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... world. Whether this passion or desire is for money or for religion, for authority or for the realization of God, for worldly pleasures or for the liberation of moksha, it makes no difference. All passion is ignorance and bondage. I do not ask you to desire the soul. I only ask you to comprehend the nature of desire. The understanding of passion frees one from passion because it reveals its painful...
... welcome the rebellious spirit of man, because there is no other alternative. My certainty about the rebel as the savior of man and this planet is absolute - categorically absolute. The rebel just has to be unafraid of public opinion, unafraid of the crowd, unafraid of masks, attitudes. A priest wanted to raise money for his church. He had been told that there was a fortune to be made racing horses, so...
... culture and that culture... just superficial. The mother gave her little girl some money to go to the movies, a treat she had never had before. When she came home, her mother asked, "How did you get on, dear?" "Well, Mummy, it was a bit like Sunday school!" "What? What do you mean?" asked the mother. "Well, at Sunday school they sing, 'Stand up, stand up for Jesus...
... children with the money. It is difficult to kill your own child, somebody else can do it. You can kill somebody else's child; a simple arrangement. But can you say these people are growing into a better humanity? Is there any effort being made anywhere in the world? By the end of this century, cannibalism will be a widespread phenomenon. It is a well-known fact, cannibals say that no flesh is more...
... money at their feet, and food, and fruits, and flowers. And all their great act is, which any idiot can do... you can try it. Just tell your wife or your husband to take a needle and touch your back with the needle. You will both be surprised: there are only a few points where you will feel the touch. There are blind spots on the back where there is no nerve, so even if you push the needle in you will...
...;Aaahhg!" groans Herschel. "M.G. Road? Shopping? Change money?" asks Rambo Rickshaw. "No, no, Ruby Hall, Ruby Hall!" gasps Herschel. "Ruby Hall? That is hospital. You are sick?" says Rambo. "Jesus Christ!" yells Herschel. "Oh, you are American," smiles Rambo. "I know California. You want Poona tour?" "No!" cries Herschel, "I...
... in the world. Money, power, prestige, respectability ... there is the whole world to conquer. Certainly, a boy of seven must have been of immense intelligence to see the futility of all power, of all that the world can give. The very fact that such a small child starts moving from master to master is enough proof of his intelligence. ... STUDYING BUDDHISM AND CONFUCIANISM. Buddhism and Confucianism...
... of the soul. It looks very logical that if you share your love you will be wasting it and soon you will become poor. This is the ordinary law of economics: if you want to have more money don't share it, be miserly. Get as much as you can and give as little as possible. Then only can you accumulate, then you can be rich. This is true as far as the outside world is concerned, but this is absolutely...
... one would have cared to take note of him if he had been born in a poor family. We would have asked, "How much gold, how many palaces, elephants and horses did you renounce?" And he would have said, "None, because I had nothing." How could one be a teerthankara if he had no wealth? To be a teerthankara, one needs to be a millionaire. We measure everything with money. Poor people...
... measure everything with money. We measure one's wealth by the amount of wealth one has; we measure renunciation by the amount of wealth one gives up. Once I visited Jaipur. A man came to me and said, "There is a great sannyasin here; you must see him. He is an extraordinary sannyasin." I asked, "How did you find out that he is a great sannyasin?" And he answered, "The king of...
... suddenly gets a large amount of money. Usually it should not be of any harm, but if it comes suddenly it may be dangerous. A sudden happiness may also create an accident, because we need a certain capacity to bear it. We become able to bear happiness if it comes upon us gradually. If bliss comes gradually only then we become prepared for it. This preparedness, the capacity to bear, depends on so many...
... authenticity of the experience look deep into the personality of the person for some other symptoms of transformation. One man says that he goes into samadhi, into superconsciousness. He buries himself underground for six days and comes out alive. But if you leave money in the house this man will steal; if he finds the opportunity he will indulge in drinking alcohol. If you did not know about his claim of...
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