If someone comes to tell me: "I come to work, I come to make myself useful," it is all right. But if someone comes and says: "I have many difficulties outside, I cannot manage to overcome these difficulties, I want to come here because it will help me," I say: "No, no, it will be much more difficult here; your difficulties will increase considerably." And that is what it means, because they are no longer isolated difficulties; they are collective difficulties.
So when people come and tell me: "I come here for peace, quietness, leisure, to do my yoga," I say: "No, no, no! Go away immediately somewhere else, you will be much more peaceful anywhere else than here."
If someone comes and says: "Well, here I am, I feel that I should consecrate myself to the Divine Work, I am ready to do any work at all that you give me," then I say: "Good, that is all right. If you have goodwill, endurance, and some capacity, it is all right. But to find the solitude necessary for your inner development it is better to go somewhere else, anywhere else, but not here."
