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... approved.' Several months later the rancher returned to the bank to repay the loan. 'Here's your money,' he declared, peeling off bills fro a huge bankroll. 'Well, sir, let me congratulate you on your sudden prosperity,' said the interviewer, eyeing the bankroll. And for safety's sake, may I suggest you deposit that extra money in our bank?' Staring at him coldly, the rancher asked, How many bulls do YOU...
... money, prestige, power, respectability. If these things come he is ready to support anybody. He is not against crime; he is ready to protect crime if that is the way money comes. Now this man is a sophist, he is not a sage, he is not a Master - he is not even a teacher, not even an honest teacher. He is a sophist. But he has persuaded the king - 'THIS IS THE SORT OF WAY I WOULD LIKE TO FIND.' But...
... healthy person becomes a victim of a heart attack. Forty-two is the age when life comes to a certain conclusion - whether you have failed or succeeded. Because beyond forty-two there is not much hope: if you have made money, you have made it; by the time forty-two arrives, you have made it - because the greatest days of energy and power are gone. Thirty-five is the peak. You can give seven more years...
... everything. When everything was going to be okay, when I was just going to succeed, make a name or money, this heart attack has come." Now the heart attack is a beautiful camouflage; now nobody can say that you are at fault, that you didn't work hard, that you are not intelligent enough. Nobody can say anything like that to you. Now people will feel sympathy for you; they will all be good towards you...
... like to be attractive because that gives power; the more attractive they are, the more powerful they are over men. And who does not want to be powerful? Their whole lives people are struggling to be powerful. Why do you desire money? - it will bring power. Why do you want to become the prime minister or the president of a country? - it will bring power. Why do you want respectability, prestige? - it...
... world, in which love will not be a question of power at all. At least take love out of power politics; leave money, leave politics there - leave everything there, but take love out of it. Love is something immensely valuable; don't make it a thing of the marketplace. But that's what has happened. The recruit had just arrived at a Foreign Legion post in the desert. He asked his corporal what the men...
..., you will immediately get another, and blank. And it is absolutely up to you: whatsoever money you want, you draw from the bank. You need not ask me." Now Gandhi was also a born businessman and he saw a great opportunity. It was difficult to run Sabarmati - although it was not much of an ashram, only twenty people were living there. And the way they were provided with food and clothes, any...
..., "The man who was a saint in Sabarmati is just a sinner in Wardha." And this was from Nanalal Bhatt, who was a disciple of Gandhi: "The saint of Sabarmati has fallen so low, just for money." The whole of Gujarat was disappointed. But strangely enough Chiranjilal was also the cause of my going to Bombay. He met me in a Jaina fair which used to happen every year near Jabalpur. There...
... is a beautiful temple in the hills, a temple made by a very poor woman who used to grind wheat and earn a little food for herself by grinding. The whole day she was grinding other people's wheat and she saved, during her whole life, enough money to make this temple on the hill. The temple is small. And in her memory, on top of the temple - the highest peak of the temple is called a kailas; it is...
... behind bars or in mental institutions. They are perfect exhibitionists, and Delhi is the best place. This friend from Shantinath's village, hearing that his name had become so famous and seeing his photographs in the newspapers, became very interested. He went to Delhi to see him. He was a poor man; it was difficult for him to get there but he borrowed money and managed it. He wanted to see his friend...
... something in your possession, it is given by somebody. It is just like somebody can give you money and somebody else can steal it - you are not the master of it. And at least your self-realization, your enlightenment, must be something of which you are the master, which nobody can deprive you of. "It is simple logic: if somebody can give it to you, then somebody can deprive you of it; there is no...
... was very angry and he said, "You have to be punished for this. I am going to the police, I am going to the court." I was there. I said, "There is no need to be angry, and even by going to the police and to the court your hair will not be replaced. This poor man is not even asking money from you. And as far as your hair is concerned...." This man was an educated man, and I used to...
... left for your studies, nobody comes regularly the way you used to come, and nobody is there to help this old opium addict. I go on doing my thing - I can't help it." He would sometimes catch hold of children and shave them, and then their fathers would come and say, "What have you done?" And his only answer was, "I don't ask for any money, can't I even practice? Where am I...
... any money. I have not done any crime; in fact I don't have any energy to do any crime, I am just enjoying my opium. My opium has made me so simple and so innocent that people come and milk my cow and I go on seeing what they are doing, but only later on I remember that it was my cow, that they were milking my cow and they have taken the milk. "I have not committed any crime; on the contrary...
...; otherwise you can return the book and take your money back" - just a sample of a hundred pages. It is a well-known fact that almost all the books that were sold came back. Not even a hundred pages could people read. And the publisher was at a loss, but there was no question: the money was given by Gurdjieff, so there was no question, it was his publication. He said, "This is nothing to do with...
... reason. There was no price printed on it: the price varied according to the customer. That was a great idea of Gurdjieff's. From one person he would ask one thousand dollars; to somebody else he would give it free. It was according to the customer - the price was not to be according to the book. That man always had some good ideas. From a man who is really into the book you should not ask for money...
.... The book has to be given as a gift; he deserves it. And from somebody who has too much money, and is going to waste it anyhow in Monte Carlo or in some other gambling place, why not ask ten thousand dollars? And there are people who will purchase it only if it is ten thousand dollars; otherwise it is below them - it is not worthwhile. His disciples were continually asking, "Books have prices...
