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... again open a door of desire. In the world you desire money, power, prestige; then you get fed up with it, then you see the whole thing is just rubbish - even if you get it you are defeated, if you don't get it you are defeated. Then you come to feel that this whole thing is nonsense. Now suddenly you start playing new games: enlightenment, meditation, yoga, God, the other world, the other shore! Again...
... the mind is at ease; a new world of desire has opened; now you will be after these goals. And money is not so elusive as meditation. This world at least is solid; that shore, that world, the other world, is absolutely fantasy. Now you are in a deeper ditch than before. With the first you could realize that it is useless, with the second now it will take millions of lives to realize that this too is...
... you? From where does this grip come? There must be much emotion involved! Just smoking in and out cannot have grips.... So many millions of people smoking, doing such a stupid thing; wasting money on it, life on it, suffering a thousand types of diseases, but still continuing. There must be more behind it than appears to the naked eye. It is not simply a cigarette, it is very symbolic, it is a...
... they missing? They enjoyed a thousand years before, they enjoyed always, they are enjoying now, they will be enjoying in the future for ever and ever - only man has got a disease called progress. It is a canceric thing. Then you go on sacrificing; you say: How can I enjoy? Today I have to work hard so that tomorrow there is money, and then I will enjoy - but that tomorrow never comes. Then how can...
... manage - and he cannot manage even eight hundred poor people. And they must be desperate, only then could they have come to the point of declaring that they are going on strike if action is not taken immediately. And the pope is now the richest person in - the world. Six hundred million Catholics go on pouring their money into the Vatican - and you cannot feed eight hundred people rightly? And you go...
... which has been Mohammedan for centuries, populated by Mohammedans, dominated by Mohammedans. Now it is their country." If America is so compassionate towards Jews, then give them Oregon. Make it the new Israel - that will be perfectly good. And all the money that is being wasted in Israel would remain in America, and Oregon would become a beautiful country. Jews have done tremendous labor there...
..., but it is all futile. And they have poured all their money there, which is all futile. Nothing is going to help: the trouble spot will remain continuously a trouble spot. It is just a small island in an ocean of Mohammedans. You cannot finish that ocean; that ocean is, sooner or later, going to drown you all. Giving Oregon to the Jews - this would have been generosity, compassion, friendliness...
.... Anyway, fifty percent of Oregon's land is already federal government land, and the remaining fifty percent they also want to purchase. They want to make it a federal, a completely federal, state. So it would have been very easy to give it to Jews; there would have been no problem. It would have helped the Jews, it would have helped America. The money would have remained here, the people would have...
... the purpose of the whole? No purpose at all - it is a sheer celebration. That's why Hindus have called it LEELA - LEELA means a playfulness. It is just a play. Play has no purpose. The moment play becomes purposeful it becomes a game, remember - that is the difference between play and game. If you are simply playing cards with no stake, with no money involved, it is a play. The moment you stake...
... money, it is no more play - it is business. Purpose has entered. It is a game. Now you are gambling. Just a few moments before you were playing; now playing has become secondary. Now the question is how to succeed in getting more money. The thing has become serious; it is no longer weightless. It has fallen from the world of grace into the world of gravitation. It has fallen from the world of power...
... Sufi mystic who was known as a madman.... Many mystics have been known as madmen. They ARE in a sense. The world thinks they are mad, because they follow something utterly absurd in the eyes of the world. The world accumulates money, the world is in search of more and more power and prestige, and they are simply not concerned with these great things. The world wants to possess and have more and more...
... became associated: a simple case of conditioned reflex. And once the child starts groping for the mother's breast, now the journey outwards begins. He has come to know one thing: that the source of his life is outside him. That is the original fall. Now he will always think of having more money, of having more power, of having more prestige... of getting more and more people's attention, because the...
... in me that wants to have much money, that wants to have great power, that wants to become famous... what is this longing in me? Who is this longing in me? What is its nature?" To know this longing is meditation. And to know it in its purity is to know God. Longing without any content, pure longing, just the flame without any smoke, is God. Meditation brings you to God, because it brings you to...
