... is a system of private banks, the creation of a banking aristocracy within an already existing autocracy, whereby a great proportion of banking independence was lost, and whereby it was made possible for speculative financiers to centralize great sums of money for their own purposes, beneficial or not. That this System was useful in the artificial conditions created by war — useful, that is...

..., for a Government that cannot manage its own business and finances and, like a prodigal son, is always wanting money, and wanting it when it wants it — it has proved, either by reason of its inherent faults or by mishandling, its inadequacy to the problems of peace. It has sadly failed of its promise, and is now under serious question. Mr. Warburg's scheme succeeded just in time to take care of...

... tells us, twelve were decided upon. An examination of Mr. Warburg's printed discussions of the subject shows that he at one time considered four, then eight. Eventually, twelve were established. The reason was that one central bank, which naturally would be set up in New York, would give a suspicious country the impression that it was only a new scheme to keep the nation's money flowing to New York...

... of the country. There is no lack of money in New York today. Motion picture ventures are being financed into the millions. A big grain selling pool, nursed into existence and counseled by Bernard M. Baruch, has no hesitancy whatever in planning for a $100,000,000 corporation. Loew, the Jewish theatrical man, had no difficulty in opening 20 new theaters this year — But go into the agricultural...

... states, where the real wealth of the country is in the ground and in the granaries, and you cannot find money for the farmer. It is a situation which none can deny and which few can explain, because the explanation is not to be found along natural lines. Natural conditions are always easiest to explain. Unnatural conditions wear an air of mystery. Here is the United States, the richest country in the...

... world, containing at the present hour the greatest bulk of wealth to be found anywhere on earth — real, available, usable wealth; and yet it is tied up tight, and cannot move in its legitimate channels, because of manipulation which is going on as regards money. Money is the last mystery for the popular mind to penetrate, and when it succeeds in getting "on the inside" it will discover...

... that the mystery is not in money at all, but in its manipulation, the things which are done "in an administrative way." The United States has never had a President who gave evidence of understanding this matter at all. Our Presidents have always had to take their views from financiers. Money is the most public quantity in the country; it is the most federalized and governmentalized thing in...

... the country; and yet, in the present situation, the United States Government has hardly anything to do with it, except to use various means to get it, just as the people have to get it, from those who control it. The Money Question, properly solved, is the end of the Jewish Question and every other question of a mundane nature. Mr. Warburg is of the opinion that different rates of interest ought to...

... obtain in different parts of the country. That they have always obtained in different parts of the same state we have always known, but the reason for it has not been discovered. The city grocer can get money from his bank at a lower rate than the farmer in the next county can get it from his bank. Why the agricultural rate of interest has been higher than any other (when money is obtainable; it is not...

... clearing up. If Mr. Warburg, having educated the bankers, will now turn his attention to the people, and make it clear why one class in the country can get money for business that is not productive of real wealth, while another class engaged in the production of real wealth is treated as outside the interest of banking altogether; if he can make it clear also why money is sold to one class or one section...

...; sometimes thinking perhaps it is money, sometimes thinking perhaps it is power, sometimes thinking perhaps it is prestige, sometimes thinking perhaps it is respectability. Inside you god is hidden The intelligent man first searches his own being before he starts a journey in the outer world. That seems to be simple and logical -- at least first look inside your own house before you go searching all over...

... certainly are of the greatest value -- although they don't have any price. You are not poor. Just not to have money does not make a man poor; not to have power, not to be a president or a prime minister of a country, does not make a man poor. What makes a man poor is not to have a soul. And your soul is so full of songs, so full of dance, so full of laughter -- there is no question of your feeling ashamed...

.... You have given to me the richest gifts that anyone can give. But perhaps you have not thought of it in this way. There are some of the richest people in the world who are so poor inside that all their money cannot make any difference. Their money is outside, and their poverty is inside -- anything from the outside cannot destroy the inner poverty. The inner poverty is destroyed only by inner values...

