... changed. And what is the point of going again and again, giving money and playing the same kind of games? These therapists who had been working here in the world of the sannyasins will soon feel frustrated, tremendously frustrated. One thing, sannyasins will stop going to them, knowing that it is no longer part of a spiritual movement. Secondly, those who go will see that it is pointless. Just again and...

... else to be released on bail but Osho should not be released on bail." This must be something unprecedented! They have not proved anything against me. Why should I not be granted bail? The reasoning was that I was capable of jumping the bail, whatever the bail would be -- ten million dollars or twenty million dollars. Does it mean nobody in America who has money will ever be allowed bail? Strange...

...! The people who don't have money cannot be allowed bail because from where will they get money for bail? And the people who have money cannot be allowed bail because they can jump. So bail is simply out of the question in America. Simple logic can show the stupidities. Then finally they had to drop the case, but they had taken three persons on bail -- Jayesh, Devaraj, Vivek -- at twenty-five thousand...

... these people should be sent for any day; our attorneys were waiting there. They said, "You give us the time and the date, and we can call our people and they will be here." But because they had dropped the case, now they were afraid that they would have to return the seventy- five thousand dollars. To keep that money, this letter has been sent: Because these three people have not appeared...

..., their bail money is to be taken up by the U.S. government. And they have confiscated my things, which they had said would be released when I am released -- they were not given back. Then they told my attorneys, "After three days we will be releasing them." They were not released; then seven days... months have passed and they go on postponing. Now the case is dropped. Even the bail money has...

... married. It was such a trouble, because girls could be married only if you gave enough money, land with the girl to the man whom she was going to marry - unless the girl was exceptionally beautiful, which was rarely the case. And people were so poor, they could not afford to have one dozen girls. It was simply impossible for them to manage. You cannot blame them for killing the girls. It was better than...

... animals every day. I once met a man, an African, who himself was not a cannibal - but in Africa there are a few small tribes of cannibals still in existence. The tribes go on becoming smaller and smaller because they go on eating their own people. They will disappear. This man was caught by a cannibal tribe and they were going to eat him. But he happened to have so much money - he told them, "I can...

... give you much money if you spare me." The money was so much, those poor cannibals could not resist the temptation; they said, "Okay, we can spare you, but we cannot trust you; the money has to arrive first. Our man will go with your letter. The money has to be here and then we will release you." So he had to stay three days with them, and while he was with them he had to eat what they...

... it. He said, "But you are supposed to be a saint." Kabir said, "Not supposed to be - I am! If I was only 'supposed to be' a saint then I would not have participated in this act of stealing. And I would not have murdered my own son if I were only 'supposed to be' a saint. I am really a saint, and at my peak of consciousness, nothing matters. "Your money is not your money, so what...

.... But these so-called seers were accumulating immense money. They were in favor of the ugly caste system of India - in fact they created it. One fourth of the country is condemned to live like cattle, and the responsibility goes to the VEDAS. They were very ordinary people; if you look at the prayers that they have written in the VEDAS, you can see their utter ordinariness. And that has continued to...

..., because it is a blessing to work for Osho." Jayesh was very much influenced, but in the next sentence the man said, "I will work just for the sheer joy and the blessings that will come to me from working for Osho. But money also is needed...." Jayesh asked me what to do with such people. "He knows you not, he has never read you, he has never heard you. He talks about blessings, looks...

... very spiritual - and ends up with the sentence that money is also needed." I said to him, "Ask him to choose between the two: either the blessings or the money." He said, "Osho, you will destroy my whole work. He is the man I am depending on." I said, "But make it clear... because he cannot have both." He said, "It was better I should not have told you. Now I...

... am in a fix. I know he needs money, I know he is working for money. And if I ask this question, he will certainly be very much annoyed." This greed, this money infatuation, this materialism comes exactly down from the seers of the RIGVEDA. It still constitutes the unconscious of the Hindu mind. On the surface, everything is spiritual; underneath, everything is so ugly, so obscene. And the...

... such a man will provoke many egos, will hurt those who think they are very important and powerful people. The presidents and the queens and the prime ministers and the kings will become immediately worried, concerned. A man who has no power has suddenly become the focus of attention of the people, attracts more people than the people who have power and money and prestige. Such a man cannot be...

... paintings - a pioneer. And the pioneer is always laughed at; a creator who is not repeating the past, but bringing in the future, is bound to be misunderstood. His brother told a friend, "I will give you the money; at least purchase one of his paintings. He will feel happy that at least one person understands his paintings." The man had no sense about paintings, but he went. Van Gogh was very...

