... a little change I can use it for my own purposes. First his exact statement: he says, "Proletariat" - his word for have-nots - "Proletariat of the world unite, and don't be afraid because you have nothing to lose except your chains." Moments come in history when a small group of people, cunning, clever, start exploiting the whole society. All the money goes on gathering on one...

... millions of people will change our old primitive animalistic ways. It will change our greed, and the day greed is gone there is no question of accumulating money. No revolution has been able to destroy greed; those who come in power become greedy. We have passed through a revolution just now in this country, and it is a very significant example to understand. The people who were leading the revolution in...

... the elders were in the jails, we suffered too because there was nobody to look after the children. There were only women and children left, and Indian women cannot be of much help. They cannot even come out into society; they are not capable of earning money. I know how difficult it was when all the elders of the family were thrown into jail. After the freedom I used to tease them, "Is this...

...; all you need is money. There is not a single individual in the whole country who is not a commodity in the marketplace; all you need is money. Everybody is purchasable - judges are purchasable, police commissioners are purchasable, politicians are purchasable. Even under the British rule this country has never known such corruption. What has the country gained? The rulers have changed, but what does...

... question, it is a revelation. Nancy Reagan had been looking over every paper fan in the pushcart, feeling them, holding them, waving them back and forth. Finally she bought the cheapest - a one-dollar fan. The next day she returned holding the fan which was ripped down the middle. "Look what is happening," she said to the shopkeeper. "I want my money back." The shopkeeper said, "...

... over their continent and we are paying them. For generations we have been paying them but to pay them salaries for no work is not humanitarian. What will they do with that money? They will get drunk; they will take drugs. They will gamble; they will fight, kill each other. What else do they have to do? Money comes without any effort. They will go on creating more and more children because with each...

... child comes more money. To give people money without work is to reduce them into drunkards, gamblers, murderers. You have taken their dignity. On the surface everything looks so whitewashed, clean. It can be claimed that you are giving them money because you are using their land. But the real purpose is to keep them drunk, fighting, gambling, rowdy, and to keep them in such a state that they never...

... owners of this country. Give it back to them. You have reduced them to such a situation that they cannot even struggle for freedom. They are doped, drugged. They are almost asleep. They cannot fight for freedom, they don't know what freedom is. And they don't want it either, because this is going so well: no work, and money is available; no work, and alcohol is available; no work, and all drugs are...

... that kind of torture is going to help spirituality? QUESTION: NO. SO THERE IS AN ECONOMIC IDEA HIDDEN BEHIND THE EXPERIMENT YOU ARE DOING HERE? LIKE PEOPLE COME, THEY INVEST EVERYTHING IN THE COMMUNE, THEY WORK ALL THE DAY; THERE IS NO MONEY GOING AROUND INSIDE THE COMMUNE AND IT'S QUITE DIFFICULT FOR THE PEOPLE OUTSIDE WHO ARE EARNING MONEY THEMSELVES TO UNDERSTAND THIS IDEA OF ECONOMY. CAN YOU...

... patients, for the old, for the sick. And money is no longer a problem -- money does not exist. This is a simple concept of a better society. And slowly, slowly, the whole world should be changed into communes. There is no need for nations, no need for states. Each commune should be an independent commune. No need for any hierarchy and bureaucracy; every commune should decide for itself. So we can...

.... German communes are flourishing, earning money, living comfortably, for the simple reason that people are not lazy. So what has been done -- I had suggested that those Italian communes were never going well and there were fights. And the money is not there, and every month the leader is changing, because the one who was taking care is tired, people don't listen. I have said to send Italian commune...

... have to think for something else: whether to have rockets which are going to the moon. Something else I will have to think about." Q: WHAT SHEELA HAS BEEN FOR YOU AND WHY SHE HAS BEHAVED LIKE THAT? A: Anybody would have behaved like that. Just ordinary unconscious mind finding an opportunity - millions of dollars, thousands of people ready to do anything, so much power, so much money - and she...

... conspiracy against her. Nobody was even bothering about. So what was the point? All that she was collecting - records and tapes, taping all the phones - but it was all meaningless. It is crime but it has not done any harm to us. She has tried to kill two persons. She failed, so no harm has happened. In the eyes of law she has committed grave crimes. She may have stolen money that was coming from European...