... worshipping her, bringing money, and bringing sweets and fruits: it is a great business. And he was a brahmin, and the thing would be managed perfectly well. If this man, Ramakant, had not come to a wrong man like me, he would have been befooled perfectly. Once the girl had seen the picture, then she would have found the man in a crowd of hundreds of people. And behind the whole thing was a friend of...
... prove wrong. They are ready to support it. You will be surprised that when I exposed it and gave a statement to the newspapers that this was all a bogus thing, the brahmins and the Jainas approached me, their leaders approached me; they knew me perfectly well. They said, "You should not have done that. What does it matter if that poor brahmin gets a little money out of this? That is not important...
... money and for his reincarnation he is earning. I said, "Go back home" - he was from Ujjain" - and get this child back to normal. Don't exploit your own child." I knew he was not going to do it, although he said, "I will try." I said, "I don't believe that you will try - you have so much invested in the whole thing." And he did not stop it. I went on enquiring...
... from my friends in Ujjain: the show is going on. To every fair and every religious conference the child is brought. It continues, and he is earning a lot of money. But you cannot do that in a Christian country, in "Jewish community, in a Mohammedan land, because they have accepted that this kind of thing is absolutely unreal. As far as I am concerned, reincarnation is a reality It is my own...
... is an illusion, and while we are using them we should have a sense of gratitude because we are using something that does not belong to us. But when we say 'mine', all sense of gratitude disappears and a new world of 'mine' is created. That includes money, position, prestige, education and everything. For these things it may be okay, but what is more surprising is that things which have nothing to...
..., the money is not mine; even the body is not mine. Your body is made up from the atoms of your parents. Those atoms existed before you were, and they are coming to you after a long journey. Before your parents, they were in the bodies of their parents. These atoms have had a long journey of millions of years; now they constitute your body. That body too is a field, a land in which you are rooted, but...
... himself that he is a master: "Look! I have so much land, so much money, so many possessions!" By so doing, he is trying to create a confidence within himself that, "Who says I am not a master? I am a master of many things!" This mastery is false, because nobody is ever a master of things in this world. Bhartrihari renounced his kingdom: he left his kingdom, went to a forest and began...
... whatsoever left, even that of the soul, my mind will remain in its seed form. Whenever a drop of rain will come the seed will break open, sprout and start growing into a tree. Only when I no longer remain does the mind cease. It is easy to give up money, it is easy to give up position, it is easy to give up attachment to the body, it is easy to give up attachment to the mind, but it is the most difficult...
... towards a thing it is attachment, where there is a desire to move away from a thing it is repulsion. Viraga means inverted raga. In one we are drawn nearer, in the other we move away. Viraga, detachment, is not freedom from attachment, it is just inverted attachment. Somebody desires money; if he gets money he thinks he has achieved everything. Someone else thinks that if he could give up money he would...
... have achieved everything. But they are both focused on money. Somebody thinks there is pleasure in man or in woman, and someone else thinks there is pleasure in renouncing man or woman. But the central point to both of them is man or woman. Somebody thinks this worldly life is heaven, someone else thinks this world is hell, but the attention of both of them is on the world. From the point of view of...
..., financial security, then it is prostitution. Why do you condemn a prostitute? Because she sells her body for money? But if a wife just thinks to make love to the husband because he has money and with him there is security and the future is not uncertain, and she goes on staying with him with no love, with no love in her heart, and she sleeps with this man, then she is prostituting herself. Then in her...
... idea the husband is nothing but his money, his bank balance. When Buddha says who a good man is, he defines the good man as one who respects the other as much as he respects himself. Jesus says, 'Love the other as you love yourself - that is the definition of a good man. His respect is tremendous, his reverence is tremendous. Even if a child is born in your house, you don't enforce your ideology on...
... the river, tremendously happy, but he has not been yet able to gather courage to take a jump. He has still much involvement with the bank, in the world. He has much involvement in ordinary, mundane things - money, power, prestige, family, body, health - a thousand and one things. He is not yet courageous enough to let go. Srotapanna means one who has surrendered, who has entered the stream...
... you share your love, or you share your experience, your meditation, your money, your house, your clothes, your body; that is not the point. But sharing should become essential. Ordinarily hoarding is essential. A hoarder will remain clinging to this shore; he cannot go to the other shore - because a hoarder, in the first place, cannot leave this shore. All his hoarding belongs to this shore. See the...
.... This is a beautiful paradox: you cannot take anything from this shore, but if you are sharing enough, and if you share all that you have on this shore, you can carry a sharing mind. You cannot carry your house, you cannot carry your money, but you can carry your love, your compassion. And that compassion will be helpful. Buddha says: If you have love and compassion in your heart, existence also...
... dispossession, that is again just a trick of the mind. That's what many Buddhist monks, Jain monks, Catholics and others are doing. They are ready to renounce, but their renunciation is out of calculation. It is not out of love, it is out of calculation. They calculate that nothing can be saved on this shore, so why not renounce it and save something on the other shore, in the other world? Money cannot be...
...;She went home as fast as she could and fetched her good cap, her katinka, which was carefully stored away in a chest. But when she returned to the inn with it, she heard that Baal Shem had already left for Magditch. "She immediately set out after him, and since she had no money to ride, she walked from town to town with her katinka, until she came to Magditch. "The Baal Shem took the cap...
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