... renounce power. Money too is power, but nothing compared to knowledge - because money can be robbed: the government can change, communists can come, money can be distributed. You cannot rely on the money; the bank can go broke. But knowledge is more secure: no government can take it away, no change of politics can take it away, nobody can rob you of it, and you cannot go so easily bankrupt. Knowledge...

... seems to be more secure. And any day, if you have knowledge, you can produce money - not otherwise. Knowledge can bring money, not otherwise. Money may not be able to bring knowledge, so knowledge is more of a richness, a greater wealth, more powerful - and the subtlest possession inside. The ego feels very good: "I know." That's why it is one of the most difficult things to recognize that...

... countries have come to a point where they are free of poverty, of all the ugliness that comes through poverty and all the limitation that poverty brings. They are free. But the moment they become free, they start feeling meaningless. Poor persons are not so aware of meaninglessness. Because they have to earn money, there is meaning; they have to send their children to the university, there is meaning...

...; they are going to make a good house somewhere in the future, they are accumulating, by and by, a little money for it, they will have an Ambassador car someday; there is meaning. One day suddenly you have all: a good life, good clothes, good food. Then meaning disappears. A poor man always seems hopeful. You can always see a glimpse of hope in the eyes of a beggar. But rich men's eyes become dim, dull...

..., that you are tremendously interested. You are interested only in the money that he is going to pay. But the patient feels very good: "Here is somebody who listens so attentively." There is a great desire in human beings that somebody should listen to their miseries. It unburdens them, and it gives them a feeling that somebody loves, cares. That's why you go on talking about miseries...

... SIGNS OF MOVEMENT DIFFERENT ENERGY STATES, TELEPATHIC HAPPENINGS, EVEN NEW GRAY HAIRS WILL DO. SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM, YES. BUT WHAT TO DO? The mind is always hankering. The mind is nothing but hankering, desiring something to happen. Sometimes it is thinking about money, to have more money, to have bigger houses, to have more respectability, to have more political power. Then you turn towards...

... about love, this man is talking about compassion, kindness and he is not compassionate to the poor fig tree. And anybody cursing a tree, what do you think about him? If I call him a crackpot, nothing is wrong in it. he was absolutely insane. He interfered with people's ways of life. For example, in the temple of Jerusalem where money changers have been doing that kind of business for centuries, since...

... the time of Moses when the temple was built. And in fact those money changers were of tremendous help to the land and to the people, because with all the donations that came to the temple, those money changers were giving loans to poor people on a very nominal interest. And Jesus goes and throws their tables and pushes them with a whip out of the temple, and he says that this is my father's house...

... and I will not allow anybody to pollute it with money. Now this man has no proof that he is the son of God. There are many mad people around the world who think they are son of God, they are prophet, they are messiahs, and they are all in mental asylums. They also don't have any proof. What proof Jesus has? Any certificate from God, any, message stamped by God, signed by God? What proof he has got...

... God no one has ever seen, the people who can believe in hell and heaven no one has come back to give us a little detail about these places, are gullible. Any cunning person, a little articulate can declare himself a prophet and these people will believe him because believing is all that they know. And if he is the type of Jesus, so angry that he throws single-handedly all the money changers out of...

... should be immediately arrested and imprisoned. The governor is part in it. The attorney general is part in it. What these idiots were doing for two years? They were giving state support, money, everything to the city. What the federal government was doing? They were giving money to the city. And idiots can go in such a berserk way about everything, that I don't think they have given much. (To Sheela...

..., off mike:) How many dollars from the federal government have we received? SHEELA: ABOUT $32,000 LAST YEAR FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, I THINK IT'S ABOUT THAT MUCH. Bhagwan: That is nothing. I cannot even purchase one-third of a Rolls Royce. And these idiots are now asking the money back! In the first place they did wrong. They gave that money to a city which was not legal. They are responsible for it...

.... In the second place, they have guts to ask the money back. From whom? The city does not exist. You gave money to a non-existent city, so go and ask the holy ghost if he knows anything about it! Q: THE PRINCE OF HANOVER WAS ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SANNYASINS. HE WAS VERY ILL, AND THERE IS A RUMOR THAT YOU ASKED TO CUT THE OXYGEN TO SHORTEN HIS SUFFERING. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE TO DIE IN...