...? Everyone has gone mad down there since I left. I come back, and what do I find? The Jews are fighting, and the Germans are making money!" Certainly Adolf Hitler must have been shocked. His old idea, that Jews make money and Germans fight, is no longer relevant. Now Jews are having a tough fight and Germans are making more money than anybody else in Europe. Milarepa, you also have the old idea that...

... they have all the money the world can afford... but the money cannot purchase love, the money cannot purchase peace, the money cannot purchase silence, the money cannot purchase prayer, the money cannot purchase God. So what is the use of it? Their inner being remains dark, empty. And it is the inner being that counts finally, because death will take away everything else and leave you only with that...

... to be the same, but in fact, because language is created by unconscious people, they cannot make the fine demarcations. Self-consciousness simply means ego consciousness and self-awareness means soul consciousness. Your ego is a false entity. Because you have so much money, because you have so much power, because you are born in a very respected family... your education, your position in life...

... hard, and with their work I was purchasing Rolls Royces. You can see the absurdity: their work was not bringing any money. Their work was making their own houses to live in, the roads -- which were needing money, not producing money. But in their mind -- and for all those three years also -- they must have been resentful. Those Rolls Royces were not produced by the commune. They were presents from...

... outside, from all over the world. And I was not their owner -- I had given them to the commune. They were commune property, and I have not brought any of them with me; I have left them with the commune. Everything that I had has been left with the commune. I never owned anything. But there must have been the idea that they are earning money, and I am wasting money. That is their resentment. What money...

... were you earning? In fact you needed money to make houses, to make roads, to make a dam -- a dam needed two and a half million dollars to make. You were contributing your labor, but we were not creating money out of it so that I could purchase Rolls Royces, so that I could purchase anything. I have not purchased anything from the money produced by the commune because the commune never produced any...

... money. The commune was absorbing money. In fact all my royalties, all my books, all their profits were going to the commune. The situation is just the opposite -- that I had given everything to the commune. Now, four hundred books in different languages were bringing millions of dollars in royalties, and those royalties were going to the commune. If I had wanted to purchase Roll Royces, I could have...

... trying hard but is not getting even enough money to pay the attorneys. No sannyasin is going to see her. Shanti B and Puja have been given bail by the magistrate -- ten million dollars each. But they cannot collect even ten dollars, what to say of ten million dollars! Who is going to put up ten million dollars for Puja, ten million dollars for Shanti B? These people played with two hundred million...

... dollars, and they remained in the illusion that this money was coming to them! The money was given to me, but because I don't receive anything, I had given the whole money to the commune. And still they feel resentful towards me. They are angry at me. Just to pacify these people, before I left I did everything: I dissolved the religion, because that gives hope to people -- and they start believing that...

... both may keep cattle there. Since in principle they are only three in number: (a) exclusively the plaintiff's premises. (b) exclusively the defendant's, and (c) partnership premises. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Baba Kamma 14b The rules are three in number, but the places to which they apply may be divided into four. [1] MISHNAH. THE VALUATION [IS MADE] IN MONEY [BUT MAY BE PAID] BY...

... MONEY'S WORTH, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE COURT AND ON THE EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES WHO ARE FREE MEN AND PERSONS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE LAW. WOMEN ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF TORTS. [BOTH] THE PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT ARE INVOLVED IN THE PAYMENT. GEMARA. What is the meaning of THE VALUATION IN MONEY? Rab Judah said: This valuation must be made only in specie. We thus learn here that which has been...

... taught by our Rabbis elsewhere: [2] In the case of a cow damaging a garment while the garment also damaged the cow, it should not be said that the damage done by the cow is to be set off against the damage done to the garment and the damage done to the garment against the damage done to the cow, the respective damages have to be estimated at a money value. BY MONEY'S WORTH. [This is explained by what...

... implied? Rabbah b. 'Ulla said: The article of distress has to be worth all that is paid for it [in money]. [3] What does this mean? An article which is not subject to the law of deception? [4] Are not slaves and deeds also not subject to the law of deception? [4] — Rabbah b. 'Ulla therefore said: An article, title to which is acquired by means of money. [5] Are not slaves [6] and deeds [7...

