... himself superior to somebody, inferior to somebody. He is always struggling to go forward, to be the first in the race, to reach the highest glory on this earth of money, of power, of prestige. But if you are not aware and alert, if you have not yet experienced the love that is no longer part of biology, then there is only one way you can recognize the master and that is when he is crucified. His...

... glass and said, "There is no need for any operation." Benson was very happy. He said, "Really? Is there any hope?" He said, "Every hope. First, you went to a Chinese woman - because these diseases you can get only from a Chinese prostitute. The second wrong thing you did was, you went to American doctors who are just after money, money, money - and money means you have to do...

... something. Even if your cock disappears, they are not worried; they need money. An operation means money. You don't be worried, there is no need of any operation." Benson was very happy. He said, "Thank you!" He gave much money to him and the old man said, "Whenever there is any trouble, come to me, don't go to American doctors. They are simply cheating people." Just to have a...

... hankering for the prizes and awards the establishment can bestow upon them: respectability, honor. They are all desiring to be Nobel laureates, but to get the Nobel prize you have to sell your soul. You have to accept a thousand and one things that no intelligent person can accept. You have to support the status quo, the people who are in power, who have the money. You are just a puppet to them. Yes, it...

..., and started the story ten years after this incident: The king was becoming old and wanted somebody to guide him in the spiritual life, so he went to Gadivan Raikva with many chariots full of gold, money, valuable clothes. He offered everything to Raikva, touched his feet, and Raikva said - he used the word "sudra" for him. "Sudra" is the worst you can say to a man. It is...

... difficult to translate in English, so I will say, "You son-of-a-bitch! You think that by all this money you can purchase spiritual guidance? I spit on all your money - take it back!" This was the main emphasis in Vinoba's story, and he said, "These were the people who could throw all those valuable presents and say directly - even to the king - 'You are a sudra, the worst kind of human...

... being: untouchable. The very idea in your mind, that by money you can purchase spiritual guidance, makes you untouchable. Just take all this rubbish from here and don't come back to me.'" So Vinoba talked much about it, that this was the courage of the seers of India, that they could even insult a great king without being afraid. I was very puzzled, because those twelve widows were listening in...

... refused, and he was very angry. The prime minister said, "I knew it was going to happen. You must have forgotten: ten years before you had, in an auction, defeated Raikva; now if you want him to guide you, you take that woman rather than money. Offer the woman to the man. Touch his feet, ask his forgiveness, and he will guide you ...." He took the woman, and Raikva received him with great joy...

..., accepted him as a disciple and guided him into spirituality. I said, "These two parts you have dropped from the story. You are cheating these twelve widows. Now, what authority have you got to change the story? Who are you? On what grounds did you drop those two parts? - because without those two parts the story takes a totally different color. It seems as if Raikva is so high that money does not...

... matter to him, but the reality is that it is not a question of money. The woman that was taken from his hands matters too much to him. "And this man who carries for ten years a revengeful attitude, and for ten years is still lusting for the woman - what spiritual guidance can he give?" I asked him, "You tell me what spiritual guidance this man can give - and why you dropped these two...

..., the psychologists are offering their services to the parents, to the society, "Bring your boy or your girl and we will deprogram the person." And they do it. Of course, they charge enough money. And particularly in America they are very successful, for the simple reason that the American mind is always ready to change. It has not very deep roots in the past. Americans are the uprooted...

... seventy years old - has been coming here throughout the whole year, almost every month. He is a billionaire - and you know perfectly well I am not averse to money. Money is a perfectly beautiful method of exchanging things, one of the greatest inventions of man. It was so difficult before money came in. You had a camel to sell, but nobody was ready to purchase a camel. You had to find someone who wanted...

... a camel and was willing to give his two cows in barter. It must have been a very difficult world. Money has made it easier. You need not bother to find the purchaser, you can simply sell the camel and purchase the cows. It is one of the greatest inventions of man to make exchange easier. I am not averse to money. I want the whole world to become rich and luxurious. I say to you, "Blessed are...

... international corporations: he has the authority over all the money the family has. Naturally, they are afraid. But how to take a seventy-year-old man to a deprogrammer psychologist? They went alone, not taking him, to ask advice. The psychologist said, "It is really a difficult situation. Your people you can bring forcibly, but this old man you cannot bring forcibly. If you do, it is certain he will...

