... follows are usually regarded as Amoraim, not Tannaim, v. nn. 8 and 20. [Funk, S., Die Juden in Bobylonien, I, n. 2, iv, regards the authorities cited here as Babylonian and Palestinian Tannaim respectively, belonging to the pre-Amoraic age, v. infra 100a. On the other hand, the words 'that between Tannaim as it has been taught' do not occur in MSS. v. D.S.] A bond given by a borrower for money borrowed...

... for business purposes, on condition that the profit shall be equally divided between him and the lender. Samuel and Karna. V. pag. 209, n. 5. That oath is the one that had to be taken by all persons recovering from orphans debts incurred by their father. V. supra 56b, 33a. R. Ammi and R. Assi, v. Sanh. 17a. The reason is given immediately. If money was borrowed in this way, the Rabbis regarded it as...

... can recover the half which is regarded as a deposit. And therefore we cannot plead on behalf of the orphans that the money had been returned, seeing that the father had he been alive could not have pleaded thus. Therefore we cannot plead on their behalf that the money had been returned, although if the father had been alive he could have effectively pleaded thus, as explained above. Lit., 'Angel of...

... death'. V. supra p. 211, n. 10. According to the decision of R. Hisda recorded above. This shows that if the orphans plead that the father had returned the money, their word is not accepted. Viz., the half that is regarded as a loan. That the claimant from the orphans can recover the whole. And how can you contradict Raba who is an older authority than you? I.e., we make them say that he recovers half...

... FOUND NEAR BY, SO THAT IT WAS UNKNOWN WHETHER THE BIRTH OF THE CALF PRECEDED THE GORING11  OR FOLLOWED THE GORING,12  HALF DAMAGES CAN BE RECOVERED OUT OF THE COW, AND QUARTER DAMAGES OUT OF THE CALF.13 GEMARA. Rab Judah on behalf of Samuel said: This ruling is the view of Symmachus who held that money, the ownership of which cannot be decided has to be shared [by the parties].14  The...

... can hold good where he was a person buying both for the one and the other. But why not see if the money paid corresponded to the value of an ox for field work, then it must have been purchased for field work; if, on the other hand it corresponded to that of an ox to be slaughtered, then it must have been purchased for slaughter?19  — Samuel's view could still hold good where there was a...

... had not the wherewithal for making payment, why not take the ox in lieu of money?1  Do not people say, 'From the owner of your loan2  take payment even in bran'? — No, this is to be applied where he had the wherewithal for making payment.3  Rab who said that it was a voidable purchase maintained that we decide according to the majority of cases, and the majority of people buy...

... Files Since the meat of the ox is worth the purchase money. I.e. from your debtor who is now the owner of the money lent to him; cf. the Roman 'Mutuum'. In which case the creditor is entitled to ready cash; cf. Tosaf. a.l. and supra 9a; 27a; B.B. 92b. Which is otherwise an accepted principle in Rabbinic Law; cf. Hul. 11b. Ex. XXIV, 14. Keth. 22a and Nid. 25a. I.e., where A instituted an action against...

... without. For example, you are feeling meaningless inside you and you are trying to fill it by money. It is a stupid effort, unconscious effort, not seeing a simple point: that money can be gathered, accumulated, but it will pile up around you. You can have mountains of money around you... there have been people with mountains of money. One of the greatest rich men in the world was Andrew Carnegia. He...

... left inestimable treasures, but when he was dying his biographer asked him, "Are you dying contented?" He opened his eyes and said, "No, I am a very discontented man. My whole life has been a failure. I am dying unfulfilled." The biographer was surprised. He said, "But you have so much money! Perhaps nobody else has that much money as you have got. Why should you not be...

... contented and fulfilled?" Andrew Carnegie laughed and he said, "Yes, the same logic destroyed my whole life. I was also thinking that if I can have that much money then all will be well. Money is there, and I have lost my life in accumulating all this junk, but inside I am as empty as ever, in fact far more empty than ever, because when I was poor..." He was born a poor man. He has not...

... inherited money, he earned his money himself. He worked hard, eighteen hours per day; not even beggars work that hard. He was greed incarnate. His whole life is the story of greed. And his experience is significant because he says "When I was poor at least there was hope that some day I am going to be rich and then all will be well. Now I have even lost that hope, because I am rich and still my...

