... at any price. What you will do with a desert? We purchased it, knowingly that it is going to be a great challenge. But to accept challenges has been one of my loves. We accepted the challenge, and jumped into the unknown. Our people worked as hard as people may never have worked anywhere - twelve hours, fourteen hours, sometimes sixteen hours. We poured as much money as our people could manage...

... these people have managed a kind of utopia, the politicians, the priests, became afraid. What you have been doing for thousands of years, if in four years these people can turn the desert - you have beautiful land, you have all the power and all the money, and all that you create is a miserable, suffering humanity. This comparison is intolerable. They wanted to destroy it at any cost; and they...

... had to write his whole life about communism, Soviet Russia has been for seventy years trying to bring it - it does not come. The country is still poor; and I managed it by a simple thing. I simply stopped money circulation in the commune. There is no need to destroy the rich; there is no need to bring a dictatorship of the proletariat. We simply stopped money circulation in the commune. And if money...

... circulation is stopped, you may have millions of dollars and I may have none; but if the money is not used, who is rich and who is poor? And everything that you need will be given by the commune; and we had everything - the hospital, the school, the university. We made the desert yield enough crops for five thousand people - vegetables, fruits, milk products. And for the first time I tried an experiment...

... been committed. Innocence cannot be proved. Only guilt can be proved or disproved. You have not been able to prove any crime, but still the U.S. Attorney wanted - six other my sannyasins were with me, he was willing to bail them out - but he insisted that my bail should be given in Oregon, because I am a dangerous man. I have unaccountable sources of money, and I have thousands of friends who can do...

... anything for me. These were my crimes, that was I cannot be bailed out; that I have thousands of friends, that they can do anything for me, that I have unaccountable money sources. So it is better that I should be sent back under police custody to Oregon, and in Oregon court we should decide about the bail. If there has been any fair-minded judge, he could have seen that these are not crimes. That means...

... government gives every Red Indian certain pension, and no work. So all that they do, they gamble, they drink, and they produce children, because the more children they have the more pensions they will be having. "And they are no more interested in any liberty, any freedom. Why they should be? Because without work you get money, enough money, more than you can get by employment; and they all have...

.... Taunting her that she was too humble to be observed by so great a scholar. Prov. XII, 10. Who shared his wealth with him. It contained money. [H] < [H], a stem, trunk: Rashi translates: a ship's coffer, from [H] to hide, and [H], treasure. [Lit., 'make this a tarrying place' (Goldschmidt); or 'Let our master make this (a tarrying place)', Rashi.] 'Aruch translates: Ishmaelite traders. The phrase is...

... missing in 'En Jacob and unnoticed by the commentaries, and is obviously a corrupt dittography of [H] (Jast.) A large sum of money was once needed for the school house. R. Akiba borrowed it from a matron, and at her request gave the Almighty and the sea as sureties for its punctual repayment. But when the money fell due, R. Akiba was unwell. Thereupon the matron stood at the edge of the sea did...

... exclaimed, 'Sovereign of the Universe! Thou knowest that to Thee and to the sea have I entrusted my money'. In reply, He inspired the Emperor's daughter with a mad fit, in the course of which she threw a chest full of treasures into the sea, which was washed up at the matron's feet. On his recovery, he brought her the money, with apologies for the delay: but she told him what had happened, and sent him...

... OF ALL. WHO ARE THEY TO CURE OTHER PEOPLE'S ABNORMALITY? YOU HAD BETTER GO STRAIGHT HOME INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR MONEY.' Tao is a unique vision. It is a vision, mind you, a DARSHANA, it is not a philosophy. It is a clarity, a transparency, but not an ideology. It does not propose any system of thought - it does not propose anything at all. It neither proposes anything, nor supposes anything. It is...

... is normal, because whatsoever you call the growing-up process is the process of turning people abnormal. For example: a man is obsessed with money; he is abnormal. Why should one be obsessed with money? You cannot eat it, you cannot love it, you cannot be loved by it. It cannot give you life, it cannot give you beauty, it cannot give you joy. But there are millions of people who are madly in love...

