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..., a needle will do. You are looking for swords, and then swords prove failures because you need only a needle. This is not a spiritual problem, just ego. Why shouldn't one fall in love with a girl who is economically below one's status? Is love something economical? Something to think of in terms of finance, economics, money, wealth, status?' I told him one story: One marriage agent came to a young...
... man and told him, 'I have got a very beautiful girl, just exactly fit for you.' The boy said, 'Don't bother me. I am not interested.' The marriage agent said, 'I know, but don't be worried, I have another girl who will bring five thousand rupees in dowry.' The young man said, 'Stop talking nonsense. I am not interested in money either! You simply go.' The man said, 'I know. You don't bother! If five...
... thousand is not enough, I have another girl who will bring twenty-five thousand rupees in dowry.' The boy said, 'You simply get out of my room, because if ever I get married, it is for me to think about, it is not a question for an agent to settle. You simply get out of it! Don't make me angry!' The agent said, 'Okay, now I understand. You are not interested in beauty, you are not interested in money. I...
.... Then only one thing remains, and that one thing is spiritual search.... A deep anguish, unrelated to this world, not related with anything in this world: son, father, money, prestige, power -- nothing. It is not related to them, it is simply existential. Deep down, if you can pinpoint it, it is HOW TO KNOW ONESELF. Who am I? Then this anguish becomes the search. Then meditation can help -- never...
... means "business"; purpose means "I am doing this for that". And because of this purposive obsession, you never do anything totally - you cannot - because you are not interested in doing it for its own sake. Purpose is there. You are painting to sell it in the market to earn money. Then your painting cannot be great, cannot be, because you will not be lost while you are painting...
... is the purpose? Unless you are paid! So money seems to be the end of it all. And what is the purpose of money? You will be gone and the money will be left. And your hundred-rupee notes will think, "So we were the purpose of this man. Now we are here and he is gone. He had certainly come here to collect us, what else?" You will be gone, your house will be here, and the house will say...
... own feeling is that if you want to become religious the USA is the best place, because it has succeeded in knowing, in having all that man has desired for centuries, and in that very success it has failed. That very success has become its failure. It is very apparent that you can have all the money in the world and remain poor inside, that you can have all the gadgets, the latest, and yet remain...
... said nothing. When he reached his church the priest encountered a nun and asked her, "Say, sister, what is a blowjob?" She looked him straight in the eye and said, "Ten dollars!" You just try to look straight in the Indian eye, and you will find ten dollars! They go on talking against money, but all their talk against money is money-oriented. They go on talking against sex, but...
... spiritual experiences, start happening, remember that you are not the doer of them; it is again his gift. Then you will not become addicted. If you think, "I am the doer, and I have become a SIDDHA and I have achieved, and now I am capable of creating these experiences," then you are caught, your ego has come back in from the back door. It used to feel strengthened by having more money, by...
... feel the torture, that is your interpretation. He is simply making more and more joys available to you, but you have to drop your toys. And dropping your old toys is painful. The pain is created by your attachment to the toys. We believe immensely in our toys. And we KNOW they are toys and still we believe in them, our foolishness is such. We know that money is a toy and it will be taken away when...
... and only Buddhas and Bahauddins and Sanais and Sosans are there, there will be only one religion. There will be a kind of religiousness in the world, not any religion in fact - a kind of religiousness. You will have to drop your fairy-tales - Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan. RISE, HAVE DONE WITH FAIRY-TALES; LEAVE YOUR BASE PASSIONS, AND COME TO ME. There are base passions: money, power, sexuality...
... forget it even for a single moment. YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT IT IS HIS GUIDANCE... Always remember that if you start moving towards God it is he who has chosen you. Don't for a moment think, "Look! I am a great seeker of God. I am no ordinary man, I am not worldly, I am not like these worldly creatures. I am a spiritual man. I search for God, I don't seek and search for money or power." You...
... looking all over the earth. You can go on looking and you will not find it, because it is not something to be found, it is something to be remembered. See the distinction, the difference: it is vast. It is a difference that makes a great difference. It is as if you have money in your pocket but you have forgotten. And then one day suddenly you remember and it is there. One day suddenly, searching for...
... needs armies of clerks, stationmasters, etcetera, etcetera. It needs people who are ready to do anything, because they have not known anything higher in life. They have never touched any poetic moment in their life; they can go on counting money their whole life and thinking this is all there is. Love is dangerous. I would like love to become available to each and all. And if marriage happens at all...
... not in everybody's capacity to do it, but I have looked in Subuddha's eyes and I have felt it, that he knows how to surrender. And I am not asking for your money to be surrendered to me. I am simply asking: Surrender your problems to me, surrender all your diseases to me, surrender all your pathologies to me. And in that very surrendering you will be unburdened, you will be free. The last question...
... unalike that the mind tends to compare them. One has this much money, the other has more. One has this quality, the other has something else; the temptation is there to compare. From where comes the temptation to compare? It comes from your own ego. You are constantly comparing where you are on the scale. Somebody is poorer than you and you feel good, and somebody is richer than you and you feel bad...
