... other was a problem. He was always creating trouble. Finally the father decided - he was getting old - to divide the property and separate the two sons. The elder one remained with him and the younger one the moment he got the money, left the father, left the village, went to the big city, spent all the money in gambling, in drinking, with the prostitutes. Within a few years all was lost; he became a...

... the gardens working the whole day; he had not known what was happening at home. Somebody told him, "Look, this is unfair! You have been always obedient, always followed your father's footsteps, you have in every way helped the old man, but never has a celebration happened for you, no feast was given for you. And now that your brother is coming back - he has lost all the money in gambling...

... pretension is a cover-up. This is one of the strategies of the unconscious mind: if you feel inferior inside you try on the outside to be very superior. You have to hide your inferiority with pretentions, with superiority. If you feel poor inside you start accumulating money to show to the world and to show to yourself that you are not poor. "Look how much I have got!" Proving to the world that...

... all, that's why it is pretending to be spiritual. It is just the opposite of it. If you look into the Indian scriptures, if you go back to the Vedas, you will be surprised: the Vedas are very materialistic. It is very rare to come across a statement in the Vedas which can be called spiritual. The RISHIS, the seers of the Vedas - the so-called seers - are asking for money, power, from God; asking for...

... million dollars in the bank, but will probably not have it for long, as it is reported that an Indian phony is trying to get his hands on it." It is not surprising that all the so-called Indian gurus have reached America. Wherever money is you will find the Indian also. Muktananda, Satchitananda, Yogi Bhajan, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, are all in America for the simple reason that the money is there...

.... And they go on talking against the money - that's the most beautiful thing about it! They are not authentic. I am not against money at all. What I am against is hypocrisy. They TALK against money and they go on accumulating money. Remember, to me there is no problem. I am not against materialism either. In fact, my whole effort is to create a synthesis between materialism and spiritualism. There is...

... shows pure materialism, nothing else! All the AVATARAS of the Hindus are sons of kings - as if the whole country is dead! Not a single AVATARA, not a single incarnation of God in a poor family or even in a middle class family! No TEERTHANKARA, no enlightened Jaina Master, from an ordinary family; they all come from royal families. You can see the point. The point is that the respect is for money. Even...

... in renunciation, the respect is for money. If you have money, then you are respected. Your renunciation will also be respected. If you don't have money you can be as great a meditator as Mahavira, nobody is going to respect you. They will ask, "How much have you renounced?" And if you cannot show them a big bank balance that you have renounced you are not of any worth. Yogeshwar, drop...

..., YOU ACT, YOU EVEN DRESS AS AN EMPEROR. YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP YOU, YOU HAVE MONEY, POWER. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS CONTRADICTION? A: I am an extraordinarily ordinary man. Q: A SMALL BOOK WAS SUFFICIENT TO SPREAD THE TEACHING OF JESUS OR OF MOHAMMED, AND MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER THEM GOOD AFTER HUNDREDS OF YEARS. BUT THERE ARE MANY TAPES OF YOUR SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS BY THE THOUSANDS. EVERY SINGLE...

... middle, in Switzerland, on her own name. So in our books we cannot show that she has taken anything. The money was coming from German communes as a donation. And from there much money has come for the Commune. So slowly, slowly, during these four years she went on gathering money in a bank account in Switzerland. Her secretary, who left two years before because of cancer -- for treatment she went to...

... California. She had come to inform that when she left, it was forty-three million. Now in these two years, how much more she may have gathered? It is difficult to imagine, but it is certainly... it must be near about one hundred thousand million. That money she has given the bank number, the bank's name. But in Switzerland that is not according to bank's policies. We phoned; they will not accept that...

... to the commune. The people who have given those cars were not going to give the money to the commune. These were personal friends around the world who have sent those cars, and they are still sending. It is their love. And the commune is benefited by it, the commune is not a loser. Nine million dollars in cars it has got, and anything else that comes -- because only two things are used, either a...

