The mystic experience is an extraordinary one because it is not an intellectual experience. It helps
them to look at things differently, to feel differently, to experience things differently and to
interpret the statements of the sages and seers for others. Had it not been for the mystics, the
sages would have been clean forgotten long ago. The sages don't depend upon any authority.
What they say is the authority. This the sages talked about but the mystics just had experiences.
They tried to share that through music and all kinds of things but this is not an experience which
can be shared with somebody else. This is not an experience at all.
The mystics are trying to tell you, so they are always in the field of duality, whereas the sage, or
seer, or whatever you want to call him, is in the state of undivided consciousness. He does not
know that he is a free man so for him there is no question of trying to free others. He is just there.
He talks about it and then he goes.
Gaudapada had no disciples. He refused to teach anybody. Ramana Maharshi taught nobody,
initiated nobody. Great teachers never use any authority and they do not interpret anyone. The
mystics help you to look at things differently, to interpret things differently. You cannot become a
sage through any effort. It is not in you hands. A sage cannot have a disciple. A sage cannot have a
follower because it is not an experience that can be shared. Even an ordinary experience you can't
share with others. Can you tell somebody who has never experienced sex what the sex experience
is like?