...] similarly acquired by means of money. [6] R. Ashi therefore said: 'Money's worth' implies that which has money's worth, [8] whereas chattels are considered actual money. [9] Rab Judah b. Hinena pointed out the following contradiction to R. Huna the son of R. Joshua: It has been taught: 'MONEY'S FORTH implies that the Court will not have recourse for distraint save to immovable property; behold, was it not...

... in the case of one who borrowed money and sold his possessions before having been summoned to Court, the Court does not collect the debt out of the estate which has been disposed of? [15] — The text therefore excepts a Court of laymen. [16] ON THE EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES, thus excepting a confession of [an act punishable by] a fine for which subsequently there appeared witnesses, in which case...

... could not be said to be worth less than the price paid for it,' and is thus never subject to the law of deception. This holds good with immovable property; cf. B.M. 56a. Cf. B.M. ibid. Kid. 26a. Cf. Kid. 23b. [Tosaf. deletes 'deeds' as these are not acquired by money but by Mesirah (v. Glos.). cf. B.B. 76a.] I.e., immovable property. As these could easily be converted into money, v. supra p. 26. Ex...

... States and many will be liquidated Money is more important than morality The Jewish Belief and Religion We Jews never possessed any religious institution Our teachings are not concerned with moral problems, but rather with how to 'get' As always, we used religion as a means of advancing our commercial interest To continue our existence as a parasite among the nations The Money Power Our purpose was to...

... confiscate all the gold and silver, replacing them with worthless non-redeemable paper We Jews have prospered through the paper gimmick Stupidly called money Our master plan of international conquest through propaganda We acquired total monopoly of all the media and education system The people are only stupid pigs that grunt and squeal the chants we give them Mind Control and Conditioning These programs...

... management Management is forced to raise prices since we are ever increasing the cost of capital Our role which is the real reason for inflation We do not labor or manage, and yet we receive the profits The Residual money trick All of our wealth is created from nothing The stupid goy have never realized that we are the parasites The Control Over Religion Christians' stupidity in receiving our teachings and...

... and employ the sword The Jew exhibits far above other peoples, a love of money Part Two Part Two Lucifer is very much alive Quotes by most prominent rabbis saying that Zionism is the works of Satan Kol Nidre It is not a sin for us to take any oath and break it If you violate this White, we'll cut your balls off We ARE God's chosen people To our god we are chosen ones. We are taught that from our...

... and big corporate money. We are usury, fractional reserve lending, world currency and fiat money. We are AIPAC, NareBLA, ACLU, ADL, NAACP, SLPC. We are the MSM, Hollywood, tabloid journalism and pornography. We are the corrupt judicial system that frees the guilty and imprisons the innocent. We will defraud your country without conscience or consequence We are your last, your current and your next...

... influenced this practice years ago and there is no one strong enough to stop it. Some of the money is even returned to the United States and spent on Zionist propaganda efforts, much of it through the B'nai B'rith and the Conference of Jewish Organizations and the World Jewish Congress. The Jewish Agency is a funding arm, a sort of body of B'nai B'rith officials. There is nothing wrong with sending...

... converted. In reality he still remains a nigger and not a Jew." I told him of my in-depth study of the Jews and that there were few who have done more research on world Jewry than I - and about my unpleasant discoveries - reminding Mr. R. that there is no morality among Jews. He replied: Money is more important than morality "Money is more important than morality. We can accomplish anything with money...

... able to impose our infamous deception with comparative ease. Therefore, there is never the slightest suspicion that we Jews form a distinct nation and are not merely the adherents of a 'confession.' Though one glance at the press which we control ought to furnish sufficient evidence to the contrary, even for those who possess only the smallest degree of intelligence." The Money Power When questioned...

... about the ways in which the Jews have gained power, Mr. Rosenthal said: "Our power has been created through the manipulation of the national monetary system. We authored the quotation. 'Money is power.' As revealed in our master plan, it was essential for us to establish a private national bank. The Federal Reserve system fitted our plan nicely since it is owned by us, but the name implies that it is...