.... Without knowing your nature, without knowing your inner being, you are bound to go astray. All that you are doing is guesswork, all that you are doing is just imitating others. People are after money, so you are after money. People are after big houses, so you are after big houses. People are after this, so you are after this. You are simply being imitative, and only a stupid person is imitative. The...

... Portuguese whose only possessions were a cart and a donkey. Things were going very badly so he decided to ask for advice from a richer friend. "Manuel," said his friend, "the solution is to sell the donkey. In this way you will save the money you spend on feeding the donkey and you can pull the cart yourself. You will see, you can do whatever the donkey does." Manuel followed his advice...

... enjoying the delights of one of the red-light's buxom blondes he left immediately, without paying any money. "What about the marks?" cried the prostitute. "Oh yes. Ten out of ten!" he replied. An Irishman bought his girlfriend a magnificent bunch of roses. On receiving her present she took him by the hand, led him to her bedroom, then she took off her clothes and lay naked on the bed...

... wood, just go a little farther, and soon you will come to a mine of copper. Collect some copper, and that will give you enough money to live at least for seven days; you need not come again for seven days. So once a week you can come and collect copper." The man went, found the mine, and thanked the mystic. He was immensely happy because the burden was too much, and he was becoming so ancient...

...;What should I do?" And the mystic gave him a device: The rich man gave to each of his sons a bag full of golden coins and told them, "Within seven days you have to fill your houses completely with whatsoever you want to purchase with this money. But the houses should be full. And whoever succeeds in filling the houses totally will be my successor, so be careful!" They all had their...

... palaces and they were very much worried because with such a small amount of money.... Their palaces were big: how were they going to fill them? The first son thought that the cheapest thing would be just to go to the municipal corporation and ask them, "Bring all your trucks that throw out the rubbish and fill my house - I will pay you money for it." It cost nothing, and they had to throw the...

... better, but with a small amount of money how can you find something better? But he worked it out: he brought beautiful candles, and the day his father was to come, the son put all the candles in the house and the house was full of light. The third son looked at the two brothers: the first was certainly stupid; the second was far superior. But there is a strange thing about candles or lamps: whatever...

... has missed, missed by just a little miscalculation. He has not looked under the candles and seen that there is darkness. The whole house is not full of light." They told the son, and he understood: it was right. They reached the third house. There was no light, it was dark. As they entered, the third son returned the money. He said, "I can fill the house without wasting the money. I have...

... there is light all over, darkness is still there. It is just that you cannot see because the sun covers it, distracts your eyes. It does not destroy darkness. The moment the sun goes down, suddenly the darkness is there. It does not go, it does not come; it is always there. "So you can take the money back - I don't need it, I can manage it without wasting money." The house was full of...

... price of your whole kingdom - just a glass of water! And you think you have conquered the whole world? From today start saying you have conquered a whole glass of water." When man reaches to the cherished goals, then he becomes aware that there are many things around them. For example, for your whole life you try to earn money, thinking that one day when you have it, you will live a relaxed life...

.... But you have been tense your whole life - tension has become your discipline - and at the end of life, when you have achieved all the money you wanted, you cannot relax. The whole life disciplined in tension and anguish and worry won't let you relax. So you are not a winner, you are a loser. You lose your appetite, you destroy your health, you destroy your sensibility, your sensitiveness. You...

... - in the developed countries, there are poor people also, but they don't suffer from depression - and now you cannot give a man any more hope to remove his depression because he has all, more than you can promise. His condition is really pitiable. He never thought of implications, he never thought of by-products, he never thought of what he would lose by gaining money. He never thought that he would...

.... The old man was very beautiful. He was the greatest bidi manufacturer in the whole of India. He had everything that you can imagine, but he was absolutely unable to enjoy anything. Enjoyment is something that has to be nourished. It is a certain discipline, a certain art - how to enjoy - and it takes time to get in contact with the great things in life. But the man who is running after money...