... mountains. That is my personal use: one and a half hour. One car can do that. But my people are... Q: BHAGWAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH IS THE MOVEMENT WORTH AT THE MOMENT? WHAT IS THE PATRIMONY* OF THE MOVEMENT? HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU HAVE -- I MEAN NOT YOU, THE MOVEMENT -- HOW MUCH MONEY HAS IT? A: No, we don't have any money, because I don't believe in having money. I believe in spending. Q: HOW...

... MUCH MONEY...? A: I always spend before I get. Just the idea that some money is coming, and I tell my people: Spend. Because who knows about tomorrow? Spend today. We don't have any money, but we are perfectly sufficient. Nothing is missing, everything is perfectly okay. And money goes on coming. I have lived thirty-five years without any money. It has always been coming. Somebody somewhere feels to...

... were so much against wealth, against comfort, against luxury, they forgot completely that they were not being objective; these are subjective reactions. You had hoped for much and found nothing. That does not mean that comfort is useless. It simply means you have asked too much - something which is not in the power of comfort to supply to you. You had asked too much - something which money cannot...

... give to you. You were thinking that when you have all the money you will relax, you will enjoy. But the way it works is that while you were earning money, you were also earning tensions, side by side. As you were progressing towards your goal of desire, you were becoming more and more tense, more and more violent. At any cost, the goal has to be achieved. Even if the means are not good, it doesn't...

... the pope and to the kings of Europe, saying, "We are lagging far behind; the Chinese think the Western people barbarous," do you know what the pope did? He took a note and burned it, and said, "Do you say this is money?" And then he brought out a silver coin and dropped it on the floor, making a sound, and said, "This is money. So who is barbarous?" Marco Polo said...

... cannot even think of it. The poor man will think that it has to be a gold coin, because he does not understand the whole meaning of money. The meaning of money is the exchange value. What does it matter whether it is gold or paper? If it serves for the exchange of things, it is money. And the notes that have survived from four thousand years ago are exactly the same as the notes that you have: the best...

... notes they had issued. So anybody, anytime, could take gold or silver - whatever he wanted. Then people became satisfied: "There is no problem; these are promissory notes." The pope behaved like an idiot by burning the note. That was his argument. He thought that this is absolute proof that this is not money. Real money is a silver coin or a gold coin. Marco Polo tried to say, "First I...

... was also amazed - paper money? But when I understood their idea I was amazed. Those people are really far advanced. There is no need for anybody to carry a load of gold - which is dangerous - when you can carry a small note in your pocket and nobody will know." Everybody in the court of the pope laughed at Marco Polo. They thought, "He is a fool. He thinks they are culturally ahead of us...

... over the world and sucked as much as is possible, so all the money gathered in the Western capitals. And this was the time when a new factor appeared - which always comes with riches - and that was science. When you have riches your physical needs are fulfilled; then your mind starts enquiring about objects, the objective world. And three hundred years ago, when science was born, it multiplied the...

.... He glided out of a certain obscurity unlighted by public service of fame, into the high rulership of the nation at war. The constituted government had little to do with him save vote the money and do his bidding. He said that men could have appealed over his head to the President of the United States, but, knowing the situation, men never did. Who is this figure, colossal in his way, and most...

... important and numerous. In any case, as a young man, he is found to be master of large sums of money, and there is no indication that he inherited it. He is very wealthy. What change the war made in his wealth, if it made any change at all, is a matter on which nothing may be said now. Certainly many of his friends and closest associates reaped great quantities of money from their activities during the...

... probably what you want to know. I had been very much disturbed by the unprepared condition of this country, so much so that I was one of the first men to support General Wood in the Plattsburg encampment, and I think he will admit I gave him the first money and told him whatever he did I would guarantee to stand behind that movement, which happily only took a few thousand dollars so far as I was...

... spectacle to the mass of the American people. But still Mr. Baruch was convinced we were going to have war, and he spent money on his guess. The government which was then "keeping us out of war" was also consulting with Mr. Baruch who was already ahead of the government in creating the atmosphere of war in this country. If the reader, by a mental effort, can reconstruct the year of 1915, and...