... paper," he said contemptuously. We Jews have prospered through the paper gimmick "We Jews have prospered through the paper gimmick. It's our method through which we take money and give only paper in return." Can you give me a example of this? we asked. Stupidly called money "The examples are numerous, but a few readily apparent are the stocks and bonds market, all forms of insurance and the fractional...

... reserve system practiced by the Federal Reserve corporation, not to mention the billions in gold and silver that we have gained in exchange for paper notes, stupidly called money. Our master plan of international conquest through propaganda Money power was essential in carrying out our master plan of international conquest through propaganda." When asked how they proposed doing this, he said: We...

... that neither has time to observe our activities. It is our increase in the cost of capital that causes the inflation cycle. We do not labor or manage, and yet we receive the profits We do not labor or manage, and yet we receive the profits. Through our money manipulation, the capital that we supply industry costs us nothing. See Residual money trick Through our national bank, the Federal Reserve, we...

... our goodness for loaning them the money to build their temples, never realizing that their own holy book condemns all usury. They are eager to pay our exorbitant interest rates They are eager to pay our exorbitant interest rates. They have led society into our control through the same practice. Politically, they hail the blessings of democracy and never understand that through democracy we have...

... incomes. However, we have been able to enslave society to our own power which is money, by causing them to seek after it. A dissatisfied people are the pawns in our game of world conquest We have converted the people to our philosophy of getting and acquiring so that they will never be satisfied. A dissatisfied people are the pawns in our game of world conquest. Thus, they are always seeking and never...

... invisible government in which no political power is exercised without Jewish approval. Let us also highlight the other key remarks of Mr. Rosenthal: That the American people have no guts and the Jews sneer at their stupidity. The Jews' power through their money and the money power afford them a "master plan" for international conquest through propaganda. There is in America an "unthinking majority." The...

... subservient obedience designed to groom us for a Jew-controlled, international, money-changing dictatorship designed by Jewish-Zionists and Communists. This is occurring and will continue if the American public allows itself to be so subdued. These One World subversives who have been running our bureaucracy in Washington have permitted over 12,000,000 aliens to come into this country illegally from all the...

... threatens Christian civilization. The Jew exhibits far above other peoples, a love of money (While it is "the love of money" which "is the root of all evil" (I Tim. 6:10), the Jew exhibits far above other peoples, a love of money; and have an instinctive and compelling desire for attaining as much wealth as possible regardless of the means or harm it may cause.) This evil force is the "ANTI-CHRIST," as...

... is money. We made an agreement and you're extending it beyond reason. You have it all on tapes and remember that we agreed for you to take whatever you want from the tapes and your notes - but no reproduction of the tapes under any circumstances. They are to be destroyed. If you violate this White, we'll cut your balls off. W.: Who are WE? R.: Just get smart and you'll find out. You don't want any...

... trouble and I don't either. You keep our agreement and no one gets hurt!! Now give me the rest of my money. Okay? W.: I intend to keep our agreement to the letter and you have my word of honor that these tapes will not go any further than my use in the preparation of the story. There is no misunderstanding. We agree on that and I'll keep my word. You'll get your money in a minute. R.: I have friends...

... White - I know a lot of people and I don't want them to be reading things attributed to me that I didn't say. I don't give a damn what you or anybody else thinks - but I don't want lies printed - only the questions and answers of this interview. W.: We understand each other perfectly in that regard, Mr. Rosenthal. Now, please, this question!! R.: Shoot. But remember I need Las Vegas money. W.: Surely...

... Federal Reserve system their money has been stolen and the economy debauched.) W.: I'm expecting you to be truthful with me Mr. Rosenthal. R.: Well, it's true. We're smart - we are powerful and at the proper time we will mix up your gentile women with the Blacks and in 50 years you'll be all mixed up. Niggers love to s - -w your white women and we encourage it by using them to our advantage. W.: I...