.... Life is not money, you don't spend it. Otherwise, one day you may go bankrupt. No, I live it and I live it intensely. Each moment of my life is a blessing. Whatever I am doing, I do it to the very climax. I don't believe in Gautam Buddha and his middle path. Gautam Buddha was teaching the middle path, I teach the extreme. If you are enjoying, what will be the middle path? 50/50? 50 percent enjoying...

... ARE A FOOL,' SAID THE RABBI OF ZANS. THEN HE RESUMED HIS POSITION AT THE WINDOW, CALLED ANOTHER PASSER-BY, AND PUT THE SAME QUESTION TO HIM. 'I AM NOT SUCH A FOOL AS TO GIVE UP A PURSE FULL OF MONEY THAT HAS COME MY WAY,' SAID THE MAN. 'YOU'RE A BAD LOT,' SAID THE RABBI OF ZANS, AND CALLED IN A THIRD MAN. HE REPLIED: - 'RABBI, HOW CAN I KNOW - ON WHAT RUNG I SHALL BE WHEN I FIND THE PURSE, OR...

... on the earth, and you find a purse full of ducats and gold and money, will it be immoral to keep it? Then the question of morality or immorality does not arise. If you are alone on the earth, can you be a thief? It is impossible - because to steal, you need somebody else to be there. To rob, you need somebody else to be there. If you are alone on the earth, you cannot be a thief, you cannot be a...

...: the greed hidden behind, the possessiveness, the ambition, the ego, the lust. You are a fool.' Who is a fool? - he who is not aware of himself. THEN HE RESUMED HIS POSITION AT THE WINDOW, CALLED ANOTHER PASSERBY, AND PUT THE SAME QUESTION TO HIM. 'I AM NOT SUCH A FOOL, AS TO GIVE UP A PURSE FULL OF MONEY THAT HAS COME MY WAY,' SAID THE MAN. The second man says: 'I am not a fool.' But his definition...

... of foolishness is totally different than the definition of the rabbi. And sometimes words deceive, because they are the same. The rabbi said to the first man: 'You are a fool because you are unaware of yourself.' The second man says: 'I AM NOT SUCH A FOOL, AS TO GIVE UP A PURSE FULL OF MONEY THAT HAS COME MY WAY.' Now, for this second man, foolishness has a totally different dimension and meaning...

.... He says: 'When you come across money, if you are wise, you will escape with it immediately so that nobody comes to know about it.' He is saying: 'I am not a fool. I am not a simpleton. And I am not deceived by all this moralistic nonsense that you must give it to the owner, that if it doesn't belong to you it is not yours, that you will suffer in hell. Or, if you give it, you will be rewarded in...

.... Indians are simply mad; they cling to money, to a house, to things. And, at the same time, they go on pretending and bragging that they are religious people: they don't believe in matter; they believe in God. They go on saying the whole world is illusion, but you cannot get a single pai out of them; it is impossible. Why has this happened? These are the two types. The first type is the image of the...

... Indian. The second type is the image of the westerner. The westerner knows that he is not a fool; if he gets the money, he will take it - it is simple. The Indian will say: 'No, I will not touch it.' But deep down he has already started to plan what to do if he gets the money. On the surface, one thing; deep down, another thing. That's the only difference between your so-called moral people and immoral...

... people. The moral people are hypocrites. 'I AM NOT SUCH A FOOL, AS TO GIVE UP A PURSE FULL OF MONEY THAT HAS COME MY WAY.' In a way, the second man is more sincere because he says the truth: 'I am not such a fool. I am not going to give that purse to anybody. If it has come my way, it is mine. And I am going to have it.' Maybe this looks immoral, but it is more sincere. And finally, sincerity helps...

... ecstatically: 'A great church has to be built here on this spot.' The people said: 'Good. Your dreams are good, but from where is the money to come?' Saint Theresa pulled two small coins from her bag, and said: 'Don't be afraid. Money I have got.' There were just two small coins! So the people laughed and said: 'We always knew that you are a little too innocent. These two small coins - you cannot purchase...