... American president to go on pouring money into nuclear weapons. And the amazing thing is, you have enough nuclear weapons to destroy humanity seven hundred times! Strange! I don't see the arithmetic. Have these politicians forgotten even the basic three r's? Russia and America both can destroy this planet seven hundred times. There is no need, one time is enough! You have already got weapons seven...

... away everything. All that I have got is this gun." He puts the gun on Hymie Goldberg's chest and he says, "Now, you have two alternatives: either you give me money or I give you death." There was a great silence. Even that murderer started feeling a little nervous, because Goldberg was just standing there. And he said, "Have you heard me or not?" Hymie said, "I have...

... heard, but let me think." But it is very rare to find such people who decide between money or death. Probably most people would give you the money, because anyway, if you are dead, the money will be gone. What is there to think about? But Goldberg has a thousand years of heritage. He is a perfect Jew. The ordinary criminal uses direct means. That's why he is caught. The politician uses very...

...; He was saying this to the senate and underneath, in the darkness, armaments were being sold to Iran. Nobody would have known it. And because all those armaments were sold without his own senate and the country knowing about it, all the money must have been going into his own pocket. He was caught red-handed, because when Iran and America had a conflict a few months ago, Iran used American armaments...

... against America, against his own country - just for his own interest, because he cannot run again for president. He has been president twice already, so this is the last chance to gather as much money as he can manage, by any means. Now this is the ugliest thing that one can do to one's own country. Do you understand the facts? People are not trained and you have wasted trillions of dollars on arms...

.... If you say so, I will accept the post. But you don't know me, you have just heard about me." But the emperor was stubborn as emperors are supposed to be. He said, "No. You have to accept this post." The first case that came before Lao Tzu was about a great thief who had stolen a lot of money and armaments from the richest man of the empire. The man was so rich that he was lending...

... money to the emperor. He was far richer than the emperor himself. And naturally, he had never expected what happened. The man - the thief - was caught red-handed. So there was no question that he should not be punished. Lao Tzu heard the whole thing, both sides, and gave the judgment that, "The thief and the rich man, both, should be sent to jail for six months." The rich man could not...

... 'the worldly man'. He thinks in terms of money, in terms of commodities, in terms of bank balances; he thinks in terms of things. And he thinks that the more he has, the more he is. That is one of the most fundamental fallacies. You can have the whole world and you can remain a beggar. You can have all that the world can give and yet remain empty. The great Alexander died. He is the very symbol of...

... empty, still not aware that they have wasted their whole lives, that it has been just a nightmare. The man of having continues to accumulate more and more. What he accumulates is not the point; his emphasis is on accumulation. His soul exists in his accumulations. What he accumulates is not important. He may accumulate money, he may accumulate knowledge; he may accumulate ego, he may accumulate...

... power was not his; it was a reflected glory. And you can see it, it is not very difficult. You know men who have much power -- power of things, power of big palaces, power of politics, money, prestige, heritage but you can see that they are poor people. They don't have any personal power. They don't have any magnetism in their souls. If you put their things aside, t]hey are more ordinary than ordinary...

..., yes," she said, "but not stone blind." Even in love you continue to remain the man of the outside. Even in love you continue to think in terms of money, prestige, power. Even in love you don't allow the unpredictable to assert, you don't allow your innermost being to have its say. Even then you remain a manipulator. Our minds are almost always interested in the very ordinary. It has...

... his language. His language was not of the mind, his language was not of money, of the outside. He talked about the kingdom and they asked, "Where is your kingdom? About what kingdom are you talking?" -- because they thought he was talking about the kingdom which is outside. He said, "I am the king," and they were worried. And they suspected that he was trying to sabotage the...

... the man, looking at the dollar. "That's your damages after deducting my fee, the cost of appeals and other expenses," replied the attorney. Out of ten thousand dollars, only one dollar! The man looked at the dollar again, turned it over and scanned it carefully. "What is the matter with this dollar?" he said. "Is it counterfeit?" But all money outside is counterfeit...

...: all dollars are counterfeit, all rupees are counterfeit. The real money does not exist that way; the real money does not exist outside. This conversion from the counterfeit to the real is what Bauls call the birth of the novel man. COME IF YOU WISH TO MEET THE NOVEL MAN. HE HAS ABANDONED HIS WORLDLY POSSESSIONS FOR THE BEGGAR'S SACK THAT HANGS FROM HIS SHOULDERS. He has abandoned worldly possessions...