... recall your saying that the Blacks serve a purpose. R.: Yes, we will use them to a great advantage. (It was primarily by Jewish merchant ships and Jewish-run slave auctions that the blacks got to America.) W.: And try to destroy them after you have used them I presume? R.: If necessary. Yes! You and I know they're inferior people, a dumb race, but can be useful with the use of money. I mean real big...

... money. Niggers will do anything for money. So, when the time comes - and you might even live to see it - we will have that complete control while you stupid Christians are waiting for your Christ, the impostor, to return as your savior. W.: You sound bitter. R.: Not at all. Why should I be bitter? We are on top!! W.: And when this whole sordid story becomes known, the result will be an aroused...

....: It's what you wanted to hear or you wouldn't have paid good money for this interview. W.: So long as you are truthful with me - but you still haven't answered that question I posed long back - do you believe that Jesus Christ was a Jew? R.: As I said, Jake could give you a really intelligent answer. I know that most of our friends, kids and people I grew up with - in fact all of our friends - I'd say...

... almost unbelievable. R.: Well I don't give a good God damn what you believe. I've given you honest answers and opinions. Now no more questions. And don't forget our agreement - if I learn that the tapes are used other than what we agreed upon you will suffer serious consequences. Do you understand? W.: I understand. And now Mr. Rosenthal, here is the balance of the money agreed upon for this interview...

.... I had no further comment. I had watched this arrogant, boastful person change at times like a chameleon that changes its color. Many times he showed a hatred - yes, even a venom. At the conclusion I felt unclean being around him. The Residual money trick This is how money is created out of nothing. The idea is this: Bankers make money out of nothing. On the surface, it looks like they do not make...

... any money when they lend. Because the interest rates are offset by the labor cost. In other words, with inflation, the prices forever rise, but in order to compensate for it, there needs to be raising of salaries. So, to the ordinary person, the net effect is zero. He keeps begging on his knees about raise in salary on the yearly review, but, at the same time, the inflation eats away the benefits of...

... the raises he receives. But from the money lender's stand point the whole picture is different. First of all, why does one borrow money? Well, because he does not have it to pay for his ongoing expenses. So he borrows, and once he borrows, he becomes a slave of "usury" (interest rates). So, what happens is he starts paying interest to the bank, which is the residual money. It does not exist in...

... reality. So he keeps paying this extra money to the bank for years. And, even though the bank seems to be getting some interest, but the prices increase also, and, therefore, the value of money. So, on the surface, the net effect looks like the banks do not really make any money on lending. But in fact they do, and that money comes from nothing. It is that residual interest that settles in their pockets...

.... Out of nothing. They do not produce a thing to actually earn any of it. And that is precisely how you are enslaved. Your governments, your industries and your individuals. The governments keep borrowing more and more just to pay the interest alone. But the principle amount only accumulates with all the new loans. So the money flows freely into the pockets of the bankers while you and your societies...

... deduction30  made from this text?31  Is it not in fact made from the following text:32  According to the measure of his crime,33  [which implies]34  you make him liable to a penalty35  for one crime, but you cannot make him liable [at the same time] for two crimes?36  — One [text37  deals] with [the penalties of] death and money and the other38  with [the...

... penalties of] flogging and money. And [both texts39  were] needed. For if we had been told [only of that which deals with the penalties of] death and money37  it might have been assumed [that the restriction40  applied only to the death penalty] because it involves loss of life,41  but not [to the penalties of] flogging and money where no loss of life is involved. And if we had been...

... told only of flogging and money38  it might have been assumed [that the restriction40  applied only to flogging] because the transgression for which flogging is inflicted42  is not very grave,43  but not [to the penalties of] death and money where the transgression for which the death penalty is imposed42  is very grave.44  [Hence it was] necessary [to have both texts...

...]. According to R. Meir, however, who ruled: 'A man may be flogged and also ordered to pay'.45  what need was there for the two texts?46  — One47  deals with the penalties of death and money To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Cf. supra p. 199. n. 1. Only the menstrual blood of an Israelite woman or of one who was converted to the Jewish faith...