... ages of seven and fourteen we succeed and the child is killed, the child is destroyed. Then the child is wild no more - he becomes a citizen. Then he learns the ways of discipline, language, logic, prose. He starts competing in the school, becomes an egoist, starts learning all the neurotic things that are prevalent in the society, becomes more interested in power, money, starts thinking how to...
... become more educated so that he can become more powerful, how to have more money, how to have a big house, and all that. He shifts. Then the right hemisphere functions less and less - or functions only when you are in dream, fast asleep. Or sometimes when you have taken a drug. The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely...
... criminal is not the drug-taker, the criminal is the politician and the educationalist. It is they who are guilty. They have forced the human mind into one extreme - into such an extreme that now there is a need to revolt. And the need is so great! Poetry has completely disappeared from people's life, beauty has disappeared, love has disappeared... money, power, pull, they have become the only gods. How...
... hemisphere is the end and the left hemisphere is the means. The left hemisphere has to serve the right hemisphere, the right hemisphere is the master - because you earn money only because you want to enjoy your life and celebrate your life. You want a certain bank balance only so that you can love. You work only so that you can play - play remains the goal. You work only so that you can relax. Relaxation...
... you have been running after money too much, one day you decide to run from the world, the world of money and all, and go to the Himalayas. When you reach the Himalayas, by the time you reach there and sit in your cave, you have not even settled there and you start thinking of the world and money and all. You become afraid, sitting in the cave, of what will happen to you - tomorrow how are you going...
... to get your food now you have no money at all? And in the night you become afraid, alone in the forest with no protection. Now you see the point, what was beautiful in the house: you were protected and there was a shelter and safety. Now, when you were in the house you never thought about the protection and the safety; it was accepted, it was taken for granted. You were thinking of other things...
... Garfinkel sat in a train holding a three-year-old boy. Every few minutes Garfinkel spanked the child. 'If you strike that baby one more time,' said a woman sitting across from him, 'I'll give you so much trouble you won't forget it!' 'Trouble?' said Garfinkel. 'You're gonna give me trouble? Lady, my partner stole all my money and ran off with my wife and car. My daughter is in the parlor car, six months...
... himself is not home at this moment, he thinks day and night about ways to get some money and pay you back. He has even asked me to watch the street and whenever a flock of sheep passes to go out and pick up any pieces of wool that might have been caught on the bushes. This way, when we get enough wool, we can spin it, make a couple of shawls, sell them and with the money pay you back.' When she got to...
... this point, the man started to laugh, whereupon Mulla came out of his hiding and said,'You rascal, now that you smell money, you start to grin.' The mind is that rascal. Once it gets any hint of any sort of future it starts to grin. It immediately jumps on it, catches hold of it -- you are no longer herenow. Meditation is for its own sake as love is for its own sake. Ask a rose why he flowers. He...
... player. All medicines were tried, all physicians worked on him, but nothing, no help. And he was drowning and drowning in madness. Then one fakir came, a Sufi mystic, and he said, "Wait! If you can bring a great chess player, it will be of great help. He has to play chess with this mad king." Now who would like to play chess with a madman? But the king was ready to offer as much money as was...
... asked for. A chess player was ready; so much money! And the mystic was right: after one year the king was perfectly sane. But the chess player went mad. So if you have a discussion with me, beware, you will go mad! - because I am not a consistent man. I am not logical either, I am absurd. And Habib missed the point. If he was a Freudian I would have attacked Freud, if he was a Marxist I would have...
... somehow to create a kind of emptiness in yourself. It is a forced emptiness. "... which you call 'being a hollow bamboo' - silent, watching, empty..." It is not what I call the state of being a hollow bamboo; it is not. If it were, then there would be no desire for God, because there is no desire. It does not matter what you desire; God, money, power, prestige, it matters not. Desire is desire...
..., its taste is always the same. Desire leads you away from the present, from the herenow into the future, somewhere else. Desire does not allow you to relax into the moment. It takes you away from your being. So what you desire does not matter: you can desire presidency of a country, or you can desire money, or you can desire sainthood, or you can desire God, you can desire truth - desire is desire...
... an act, it is a state of being - you can be in it but you cannot make it. You fall in it, it is not an effort. Sex can be made, not love. A prostitute can give you sex, not love - because how can you make love on order for money? Impossible! How can you make love for money? It comes on its own. It has its own mysterious ways. You cannot control it, you can only be controlled by it. You cannot...
... would talk about money, kingdom, politics, and he was there to talk about God, meditation, religion. So one day he said, "Forgive me, but this I cannot understand. I come here to talk about God, religion, meditation, SAMADHI And this is ridiculous - that I, a man of the world, come to talk about samadhi, enlightenment, and you, a religious man - supposedly religious, because now I have become...
... suspicious - you always, whenever I come, talk about the kingdom and politics and money and thousands of things, but always of the world. How do you explain it?" The fakir laughed. He said, "There is nothing to explain. It is simple. You talk about things you don't know. I talk about things I don't know. It is simple. Why should I talk about God? I know. Why should you talk about kingdom? You are...
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