... immensely. Very few people have loved me so deeply. I used to stay in Amritsar in his house. He is suffering from monotony: it has taken all his life and all his juice and all his joy. I have stayed in many, many houses all around the country, and it is always monotony. One of my friends was rich enough... I asked him, "What are you going to do with so much money? Whether you have nine crore rupees...

..., for people who come to visit in his city to stay free of charge -- just to create some work for himself and to avoid his wife the whole day. So early in the morning he would go out -- and he was not earning anything... on the contrary he was losing, but he had enough to lose. He would return at ten or eleven in the night. His wife told me, "You have stopped him from earning money. Now he is...

... losing money, but still the same trouble; in the morning he goes, and in the night he comes back." I said, "It is not the factories, it is you. Do you really want him -- be frank and sincere -- to to twenty-four hours in the house?" She said, "No. I have taken a vow not to lie: it is good for an hour or two that we meet, but twenty-four hours... then it becomes heavy. Then we start...

... money, it may be power, it may be prestige, it may even be saintliness. It is expected... these are the people who have won the first race. The intelligent ones, the poetic, the silent, who could have become a Gautam Buddha, who could have become a poet like Rabindranath or Kahlil Gibran... We know -- it is a simple fact -- that intelligent people will not compete with this crowd, and the crowd is not...

..., she never wanted to move. She wanted to live peacefully in a beautiful house surrounded with a beautiful garden. But man basically is a nomad. That nomadness comes from his basic sexual cell. He is made of those sexual cells which keep telling him, "Go on, go on." He will go to all kinds of strange places for no reason, just because he needs money... and once he has money he starts...

... traveling. A home he does not have. You will see it in tourists: ninety percent are Americans, because they have so much money that what to do?... Go on, anywhere. And when they go on to the Taj Mahal or to Khajuraho or to Ajanta or to Ellora, they cannot stay there. They cannot watch the beauty silently, look at the great art that has taken thousands of years to make, thousands of people were involved to...

..., gharwali, one who owns the home. But that word we cannot use for the man, who really owns it; nobody can say to any man, "You are gharwala." He has paid, he has earned the money, but the woman is called the owner of the home. But it is exactly right. Man may have earned, but the woman has made the house. Woman has forced man to live a life settled, silent, peaceful, not to go on running like...

... single word to the European governments and the European Common Market against destroying nourishment -- which is absolutely ugly when people are dying. With the same money the food could have reached to Ethiopia. But it reached into the deepest ocean, where it will disappear and be eaten by sea animals. It seems there has suddenly arisen a great love for sea animals.... Man has been kept half...

... far richer than the richest man in the world. Emperors will look like beggars. Today in America, which is the richest country, the richest men have only four and a half billion dollars; in Japan, the richest man in the world has twenty-one billion dollars. But their souls are completely forgotten. They are only counting their money, knowing perfectly well that all that money is soaked in blood; all...

... that money is out of exploitation of the starving, of the retarded. The retarded and starving have been kept retarded and starving; otherwise it would be difficult to exploit them. You cannot exploit an intelligent man. You cannot exploit a man of understanding. You cannot exploit a man who knows his own eternal being. Devageet, your soul needs discovery not nourishment. Soul is not material, it is...

... the upper hand; he sympathizes with you, he says, "Poor fellow..." But nobody goes to the successful man to congratulate him; it hurts. I am happy that the richest country in the world became jealous of a small commune of five thousand people. It has proved indubitably that money does not change people, or their mind. I could have understood it if our commune in India would have been as...

... a large number of sannyasins. Our stall of books is overcrowded; it is the most successful stall even in Russia. But the people don't have money, so they are stealing books. I have informed my people, "Don't pay any attention - - let them steal. At least those books will reach to millions of people, and if you catch somebody red-handed, just tell him, 'I'm not against stealing; what can you...

... do if you don't have any money? Just keep one thing in mind: when you have read it, pass it on. That is the price.'" They confiscated first all our videos, all our audios -- because they were worried, one never knows what is in them.... Now they have released the audios and videos. They must have seen them first, the KGB must have watched everything! The president of the exhibition was so...

... people, because they are also carrying the same song hidden, the same dance. They have been crippled by their society. They also have the same eyes for beauty, but they had been blinded by the society. They have also the energy to celebrate, but this society does not believe in celebration. This society is absolutely insane. It believes in money, it believes in power, it believes in violence, it...