... happy, and showed him this painting, that painting, but the man said, "Any will do. Don't waste my time; here is the money." It was a shock. The man did not even look at the paintings: "Any painting will do - you just take the money and give me the painting." Van Gogh said, "These paintings are not for sale, and tell my brother not to waste money unnecessarily. This is not...

... your money, because I can see you don't have any sensitivity. You have been sent by my brother just to give me some consolation. Just get out of this place! My satisfaction is not in my paintings being sold; I am utterly content in creating them." The creator's joy is in creation itself; there is no other reward. And the moment you start thinking of any reward beyond your act, you are only a...

... ready to give him money to be a priest, but he was not ready to give him money to be a painter or to send him to a painting school. His brother felt deeply for him. He asked a prostitute, "In his whole life" - Van Gogh was thirty - "he has never known love. It would be very kind of you... I will give you the money... you pretend to love him." The prostitute was willing; it was her...

... the funds. But Santagel craved permission to advance the money himself, which he did, 17,000 ducats in all, about $20,000, perhaps equal to $160,000 today. It is probable that the loan exceeded the expedition's cost. Associated with Columbus in the voyage were at least five Jews: Luis de Torres, interpreter; Marco, the surgeon; Bernal, the physician; Alonzo de la Calle, and Gabriel Sanchez. The...

... world. It is the gateway where the bulk of American imports and exports are taxed, and where practically all the business done in America pays tribute to the masters of money. The very land of the city is practically the holdings of the Jews. A list of the property owners of the metropolis reveals only at rare intervals a Gentile name. No wonder that Jewish writers, viewing this unprecedented...

... into lower prices without any explanatory change in the general situation, have been those lines in which Jews exercise the widest control. Business to the Jewish mind is money; what the successful Jew may do with the money after he gets it is another matter, but in the getting of it he never permits "idealistic slush" to interfere with the dollar. His dollar of profit is never "...

...;clipped" by any of the voluntary reforms by which a few men are trying to ameliorate the condition of the workers. This is not by any means due to the hardness of the Jewish heart, but to the hardness of the Jewish view of business. Business is to it a matter of goods and money, not of people. If you are in distress and suffering, the Jewish heart would have sympathy for you; but if your house were...

.... But is not this incongruous with the following: 'Castus,2  amomum,3  and the principal spices, crowfoot, asafoetida, pepper and lozenges of bastard safron may be bought with second tithe money but they are not susceptible to food uncleanness; so R. Akiba. Said R. Johanan b. Nuri to him: If they may be bought with second tithe money why are they not susceptible to food uncleanness? And if...

... they are not susceptible,4  they5  should not be bought with second tithe money',6  and in connection with this R. Johanan b. Nuri stated, 'A vote was taken and they decided that these are not to be bought with second tithe money and that they are not susceptible to food uncleanness'?7  — R. Hisda replied: When that Mishnah8  was taught the reference was to dill...

... Files V. BaH. [G], a fragrant root, Cf. [G], a spice indigenous to India and Syria. To food uncleanness, which is evidence that they are not regarded as a foodstuff. Since only foodstuffs may be bought with second tithe money. 'Uk. III, 5. Now how is this Mishnah (from which it follows that flavouring spices are not susceptible to food uncleanness) to be reconciled with the inference drawn supra from...

... despoiler16  as witness; e.g., robbers, and those who have trespassed by [false] oaths.17  Surely this refers to both a vain oath18  and an oath concerning money matters?19  — No; in both cases,20  oaths concerning money matters are alluded to; then why state 'oaths' [plural]? — [To indicate] oaths in general.21 An objection is raised: Do not accept the wicked as witness...

... to designate one who transgresses a Biblical command in general. [H] carrion, an animal that died a natural death or which was not slaughtered according to ritual law. I.e., his greed for money, because it is cheaper. Because he is classed with the wicked, who commit their misdeeds for gain. I.e., to defy, and show his contempt for, the law. Cf. Ex. XXIII, 1. [H], 'violence', 'plunder'. Cf. Ex...

... money, in contradistinction to Raba's opinion. Actually, only one case is mentioned, viz., oaths. But the phrase is used on the questioner's hypothesis (v. n. 6), and the answer proceeds to demolish that assumption. I.e., such as are made in litigation. Hence his wickedness must, to disqualify him, have been prompted by gain for money only, in contradistinction to the opinion of Abaye. Tosef. Mak. I...

... matter that has to do with the ritual part of the Law, while the claim to a found object is only a matter of money. In regard to the latter the deduction from Ex. XXII, 3, dealing with theft, to include 'ground' may be explained as an extension of the law of agency, i.e., the thief's 'ground' is treated as his, agent and it may be applied to other 'money matters'. The Scriptural indication is however...