... with money - money is their God, their only God. Now these are abnormal people. Once this abnormality settles then there arises another abnormality: a few people renounce money and become great mahatmas. First these mad people are obsessed with money, then a new obsession arises from that obsession - they become obsessed with the fear of money. If you take money to Vinoba Bhave he will not touch it...

.... Now what is wrong in touching money? A poor currency note is just paper - why are you so afraid of touching it? There is some deep fear. And fear is nothing but lust standing on its head; deep down there is still some desire. The fear is that, 'If I touch the money I may again become interested in it.' A man who is free of money will use the money and he will not be obsessed either way, for or...

... against. He will live in the world, he will not renounce the world there is 11o need. You cannot drop out of one madness by creating another - you are simply changing your madness. Your so-called money-mad people are mad and your mahatmas are just at the other extreme of the same madness. They are not different. Somebody who is mad after prestige, power, pull, is abnormal. Sitting on a very high chair...

... with yourself? Everything has become upside down. You are living for the non-essential and you have forgotten the essential. You are living for things, and things will be taken away when death comes. Money, power, prestige - nothing is going to be with you when death comes. Only that person lives who lives in such a way that death cannot destroy anything; who creates his inner being in such a way...

... he was mad while he ruled Germany. Politicians, power-addicted people, money-mad people - nobody thinks that they are mad. But if somebody sitting under a tree starts laughing for no reason at all you think he is mad. He is not doing any harm to anybody. And he may have some reason to laugh which may not be apparent to you. And, finally, what is WRONG if somebody laughs without any reason? Why is a...

... inner, both. WHO ARE THEY TO CURE OTHER PEOPLE'S ABNORMALITY? YOU HAD BETTER GO STRAIGHT HOME INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR MONEY. Look at this advice. You may not be able to understand immediately, but the message is very simple. The message is: don't interfere. The message is: don't judge. The message is: you are nobody to change somebody else. That is not your responsibility. You are not meant to do that...

..., the chancellor of the university left. The woman who had collected thirty-three million dollars -- the initial money that started the commune, she had to leave, she forced her to leave because she took all power from her hands. It was so insulting that she has to leave. Slowly slowly she has dropped all the people who could be suspected to go against her. So naturally the people who had left were...

... HER. A:* No. It is the same Sheela. What happened was just whatever she was carrying in her unconscious -- she may not have been aware, when she got the opportunity.... She was just a waitress, and now she got millions of dollars in her hands. Her old secretary's letter yesterday has come that she had opened a private account in Switzerland in her own name. The money that was to come here slowly she...

... that she started saving little bits in Switzerland, money that was coming from Europe, so she started accumulating her own account there. Her old secretary's letter yesterday informed me that she has accumulated forty-three million dollars. Q:* FORTY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS SHE HAS? A:* Yes. Q:* -- OF MONEY THAT BELONGS TO THE COMMUNE? A:* That belongs to the commune, that should have come here. Q...

... stories that it seems just unbelievable. They have bugged even my room. And they have bugged the whole hotel. They have bugged every house they suspected that there are people who may be one day not be with them. Q:* BHAGWAN, WAS THE REASON FOR THIS TO STEAL MONEY? IS THAT AT THE BASE OF IT? DID THEY WANT TO TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN? A:* No, not only that because money was already there and nobody knows...

..., and nobody knew. This letter has come yesterday... (Interruption for tape change) The money they had already got there in their own name, and here they were doing all these crimes to keep the whole commune under their control. And because I started speaking, two things happened. One, Sheela lost her big ego that she has accumulated in three and a half years, she lost her face on the television...

... more now getting nourishment for your ego.'" Q:* BHAGWAN, DID, DID SHE AND HER GANG STEAL SO MUCH MONEY FROM THE COMMUNE THAT THE COMMUNE COULD BE IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY? A:* No, the commune can never be in financial difficulty. We have one million sannyasins around the world. And my sannyasins are all rich, all intelligent, all professional people. There is no problem: just a word from me and...

