Nithyananda answered:
You see, you need to eat 7 idlis (South Indian snack) to know that the eighth idli is enough for you. You cannot eat the eighth idlis first and feel satisfied and happy! In the same way, you need to be intellectually beaten, for you to realize that bhakti is enough. The 7 idlis are gnana and the 8 th idli is bhakti. Of course, there are some 7 idlis cases amongst you here and there and some one idli cases also.'
(This is the eighth idli principle of Nithyananda!)
The moment I feel somebody is close, I will laugh at his or her questions. The public's questions, I will answer politely, though I know they are fools. All questions are a greed for more words. You are freed from the greed for money etc., but, caught with greed for words. 'Brain candy' is the right word. I will be offering brain candy on a big tray in the initial stages. At a certain level, I will laugh at your questions and then the questioner itself! Ask my crewmembers. The more intimate I become with them, the less I will talk about spirituality.
Master Vivekananda, an Enlightened Master was once sitting and smoking a hookah pipe and a disciple was sitting at his feet. A half- baked youngster came by and spoke to Vivekananda. He spoke about modern day views, logic and scientific theories and said that the idea of a bath in the Ganges to cleanse one's sins is all sheer nonsense. He also said that he liked Vivekananda because he was a revolutionary Master. Vivekananda told him: 'Fool! Everyday I meditate upon the gayatri mantra and take a bath in the Ganges. Like a donkey munching paper, you eat a few pages of Western philosophies, you have not even digested it and you think that you know everything. How dare you talk like this?' The boy ran away.
Next, a Pundit (priest) came by and spoke to Vivekananda. He spoke about the Sastras, the sacred texts. Vivekananda asked him how he called himself a pundit. He said that he took a bath in the Ganges everyday and chanted the Gayatri mantra everyday. Vivekananda said, 'If taking bath in the Ganges everyday is enough, then surely the fish in the Ganges are the greatest enlightened souls. We must catch them and start worshipping them!' The pundit got very angry and asked what kind of a Master Vivekananda was and went away.
The disciple who was sitting at Vivekananda's feet was very confused by this time. She asked him to explain and Vivekananda said, 'The teaching will vary according to the person. As for you, just press my feet and keep quiet, that's all!' She said 'OK' and continued pressing His feet.
When the distance between you and me is more, I will give you a lot of brain candy. The people in the inner circle tell me, 'Master, we don't get to do any meditation etc.' I tell them, 'The rest are all reading menu cards, you are eating!'