.... 'I AM NOT SUCH A FOOL AS TO GIVE UP A PURSE FULL OF MONEY THAT HAS COME MY WAY,' SAID THE MAN. 'YOU ARE A BAD LOT,' SAID THE RABBI OF ZANS, AND CALLED IN A THIRD MAN. HE REPLIED: 'RABBI, HOW CAN I KNOW ON WHAT RUNG I SHALL BE WHEN I FIND THE PURSE, OR WHETHER I SHALL SUCCEED IN FENDING OFF THE EVIL URGE? PERHAPS IT WILL GET THE BETTER OF ME, AND I SHALL APPROPRIATE WHAT BELONGS TO ANOTHER. BUT...

... prohibited for use of any kind and therefore the wage which came to him from it is likewise prohibited, behold 'orlah1  and the mixed plantings of a vineyard2  are prohibited for use of any kind and yet we have learnt: If he sold them and with the proceeds married a wife she is legally married!3  On the other hand, [should I answer that the reason is] because his money [which comes to him on...

... account of yen nesek] is affected as though it were an idolatrous object,4  behold the Sabbatical year affects the money [obtained from the sale of its produce] and yet we have learnt: If one said to a workman [in the Sabbatical year], 'Here is a denar and for it gather vegetables for me to-day,' his wage is prohibited;5  [but if he said,] 'Gather vegetables for me to-day,' his wage is...

... prepared as a libation to an idol, on the principle, 'Whatever you bring into being from a devoted thing is to be treated like it' (loc. cit.). [To use it after the time of 'removal', v. supra, p. 278 n. 5,] In the latter case he did not stipulate by his words that the money was given as payment for gathering the forbidden produce. But the point is, the workman may use the money he earned by performing...

... Austro-German Intrigue, by Joseph Goricar and Lyman Beecher Stowe, p. 96, Double day, Page & Company, New York 1920). 055 "Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion of the Russian Government into American money markets, and to this day stave them off. Think of it! Who, as I, have been foremost in the...

... past for agitation and insisted to the President of the United States; as some of you must know, that our treaty with Russia must be abrogated." (New York Times, June 5, 1916. Articles entitled, Jacob Schiff Quits Jewish Movements." 056 "Under the pressure of international finance the atmosphere in Europe became very congested. Instead of using the huge money resources for cultural purposes, the...

... office of Essen & Son in Luleo, receivers, and a person authorized to recieve the money demaned by Comrade Trotzky. - J. Furstenberg. (The German-Bolshevik Conspiracy, issued by The Committee on Public Information, Washington, D.C., p. 27, October, 1918. The documents as above quoted were never repudiated by the Disconto-Gesellschaft or the Rheinish-Westphalian Syndicate). 070 "It will be recalled...

... that Furstenberg, who also assumed the name of Ganetzky, together with his Jewish friend Rdek, alias Sobelsohn, became later prominent members of the Soviet Government. In March, 1917, Furstenberg took an active part in the 'defeatist' propaganda in Russia, and it was through his medium that part of the money contributed by the German-Jewish bankers to the leaders of the destruction of civilization...

... conclusion are given by the circumstances that the Russian revolutionaries are in possession of great quantities of arms which are imported from abroad, and of very considerable financial means, because there can be no doubt that the leaders of the revolution have already spent on our anti-government movement, the organization of all sorts of strikes included, large amounts of money. Since, however, it...

... must be acknowledged that such support given to the revolutionary movement by sending arms and money from abroak can hardly be ascribed to foreign governments (with very special exceptions, as, for instance, that of Sweden supporting the revolutionary movement in Finland, and of Austria which helped the Poles) one is bound to come to the conclusion that there are foreign capitalists' organizations...

... duly appreciated if we take into consideratikon that already in June, 1905, a special Antlo-Jewish committee of capitalists was openly established in England for the purpose of collecitn money for arming fighting groups of Russian Jews, and that the well-known anti-Russian publicist, Lucien Wolf, was the leading member of this committee. On the other hand, in view of the fact that the sad...