... brains that elevated him? Or was it the suggestion of Jewish finance already well forward in its work of mobilization? There is no desire to minimize the Baruch brain. Brains and money are the Jews' two greatest weapons. No Jew is picked for a key place who has not brains. Baruch has brains. He is a ceaseless wonder among men who know him. He can do six things at once and control the most colossal...

... operations without fuss or fever. He has both brains and money. But there is something for Jewry to learn: brains and money are not enough. There is another element that even brains cannot cope with, and which renders money cheap. The chess-playing expert may mystify and compel admiration; but the chess-player does not rule the world. So, Baruch did things. But Trotsky also has done things. The point is...

... fictitious values. The Jewish philosophy of money is not to "make money," but to "get money." The distinction between these two is fundamental. That explains Jews being "financiers" instead of "captains of industry." It is the difference between "getting" and "making." The creative, constructive type of mind has an affection for the thing it is...

... doing. The non-Jewish worker formerly chose the work he liked best. He did not change his employment easily, because there was a bond between him and the kind of work he had chosen. Nothing else was so attractive to him. He would rather draw a little less money and do what he liked to do, than a little more and do what irked him. The "maker" is always thus influenced by his liking. Not so...

... the "getter." It doesn't matter what he does, so long as the income is satisfactory. He has no illusions, sentiments or affections on the side of work. It is the "geld" that counts. He has no attachment for the things he makes, for he doesn't make any; he deals in the things which other men make and regards them solely on the side of their money-drawing value. "The joy of...

... creative labor" is nothing to him, not even an intelligible saying. Now, previous to the advent of Jewish socialistic and subversive ideas, the predominant thought in the labor world was to "make" things and thus "make" money. There was a pride among mechanics. Men who made things were a sturdy, honest race because they dealt with ideas of skill and quality, and their very...

... characters were formed by the satisfaction of having performed useful functions in society. They were the Makers. And society was solid as long as they were solid. Men made shoes as exhibitions of their skill. Farmers raised crops for the inherent love of crops, not with reference to far-off money-markets. Everywhere The Job was the main thing and the rest was incidental. The only way to break down this...

... strong safeguard of society — a laboring class of sturdy character — was to sow other ideas among it; and the most dangerous of all the ideas sown was that which substituted "get" for "make." With the required manipulation of the money and food markets, enough pressure could be brought to bear on the ultimate consumers to give point to the idea of "get," and it...

... — but get it" — all of which are notes of this treasonable philosophy), the very cement of society loses its adhesiveness and begins to crumble. The great myth and fiction of Money has been forced into the place of real things, and the second step of the drama can thus be opened up. Jewish influence on the thought of the working men of the United States, as well as on the thought of...

... reduce it to some sexual problem. Sexual problems were the origin of every sickness - mental, physical, social, economic - it made no difference. One sometimes wonders: when a person starts thinking of himself as a prophet, does he lose all reason, rationality and intelligence? For example, if a man who is mad after money goes to Sigmund Freud, Freud will say that this man is obsessed with money. What...

... is the remedy, and what, do you think, can be the cause? Repression of sex! On the surface you cannot see the connection: he is after money and you are talking about sex? He never cared about sex - but that only proves that what Sigmund Freud is saying is right. Because his sexual energy has been repressed, now it is coming up in the ambition for money: money can purchase sex, as much as you want...

... purpose? Her purpose was to serve anybody who wanted to be served, and the money should go to the temple. The girl was only a prostitute, and even, temple had hundreds of prostitutes. All the money was coming to the temple so the priests were happy. The poor people were happy because for a small donation they could manage to get beautiful women. And the women were not feeling in any way insulted: they...

... want but the income tax goes on being doubled each time, so even the rich cannot afford them, what to say about the poor and the middle class. Then only will they think of birth control; otherwise they are not going to. Look at the Red Indians. Why should they use birth control? - because each child born brings more money from the government. Just to keep them silent.... It is their country and...

... their rights is inhuman. On the surface it looks humanitarian - that each Red Indian is given a certain amount of money every month. Naturally they produce as many children as possible, because each child is an economic benefit, each child brings more money. And why are they being given money without any work? A very criminal idea is behind it. If a person has no work and enough money, what is he...

