..., an agony." The ignorant person understands this language of searching, he feels alright with it. He has been searching for everything - for money, for position, for prestige - so he says, "Fine, at least the search will continue; now I will search for religion instead of money." The ignorant person understands this language. Throughout this life, in fact many many lives, he has done...

... only one thing, searching; he has known only one profession: today search for this, tomorrow search for that. So he says, "Alright: before I searched for money, prestige and position; and you say there is no happiness in them - and I also experience that there is no happiness in them - so now I will search for your God. It fits." After he has begun the search, he will then be told later on...

..., "God cannot be reached; unless you give up all searching you cannot find him." Now he is in difficulty. He gave up his search for money, position and prestige because they were futile, and in the hope that he would now be searching for something meaningful he entered the search for God. And when he has come quite far in this search and cannot go back - now he cannot go back to the search for...

... money, that has all become meaningless, in fact that is why he turned in the direction of this new, meaningful search - his master tells him to give up all searching. First he gave up money, position and prestige, but he saved half of the coin - the search itself. He had renounced money, but saved the search. Money was on the outside, the search was inside. It was easy to give up that which was on the...

... carry the wound, you can still carry the hurt, and you can still feel unhappy about it: Why? Why did it happen to you? Why did the man insult you? And you have been doing so much good for him, and you have been always a help, always a friend - and he insulted you! You are playing with something that is no more. The yesterday is gone. Or you can be unhappy for tomorrow. Tomorrow your money will be...

... finished - then where are you going to stay? Where are you going to eat? Tomorrow your money will be finished! - then unhappiness enters in. Either it comes from yesterday, or it comes from tomorrow, but it is never herenow. Right this moment, in the now, unhappiness is impossible. If you have learnt this much, you can become a Buddha. Then nobody is hindering your path. Then you can forget all the...

... are completely at a loss what to do. Poor people are always certain about what to do: they have to earn money, they have to make a good house, they have to buy a car; they have to send their children to the university. They always have a programme waiting for them. They are occupied. They have a future. They have hope: some day or other.... They REMAIN in misery, but the hope is there. The rich man...

... healthy body, makes no difference. With more energy you will have more energy at your disposal to become unhappy - but you will become unhappy. What will you do with it? If you have more money, what are you going to do with it? - you will do that which you can do. And if a little money makes you so miserable, more money will make you more miserable. It is simple arithmetic. Buddha dropped all yoga. He...

... bodies in the search for truth, God, ecstasy, or whatsoever you call it. Millions of people have concluded that the body is the enemy. There is a certain logic in it. People think it is because of the body that you are in misery. People think it is because of the body that you have sexuality; it is because of the body that you have greed; it is because of the body that you need money; it is because of...

... person is always after something, trying to achieve - money, power, prestige. The sensitive person is simply alive herenow, enjoying the beauty that is available. When tomorrow comes then tomorrow will take care of itself. That's what Jesus means when he says, "Think not of the morrow." That's what Jesus says when he shows to his disciples the lilies in the field and says, "Look, how...

... THERE IS NO PERSONAL PROPERTY, NO MONEY. EVERYBODY GETS WHAT HE NEEDS, EVERYBODY WORKS OUT OF JOY AND CREATIVITY, AND FEELS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WHOLE, NO POLITICIANS, NO NATIONS, ETC. NEVERTHELESS, YOUR COMMUNE FEELS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM ANY MARXIST VISION. THE MARXISTS OF TODAY SEEM TO BE MORE AFRAID OF YOU THAN ANY OTHER PEOPLE. CAN YOU SAY A FEW WORDS TO THAT? A:* It is true. The Marxists have to...

.... A classless society because people have so much money that nobody wants to hoard it. For example, in a desert, if you have an oasis, you hoard it. You keep people on guard that nobody takes the water. The water is scarce. But when water is enough available, there is no question of hoarding it. You don't hoard water for tomorrow, because tomorrow the tap will be available. Money can be created, and...

... of wealth are gone. I would like money to be respected in the same way that any other art is respected. Wealth should not be condemned; in fact, we should encourage people to become wealthier. I would like a classless society which is totally rich. Marx's classless society is totally poor. I want it on the highest peak to be equal, and he wants people crawling on the earth to be equal. My commune...