... if we had been told [only of that which deals with the penalties of] death and money it might have been assumed [that the restriction2  applied to these two penalties only] because we must not inflict one penalty upon one's body and another upon one's possessions, but in the case of death and flogging, both of which are inflicted on one's body, it might have been assumed [that the flogging] is...

... deemed to be [but] one pro tracted death penalty and both may, therefore, be inflicted upon one man.3  And if we had been told about death and flogging only [the restriction4  might have been assumed to apply to these penalties only] because no two corporal punishments may be inflicted on the same person, but in the case of the penalties of death and money one of which is corporal and the...

... 'None devoted'?50  — He requires it for [the following deduction] as it was taught: R. Ishmael the son of R. Johanan b. Beroka said, Whereas we find that those who incur the penalty of death at the hand of heaven51  may pay a monetary fine and thereby obtain atonement, for it is said in Scripture, If there be laid down on him a sum of money,52  it might [have been assumed that...

..., [however. is it inferred that the same law applies also to] lighter death penalties59  seeing that [they are for offences] that may be atoned for60  if committed unwittingly?61  It was explicitly stated in Scripture, 'None devoted'.62  But could not this63  be inferred independently from Ye shall take no ransom64  which implies: You shall take no money from him to exempt him...

.... 3. Sc. the fleeing to a city of refuge. Num. XXXV, 31 (death and money) and ibid. 32 (exile and money). As both deal with murder, could not the lesson of the one be deduced from the other? That no ransom may be substituted for the death penalty. Num. XXXV, 31. Lit., 'its transgression'. And a monetary fine is no adequate punishment. Cf. supra note 10, mutatis mutandis. Num. XXXV, 32. The...

... used to know one man who said, "I trust only money. I trust nobody else." I said, "You are making a very significant statement." He said, "Everybody changes. You cannot rely on anybody. And as you get older, only your money is yours. Nobody cares - not even your son, not even your wife. If you have money they all care, they all respect you, because you have money. If you...

... don't have money you become a beggar." His saying that the only thing in the world to trust is money comes out of a long experience of life, of getting cheated again and again by the people he trusted - and he thought they loved him but they were all around him for the money. "But," I told him, "at the moment of death money is not going to be with you. You can have an illusion that...

... at least money is with you, but as your breathing stops, money is no longer with you. You have earned something but it will be left on this side; you cannot carry it beyond death. You will fall into a deep loneliness which you have been hiding behind the facade of money." There are people who are after power, but the reason is the same: when they are in power so many people are with them...

... you feel you are in the bottle. That story is very psychological and very significant, because it is the story of man. Somebody is identified with his money: then although the money is in the safe, his mind is inside the safe and he is identified with his mind, so in a certain psychological way he is also inside the safe. In India it is the wisdom of the common people that wherever you find some...

... treasure buried deep in the ground... And in India that was the only way to keep it safe. Banking had not happened yet, so people used to put all their treasures deep in the ground. Mostly it would be under their bed; on top they were sleeping and deep down the money was buried. Whenever you find such a treasure... and every day treasure is found, because for thousands of years Indians have been doing...

... it because that was his last thought while he was dying - what will happen to his treasure after he is dead? There is a possibility of there being some truth in it, because without exception a snake is always there; otherwise snakes have nothing to do with treasures. They don't eat money, they have no interest in money. But why should snakes be protecting treasures? There is a possibility that the...

... common wisdom of the people has a certain truth in it - that the man was so attached that he could not leave it. So that was the only way - because only snakes can live underground near the pot where the treasure is. And snakes are dangerous; they can protect it. They can kill anybody who tries to take the treasures. Now this man who may have become a snake to protect his money is still out of the...

... don't allow her to be human. You have made her "superhuman". That is a way to make her inhuman. Or you force her to be a prostitute; that is again a way, to put her below the human, to make her again inhuman. Then you go to the prostitute, you give her the money, you make love to her -- with no responsibility, with no love. It is simple, pure lust, but you know that that woman is a bad woman...