... going to do then? He will drink; he will take marijuana, hashish, opium. What else does he have to do? He has enough money and no work, no education; he has to pass his time somehow, so he hallucinates. All the Red Indians have become drug addicts; the money is really given for them to become drug addicts. Of course it is not said so - it is a "humanitarian" job. They are poor people, but...

... palace. In a king's palace there is no space. Although the palace is big there is no space because the heart is not there. Here space is very limited, but the heart is unlimited." The Red Indians are the owners of this land, but they have been put into reservations and forests. Those are prisons without walls - and very subtle prisons because the prisoners are paid money. They gamble, they fight...

..., they drink, and they kill each other. They are very rowdy people because what else can they do? And money goes on being poured on them: more children, more money. So they go on producing more children and getting more money and getting more drunk. It is really a crime. It has nothing to do with humanity or humanitarian ideals. And these people who have simply taken over their land, they are deciding...

... to come, of course you received your mother and your father's love more because you were a novelty; then other children started coming and it was not anything new. The second boy was born, but he is going to be second. The eldest son in all the cultures is going to inherit the father's money. Why? It is not accidental: he got more love than anybody else, and he was the first to come. Then the last...

... House Banking & Currency Committee: "After World War 1, Germany fell into the hands of the German International Bankers... Through the Federal Reserve Board over 30 billion of dollars of American money... has been pumped into Germany" The money pumped in to Germany to build her up in preparation for World War 2, is into the German Thyssen banks which are affiliated with the Rothschild controlled...

... Jabotinsky, on boycott of Germany: "We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany" Swiss banking secrecy laws are reformed in preparation for the Rothschild engineered Second World War in which as usual they will fund both sides David Lloyd George: "Britain is the slave of an international financial bloc" "Democracy has no more persistent and insidious foe than money power...

...; Bernard Baruch; et al, all marvel at the fact these people got out of the stock-market completely, just before the crash and put their assets into cash or gold. Then on October 24th the big New York bankers called in their 24 hour broker call loans which began the massive selloff So, as all the bankers and their friends already knew, in August the Federal Reserve began to tighten the money supply. Then...

... emerge as rulers of us all." Despite the claims of how the Federal Reserve would protect the country against depressions and inflation, they continued to further contract the money supply. Milton Friedman, the Nobel Peace Prize winning economist in 1996: "The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933...

..." Between 1929 and 1933, they would reduce the money supply by an additional 33%. Even Milton Friedman, the Nobel Peace Prize winning economist stated the following in a radio interview in January 1996, "The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933." In only a few weeks from the day of the crash, 3 billion...

... example of this is Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's father. In 1929 he was worth 4 million dollars, in 1935 following the greatest depression in America's history, that had increased to over 100 million dollars. This is why depressions are caused. To take money out of the hands of the many for the benefit of a few. On this occasion the money would be largely spent overseas, as whilst this Great...

... dollars of American money... has been pumped into Germany" Republican Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee from 1920 to 1931, would state the following in relation to this, Adolf Hitler "After World War 1, Germany fell into the hands of the German International Bankers. Those bankers bought her and now they own her, lock, stock, and barrel. They have purchased her...

... industries, they have mortgages on her soil, they control her production, they control all her public utilities. The international German bankers have subsidized the present Government of Germany and they have also supplied every dollar of the money Adolf Hitler has used in his lavish campaign to build up a threat to the government of Bruening. When Bruening fails to obey the orders of the German...

... International Bankers, Hitler is brought forth to scare the Germans into submission... Through the Federal Reserve Board over 30 billion of dollars of American money... has been pumped into Germany... You have all heard of the spending that has taken place in Germany... modernistic dwellings, her great planetariums, her gymnasiums, her swimming pools, her fine public highways, her perfect factories. All this...

... was done on our money. All this was given to Germany through the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board...has pumped so many billions of dollars into Germany that they dare not name the total." The money pumped in to Germany to build her up in preparation for World War 2, is into the German Thyssen banks which are affiliated with the Rothschild controlled Harriman interest Interestingly...

