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... - and a very crude and primitive murder. For millions of years it was a great spiritual thing, but it is strange that the man never did such a great spiritual thing. No man in the whole of history has ever jumped into the funeral pyre of his dead wife. No brahmin followed the rule that he has made for women. If it is true, then is it not very strange why the man is not doing the same? No, for the man...
... doctors, physiologists, biologists and chemists who all know that celibacy is impossible, but none of them speaks the truth. It goes against the traditions - against Christianity, against Hinduism, against Jainism, against Buddhism, against all the religions of the world. Millions of people know the truth, that there is no control of the mind over your biology. Do you have any control over your blood...
... you have any control over your digestion? Can you manage to eat something and transform it into blood? Do you know how your male sperms are created? If you don't know anything about your biology, and even if you do know, there is no way to control it. Then it is a stupid teaching to tell people to be celibate. You are creating schizophrenia in those people's minds; you are cutting them into two...
... on insisting that woman cannot attain. And do you know what the reason is? The reason is that the woman cannot control her monthly period. She has a visible symptom of sexuality - she cannot be celibate. But these people are absolutely blind that man cannot be celibate either, even though he does not have a periodical expression of his sexuality. He may have to release his sexuality more often...
... - not less, but more. Even Mahatma Gandhi, at the age of seventy, was having nocturnal emissions... trying hard to be celibate. It looks so stupid. And he was feeling guilty that he had not been able to control his sex. But all the monks in the monasteries of Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists and Jainas - none of them is celibate. And if anybody is celibate, he should come out to a medical institute...
... been a good, simple family - a family who believes in birth control, very contemporary. But there is no woman. Just to avoid a woman in the trinity - because to give that much height to a woman no man can tolerate - they have replaced the woman with a strange figure, the Holy Ghost. Nobody knows who this guy is, what is his purpose, and why he is needed in the trinity. He is a strange fellow. Nobody...
... suddenly there is conflict, collision, struggle to dominate each other, to possess each other, to master each other. And the misery arises. Lovers are rarely happy. I am not saying that non-lovers are happy; non-lovers may not be happy, but they are never so unhappy as the lovers. And lovers are more unhappy because love had promised so much in the beginning - great expectation had arisen, great hope was...
... form of love: there is no God and there is no soul. I am not and you are not - finished. then there is no point in uttering a single word. Now silence can prevail, there is no need even for a dialogue. I-it - bodies meet. It is sexual, physical, very gross. I-thou - minds meet. It is psychological; not so gross, but not yet so subtle either. No I-thou - spirits start meeting, souls start meeting. But...
... have not even gone through it. We don't allow feelings. A man of feeling seems to be weak, the man of no-feeling seems to be very strong. We teach people not to be emotional. We teach people not to cry, not to laugh too loudly. We teach people to remain always in control; and if YOU are in control, then love is not going to happen to you - because love happens only when you are in a state of un...
...-control. Love is something bigger than you; you cannot control it. If you want to control, you can remain in hate. Hate can be controlled; hate is smaller than you. Love cannot be controlled; love is bigger than you. If you try to control love you will miss all possibilities. You will become a love-less being - and that's what a dead person is: a loveless being who exists in the head and who has...
... thought perhaps she would be good as the in-charge of the ashram. Neelam talked to her, and Zareen went to Hasya, who is the international secretary. Zareen told Hasya that she is not a "puppet type." She will do whatever she wants to do; nobody can dictate to her. It is perfectly good, but in a commune it will immediately create conflicts. I had to drop the idea. Without Anando, I would have...
...: everybody is doing his work. Nobody is to dominate anybody. Yes, everybody is allowed to suggest, to help, but to suggest and to help does not mean that you are being made a puppet. Nobody is a puppet here. It is a gathering of absolutely independent individuals. But just because it is a gathering of independent individuals there has to be much more responsibility, much more awareness, much more...
... remembrance. Outside in the world you have learned jealousy, you have learned domination, you have learned stubbornness. You have learned that "I will do things according to my own mind; whether it is right or wrong does not matter." It is perfectly okay outside in the world, where there is so much mess that you cannot make it worse. But at least in this small commune don't bring in the outside...
... call authentic communism. The Soviet communism has failed - failed because of dictatorship, failed because it tries to dominate people, and the people who loved freedom were killed. One million people were killed by Stalin alone. He could not tolerate any difference of ideas. But the same was the situation after Stalin died and Khrushchev came into power. He had been in the same presidium, the...