.... He will stand on the table when you are sitting at the side on the chair, and he will say, "Look, Daddy, I am bigger than you." He is standing higher, on the table, and he says, "Look, I am bigger than you," and you laugh at him. But what are you doing? When you have more money, just watch how you walk. You are saying to all the neighbours, "Look! I am bigger than you."...
... the age of eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-four! The sleep seems to be so deep. When are they going to awaken? When will they think of the inner world? And death will take all that you have accumulated - your power, your money, your prestige. Nothing will be left. not even a trace. Your whole life will be nullified. Death will come and destroy all that you have made; death will come and prove that...
... medical services. Shyam wanted to join medical services; he wanted to get away somehow from his father and his family, but his father wouldn't let him go. Shri Nath Batt opened a shop for Shyam just by his shop so he could keep an eye on Shyam. He put a compounder of his choice, who was his man, and a nurse of his choice, in that shop. They had to keep an eye out to see that no money went anywhere, and...
... every evening all the money that Doctor Shyam had earned went to Shri Nath Batt. Shyam got married, and one day his wife sent a telegram that she was very sick, and that it would be helpful if Shyam came because he understood her more than any other doctor, although the doctors were doing their best. She was at her father's place because she was pregnant. In India it is a tradition that the first...
... are there: send a telegram to any one of your famous professors, to some gynecologist, and he will take care of her "There is no need to go, and I am not going to spend money unnecessarily. Fifty rupees, and who knows? - there you may spend more. And how many days will you be away? The fifty or sixty rupees that you earn here every day also has to be taken into account. If you are there for one...
... back into his mind I am going to help him to get out again - of course from the right door." But that Shri Nath Batt was really a dangerous miser. He was afraid that I could do something, and that perhaps my association was encouraging Shyam to remain mad, because I used to take him to the hotels, to the restaurants, and I told him, "You enjoy yourself Don't be worried about money...
... atheist will go: in his whole life Mahesh Yogi would not have come across an atheist asking for a mantra. This boy was a very serious type, and I told him, "Remain very serious and follow the whole procedure. Whatsoever money is demanded, give it. You have to take flowers and a piece of Silk cloth to offer." So he went prepared. He touched Maharishi's feet - inside of course saying, "Go...
... incarnation of God? Mahesh Yogi said to him, "Please come back tomorrow." The boy came to me and he said that this had happened: "Mahesh Yogi thought for a few minutes and he said to come tomorrow." I said, "He deceived you. You rush right now, ask for your money back, your flowers, your everything, because tonight he is leaving." So he rushed back. The people outside Mahesh...
...;And tonight you are leaving. Your luggage is packed. Whom am I going to see tomorrow? Now please give me my money back. Where is my handkerchief and where are my flowers?" And Mahesh Yogi had to find the student's money and things, and he gave them back to him. These people are exploiting the whole world. What they are giving is just a simple method of hypnosis, autohypnosis. Anything will do...
..., you are very knowledgeable, you are rich, superrich - all these dimensions are of the self. And the self goes on accumulating more money, more power, more prestige, more respectability - its ambition is unfulfillable. You go on and on creating more and more layers of self. This is the misery of man, the basic misery. Man does not know who he is, yet he goes on believing that he is this, he is that...
... because all the elders of the family were suffering, only women were left in the house; the business was closed. We were children, small children, and we were suffering because there was even no money to pay the school fee. And this is the freedom for which not only my family, but thousands of families, suffered, thousands of people died. And they were all controversial people.... Mahatma Gandhi...
... were present in the court, collected the money within ten minutes. The jailer told me, "Your people have shocked all of us. Even the richest man in the country would find it difficult... because all his money is invested. Four hundred thousand dollars your people managed, and threw it on the table before the judge." Now it becomes a strange case. He is accepting that I have not committed...