..., the money pumped in to Germany to build her up in preparation for World War 2, is into the German Thyssen banks which are affiliated with the Rothschild controlled Harriman interest in New York. 1930 The first Rothschild "World Bank," the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), is established Bank for International Settlements This year, thirty-three years after the first World Zionist Congress...

... insidious foe than money power" The article also contains the following words written by Lord Bryce, "Democracy has no more persistent and insidious foe than money power... questions regarding Bank of England, its conduct and its objects, are not allowed by the Speaker (of the House of Commons)." Samuel Roth states of the Jews: "Our major vice of old, as of today, is parasitism. We are a people of...

... saying - because I have followed the same route. The critics quote him as stating "Rinam kritva ghritam pivet": "Even if you have to borrow money, borrow it, but drink ghee." Ghee is refined butter. Only in India do they have refined butter; otherwise the whole world is making do with butter. But Indians have reached a higher stage than butter, that is ghee. You cannot go higher...

... Rajasthan could I understand this Charvaka, this Acharya Brihaspati, and why he said, "Rinam kritva ghritam pivet." Ghritam means "ghee"; rinam kritva means "borrow money"; ghritam pivet means "and drink ghee." Before I went to Rajasthan I never thought that anybody could drink ghee, but in Rajasthan that's how they do it. In the morning they will bring milk, and...

... it back, you need not pay. There are so many people: you need not borrow from one person again and again, just go on finding other people. And it is a small life: once dead, nobody will be asking you to repay them. There is nobody left, neither you nor the person who had lent the money to you; all is finished. So whether you do good deeds or bad deeds does not matter. All that matters is: doing bad...

... had a Ph.D. from Delhi university and could have been on any good post; he had all the qualifications. He had a beautiful personality, very impressive. He needed that impressive personality, some charisma around him, because he lived by borrowing. He would go on moving from one place to another place because he said, "The world is so large, and there are millions of people hoarding money...

... unnecessarily. If I can manage to unburden them a little bit, I don't think that I am committing any sin." And he was capable of persuading people to give him money. He was a good card player, really the best I have seen. He was a good chess player, a very good hand reader, a palmist; he had accumulated enough astrological knowledge to befool anybody. All these things helped him to find friends anywhere...

.... If he was in the train, just sitting by your side, within five minutes you would be giving money to him. Within five minutes, his just sitting by your side was enough. He would look at your hand and say, "My God! You are still not married?" You would be immediately impressed, and you would say, "Do you know how to read palms?" He would say, "That's all I know," and...

... persuade many kinds of people within minutes; and if you started talking to him, you were finished, your pockets would soon be empty. And he had so many friends; anybody would like to be his friend, he was such a charming person. He used, once in a while, to stay with me, although he could never manage to borrow money from me because I had no money at all. In fact what used to happen - I used to borrow...

... money from him. He would say, "This is too much, that's why I don't come to you so often. But once in a while I start missing you. Just going on cheating the fools, I start missing you - the one person I cannot cheat. "But I come only to you when I have enough money because I know you don't have any money. You will take me to a hotel and order everything and then the bill will come, and you...

... will say, 'Daya'" - his name was Daya - "'pay the bill!' So when I have enough money, then I gather courage to come to you. And I cannot influence you because you know all my tricks, and all the things that I manage to predict about people." But I said, "How long are you going to do this?" He said, "How long am I going to live? Forty years I have lived; at the most I...

... knew that he was going to borrow money. In the middle of the game, when no chess player wants to stop - even if the house is on fire, no real chess player wants to stop in the middle - in the middle he would say, "Ten rupees? - because I am in immense need; otherwise, I cannot play the game." And you had to give it to him because you had to finish the game, the game was coming to such a...

... garlands and just go on putting them on - I would be covered up to my eyes. At that time, Daya was going to catch the train I was getting out of He saw me and just told his porter, "Now I am not going." He came to me and said, "i am coming with you. So many garlands.... You may not have any money but the people who are with you do." I said, "But you have got a ticket and you were...