...  [It must] therefore [be said that] the enjoyment of the right [to give the tithes to whom one likes]10  is not [regarded as something that has a] money [value] by which one could acquire [goods] as 'exchange'. In the same way [it must be said that] the enjoyment of this right is not [regarded as something that has a] money [value] for the purpose of being acquired through immovable...

...] halipin; cf. Ruth. IV, 7. What need was there then for Joshua and Akiba to pay R. Gamaliel for the lease of the ground? Cf. supra p. 30. n. 3. The tithe offered by R. Gamaliel to Joshua and Akiba was not really the former's property as it belonged by law to the Levite poor. R. Gamaliel's right was limited to the choice of the person to whom the tithe was to be handed over. This right has no money value...

... Jacob our ancestor, as it is written, And Jacob said when he beheld them.31  Samuel said: He beheld the ashes of [the ram of] Isaac, as it says, God will see32  for Himself the lamb.33  R. Isaac Nappaha said: He saw the money of the atonement, as it says, And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and it shall be a memorial34  etc. R. Johanan said: He saw...

... the Temple, as it is written, In the mount where the Lord is seen.35  R. Jacob b. Iddi and R. Samuel b. Nahmani differed on the matter. One said that He saw the atonement money, the other that He saw the Temple. The more likely view is that of him who says that He saw the Temple, since it is written, As it will be said on that day, in the mount where the Lord is seen. A MAN SHOULD NOT ENTER THE...

... shoe, and you want to derive it from a short cut! What is this [reference]? As it has been taught: 'A man should not enter the Temple mount either with his staff in his hand or his shoe on his foot, or with his money tied up in his cloth, or with his money bag slung over his shoulder, and he should not make it a short cut, and spitting [on it is forbidden] a fortiori from the case of the shoe: seeing...

... beneficial. I was sitting in his shop when a man came, he was very annoyed. He said, "I have been taking this medicine since last month but it has done no good to me, no benefit to me. So give me back the money I have paid for it." Mulla said, "It is written on the packet that the money will be returned if it is not beneficial. Well, you may not have benefitted but I have, so why should I...

... return the money?" It all depend on one's own definition. You see life as you want to see it. Accordingly, the meanings of words change and the meanings of truths change. You build up a world of your own beliefs and you go on living in it. To keep up those beliefs one goes on finding one's own reasons to strengthen them so that they may not break. Mulla Nasruddin quarreled with someone in the...

... there asking for money, someone goes asking for a wife and someone goes asking for a son. You do not realize that you never step out of the market. Is this the way to go to the temple? You are taking the whole of the market with you to the temple. If you are like this, then the temple cannot purify you, you will pollute the temple. The temple is not a place, it is a state of mind. There can be no...

... says that if the time devoted to meditation could have been utilized in doing business, then some money could have been earned, or "I would have become a leader by contesting an election. The whole world is busy doing something or the other and I am doing meditation! I am not attaining the divine and am losing the world as well." This thought arises only because you still have attachment to...

... this world. Therefore it will be better if you go back to the marketplace because your sannyas will not be real and your meditation also cannot be real. Your attraction to money is still there. You are only curious about meditation. You are not thirsty, you are not a seeker yet. That is why I say that you had better return to the marketplace instead of sitting and thinking that existence is being...

.... If the attraction for women remains in the mind then running away from your wife is not going to help you; some other woman will attract you. If you are interested in money, giving it up will not make any difference. You will start collecting coins in some other sense - maybe this time the coins are of renunciation and austerity, but coins are coins. You will start amassing the other kind of wealth...

.... First you used to announce about the amount of money you possessed. Now you will announce about how much you have renounced. Your vanity will remain just the same. I want to free you from the world; I do not want to break you off from it. In this commune I am trying to make you free to live. If you can be free while living in this life then that is real freedom. You walk in water, but your feet should...

... tell you to run away from a woman; I say, "Wake up from the attachment to women." I do not say, "Give up money"; I say, "Understand money." In that understanding is freedom. Money is not holding you, you are holding it. It is your inner condition, it is your attraction. You can be free of this attraction only when the experience of life will tell you that this is useless...

... will think that you have gone mad. If it is rubbish, then throwing it away does not mean renunciation. And if it was not garbage, then why did you renounce it? When you announce your renunciation, you are actually saying that I had money but I renounced it under the influence of someone. You were not ready yet, you were not ripe yet; you were still raw and you took the step in a hurry. No one ever...