Other beings we are connected with, we can’t outgrow: parents, children, relatives of one sort or another. We don’t walk away. That is our given karma of the incarnation. We may grow at a different rate than they do, and they become the fire of our purification—because they will pull on us as we used to be, and our job is to deal with that until we get so even and clear that somebody can come up and say, “Hello, Dick,” or “Hello, Richard,” or whatever. And I’m right there. “Yes.” Not, “I’m Ram Dass now.” We