... sannyas movement. I am just a guest, absolutely at your mercy. I hate the idea that anybody should dominate anybody. And nobody is doing that, things are flowing beautifully. But your question must be the question of many people. That's why I told Nirvano "Don't change it, let it remain as it is." Maneesha is intelligent enough not to ask a stupid question. But she suffers from migraines. And...
.... "Is it true," rants Babblebrain, "that on the tenth of July you committed adultery in a snowstorm, while lying across the top of a motorbike being driven by a one-legged dwarf who was also waving the Polish national flag?" Gloria looks unblinking into Babblebrain's eyes, and calmly says, "What was the date again?" Pope the Polack is getting forgetful. One morning he is...
... that Sheela was wrong. And that will be the guarantee that nobody ever again takes any fascist steps. But if you act this way, then perhaps another Sheela will be needed; otherwise you cannot survive. It is simple arithmetic. In Soviet Russia, when the country became independent from the czarist rule in 1917, in the Moscow main street a woman was found walking in the middle of the road. And when she...
... people walking! It will be a tragedy. But the woman said, "Then what is the meaning of freedom, if I still have to keep the old rule?" Don't be so idiotic, like that woman. Nobody should impose any rule over you. If you are responsible, intelligent, you will create a life of discipline on your own. So remember, you can choose. If you want Sheela back, I can call her and her whole gang, and...
... again united, again strong, so strong that it can rule over the whole world." It was something that was immensely needed. People were not working, people were not being creative. Somebody was needed to make the country again creative, disciplined. And Adolf Hitler filled the gap. Within ten years Germany was again a world power. Strange - if you give people freedom, they become lazy, they don't...
... German race is the purest Aryan race, and it is its destiny to rule over the world, because all others are subhuman. It was tremendously gratifying. The intellectual ego was very much fulfilled, and even a man like Martin Heidegger fell into the trap. Only after Hitler was defeated and Germany was almost destroyed, then people started looking back at what they had done, what kind of man they were...
... responsible, so that there is no need for anybody to dictate to you. Every individual should contribute to the commune. It is not an ordinary society. There are no families, it is an organic whole. Contribute... because I have been hearing that since Sheela has left, many people are saying, "I don't want to do this, I don't want to do that," and they were doing it for four years. You can change...
... something like that. They are doing it all over the world. It is not a story. It is a reality. People are dying in thousands every day and all religious leaders are teaching against birth control, against abortion. Strange, their arguments are the same: that by birth control you are rejecting a God-given child; this is not being religious. But strange - when God gives you cancer, when God gives you...
... control. Why? It has nothing to do with God. And even if God gives you a present, you have every right to return it, with thanks. What is wrong in it? If you don't need it.... He has already given many presents before and you have accepted, and you are suffering because of those presents. Now you have to say to him, "Please stop sending such presents. I have got enough, more than enough, and your...
... disappear from the world, the Polack will go to Poland. What will he be doing? He needs more Catholics. Already there are six hundred million Catholics, but he is not satisfied with that number. If people start birth control, abortion, then Catholics will not find orphans, will not find poor people, will not find beggars to convert into Catholicism. Their vested interest is that there should be as many...
... Mohammedans. Mohammedans are just lagging a little behind the Christians. They are the number two religion and they want to be number one. This is the politics of numbers. Don't drag in a non-existent God. And they go on creating arguments, they say, "This is against life, anti-life - abortion or birth control." But they don't understand the biology of man. In each lovemaking more than one million...
... more poor, more hungry, more starving, more illiterate. Is there a choice, for the man of awareness, to use birth control or not? There is no choice; his awareness is enough. He does what his awareness allows him to do. And the only responsibility that you have is not towards the nation - because that has been the cause of all the wars in the world. In three thousand years five thousand wars have...
... son? Does he practice birth control? This pope is going in India to continue to preach to everybody that birth control is sin; and I want him to remember that God practices birth control. He has given only one son to the world -- and in the whole eternity! The teachings of Jesus does not show the heights of an enlightened man. His behavior shows just the opposite. For example, he says, "Love...
... thinking that people unnecessarily call polacks idiots, but this pope proves that they are -- because whatever he has been teaching is against humanity. He is teaching against birth control, against abortion, against the pill because he says children are given by God. So either the God is idiot that he gives children to Ethiopia where one thousand people are dying every day, or he is blind or he is only...
