Don`t imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don`t bother about what others say. It is nobody else`s business. Don`t bother about what churches say, organizations say - listen to your own heart.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.