... necessary formally to distinguish between the two purposes, collect money for helping the pogrom sufferers and for arming the Jewish youth.'" (The World At The Cross Roads, Boris Brasol, pp. 73-76). 072 On the fifteenth day of March, 1917, Emperor Nicholas II abdicated from the Russian throne for himself and for his son. Six days later the following Army Order No. 371 was issued by General Alexeev, Chief...

... its consequences; an ever expanding industrial and urban population, free commercial exploitation by all and sundry middlemen, usurers, Jews; and the translations of all values into money-values, by which alone can be realized that ideal of personal equality, dad-levelness and compulsory mediocrity in which she glories under the name of Liberalism and Democracy. Can England with her tradition of...

... chaotic conditions in our lives that we then welcome massive regulation, police restraints and New World Order socialist oppression just to get order again; forget morality or social ethics, productivity or national focus. Consider the raw source of energy and money for the pro-abortion and homosexual lifestyle movements, the illegal immigration madness, loss of personal heritage identity, multi...

...-cultural disarray and the move to make our precious English subordinate to the first choice of everyone's original homeland language. These are funded, not by the grassroots but by single source money ... given in every case to reduce our influential Christian nation to helplessness; Babylonians filled with hate for the Christian people who bade them welcome, spending enormous effort and endless dollars...

... it around the world, wherever money is to be made or counties subverted. Note their demand for U.N. (American) troops to clear away the enemy which surrounds their homeland and as stalking horses for their political influence thought the world. From the Pentagon, State, Presidency or the United Nations, their influence and numbers overwhelm any possible opposition and America increasingly does what...

... funds of propaganda and money are expended to take from us our last hope of freedom; the Second Amendment and our guns. And 90% of Americans haven't a hint, a clue. So brainwashed are they that when push comes to shove, most of them will unknowingly side with this enemy. So we who perceive must do the work of thousands." (Ameirch Focus, Commentaries on America). 089 "Ambassador Henry Morgenthau...

... - thinking is thinking. The object does not make any difference. The only transformation happens when you drop thinking, when suddenly you are in a state of no- thought, no-mind. There are people who think about money, and people who think about power, and people who think about success; and there are people who think about God, prayer, meditation - but there is no difference at all. The object of thinking...

... does not change the process of thinking - let it sink deep into you - otherwise people simply go on changing their objects. If somebody is thinking of money we say he is a worldly man, and if somebody is thinking about God we say, "Look, what a religious man!" Both are worldly. The man who is thinking about God is also as afraid of no-thought, of aloneness, as the man who is thinking of...

... money; no difference at all. Your gods and your ghosts, all are created out of fear. The people you find in the temples and churches and mosques praying, bowing down to the statues they themselves have made, are not in prayer, they are simply trembling with fear. It is out of fear that they have created the temples, it is out of fear that they have created a God. God is their ultimate companion. They...

... that happens only to people who are ready to be alone. Aloneness brings you to your own divinity. Beware of the gods that you have created out of fear ! A story: Three men went up to a haunted house because they had heard there was a fortune there. The first man went in while the two others remained outside. He saw some money on a table and started to put the money in his pocket, when he heard a...

... voice say, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table !" The man ran out the back door. The second man entered because the first took so long. He also saw the money on the table. As he started to put the money in his pocket, a strange voice said, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table!" This man also fled out the back door. The...

... third man got tired of waiting, and he went inside. He saw the money. As he began to put the money in his pocket, a strange voice said, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table!" But instead of running away, the man said, "I am the ghost of Davy Crockett, and I will put the money in my pocket!" The ghost disappeared, and the man went out the front door a...

... [milweh]11  on interest [disqualifies the parties to the transaction]. Two witnesses testified against Bar Binithus. One said, 'He lent money on interest in my presence.' The other said, 'He lent me money on interest.' [In consequence,] Raba disqualified Bar Binithus [from acting as witness etc.]. But did not Raba himself rule: A borrower on interest is unfit to act as witness? Consequently he12 is...

... either [H] (lender) or [H] (loan). The witness who testified that he had borrowed money from Bar Binithus on interest. Ex. XXIII 1: this is not an exact quotation, but the general implication of the text. How, then, could the evidence of the latter be accepted? Its accepting the witness's evidence against Bar Binithus. Cf. supra 9b. Consequently, his evidence is valid only with regard to the accused...