... more for money, for power - because they have seen the top, and there is nothing there. They went to the very highest rung of the ladder and found that it leads nowhere; it is just a ladder leading nowhere. While you are somewhere in the middle, or lower than the middle, you have a hope because there are other rungs higher than you. There comes a point when you are on the highest rung and there is...

... only suicide or madness - or hypocrisy: you go on smiling till death finishes you, but deep down you know that you have wasted your life. In the East depression has never been a problem. The poor learned to enjoy whatsoever little they had, and the rich learned that having the whole world at your feet means nothing - you have to go in a search for meaning, not for money. And they had precedents: for...

... meditation; otherwise, this depression is going to kill people. And these people will be the talented ones - because they achieved power, they achieved money, they achieved whatsoever they wanted... the highest degrees in education. These are the talented people - and they are all feeling despair. This is going to be dangerous because the most talented people are no more enthusiastic about life, and the...

... untalented are enthusiastic about life but they don't even have the talents to get power, money, education, respectability. They don't have the talents, so they are suffering, feeling handicapped. They are turning into terrorists, they are turning towards unnecessary violence just out of revenge - because they cannot do anything else. But they can destroy. And the rich are almost ready to hang themselves...

... be a condemnation of the whole Christian church. So no fine; they can simply answer whether it is true or not. But the thing is out; it cannot remain that way for long. They will have to accept the fact. Our commune was destroyed by Christians hiding behind the politicians. They have money, they have votes, so any politician is vulnerable to their influence. And all over the world they are doing...

... had seen it in an action: the woman was not looking to the right and not looking to the left... she was just looking in the middle, focussed in the middle. The middle is the point from where the transcendence happens. Think about it, contemplate about it, watch it in life. A man is running after money, is mad, money-mad; money is the only god.... One woman was asking another, "Why have you left...

...;I worship money, and he is broke." There are people whose only god is money. One day or other, the god fails - it is bound to fail. Money cannot be the god. It was your illusion, you were projecting. One day or other you come to the point where you can see that there is no god in it, that there is nothing in it, that you have been wasting your life. Then you turn against it, then you take an...

... opposite attitude: you become against money. Then you leave the money, you don't touch the money. You are continuously obsessed now; now you are AGAINST the money but the obsession remains. You have moved from the left to the right, but your center of consciousness is still the money. You can change from one desire to another. You were much too worldly, one day you can become other-worldly - you remain...

... the same, the disease persists. Buddha says: To be worldly is to be worldly, and to be other-worldly is also to be worldly; to be for money is to be mad after money, to be against money is to be mad after money; to seek power is foolish, to escape is also foolish. Just to be in the middle is what wisdom is all about. FOR THE FIRST TIME Saraha saw it actually there - he had not even seen it in Sri...

..., we cannot support. The government has to be above these religious creeds and cults. Jews have their institutions, Christians have their institutions -- this is not possible. Government is secular. Politicians have their own way, so what he has done -- because he could not manage the Supreme Court -- he has decided to give money to the parents of the children, not to the institution but to the...

... parents, and now it is up to the parents: where they want to send their children, they can send. That means, in a round about way the Christian schools, the Catholic colleges will receive the money but now it will come through the parents. Q:* YOU SAID "HE HAS GIVEN THE MONEY" -- MEANING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? A:* Yes. That's a decision.... It will be given to find a way around...

... the Supreme Court. Q:* WHO WILL GIVE THE MONEY, BHAGWAN? A:* It is president of the United States, who is trying to support Christianity, who really wants, who himself is a fanatic Christian, a fundamentalist Christian and who wants the whole country to become Christian. And these are the ways: of indoctrination, enforcing. Now if institutions cannot be given, then give to the parents and the...

... who have the festival. There is no other festival going on anywhere. To just destroy our festival, naturally, just for five days a person will think many times whether to come from Calcutta or from Japan or from Australia or from England, wasting that much money and just within five days, even he has not recovered, rested, and he is to go back. Q:* I'M SURE YOU WILL FIND A WAY OF MAKING THOSE FIVE...

... such a dance and such a song. All that I wanted these people that we are not asking any favor from you; we are putting money from our own sannyasins. We have not asked a single cent from you; just we want, please don't waste our time! You know perfectly well that you are going to be defeated, but you can waste our time. So we -- rather than creating -- four-hundred legal experts are simply wasting...