.... So he said, "We have all the books. Perhaps you are right; he is a fool. Three years he has wasted, and he has published it with his own money. No publisher was ready to publish it,'Because,' they said,'the country is clearly divided; there are no neutral people available, so who is going to purchase the book?' He published it with his own money and now he is sitting on the whole lot." I...

...: not only are you a slave to your desires, your thoughts, your feelings, your instincts, but you become slaves to the priests. More slavery happens out of your mock religions, and nothing changes in you. I have heard, once it happened: Mulla Nasruddin was very much hounded by his creditors. He had taken much money from many people, and there was no way to get rid of them. So he asked his lawyer, and...

... is no death to it." If you feel too guilty, he gives you means and ways to feel guilt-free. He says, "Donate some money to the temple, donate some money to the church. Donation is good, because that is how you negate your sins, through donation. Do something good: make a hospital, a school, go and serve the masses, the poor, the downtrodden, the ill." These are the ways to console...

... you a feeling that you are good, but this is only a feeling. Because you have been bad you are just trying to balance the account; but you remain the same, the same cunning mind, thinking in terms of mathematics, balancing, calculation. What change has happened in you? The money was important before, the money is still important now. It was important, that's why you accumulated it; it is important...

..., that's why you donate it. Before, you felt you were doing a very good, successful job of it, accumulating, because it was the most significant thing - you were money-obsessed. Still you are money-obsessed: you are giving, and still you think that you are serving people by giving them money, but money remains meaningful. It has changed: from positive, the greed has become negative. But you have not...

... miser accumulates money, the society is against him; the negative miser donates, the society is for him - but the miser is the same. Mulla Nasruddin died, and just six months later his wife was dying. And they were the most miserly couple in the valley. The wife called a neighbor, a woman, and told her, "Listen to me, Rehama, you have to bury me in my black silk dress. But the material is costly...

... accumulating money." Your sex says, "Go on indulging in sex." But then there is a problem because there is conflict. If you indulge too much in sex you cannot accumulate money. Misers are always anti-sexual, they have to be, because the same energy has to be converted into accumulating money. Misers are not lovers, they are very anti-sexual. And people who indulge in sex can never accumulate...

... money, difficult. Even if their forefathers did, they will throw it away, they will find ways to throw it away. One desire says, "Accumulate money, because money means security. Who is going to help you in your old age? Have a bank balance, that is protection." And then sex says, "But life is going, why think about old age? Your youth is being wasted, go and indulge before the moment is...

... people are nothing but beggars. Inside their being there is nothing but darkness, not even a small flame of light - their whole life is without love. At the most they pretend to be loving, but their activities in life destroy their lovingness. A man who is greedy for money cannot be loving, because the greed for love is possible only if you drop the very idea of compassion. The more money you have...

...... somebody, somewhere must be becoming poorer. You have to keep yourself completely closed about the poverty that you are creating by accumulating money. How can you love your own children? How can you love your own wife? You love only money. A man of greed is bound to become loveless; he loses all juice, he becomes dry. Man is not a machine. And I am not saying that you should not be creative; I am saying...

.... Beauty is very fragile, and anyway one day she will become old and beauty will become only a long-away forgotten dream. Be practical and be pragmatic, marry the ugly woman. She has money, and money can do anything in the world. Money is the greatest miracle invented by man. As far as her ugliness is concerned, for that much money it can be tolerated. And anyway, always come home late - when it is dark...

..., whether the woman is beautiful or ugly makes no difference. And always remember that you can take her to a plastic surgeon, but don't forget money." The people who are continuously concerned about being practical, pragmatic, are the lowest kind of human beings. The highest kind of human beings are very impractical, unpragmatic. And the mystics, the poets, the philosophers, the people who have...

... make money out of them. They themselves intrinsically are so blissful that only a very few people have moved in the direction of these purposeless values. But these are the only real people; they are the very salt of the earth. The others are only wanderers in dreams. Their money, their respectability, their power, their position... all will be taken away before death. But your love, your silence...