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... manual work they need workers - they cannot work. And because they became business people, slowly, slowly the Hindu vaishyas, the Hindu business people, and the Jaina business people came closer. Even marriages started happening between them. By and by they even had to ask brahmins to do their worship work - and they had money to pay for it. So brahmins worshipped for the Jainas - who are against...
... no question of a sudra becoming enlightened. The businessman has another competition, and that is of money. That is a horizontal competition amongst businessmen. He is trying to compete to have more money, and he knows he cannot compete with the warriors: a businessman is not a soldier. And he cannot compete with the priest because a businessman is not a scholar. And the brahmins kept a complete...
... don't have any other means of passing their time. To go to the movies, money is needed; to go to a disco, money is needed. Sex is the only free entertainment. Absolute birth control is needed. This is the only city where no child has been born in four years. Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he...
... is going to steal. When somebody is dying, what does he care if he kills somebody else and gets money to survive? - because lust for life is the basis of all biological growth. A man can do anything to survive. And secondly, if abortion becomes illegal... the pope would like to make all birth control methods illegal. If abortion is illegal, if birth control methods are illegal, can you think what...
...." "Secondly," Buddha thought, "even if I speak, manage somehow to deliver the message, who is going to listen?" People are interested in money, in power, in politics, in becoming bigger and bigger, higher and higher compared to others. Who is really interested in enlightenment? It is just an accident if you come across a man who is enlightened and get infected. The thing is...
... believe their eyes! They were singing their bhajanas - "Hare Krishna, Hare Rama." The Americans thought, "My God! We have been putting so much energy, science, money into reaching the moon - how have these idiots managed?" They asked the Indians. The Indians said, "It is not difficult. We just started standing upon each other's shoulders, and finally we reached." India is a...
..., or to remain stuck on the bank like a lamppost. That is up to you. But I cannot forgive those people who remained silent. They were selfish, utterly selfish, more selfish than those people who go on accumulating power, money, and all kinds of things of the world. They are nothing, because what they are accumulating is junk. But the man who has known enlightenment and keeps it to himself, he cannot...
... trouble. The law is not easy, but somehow he managed, because in India you can somehow manage everything. All that is needed is money, and he had money. You can bribe everybody. It is a national tradition and not new, very ancient. Indians have been bribing God, so what do they care about bribing a clerk or a judge? When the Indian goes to the temple and says to his god, "If I win this lottery, I...
... it, because he is doing you work. It is almost payment for the work. And he is doing work which is far costlier than the bribe you are giving him. You manage everything. You can murder, and you will be released respectfully by the court; all that you need is money. So one goes on thinking that tomorrow may be different. My friend changed wives three times, and he was always telling me, "This...
..., "I want the ticket for the first show." The manager said, "But you have seen." He said, "You wait, you don't interfere. This is none your business. This is the money. Give me the ticket. I will see the first show also." After first show he said, "Now I want to see the second show also." The manager said, "You seem to be a strange fellow. You are seeing the...
... hundred years continuously, only the ground floor is ready. Only the pillars. They have done tremendous job, and if they succeed, there are very remote possibilities to complete it; because two hundred years they have already worked. They are pouring all their money, from all over the country, wherever their followers are. But whatever they have made gives an indication that if they succeed, Taj Mahal...
... will become secondary. When I was in Agra, speaking they invited me to see their incomplete temple. They are in a very great despair because money is running out, no more sources. There is not even a roof. But even on the pillars, the work that they have done -- perhaps marble has never found such great artists. When I was looking at their temple, I came across a map that was hanging on the wall. I...
... into our names. Even now.... Q: SAY THAT AGAIN...? A: Any property, any land, any house that we purchased, the Maharashtra government did not transfer it to our name. Q: WHY NOT? A: Simply so that we could not sell it. And we had invested so much money there that unless we could sell, it was difficult for us to move. So this was their one strategy. Now, even now, those properties are not in the name...
... RITUAL? RECENTLY, OR...? A: Just two years ago. Q: HOW DID YOU GET THE FINANCING TO START THE ASHRAM IN POONA? A: I had so many rich friends all over the country. I don't have a single cent, and now I have people all over the world who have money and who have guts to risk that money with a dangerous man like me. Q: WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T ALLOW YOU TO GET ADDITIONAL LAND, IS THAT WHEN YOU MADE THE...
... of money and money will start coming; think of a beautiful woman and you will hear a knock on the door, but the basic requirement is first to believe. If you don't believe, nothing is going to happen. That condition is tricky. If the Lincoln Continental does not arise in your porch, you know your belief is not strong enough to pull that big a car. If instead of a very beautiful woman a very ugly...
...; says Proper Sagar, bowing to touch The Master's feet. "I'm not going near that thing until you get it fixed!" Balonski is totally drunk and he staggers into a fairground. He goes up to the rifle range and says, "Give me ten shots!" "That will be two dollars," laughs the attendant. Balonski fumbles around, pays the money, grabs the gun, and fires ten quick shots, each of...
... of Mohammedans. When I was staying there I came to know about a strange ritual - and that was because Surat is their headquarters; their chief priest lives in Surat. You have to give... when somebody dies, he wills that five lakh, fifty thousand rupees, should be given to the priest, because the priest has a direct line with God - no operators, nothing. You give the money to the priest, the priest...
... gives you a receipt and the receipt is put with the dead man, in his pocket, when he is being laid in the grave. He has to show the receipt to God and he will get five lakh rupees in cash immediately - a simple transaction of money. And people have been doing that! And the chief priest must be one of the richest men in the country, because all that money goes into his pocket. I asked my friend, "...
... of their winnings should be given back to God. "Let us draw a small circle on the ground, throw our winnings up in the air, and what lands in the circle goes to God," the Catholic priest suggested. "No, let us draw a large circle," said the Protestant minister, "throw the money up, and what lands outside the circle will go to God." "Wait," cried the rabbi...
.... "Forget all about circles. Let us throw the money up, and what stays up God can keep." Mind is very clever. But as far as meditation is concerned, mind is absolutely impotent. Your question is, "For the past few weeks, I have been able to sit and allow my mind to be quiet - sometimes for only a second, but sometimes for longer. Since this has been happening, I have experienced many...
... that. But one thing more has to be remembered: that whatever beautiful experiences may be happening to you, your inner being knows perfectly well that there is yet so much more. Mind does not know that. In a way, mind is very poor. All its experiences are very mundane - about money, about power, about prestige, about borrowed knowledge, about a thousand and one things but they are all trivia. Mind...
... for the university my parents, my father, my family people, all wanted me to become a scientist -- there was much more of a future for a scientist -- or a doctor at least, or an engineer. I refused absolutely. I said, "I'm going to do what I want to do, because I don't want to live a boring life. As a scientist I may succeed -- I may have respectability, money, power, prestige -- but deep down...
... I will remain bored because that is not what I ever wanted to do." They were shocked because they could not see any prospects in the study of philosophy; philosophy is the poorest subject in the universities. Reluctantly they agreed, knowing that I would be wasting my future, but finally they recognized they were wrong. It is not a question of money, power and prestige; it is a question of...
... small amount of money so that he could at least manage to survive. Four days a week he would fast and three days a week he would eat. He had to fast for those four days because from where was he going to get his canvases and paints and brushes? But he was immensely happy -- his juices were flowing. He died when he was only thirty-three; he committed suicide; but his suicide is far better, Bob Luka...
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