... your safety, if in any case you have to leave America, then we should keep some money there." But I said, "If it was for my sake, at least I should be made aware of it. And how much money is there? I should be made aware of it. What is the number of your bank account? What bank it is? I don't know anything; you have never told me." She said, "Tomorrow I will be bringing every...

... telling me. I was silent. I had no idea. Sheela has simply informed me only one thing: that they have surplus money out of the annual festival, so they want to do some humanitarian job, that's why she is bringing these people. I said, "If it is a humanitarian job, perfectly good, do it." Now, as I have started speaking, people have revealed to me that it was not humanitarian, it was just the...

... NARCOTICS AMONG YOUR SANNYASINS, DRUGS, SPECIFICALLY THE DRUG ECSTASY. AND SHE GOES ON TO CHARGE THAT WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE, SANNYASINS WERE INDUCED TO SIGN OVER MONEY AND BELONGINGS WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS. A:* I know ecstasy, but ecstasy can be a drug I am hearing for the first time. I have never heard before even the name, and I was in silence and isolation for three-and-a-half years. I was...

... people have been drugged to take money from them, then it must be she. Because all the money that the commune has received has come from donations far away -- from Europe, Asia, Australia. And she has stolen forty- three million dollars out of that money. Perhaps she has been drugging people and taking the money to Switzerland. Q:* SHE SAYS THAT YOU THREW TEMPER TANTRUMS AND WOULD THREATEN TO COMMIT...

... Bulletin, July 27, 1935). 408 "The Rothschilds introduced the rule of money into European politics. The Rothschilds were the servants of money who undertook the reconstruction of the world as an image of money and its functions. Money and the employment of wealth have become the law of European life; we no longer have nations, but economic provinces." (New York Times, Professor Wilhelm, a German...

... this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law, would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout the world. Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by...

... National Bank in the City of New York... Awaiting your reply, we are." (Rothschild Brothers. London, June 25, 1863. Famous Quotes On Money). In reply to the above letter Messrs. Ikelheimer, Morton and Vandergould replied: Dear Sirs: 'We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of June 25th, in which you refer to a communication received from Honorable John Sherman, of Ohio, with reference to the...

... Wise and Nahum Goldman are sitting there discussing what order they should give the President of the United States. Just imagine what amount of money the Nazis would pay to obtain a photo of this scene.' We began to stammer to the effect that there was an urgent message from Europe to be discussed by us, which Rosenman would submit to him on Monday. Roosevelt dismissed him with the words: 'This is...

..., the people as a whole fall into financial slavery to them... " (The Siege, p. 38) 449 "The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings... He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of... every enterprise that will...

... law had to step in to save the Christian from the poor-house. Still, almost bereft of employments, he found ways to make money. Even to get rich. This history has a most sordid and practical commercial look. Religious prejudices may account for one part of it, bit not for the other nine. Protestants have persecuted Catholics - but they did not take their livelihoods away from them. Catholics have...

... persecuted Protestants - bit they never closed agriculture and the handicrafts against them. I feel convinced that the Crucifixion has not much to do with the world's attitude toward the Jew; that the reasons for it are much older than that event ... I am convinced that the persecution of the Jew is not in any large degree due to religious prejudice. No, the Jew is a money-getter. He made it the end and...

... in Music) 848 SOMBART, WERNER. 20th century German economist: "Capitalism was born from the money loan. Money lending contains the root idea of capitalism. "Turn to the pages of the TALMUD and you will find that the Jews made an art of lending money. "They were taught early to look for their chief happiness in the possession of money. They fathomed all the secrets that lay hid in money. They became...

... Lords of Money and Lords of the World... 849 FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 20th century American novelist: "Down a tall busy street he read a dozen Jewish names on a line of stores; in the door of each stood a dark little man watching the passers from intent eyes - eyes gleaming with suspicion, with pride, with clarity, with cupidity, with comprehension. New York - he could not dissociate it from the slow...

..." just as the more intellectual youngster from a higher grade of society who listens to a Jewish "liberal" expound "sex liberty" and the "control of population" is getting his. The looseness which inheres in these "principles and theories" does not emanate from the Gentile home, or the Gentile church, or from any line of money-making which is filled...