... people are going to create as many poor people in the world that the world cannot support. In India, my estimate is that fifty percent people will die just out of starvation by the end of this century if we do not prevent now. Thirty years before I started teaching birth control, the pill, abortion, and I was stoned, I was poisoned, attempts on my life were made because I was "creating immortality...
... receive the pope. The president will be present there. And this is an insult! The president should make it a condition that, "If you are coming here, you can be a guest only if you promise not to talk about birth control, the pill, abortion. Don't you have anything else to talk? This is all your religion? Just leave these things; otherwise you will not be received as a guest in India." Mother...
... a public domain [and the rule is:] Every case of doubtful defilement in a public domain remains clean?14 — Rabbah son of R. Huna replied: [The Mishnah assumes that the third person] says, 'I saw a source of defilement thrown between you?15 R. Ashi commented: This is also indicated [in the language of the Mishnah] To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the...
... rounding the whole head is [an infringement of the rule against] rounding,14 wherein do they differ?15 — R. Huna holds that [the verse,] Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard,16 [signifies] that to whomsoever marring is applicable,17 rounding is applicable, and since marring does not apply to women, rounding, too, does...
... statement is that we are without definite evidence of Samuel's opinion on the subject of rounding the whole head. Who have no beards. Of transgressing the command not to round. The wife of R. Huna, who, being a woman, was not commanded not to round. If the rounding of a child's head is forbidden, it is also forbidden for a woman to round it. Although R. Adda himself would have allowed the children's heads...
...; Now why [should the get be invalid if extorted by the non-Jew]? Cannot we say that in that case also the man makes up his mind under pressure to grant the divorce?12 — This rule must be understood in the light of the statement made by R. Mesharsheya regarding it: According to the Torah itself, the get is valid even if extorted by a non-Jew, and the reason why the Rabbis [on their own...
... authority] declared it invalid was so as not to give an opportunity to any Jewish woman to keep company with a non-Jew and so release herself from her husband.13 R. Hamnuna questioned [the rule on the ground of the following Mishnah]: 'If a man buys a field from a sicarius14 and then buys it again from the original owner, the purchase is void.'15 Why so? Cannot we say here too that under...
... pressure the owner makes up his mind to sell [the field]? — We must understand this statement in the light of the gloss added by Rab: This rule was meant to apply only if the owner [merely] said to the purchaser, Go and take possession and acquire ownership, but if he gives him a written deed, he becomes the legal owner.16 But if we take the view of Samuel, that even if he gives him a deed he...
.... Johanan rule thus?7 Surely R. Johanan said: The halachah is [always] as an anonymous Mishnah,8 and we learnt: As for its wheel-work, if detachable, it has no connection therewith, is not measured with it, and does not protect together with it in [the matter of] a covering over the dead, and it may not be rolled on the Sabbath if there is money upon it.9 Hence if there is no money upon...
... here,11 who can say that a Sage will oblige him?12 Abaye raised a difficulty before R. Joseph: Did then R. Simeon rule, If it [the lamp] is extinguished, it may be handled: thus, only if it is extinguished, but not if it is not extinguished What is the reason? [Presumably] lest through his handling it, it goes out?13 But we know R. Simeon to rule that whatever is unintentional is...
... limitation14 it also denotes limitation. But R. Meir does not accept the rule that an affirmative is to be deduced as the corollary of a negative!15 — R. Tanhum said: It is written hinnaki.16 R. Akiba expounded: When husband and wife are worthy, the Shechinah abides with them; when they are not worthy fire consumes them.17 Raba said: [The fire which results] from the woman is severer...
... than that from the man.18 What is the reason? In the case of the former [the letters aleph and shin] are consecutive, but not in the case of a man.19 Raba said: Why does the Torah command that dust should be provided for [the ceremony of] a suspected woman? If she be innocent, there will issue from her a son like our father Abraham, of whom it is written: Dust and ashes;20 and if she be...
.... 10, n. 8.] It was really black paint, consisting of lampblack mixed with oil. V. Krauss, op. cit., III, 148ff., v. Git. (Sonc. ed.) p. 70, n. 9. Num. V, 23. Num. V, 30. Deut. XVII, II. This was the rule of judicial procedure; v. Sanh. 32a. [Lit., 'backward'; probably as an incantation, v. Blau, Das altjudische Zauberwesen, pp. 146ff.] Num. V, 23. Ibid. 19 and 23. I.e., without first tracing lines...
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