... infrequent occurrence,21  or [that such appropriation was robbery only] judged by neighbourliness in general:22  but when it was seen that after all it was someone else's property23  that they seized,24  the Rabbis disqualified them. 'Those who compel a sale:' At first they thought, They do, in fact, pay money, and their pressure is incidental.25  But when they observed that they...

... Biblical sense, it was thought unnecessary to impose disqualification on its account. Though only by Rabbinical law, still, the ruling of the Rabbis was fully binding. And that it was greed for money that tempted them to transgress the laws. Yet perhaps the owners were willing to sell all the same. Without the owners' agreement to the sale. Because they allowed cattle to graze on other people's lands...

... [which is] in any case [due to him].]34  The other maneh [however] is money of doubtful ownership35  and is to be divided.36 And how is one to understand the Baraitha which teaches37  [that 'if] she gave birth to a male and a female, he only receives one maneh38  — Rabina replied: [This is possible] where [the promise of the sum of money was made by the father]. 'to him who...

... the same law applies also] to that which is not in the world!24 And let him reply to him [that] it25  [represents the view of] R. Johanan b. Beroka and [that] he holds the [same] opinion as R. Jose!26  Who can say that he27  holds such an opinion!28 Let him, then, reply to him [that our Mishnah speaks of the case] where [the money was offered by a husband] 'to him who would bring me...

.... i.e. that the sum of money spoken if in our Mishnah was not assigned to an embryo but promised by a husband to anyone who would report to him, on the confinement of his wife as to the sex of child (cf. supra). The question of an embryo's right of acquisition would consequently be outside the scope of our Mishnah: and R. Huna would accordingly be able to maintain, against R. Nahman's assumption, that...

... an embryo does not acquire possession. That our Mishnah deals with a promise to a stranger, and not with an assignment to an heir. Lit., 'he who will report to me'. Lit., 'an heir, what is his work'. A reporter on the birth of one's child could not possibly he described as heir At the time the father had assigned to him the sum of money. An embryo, however, as R. Huna stated, would not acquire...

... me.' I was once walking in the upper-market of Sepphoris when I came across one [of the disciples of Jesus the Nazarene]1  Jacob of Kefar-Sekaniah2  by name, who said to me: It is written in your Torah, Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot … into the house of the Lord thy God.3  May such money be applied to the erection of a retiring place for the High Priest?4 ...

... God'? — It means that he who only occupies himself with the study of the Torah is as if he had no God. But did he not occupy himself with acts of benevolence? Surely it has been taught: R. Eliezer b. Jacob says: One should not put his money into a charity-bag, unless it is supervised by a learned man such as R. Hanina b. Teradion!10  — He was indeed very trustworthy, but he did not...

... practise benevolence. But has it not been taught: He11  said to him [R. Jose b. Kisma]: I mistook Purim-money12  for ordinary charity money, so I distributed [of my own] to the poor!13  — He did indeed practise charity, but not as much as he might have done. When they brought up R. Eleazar b. Perata [for his trial] they asked him, 'Why have you been studying [the Torah] and why have...

... thee. II Chron. XV, 3. B.B. 10a. R. Han, b. Ter., who was a Charity-Treasurer. Money set aside for distribution among the poor for celebrating the Festival of Purim (v. Esther) which must not be applied by the recipient to any other purpose whatsoever. Having distributed the Purim Funds without specifying their purpose, he distributed his own money as Purim allowances. Infra 18a. The third charge...

... are seeking the good opinion of others, then you are in a very competitive madhouse. Many are doing the same. Whatsoever you do, you can never rely on it succeeding, and even if it succeeds, it brings nothing. It brings only more projects, more plans. If you earn money, by the time you have earned it the desire has arisen for more money, so you invest that money to earn more money and again you...

... invest and go on investing. By the time death arrives you have much money and an unlived life. And the second thing: happiness is not something that happens to you. It is already happening - you have just to be receptive. It is not that it happens sometimes and it doesn't happen sometimes. It is a decision on your part. Every morning when you get up, decide whether you want to be happy or unhappy today...