... principally with Gentiles, but from theories, movements and lines of money-making mostly fancied by Jews. This line of accusation could be run much deeper, but it is preferred to restrict it to what is observable by decent eyes everywhere. And that "the youth of the Gentiles" are the principal victims, and not the youth of the Jews, is also observable. While a certain percentage of Jewish youth...

... youth. Many a father and mother, many a sound-minded, uncorrupted young person, and thousands of teachers and publicists have cried out against luxury. Many a financier, observing the manner in which the people earned and flung away their money, has warned against luxury. Many an economist, knowing that the nonessential industries were consuming men and materials that were necessary to the stabilizing...

... experience and deliberate intent enable it to frivolize the people's minds and tastes and compel them to pay most of their money for it too? Why this spasm of luxury and extravagance through which we have just passed? How did it occur that before luxury and extravagance were apparent, all the material to provoke and inflame them had been prepared beforehand and shipped beforehand, ready for the stampede...

... — if, in short, it could be made clear to them that Jewish financial interests are not only pandering to the loosest elements in human nature, but actually engaged in a calculated effort to render them loose in the first place and keep them loose — it would do more than anything else to stop this sixfold waste — the waste of material, the waste of labor, the waste of Gentile money...

... capital, and in this instance, thanks to the Gentile majority, the Gentiles won. The amusement, gambling, jazz song, scarlet fiction, side show, cheap-dear fashions, flashy jewelry, and every other activity that lived by reason of an invisible pressure upon the people, and that exchanged the most useless of commodities for the prices that would just exhaust the people's money surplus and no more &mdash...

...; every such activity has been under the mastery of the Jews. They may not be conscious of their participation in any wholesale demoralization of the people. They may only be conscious of "easy money." They may sometimes yield to surprise as they contrast the silly Gentiles with their own money-wise and fabric-wise and metal-wise Jews. But however this may be, there is the conception of a...

... impossible to decide so he asked a very old aged man, his old advisor, what to do. The old advisor said, 'I will do a sort of a test.' He called all the three boys and gave to each a palace and a certain amount of money, a very small amount of money, and told them, 'With this amount of money you have to fill your palace completely; it should not be empty.' It was difficult. The palaces were very big and...

... the money was only a very small amount. The first young man thought and thought and brooded. It was impossible to fill that empty palace with such a small amount of money! He could not get any furniture; even curtains were not possible. Paintings, chandeliers, impossible; so what to do? He could only think of one thing - that rubbish could be used with that amount of money. So he filled the whole...

... palace with rubbish, because the man had not said with what to fill it but just that it should be full. So he said, 'Perfectly logical.' The second boy thought very much but could not find a way. Up to the last moment he thought and contemplated but it was impossible. He was not ready to fill it with rubbish and there was no other thing that could be purchased with that amount of money, so the palace...

... because the condition was fulfilled - the man had filled his house - but with rubbish. The second was a failure because the house was empty and full of darkness because the boy had not been able to decide what to do. The third was chosen as the successor because with such a small amount of money he managed to fill the house - and not only to fill it; it was overfull, flowing. Light was going outside on...

... [ANYTHING] YOU WOULD HAVE RECOVERED IT WHEN YOU SOLD ME THE FIELD'.3  THE SAGES, HOWEVER, SAY; THIS [SELLER] MAY HAVE BEEN A PRUDENT MAN, SINCE HE MAY HAVE SOLD HIM THE LAND IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO TAKE IT FROM HIM AS A PLEDGE.4 GEMARA. What is the reason of the Rabbis? Does not Admon speak well? — Where [the purchase] money is paid first and the deed is written afterwards, no one disputes that...

... the [defendant] may well say [to the claimant], 'You should have recovered your debt when you sold me the field'.3  They only differ where the deed is written first and the purchase money is paid afterwards. Admon is of the opinion that [the claimant] should have made a declaration [of his motive],5  while the Rabbis6  maintain [that the claimant can retort,] 'Your friend has a friend...

