not to function from the state of knowledge.

"If you function from the state of knowledge, you will find many teachers but never a master. If you already know something, and you think that you know, then you will find other knowers, claimers, who are ahead of you. You will meet only the people whom you can meet. You will meet people like you. A person who functions from the state of knowing that he has gathered will find many teachers and will learn many things – but will never find a master.

"To find a master you have to be a child. To find a master you have to be utterly innocent, not knowing anything, the mind empty – full of passion for truth, but without any conclusions about it."