Dialogues with a Master

Yesterday Ian & I stopped in at the bookstore by my work. It's a small quaint kinda store. I picked up a book by Sri Nisaragadatta Maharaj, The Ultimate Medicine. I've been endlessly staring at the cover. I cannot escape his eyes. They are bursting with wisdom and love. My hand keeps touching the cover, caressing his face. I randomly opened the book to a page. "People come here. When someone goes to someone, there is a purpose. This may be for acquiring something worldly, or to acquire spiritual knowledge. So whatever the purpose, as far as I am concerned, they come, acquire something, the knowledge. Then, the person will say, I have got my knowledge now, thank you very much, and leaves. If I ask him to stay, it means I have some purpose in asking him. The purpose may be good, bad, worldly or unworldly, but there is bound to be some purpose. But I have no purpose. So if he goes, he goes; if he stays, he stays. "