..., and the friend of your friend has a friend'.7 MISHNAH. IF TWO MEN PRODUCED BONDS OF INDEBTEDNESS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER,8  ADMON RULED; [THE HOLDER OF THE LATER BOND CAN SAY TO THE OTHER,] 'HAD I OWED YOU [ANY MONEY] HOW IS IT THAT YOU BORROWED FROM ME?'9  THE SAGES, HOWEVER, RULED: THE ONE RECOVERS HIS DEBT10  AND THE OTHER RECOVERS HIS DEBT.11 GEMARA. It was stated: If two men produced...

... bonds of indebtedness against one another, R. Nahman ruled: The one recovers his debt and the other recovers his debt.12  R. Shesheth said: What is the point13  in exchanging bags?14  The one rather retains his own [money]15  and the other retains his. All agree16  that if both [litigants possess land of the] best,17  medium or worst quality [distraint for each on the...

... period often, and the other for one of five years.37  But how exactly are we to understand this? If it be suggested that the first [bond]38  was for ten years and the second for five, would Admon [it may be objected] have ruled [that the second can say to the first:] 'HAD OWED YOU [ANY MONEY] HOW IS IT THAT YOU BORROWED FROM ME?' The time for payment39  surely, had not yet arrived.40...

... Admon's reason? — [This ruling was] required [in that case] only where [the holder of the earlier bond]42  came [to borrow] on the day on which the five years had terminated.43  The Masters44  are of the opinion that it is usual to borrow money for one day45  and the Master46  is of the opinion that one does not borrow money for one day.47 Rama b. Mama explained: We are...

... that both bonds are valid. Admon. Hence the admissibility of the plea, 'HAD I OWED YOU etc' In our Mishnah. Who inherited it from their father. If they possessed no landed property. Orphans' movables may not be distrained on. Not merely, 'is entitled to recover etc. Cf. supra n. 12 mutatis mutandis. Which someone owed him. To whom their father owed money. Supra 92a, Pes. 31a, B.B. 125a. So cur. edd...

... they are called, 'A presumptuous Beth din!'6 — No, for the document referred to7  stated: 'The Beth din of Rabbana Ashi.'8  But perhaps the Rabbis of Rabbana Ashi's academy agreed with Samuel?9  — There was written therein, 'Rabbana Ashi told us [to write the document].10  ' Our Rabbis taught: If a man says to them:11  'I saw your father hiding money, [say,] in a...

... value. If they [the heirs] saw their father hide money in a strong box, chest or store-room, saying, 'It belongs to so and so,' or 'It is for the payment of the second tithe': if it [his statement] was by way of giving directions, his words stand; but if it was in the nature of an evasion,15  his statement is of no value. If one felt distressed over some money which his father had left him,16...

... his statement by some ulterior motive, e.g., the desire to serve someone's interests; for had he wished, he himself could have handed over the amount to whomever he wished. I.e., as though he purposely told them this, so that they might not use it, or that they might not realise his wealth and indulge in extravagance. And which he suspected to be tithe-money, but was unable to trace the amount. Or...

..., 'The Master of Dreams', which merely represents the personification of the dream. Lit., 'neither raise nor lower'. Hence the money might be used for secular purposes. Cf. Tosef., M. Sh. V. I.e., in a case of disagreement. C. supra 6a; and infra 33a with reference to the liability of judges to compensate in cases of misjudgment. Irrespective of whether there has been disagreement or not. For without...

..., 'Out of a white bag.' But if one declares, 'The money was old,'31 and the other says, 'The money was new,'32 their testimonies cannot be combined. But in criminal cases, are not testimonies combined where there are differences such as over the colour of a bag? Did not R. Hisda say: 'If one testifies that it [sc. the murder] was with a sword, and the other maintains, it was with a dagger, it is not...

... necessary to establish puberty, but to half a fact. Moreover, that half fact (i.e., a single hair in a particular place) is attested by only half the necessary testimony — one witness instead of two. Whereas in the other cases under discussion each witness testifies to a whole fact, e.g., that A lent money to B. Who holds that successive evidence cannot be combined in the case of movable property...