... wants to pretend that there is meaning - meaning in money, meaning in power, meaning in respectability, meaning in virtue, in character, meaning in being a saint. But if you are intelligent enough, if you go on probing deeper and deeper, sooner or later you come to the rock-bottom of meaninglessness. Maybe because of that people don't probe enough; they are afraid. Some unconscious feel is there that...
... this reflection in the market-place? And when you get a ten rupee note, then will you say 'Yes, it has meaning'? What are you asking for? What do you mean by 'meaning' ? A child is playing; and the father comes home and says 'Do your homework! What are you doing? Do something useful!' Why is the homework useful? Because it is going to bring money later on - what else is its use? Play is not useful...
... because it is not going to bring any money. We have reduced the whole of life to utility; we have all become utilitarians, and a utilitarian is never religious. If you ask me who is religious and who is not, this is my definition. God is not the problem - whether one man believes in God or not does not make one religious or irreligious, because I have seen millions who believe in God and who are not...
... far away - and you say 'Look! Look at the bird on the wing!' and your friend says 'So what?' This man is irreligious, he says 'So what? The bird is on the wing, so what? What is the meaning of it?' He is asking 'Can we cash it?' He is asking 'Can it be reduced to money, economics? Can it be reduced to politics? Will it help me to win the coming election? Will it help me to have a bigger balance in...
... be meaningless; and all that is meaningless seems to be very, very important. A man goes on accumulating money and thinks that he is doing something very significant. Human stupidity is infinite. Beware of it. It will destroy your whole life. It has destroyed millions of people's lives down the ages. Take hold of your awareness - that is the only possibility to get out of stupidity. Before we enter...
... real. Yes even in the echo something of the real is there. Find the thread of reality in it. Catch hold of the thread, and start moving inwards. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS HAS GIVEN ARTIFICIAL RISE TO PLEASURES IN SO MANY WAYS. And because of this delusion that sex is the ultimate in pleasure, so many artificial things have become very important. Money has become very...
... important, because you can purchase anything for money - you can purchase sex... Power has become important, because through power you can have as much sex as you want. A poor man cannot afford it. Kings used to have thousands of wives - even in this twentieth century, the Nizam of Hyderabad had five hundred wives. Naturally, one who has power can have as much sex as he wants. Because of this delusion...
... that sex is the ultimately real, thousands of other problems have arisen: money, power, prestige. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS... It is just imagination; it is just imagination that you are thinking to be pleasure. It is an auto-hypnosis, an auto-suggestion. And once you auto-suggest to yourself, it looks like pleasure. Just think: holding the hand of a woman... and you...
... to know about chronological time you have to ask a physicist; that is not my concern. Psychological time is my basic concern. That's my whole work here: to help you get out of psychological time. The third question: Question 3: WHAT IS GREED? Sandesh, GREED is an effort to stuff yourself with something - it may be sex, it may be food, it may be money, it may be power. Greed is the fear of inner...
...? We are carrying an idea given to us by others that emptiness is death. It is not! It is a false notion perpetuated by the society. Society has a deep investment in the idea, because if people are not greedy THIS society cannot exist. If people are not greedy then who is going to be mad after money, after power? Then the whole structure of this power-oriented society will collapse. If people are not...
... not that great, their greed is very ordinary. They are asking for more money - that is very ordinary. Your saints, your mahatmas say, "This is temporary. We ask for something permanent, we want something eternal. We will sacrifice the temporal for the eternal." There is a great motivation; out of the corner of their eyes they are waiting for paradise. There they will enjoy and there they...
... saying see the stupidity of greed. In that very seeing it disappears, and your energy is free. Your consciousness is no longer entangled, entrapped, by things - money, power, prestige. Your consciousness is free. And the freedom of consciousness is the greatest rejoicing. The fourth question: Question 4: WHY DON'T I FEEL THAT I AM MYSELF? Gayatri, BECAUSE you are not yet. Your feeling is indicative of...
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