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a master is a catalytic agent : he does not work , but the work happens through him . he ’ s not the doer but just the situation where things happen .
It is said even the omnipotent God could not do that, to bring Darkness before the Sun. So the case is pending in the files, and God is brooding over a way so that Sun and Darkness can be face to face in the court. But it doesn’t seem that he will be able to find a way because when the Sun is there, Darkness is not there. It is not that the Sun is chasing or doing something: the very presence. A Master is a catalytic agent. This word “catalytic” has to be understood very deeply. In science they have discovered catalytic agents. A catalytic agent is an agent which is absolutely needed for some change, chemical change for example, but the catalytic agent itself is not an ingredient in the change. Just the presence is needed. For example,
oxygen and hydrogen meet and water is created, but electricity is needed just as a catalytic agent. If electricity is not present then hydrogen and oxygen don’t meet; and electricity plays no part – just the presence. Without the presence it doesn’t happen; and electricity plays no part in it. It doesn’t enter in any way into the new combination. It simply remains there. A catalytic agent is a scientific term, but beautiful. A Master does not have to do anything; he is not a doer. Just his presence – if you allow his presence. That depends on the disciple. And to be a disciple only means this much: that you allow, that you let go, that you become receptive – that you no longer create any obstacles for the presence to function. It doesn’t work anything. The very presence functions... something starts happening. If the disciple allows, something starts happening. The disciple will feel grateful towards the Master because without him it was almost impossible, but the Master always knows that he has not done anything. So if you go to the Master and say, “You have done so much,” he will say, “It is God’s grace. I have not done anything.” If a Master says, “I have done something,” he is