...-oriented, and suddenly she saw so much money she had never dreamt of: two hundred million dollars were in her hands. Forty-three million dollars she has kept in Switzerland -- which were bound to come here, that is a theft -- in her own name. But she is simply foolish. Now she is purchasing a hotel in Germany and once she purchases it -- because that money was coming from German sannyasins and German...

... communes... that money either belongs to German communes or it belongs to this commune, and she is purchasing a hotel, five-star hotel in Germany -- she will be soon, if these people don't catch in, then German sannyasins are going to put her into jail. From where she got the money? She is not rich, neither the other people in her group are rich. Forty-three million dollars -- from where she got? Q:* DO...

... YOU HAVE EVIDENCE THAT IT IS WITH HER IN FACT? A:* Yes, because her secretary who left her two years before because she had cancer, she has come back. She is going to give her affidavit and her testimony, that she remembers the number of the account, the bank, how much money. And she also remembers that when she got this money, she started dealing in drugs, she started smuggling things from one...

..., doing any kind of work, comes from one of the richest families in England -- so there is no question of that money can become important to her -- and is ready to do anything. She was very friendly to Sheela, but Sheela could not take her into her group for the simple reason because her love towards me and to the commune is so much that she will not do any such thing that goes against my ideology, so...

... Sheela: she had never seen so big money, she had never seen so much power, in my name she had ten thousand people who could have died or done anything.... She was just a waitress in a hotel... and the mind has not changed -- again she has purchased a hotel! Q:* YOU LEFT INDIA RATHER ABRUPTLY AND CAME HERE. MANY RUMORS HAVE BEEN FLOATING AS TO WHY YOU LEFT, WHY YOU CAME, WHAT ARE THE REASONS. WOULD YOU...

... he said, "I cannot annoy him, he is fanatic, so you will have to wait." And my health went on deteriorating and finally Morarji went away.... Then the Maharashtra government became interested in another thing, that I should not move out of Maharashtra, because that brings their tourism finished. Thousands of foreigners are coming, they bring money and Poona has become world- famous, all...

... person. All their violence became exploitation: they cannot cut off your head, but they can suck your blood. And they became the richest people in the country, for the simple reason that all their violence became concentrated only on one thing, and that was money. This was not evolution. These people were not better people. The teaching of nonviolence has not helped them to become better -- they have...

... become worse! They are the greediest, the most materialist, the most money-minded; their whole world is money, because every other avenue is closed. They talk about money, they think about money, they dream about money. And they can do anything to accumulate money. Whenever you enforce something, the result is not going to bring a betterment. They have not become compassionate; to be nonviolent means...

... the Court] said to him [the debtor], 'Go [and] give him [what you owe him],' and he [the debtor] said [later], 'I have paid [as ordered],' and witnesses testify that he did not pay him,4  while he repeats his assertion that he did pay,5  [then we say:] 'He has been found to be a liar in regard to this money.'6  [But if the Court said to the debtor,] 'You are obliged to give him [what...

... you owe him], and he [the debtor] said later, 'I have paid,' and witnesses testify that he did not pay,7  while he repeats his assertion that he did pay,6  [then we say:] 'He has not been found to be a liar in regard to this money.'8  For what reason? — [We say that the debtor] was just trying to put him off, thinking to gain time until the Rabbis would consider their decision...

... more carefully.9 Rabba b. Bar Hanah said in the name of R. Johanan: [If one says to another], 'You have in your possession10  a hundred zuz belonging to me,' and the other replies, 'I have nothing belonging to you,' while witnesses testify that he [the defendant] has [the money], and he [the defendant] again pleads, 'I paid it,' [then we say], 'He has been found to be a liar in regard to this...

... money.' Such was the case of Sabbathai, the son of R. Merinus: He assigned to his daughter-in-law in her Kethubah11  a cloak of fine wool, and he pledged himself to it. Her Kethubah got lost, [whereupon] he [Sabbathai] said to her,12  'I deny altogether [having assigned to you the cloak].' [But] witnesses came and said, 'Yes, he did assign it to her.' In the end he said, 'I gave it to her...