... to sixty million dollars she has... This is a big crime - in the eyes of law, not according to me. Because to me money means nothing. We will gather sixty million again, that is not a problem. And we are perfectly comfortably running. She has not stolen from here. It was coming here, we would have made few more roads, few more buildings which were necessary. But because she has stolen the money you...

... are not missing those buildings. You don't even know what those buildings were going to be. So we have not missed anything. And to me money is just meaningless. We can create money, there is no problem about it. So whatever she did, we will try to undo it. And whatever we cannot try to undo it is not much to be bothered about. I have not even talked even for a single moment... When you ask I answer...

...? What happened?" He said, "What happened? He sold me a plot that is now under fifteen feet of water! It has become a big lake. What am I going to do with it? I will kill that man. Otherwise, return my money." The owner said, "Don't be worried; you just sit down." He called his salesman. And the salesman said, "This is not a problem, you just come with me. I will solve it...

.... You need your money? You take your money with fifteen days' interest because I have better buyers ready." The man said, "What?" The salesman said, "Don't change your mind - you take your money with interest, and forget all about that land. It is such a beauty.... You can make a beautiful house on it after the rains, and when the rains come again you can make arrangements so that...

... the same kinds of things - go to Kaaba and everything is forgiven. Mohammedans are poor people, and they are poor because of their belief. They are against taking money on interest or giving money with interest. Now, the whole business depends on interest; they are bound to remain poor. And it is told to them that at least once in life you should go to Kaaba, and that's enough - going seven times...

... of the ego is in extremes. More, more, more... this is the ego's way of life. Ten thousand rupees should become one hundred thousand, one hundred thousand should become one million. More, more, more... ego lives in this insanity. The ego lives in extremes. And the extreme can be of anything, whether it's money or knowledge, power or renunciation - but more. One who has done a thirty day fast thinks...

... closed his eyes and thought. He was a thoughtful youth. He kept on sitting for about half an hour. Then he said, "No, then I would ask how can one live on air." Only on air, why even this nuisance of water? Such is the desire of the mind, the running of the ego - for more. What direction you run makes no difference. The ego lives in extremes, whether it is the extreme of money or renunciation...

... out of your being sick, and extremes are the secret of your being sick. I am also saying to my sannyasins, I give you the lesson of the veena strings of life - the middle. Be in the world as if you are not in the world. The world will not control you, nor is there any need to renounce it and escape. Neither become indulgent nor a yogi, stay in the middle. Don't run after money, nor renounce money...

... - I want to buy this, I want to buy that. And what is your embarrassment? The embarrassment is that in front of four persons you cannot say that I cannot buy it, I don't have the money, my pocket is empty, don't torture me. He is waiting for this opportunity to show you... Small children can easily push your buttons. Then when you are older you play on these buttons a little more subtly, a little...

... vow of silence, he doesn't speak directly." I said, "This is an additional problem. Now you have to go wherever he goes." He said, "Yes, I have to go. And Muni Maharaj never touches money either, I have to keep the money. If we take a rickshaw or taxi I have to give the money. He doesn't touch money." "But whose money is it?" I asked. "The money is his. People...

.... Looking at Picasso's paintings one is bound to be struck by the fact that there is some insane note in it. There are so many stories about Picasso... An American millionaire came to Picasso. He wanted two paintings and he wanted them immediately. And he was ready to pay any price - money was not the question. Picasso was a little puzzled because he had only one painting left. He asked such a price that...

... woman wanted him to paint her portrait; he did it. When she came, she looked at it and she said, "Everything is okay, only I don't like the nose. You will have to repaint the nose." Picasso said, "That is impossible." She said, "Why is it impossible? I am ready to pay for it. If you need more money for it I am ready to pay for it." He said, "Money is not the question...

.... I don't know where the nose is!" A man was looking for a wife. He asked an agent. The agent said, "I have a beautiful woman just for you, a very rich widow. Of course, she is a little older than you, but with so much money that I don't think you would like to miss the opportunity. And she is beautiful! Come along with me. I will show you the woman." The man went to see the woman...