.... If you are a seeker after money and power, then you will be dependent on money and power. The man who goes on accumulating money, if it is his pleasure to have more and more money, will become more and more miserable - because the more he has, the more he wants, and the more he has, the more he is afraid to lose it. A double-edged sword: the more he wants... the first edge of the sword. Hence he...

.... There are a thousand and one things upon which your money depends. Your money does not make you a master, it makes you a slave. Pleasure is peripheral; hence it is bound to depend on the outer circumstances. And it is only titillation. If food is pleasure, what actually is being enjoyed? - just the taste! For a moment, when the food passes your taste buds on the tongue, you feel a sensation which you...

... three thousand for the schmuck in Poland!" Money, power, prestige - they all make you cunning. Seek pleasure and you will lose your innocence; and to lose your innocence is to lose all. Jesus says: be like a small child, only then can you enter into my kingdom of God. And he is right. But the pleasure-seeker cannot be as innocent as a child. He has to be very clever, very cunning, very political...

... it may be money or it may be virtue; it does not matter in what kind of coins you deal - they may be worldly, they may be otherworldly. But be very clever, otherwise you will be exploited. Exploit and don't be exploited - that is the subtle message given to you with your mother's milk. And every school, college, university, is rooted in the idea: compete. A real education will not teach you to...

... enough money to come to America and be in America. We have communes all over the world. They will go on increasing. Now my approach will be just to be a guest of one commune for a few days or a few months, then move on to another commune. So you need not be worried about making arrangements to see me. Now I will be constantly traveling. It was the prophet Mohammed who has said that the thirsty have to...

... man has lost all hope, has lost all dreams, has lost all possibilities of growth, evolution. Sannyas can bring the hope back. You are the hope of the world. Question 23: YOU HAVE DEFINED YOURSELF AS THE RICH MAN'S GURU. DON'T THE OTHER PEOPLE INTEREST YOU? ARE THE RICH PARTICULARLY IN NEED OF A GURU? OR ARE YOU THEIR GURU BECAUSE THEY HAVE MONEY? The first thing to be understood: I have not defined...

... myself as the rich man's guru. It is the yellow journalism, which dominates the mind of the masses around the world, which came up with the definition. I simply accepted it with my own meanings. They were saying it to be derogatory, but my meaning is totally different. A Vincent van Gogh is far more rich than Henry Ford. Richness does not mean only wealth or money; richness is a multidimensional...

... phenomenon. A poet may be poor, but he has a sensitivity that no money can purchase. He is richer than any rich man. A musician may not be rich, but as far as his music is concerned, no wealth is richer than his music. To me the rich man is one who has sensitivity, creativity, receptivity. The man of wealth is only one of the dimensions. According to me the man of wealth is also a creative artist: he...

..., one of the dimensions of poverty is a man who cannot even produce money. He is the poorest of the poor, because money is such a mundane thing. If you cannot create it, you simply show that you don't have intelligence enough. The poor people of the world are responsible for their poverty. Who is telling them to go on producing children - and each child makes them more poor. Who is telling them to go...

... death you will have such a house in paradise. I have not been giving any promises to anybody. I have not been going after anybody. Millions of people - those who have come to me - have come on their own. And now you can see for yourself. Those who have come have a certain richness of some kind or other; it is not only the money. I have around me people of all talents, people of different kinds of...

... functioning in the society as a doctor. You will remain unfulfilled your whole life, because you listened to the parents and the society and the greed and the ambition. Everybody was saying, "be a doctor. It is a good profession, respectable, and you will be able to earn more money than if you become a painter. Who knows? A painter may not be able to earn money at all, because painting is not something...

..., that I traveled all over the world without any money, just sannyasins and friends were supporting me, and I never ran out of money. I never was in any difficulty anywhere in the whole world. But the moment I landed at the Bombay airport my money and my things were all stolen!" This is a religious land! People are spiritual! Kamal Bharti, that shows that somebody who thinks the world is maya has...

... multitude below came: "Take-a my heart! Phoo, phoo! Take-a my heart! Phoo, phoo!" They were doing both things: "Take-a my heart!" and blowing the feather as far away as possible! That's what these people call spirituality. "The world is illusory." And these temples of Shankaracharya accumulate as much money as possible. And "Money is dirt"... and they collect gold...