.... These things come again and again in your mind, and you don't see that they are YOUR problems. Somebody else has asked, "Why do we have to pay money here?" "I have no money," he says, "and I want to be here." But then who is going to pay for you? You will need money, you will need food, you will need a shelter, you will need clothes, sometimes you will be ill, you will...

... need the hospital: who is going to pay for you? Now, he thinks that this ashram is money obsessed. If people who don't have money are allowed, then Laxmi will have to go even more money obsessed because for them also she will have to arrange. Just to avoid money obsession, money has to be arranged. There are many people who would like to be here, but then who is going to arrange for them? And if...

... somebody else arranges for them, he will demand something in return. The person says, "Even Christians don't ask for money; even they are not that bold." I know they are not that bold. They need not be; they have enough money. The Vatican has enough money; that is the richest party in the world. But then you have to pay -- not in money, money is there -- you have to pay with other things: you...

... have to pay with your freedom. Here I want you to be free. I don't want to hinder your freedom. If you want to stay here without money, then I will have to ask some people who have money to give money to the ashram. But then they have their conditions. Then their conditions have to be fulfilled. Otherwise why should they give their money? They give money in return for something. Then you will not be...

... free here. And I will not be free here. I will not be able to say what I want to say. Then they will dictate to me that this has to be said and this has not to be said. Nobody is money obsessed. But the questioner is money obsessed: he has no money and he wants to be here. But what is money? Money is just that you have to pay for everything. You eat: you have to pay for it. You live: you have to pay...

... for it. You need clothes: you have to pay for it. And why should you not pay? Then somebody else will have to pay for you. Why exploit somebody else? If you don't have money, then go and earn money and come back. YOU are money obsessed! But you think that Bhagwan is demanding money. It is your problem. Somebody has said, "I can't see the point why I have to pay when I come to the lecture. When...

... hear only when you pay; otherwise you don't hear. When you have nothing to pay, there is no need to hear. The more you pay, the more alert you are -- because those ten rupees are gone. If you don't listen it is your business; you remain a little alert. J know you are money-minded; those ten rupees will keep you awake. And my godhood is not in danger, because I don't care what you think about me. That...

... school of skeptical people was called Sophism. They were traveling teachers, wandering teachers. They used to take a big fee, much money, to make you a sophist. A sophist is one who can take any side, he does not care for truth. If you pay him good money, he will be on your side. Or, if the opposite side pays him big money, he will be on the opposite side. As far as he is concerned he knows nothing...

... the art, so that whatever the case is, you can always manage to win it. There is no question of right and wrong for a sophist; the question is whose argument is stronger. But it happened... a young man came to a very famous sophist teacher. The young man was very rich, and the sophist teacher asked for an enormous amount of money. The young man said, "Don't be worried, whatever you ask I will...

... give, but on one condition. Half of the money I will pay now and half of the money I will pay to you when I have been victorious in some argument with somebody. That will be the test of whether you have been really teaching me or just exploiting." It was understandable, and the old sophist teacher knew that there was no problem. "You are going to win against anybody. I am the greatest...

... sophist in the whole of Greece, don't be worried." Half the money was paid. After two years the young man was perfectly trained in the art of argumentation; from any side he was able to win. If he chose to support theism he was able to win, if he wanted to support atheism he was able to win. He now had the knack of how to present a case and how to argue about it. The teacher said, "Now your...

... education is finished. Bring the other half of my money that you had promised." The man said, "But I have not yet been a winner. You will have to wait, that was the condition." And the young man proved far smarter than the great sophist. He never argued with anybody. Whatever you said, he would say yes. But he would never enter into any argument, so the question of winning never arose. One...

... year pased, two years passed - but the old sophist was not going to be cheated in this way. This young man was trying to be really too much. The old man filed a case in the court against the young man, that he had promised to give him half of the money when his education was over and he had not given it. The idea of the great teacher was really marvelous. He thought, "If the court decides, "...