... religion -- which was my inheritance, when I refused your party politics -- which was my inheritance, how can I accept your money, your house, your lands, your garden? That will be very insincere of me. So I cannot receive, because I have rejected everything and I receive only the money, I don't receive anything from you. Your love, your blessing is enough." So he had distributed the whole money. He...

... tremendous joy to discover every day that you are still here, with not a single cent. I must be the poorest man in the whole world. Q:* YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE! A:* I live like an emperor, because what a poor man can lose? I live like an emperor -- even an emperor is worried about losing land, money, this and that -- I don't have anything, so I can live as no emperor has ever lived -- without any anxiety. But...

... one suffer. Another ancient story... A woman loved her husband, but the husband never paid any attention to her. He was in love with a prostitute, knowing perfectly well that prostitutes don't love -- because there were many other customers. He was only a customer, not a lover. And in his life he had seen that the day the customer's money is finished, the prostitute's door is closed for that man. He...

... had destroyed his health, he had destroyed his money, now he was dying. Just as he was dying, his wife asked him, "If you have any last wish so that you can die contented..." He said, "Yes, I have a wish, but I am ashamed to say it to you." She said, "Don't be ashamed. This is not the time to be ashamed. I love you as you are -- there is no question of feeling ashamed."...

...; He said, "My only wish is to see the prostitute just once more before I die." The woman said, "There is no problem." He had lost all their money, there was no money in the house. She had to carry the dying man on her shoulders to the prostitute's house. She knocked on the door. The prostitute opened the door and could not believe it. She said, "Am I hallucinating? Is this...

... real? You are the wife of the man..." The wife said, "Yes, I am the wife and also the lover of the man." The prostitute said, "Then why have you brought him here? He destroyed your life, he spent all your money and he was mad after me. And to me, once the money is finished, all relationship is finished. He was only a customer. This is a marketplace and he knows it. You are a...

... enlightened, he would have been worshipped like an emperor. People had always touched his feet. He was always great and beyond them. When he moved amidst the people and renounced his kingdom, he became even greater because he had renounced his kingdom. People can understand the language of money and they cannot understand any other language. They worship you if you have money, they worship you if you...

... renounce money. But they understand only one language the language of money. If you don't have anything, they don't bother about you. And if you don't have anything how can you renounce, what can you renounce? This is one of the most important things to understand about the Indian mind, the so-called Indian religious mind. Even that mind can understand only the language of money. Mahavir renounced. The...

... that. Because in Mahavir's time India was divided into two thousand kingdoms, so it could not be very great. And it is almost impossible that he had so many elephants and so many chariots and so much gold, it is exaggeration. But people understand only the language of money. They exaggerate, because that is the only way to prove that Mahavir was very great. Had he been the son of a carpenter, nobody...

... interest? You are a clergyman - that is your job; you are getting money for it, respect for it. I am not getting anything, no salary, no money. I don't have a single cent with me. I don't have even pockets in my robe. Twenty years ago I told my tailors to drop the pocket. It is unnecessary, because I don't have anything to put in the pocket. And for twenty years I have lived without any money. You cannot...

... find a single man in the world who has lived twenty years without money. I have not even touched money for twenty years - not that I am against money. I have not seen a dollar yet, although for years I have been in America. And I don't think there is any possibility for me to see a dollar before I die. You talk about Rolls Royces. I don't own them. And why do you ask about Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ...

... would give her five thousand dollars." "For that kind of money," said Richard, "I don't think Ethel would mind. Go ahead, pinch her." Ethel leaned over a chair, lifted her skirt and exposed her bare behind. Jerry took a long, thoughtful look at it. Finally, after about five minutes he said, "I just can"t do it." "Why not?" asked Richard. "Have you...

... not got the nerve? " "It is not that," said Jerry. "I have not got the money." But the desire is there ... what to do? I am in every way in favor of genetic reprogramming of men and women. What kind of nonsense is this? Pinching! And in every crowd men are doing that. Every woman knows when she has been pinched, and she cannot conceive what this man is getting out of it. But...

... an outsider in the city. So he said, "I don't want to get into trouble. This one at least simply talks and bores me, takes a long time - but no harm ... And I have become accustomed." I said, "It is up to you; otherwise I have an acquaintance with a barber. If you want he can do you without taking any money." He said, "I don't want to take any risk. A man who can do it...