..., twelve from the second and fifteen from the third." "Well," said the lady, "it seems you are not a nudist, you just have no time to dress!" Italians really have contributed great things to the world! A very shy painter met a beautiful Italian woman in a bar and asked if she would pose for him. She agreed if he would pay her one hundred dollars. So the painter borrowed money...

... from all his friends and set up the appointment. Once they were together he said, "Miss, what I would really like to do is to paint your portrait with bare breasts." She agreed for the price of two hundred dollars. So he sold everything he could and finally raised the money. When she came to his studio and posed with her breast exposed, he became so excited that he couldn't resist asking...

... her to pose entirely in the nude. She agreed, but asked for four hundred dollars. Desperate, he sold his favorite paintings and even his art supplies in order to raise the enormous sum of money. Finally she arrived at the studio and removed all of her clothes. The painter became so excited, he said. "Oh! The passion! I am dying with desire for you! What I really want is to make love with you...

... dimensions. One dimension is 'I-it': you -- your house, you -- your car, you -- your money; 'I-it'. When there is this 'I', this 'I' of 'I-it', your 'I' is almost like a thing. It is not consciousness; it is fast asleep, snoring. Your consciousness is not there. You are just like things, a thing amidst things: part of your house, part of your furniture, part of your money. Have you watched it? A man who is...

... too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He becomes just money. He loses spirituality, he is no more a spirit. He is reduced to a thing. If you love money, you will become like money. If you love your house, by and by you will become material. Whatsoever you love, you become. Love is alchemical. Never love the wrong thing, because it will transform you. Nothing is so...

...;He always wanted to have a Rolls Royce. And he has enough money, we have enough money; there is no need for him to suffer and repress an innocent desire. So at least we should bring a Rolls Royce to carry his body to the graveyard. In his life he missed, but at least in death he will have the Rolls Royce." The second boy said, "You are too young and you don't understand matters concerning...

... money. It is a sheer wastage. He is dead - whether you take him in a Rolls Royce or in a truck does not matter to him. He will not be able to know, so why waste money?" And it was not much money either, just to hire a Rolls Royce taxi. It was not a question of purchasing it. He said, "My suggestion is that a cheap truck will do as efficiently as any Rolls Royce - for the dead it makes no...

... are all extravagant, spendthrift." People may have money, and the money becomes their fetter. People may have prestige, and the prestige becomes their fetters. It seems the whole past of humanity has been improving on how to make better chains, but even if a chain is made of gold, it is still a chain. Freedom on the outside is just the politician's continuous deceiving of the whole humanity...

.... Cows are more respected, and human beings are not even that much respected. The woman was a queen, but she was a sudra. She had enough money. She could not go to any temple, although she was the queen. And the story is not very old, just one hundred years old. She made a beautiful temple in Dakshineshwar, near Calcutta, so that she could worship. But then a problem arose: no priest was willing to...

... untouchable. Even the statues of the gods are carved by untouchables - stonecutters - but those gods are not untouchables. And this woman had simply used her money... Now can you say because the money comes from an untouchable, it becomes untouchable? Money passes through thousands of hands. That's why it's other name is currency - it is always moving, it is a current. The notes that you have in your pocket...

... died." And I said, "Take one rupee. How many relatives do you have in all, the total?" He said, "What do you mean?" I said, "I can give you advance money. You let them die, because it is such a torture for you"... the poor man running home, coming back... again somebody will die.... "Your whole family is going to die today, so you just tell me the whole number...

... - how many people have you got still alive?" At that moment something happened in the man and he said, "No. I cannot take advance money. This is too much. This is too much, because I have been cheating people. Every day my wife dies. Today you have killed three of my people and now you are giving me the advance for everybody. No, that is too much. I cannot do that." And he asked me did...

... am showing my ugliness too - that just to get some money, every day I have to kill my people. No, I cannot take, and you please take these three rupees back. If you don't take it, I am not going to leave from here. You will have to take these three rupees back, because my wife is alive, my father is alive and my mother is alive." Then I said, "Take them just as a celebration because they...