...;You will receive half the money only when he wins a case," I am defeated, the young man has won his first victory." So he planned that outside the court he would say, "Now you have won your first victory, give me half the money." But he never got that money, he got defeated in the court. He had thought of the other possibility: if he won the case - although there was no...

... possibility, but he was a great arguer - if he won the case, then too, he would tell the young man, "You are going against the court's decision, you have to pay the money." But he had not thought about it - that the young man was his own student, and knew all his tactics. The young man argued perfectly, and in fact the case was clearly stronger on his side: "Until I win my first argument, I...

... your argument, give me my money." The young man said, "I am your student - you cannot deceive me. I cannot go against the court's decision; that would be contempt of court. And if you insist, come back inside the court and ask before the magistrate." This sophistry has continued down the ages; it has taken many names - now it is called skepticism. The skeptic has no ideology, so you...

... am a madman, but I have never been without friends. They are certainly madder than me. The queen of Spain supported Columbus. She said, "What is the harm? I have enough money, he has enough argument. Let him have a chance, let him go for for a journey around the earth. If the earth is a globe, then finally he will come back to the same place from where he started." It is simple logic: if...

... you move in a circle, you will come back to the same place. "And if the earth is flat, we are not responsible; he is insisting. If the earth is flat, then his ship will finally fall down at the edge of the earth. That is his responsibility, if he goes to hell. For me, it will be just a little loss of money - that does not matter." Then it was a question of finding at least ninety people...

... - three ships were to go, because nobody was clear how long it would take to come back. So much food, clothes for every season, enough people to take these three big ships. The queen said, "Don't be worried, money can purchase anything," and she purchased ninety people. They were all Christians; they thought that the earth was flat, but she was giving so much money that they thought, even if...

... the ship fell into utter darkness, they would be leaving enough money for their family, at least for three generations - which they could not manage to earn being here. They could not even manage enough food, enough clothes, shelter. So ninety people were ready and they sailed off. The horizon was there, but again and again it changed its place. Two months and twenty-seven days had passed, and there...

... had taken enough food for only three months. Those ninety people - they were not scientists, they had not come to prove anything; they were just there for money. With their Bibles they still believed that the earth was flat and that Columbus was mad. But they had got so much money, who cared whether he was mad or not? But after two months and twenty-seven days, they became nervous. They were almost...

... is the point of being successful? Why? What is going to happen through success? Even if the whole world knows my name, what is that going to give me?' The old generation believes in money. And you will be surprised that the belief in money is so deep that even those who renounce money - they also believe in money; otherwise there is no need to renounce it. And those who praise renunciation - they...

... also believe in money. The more money you renounce, the greater you are. So the measurement is of money. Money remains the criterion. In the world if you have more money you are great. And even in the world of the monks: 'How much have you renounced?' If you have renounced more money, then you are more important. Money remains important even there. The new generation is not going to be money-manic...

.... And remember, I am not saying it is going to be against money, it WILL USE money. In the past money has used man, in the past man has lived in such an unconscious way that he thought he possessed things, but things possessed him. The new man will be able to use things. The new man will use money, will use technology, but the new man will remain the master. He is not going to become a victim, an...

... is always hell, tomorrow is heaven. You keep on looking at heaven, you keep on hoping. But that hope is not going to be fulfilled ever because tomorrow never comes. Ambition means you are incapable of transforming your today into a beatitude; you are impotent. Only impotent people are ambitious: they seek money, they seek power. Only impotent people seek power and money. The potential person lives...

.... If money comes his way, he lives the money too, but he does not seek it, he is not after it. He is not afraid of it either. The old man was either after money or afraid of money, either after power or afraid of power; but in both ways his whole focus was on power and money. He was ambitious. The old man is pitiable. He was ambitious because he was unable to live, unable to love. The new man will be...

... able to live and able to love. And his herenow is going to be so beautiful, why should he be worried about tomorrow? His concern will not be with having more, his concern will be with BEING more - another very important distinction to be remembered. His concern will be with being more, not having more. Having more is just a substitute for being more. You have more money, so you think you are more...