Question: What is indifference.
Answer: This is a word that I always find difficult to explain, and I have made many people angry by talking about indifference, for they say: "Where is the love which you have come to preach to us? Indifference is quite contrary to love, to the message, to the teaching." And when people read in Buddhism and Yogism about renunciation, nirvana, vairagia - which in the Sufi terms of the Persian poets is fana - they begin to ask: "Have they all taught to become indifferent, have they taught such cruelty?"