... hear of it and make me lose [my money].29  But why is this case different from the one we have learned.30  IF ONE HAS FOUND NOTES OF INDEBTEDNESS WHICH CONTAIN A CLAUSE PLEDGING [THE DEBTOR'S] PROPERTY, ONE SHALL NOT RETURN THEM — and it is explained as referring to a case where the debtor admits [the debt], and [the note has not to be returned] for the reason that it may have been...

... him [the borrower]: Write another note in Tishri, as otherwise the Rabbis may hear of it and make me lose [my money]? — It was said [in reply]: There [in the Mishnah], seeing that he [the lender] would profit by seizing property sold [by the debtor] between Nisan and Tishri, he [the lender] would be content and would say nothing. But here, seeing that he [the lender] would have no profit, as...

...  R. Hiyya b. Abba then said to R. Johanan [himself]: And is not this [implied in] our Mishnah [which says]: If she produces a bill of divorcement unaccompanied by the Kethubah, she may exact payment of [the money due to her in accordance with] her Kethubah.3  [R. Johanan then] answered him: If I had not lifted the sherd for you, you would not have found the pearl underneath.4  Abaye...

... million dollars. They have been siphoning money from the European communes into this bank account. The information came once before also, when I was silent. Sheela simply mentioned that some woman had informed the government that "Savita and I have a bank balance, but we are having that bank balance for you. In case you have to leave America we will need it to create a commune in Switzerland."...

...; I said, "The bank account is for me and I am not aware of it? You never told me. At least let me know how much money is in the account." They never told me. She said, "I will find out." I asked Savita just two days before she left. She said, "I will find out." You don't forget forty-three million dollars! And now the account will be used by all this criminal gang. The...

... money belongs to European communes; it was meant to come here for the construction of the commune. I said in the press conference that we are left by Sheela and her gang with a fifty-five million dollar debt. About forty-three million of the mystery is solved. Now it is only a question of a twelve million dollar debt, and that too will be solved! It will just take time to figure out their books - here...

..., and all over the world. Perhaps this forty-three million was from the time this sannyasin was Sheela's secretary. But that was four years ago. In these four years she may have accumulated more money. And the excuse she must have been giving to people is that it is needed for the master. I was not even aware that I am so rich. I am the poorest man on the earth - nothing belongs to me. From my shoes...

... up to my hat, everything belongs to the commune. If I have to leave the commune, I have to leave naked! There is no other way. And I wonder how I am going to get a ticket back to India. I don't have a single dollar. For twenty years I have not seen money. My people have loved me so much, they have taken care of me. There was no need for me.... I have not yet seen, in four years, what the dollar...

... love to take you all to hell, because hell must be a tremendously beautiful place where all these geniuses have gathered. And once we reach there, we are going to make it a really great oasis. It is not Oregon. You will not have to face idiotic hostility. You will be received with great joy. But all other religions have been telling you, "Donate; that is the greatest virtue." The money goes...

... to the priest. The money goes to the bishop, to the cardinal, and finally it reaches to the Vatican. Now, my suggestion is that the Vatican should be turned into an AIDS home, because they are responsible for homosexuality. They should be forced to accept their criminal act. To teach people celibacy, to teach that monks cannot have any love relationship with a woman, and nuns cannot have any...

... Catholics, and money goes on pouring into the Vatican. So the Emperor Wu asks the first question to Bodhidharma, "I have donated so much. What is going to be my reward?" He was not aware that Bodhidharma was a very straightforward man. He said, "Nothing. Instead, you should be punished." The emperor could not believe it. He said, "But all the monks have been telling me, 'Donate...

.... Make temples. Make caravanserais. Make hospitals, schools. Give in charity to the monasteries.' And you are making just the opposite statement." Bodhidharma said, "In the first place, from where did you get all this money? For that you will be punished. Secondly, these people have been exploiting you, and you are a just an idiot. No virtue in it, only stupidity." To talk to the emperor...

... you experience it. But give it a try. You will not be losing anything. Love is not something like a commodity, that if you give it you will have less of it. It is not money, that you had ten dollars and five you have given; now you have only five dollars left. Love is not a commodity. It is not a quantity; it is a quality. Give it, and you will be surprised that from unknown sources, from everywhere...