When I was very young this is one thing that people really used to
ask me "You're so young, how you gonna teach people?" I mean that's the
most stupid question there is but to that person who asked it, it was
the most logical question at least going to have to be 48 because all
the other teachers are 48, you should be 48 too and I call that the
baa-aa syndrome and everybody is caught up in this baa-aa syndrome and
where one sheep goes the rest sheep have to follow, no question about it
but if you truly are a subject, subject of this magnificent Creator who
through mercy and love and kindness has done the most impeccable job of
creating this planet earth then I ask you in which sense, in which way
are you reflecting that perfection which so kindly has been bestowed
upon you. Which way?

How have I learnt it? Very simple, be a beggar. Much better, much
better to be a beggar and to beg and you'll receive and you know even
beggars have priorities. Did you know that? You may not have known that
but they have priorities. If they got a phone call they both spend
talking on the phone, they'll go out and beg. Priority number one, they
need to go and beg, they know that and we need to have a priority too,
to be able to beg and you think it's easy to be able to beg? Oh no, I
mean I can just smell it, I can just sense it through my antennae like
over voltage coming in. Beggar, me a beggar? People sitting in there "I
can't be a beggar. I work so hard not to be a beggar and he go tells me
'become a beggar'. What's he talking about? What's he talking about?
Nice metaphor Maharaji. Nice metaphor. Get on with what it is you really
want to say."

Now here we are you know, I was looking at a picture of one of the
slides, had a moustache and uh we just started talking about it, I said
to Marilyn "Should I grow it back again?" She didn't reply but I said
one thing I have to say it used to be a real pain in the butt to try to
keep this mustache took hours sometime trimming every single hair, just
finding each one and getting it just the right way and getting the razor
in the right place." One day I remember I was trimming it and trimming
it and trimming it and I realized halfway through that I had cut half my
moustache off and I got so into detail I had this magnifying mirror at
one of the hotel and I got so into it. I just kept clicking closer and
closer and closer and before you know 'boom' I looked at the regular
mirror and it's like oops. Not so easy, not so easy to be a beggar. Here
we are, we spend hours shaving and doing this and doing that you know
fixing our hair and putting the lipstick.