... without money - he is dangerous from the very beginning. Why should he do it without taking money?" I said, "Because he does things. He is an opium addict." What punks are sometimes doing in the West now, that man in that village was doing fifty years ago. He would simply cut off half of your hair - just on any whim. And when you asked, "What are you doing?" when you looked in...

... the mirror, "What have you done?" he would say, "Don't be angry. If you don't like it, don't give me any money, I have done it for free. You get lost. I have wasted my time and you don't have any appreciation." But, the man could not move in that situation because punks were not known at that time. They are not known even now in India. Sometimes he would cut half the mustache and...

.... And she used them in my name. They all have confessed with tears in their eyes, because she used them that, "It is for Bhagwan's protection." So they did everything. I was in silence for three and a half years, and in isolation. That gave her an opportunity. So much power, so much money, so many people with whom she could tell to do anything in my name, and she was my only connection with...

... MONEY FROM? A:* She has stolen money from the commune. Q:* A LOT OF MONEY? A:* Forty-three million dollars. Q:* THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY. A:* Not lots. Q:* NOT WHEN YOU HAVE NINETY-ONE ROLLS ROYCES. A:* Nothing much. If I had forty-five... forty-three million, just in one day I will spend it. It is not a lot. Q:* YOU DO LOVE THE RICH, BHAGWAN. A:* Certainly! Q:* ARE THE RICH AS EASY, ARE THE RICH AS...

... need to distribute it and no need to hoard it. Capitalism at its highest peak is bound to flower into a new type of communism, which will not be enforced. There will be no dictatorship of the proletariat. Q:* YOUR EMPRESS, SHEELA, SEEMS TO ADMIT RATHER BRAZENLY THAT SHE PRESIDED OVER A CONFIDENCE TRICK, THAT PEOPLE HANDED OVER THEIR MONEY THINKING THEY WERE GETTING ENLIGHTENMENT, BUT IN FACT, SHE...

... will be their enemy. Then I will be keeping their poverty, their suffering, their ugliness. So I know, when you go out you have to face an ugly world. Whatsoever you can do, do. If you cannot do anything you can cry and weep, you can help people. That's my message to my sannyasins: Always go to the roots. I am not saying to you to give some money to the beggar, because that is not going to help...

.... Money has been given down the ages, that has not helped. In fact that has made beggary rooted in the soil. I am not saying give money to the beggar, I am not saying don't give money to the beggar that is irrelevant. Whether you give or not, it is not going to help. Giving the money may help you. Mm? You will find a reconciliation, you have done something. You will feel good. You can go to the Blue...

... Diamond and fall asleep, feeling good, saintly, holy, that you have done something. But that is not going to help. And I am not saying don't give money. But remember, that is not going to help. If you feel good it is perfectly good to feel good. But the real thing that is going to help is enlightened people. Help them to see WHY they are miserable. They have made a religion out of poverty. It is not...

... live in the night, they have seen the dawn. We live in our dreams of achieving this and that, in our ambitions, in our ego trips for power, for money, for prestige. And they live at a totally different point. They live as beings, we live as becomings. We live as desires, as dreams; they are real beings: they have no dreams, no desires. We live in the past or in the future; they live in the present...

... house; now you have it. Suddenly, you don't know what to do. You were so much engaged in earning money, you were so mad after getting the house; now you have got it. For a moment you feel good - not because of the house, remember, but just because the whole tension, that mounting tension has disappeared - the house is yours. All that strain and tension is relaxed; it is the relaxation of that tension...

... for something else. Maybe you need more money now or a beautiful woman to suit the beautiful house. Again a new desire, and you rush. Again you will attain... and for a few moments, the relaxation. It is like the sexual experience. What pleasure you attain in sexuality is nothing but the pleasure of a mounting excitement, tension, and then the relaxation. Your energies go on mounting higher and...

... available to any meditator without creating any tension. Hence, meditation takes you beyond sex; nothing else can ever take you beyond sex. Everything else is a substitute for sex. Somebody is running after money - money is his sex; and somebody is running after power - power is his sex; and somebody is running after something else. Those are all sexualities, substitutes for sex. These people can easily...

... become master of your own soul, that now nothing dominates you - sex, power, money, nothing dominates you. It does not mean that you have to renounce the world; it simply means that you have to renounce your unawareness. Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. YOUR SORROWS FALL FROM YOU LIKE DROPS OF WATER FROM A LOTUS...