... are freed, one single innocent person should not be punished. That's why it takes so long. Unless it is proved that you are criminal, you are innocent. This is good for rich countries, luxurious countries who have time, and who have money and who can go on.... One innocent person should not be punished, even if ninety-nine criminals are released. The idea is good, but not for a country like India...

... language is the best, but if it is difficult, then two languages at the most. Simple things have to be done. All efforts that go into war, and all money that goes into war have to be put into technological and scientific development. In this world where there are such big nuclear powers, you should not bother about war. And India should be... she has the opportunity to declare, "We dissolve our...

.... He has money to purchase votes. He donates to the party millions of rupees. Without him we cannot manage - and he wants to be the education minister. That is simply a political bargain." She told me, "If I even mention your name, my deputy prime minister, Morarji Desai, immediately freaks out. He says, 'Don't read that man's books and don't listen to him and his advice. And don't meet him...

... nationalization." Make it a guarantee that anybody who wants to invest in India is welcome. India has the cheapest labor in the world. The same commodity in America will cost eight times or ten times more. If it is produced in India, it will be cheap. Use the Indian labor. Indian labor is unemployed. And tell the whole world, "You can invest your money, your money is safe." Make it a guarantee, a...

... contract, "Your money will never be nationalized." And there are millions of people in the world who have money, who want to invest it. And they cannot find cheaper labor than in India. India will get employment; the unemployed poor will no longer be poor. India will learn, through all these people, techniques, technology, new industry. And these countries will have cheaper commodities than...

... no better business than selling God. You don't have to produce, you don't need any factory; you don't have to do anything. All that you need is to provoke people's fear and greed. And he was collecting enormous amounts of money. All the Christian churches were against him, parents were against him. They found a small flaw; that over three years' time he has not paid seven thousand dollars of taxes...

... look around.... The same churches who were against Reverend Moon - in fact, these churches forced the tax department and the government: "This man should be punished. He is putting the money given to the church into his own account." Now he is punished, and he is punished only because he is not an American. Otherwise American law provides that if a man fails to pay two thousand dollars per...

... year he can be forgiven; he can be given a chance. There is no need to punish him, he should just give the money to the tax department. Over three years' time, seven thousand dollars is not much of a crime. He should be given a chance to give the money - and he was ready to. These churches forced the government, because they wanted him to be punished, so that his congregation disperses. Now the same...

... was putting the church money, corporate money, in the banks under his own name... all these churches and their bishops are doing the same! After this decision of the courts that Reverend Moon should be punished, sent to jail, they must have freaked out, because they have been doing the same thing on a larger scale. Bishops have bank accounts through which church money moves. Seeing the possibility...

... said, "Do you think me a coward? I have invaded great lands; my whole life has been the life of a warrior. Can a poor Sufi mystic make me afraid? I will go ... and I will go alone, no bodyguards, no army, no advisers." But he took with him a big bag full of diamonds and rubies and emeralds, just to show to the Sufi mystic: "This is only a sample. I have so much money but it is not...

... helping me at all. First I used to think that when I have money I will relax and enjoy. But now money is there and I'm living in hell." The Sufi mystic was sitting under a tree. The king went there, got down from his horse, touched the feet of the Sufi mystic and asked him, "Can you help me?" The Sufi mystic said, "What do you want? I will help you immediately." He had heard...

...; he lived in that village. The king was shouting, "Catch hold of that thief" -- and people were laughing, because people knew that every day something or other happens. And it was really a laughing matter: the king was huffing and puffing and shouting, "Catch him! Why are you just laughing?" -- and still running because that old fellow is taking away all his money and he is going...

...;Have you got some peace of mind? Had not I told you I would help you immediately?" The king said, "Strange is your way ... but it is true, I am feeling very peaceful, as I have never felt in my life. And the trouble is that this money was always with me, and I never felt so happy as I am feeling now." The Sufi said, "I have solved your problem. Your problem is that you have got...

... everything. You need some distance, you need to lose it; only then will you understand what you had. And this is not only true about your money. This is more true about your life itself: because you have it, you have started taking it for granted. It is too obvious it is yours. You are not at all concerned that tomorrow it may not be yours, or even the next second." The day you become aware that death...

... it. Only then will he recognize what he has lost in gaining money, power, respectability, which are of no use at all. He has lost himself, he has sold himself in the marketplace for a few pieces of gold. If one recognizes this, one stops accumulating knowledge and starts dropping all so-called knowledge. A simple criterion has to be used: whatever is not your experience is not true. It may be the...

... feeling of being the doer falls away, then all of life's diseases fall away. Otherwise there are many traps in life. Running after money is also the running of the doer. Running after power is also the running of the doer. Running after fame is also the running of the doer. You want to show something to the world. Many people come to me saying, "Tell us a way to show something to this world."...

... observe the doer disappears, only the witness remains. With the doer gone everything that got energy from the doer, got strength from it will fall away. Without the doer how can one run after money, run after power? Without the doer where is the ego? These will all fall away by themselves. Master just one thing - the witness. There is nothing else to be done. Everything else happens by itself...

... not yet a sannyasi - there is no way to drop what you don't even have. What other enslavements will you drop? Will you leave your wife? Your home? Your money? Your power? Your mind? The doer? Will you drop your ego? What else will you drop from what you actually have? Certainly it is possible for you to drop what you have. Let sannyasins ask this question, those that have become sannyasins. You have...

... with me, because he keeps the money, I don't touch money. He has to go somewhere else in the morning, so I won't be able to come tomorrow morning." This is just hilarious! If you need money, what difference does it make whether it is in your pocket or in someone else's? And this becomes another bondage - the one who keeps the money in his pocket is better off than you, at least he can go...

... wherever he wants. It is a peculiar situation: unless this man comes along, you cannot come because you need to have money for the taxi - but you don't touch money! So you are having this man sin for you? Commit your own sins. This is great fun - you will ride in the taxi and he will go to hell for it! Have a little compassion on him. This is the great connection of the worldly and the yogi! All your...

... start running away. Who will organize, who will make arrangements? They will all go. But the worldly go on taking care of the sadhus, the sadhus go on taking care of the worldly. It is mutual. The real wise man can be neither a renunciate nor indulgent. He knows only that I am the witness. Now what difference does it make whether the money is in his pocket or in someone else's pocket? He is the...

..., all that you are supposed to do, is not to prevent. Keep the doors open and let the breeze come in and let the sun come in. Allow the existence to use you as a vehicle, as a ladder to reach to the highest possibilities hidden within you. All other desires are your desires. Desire for money and desire for power and desire for prestige are your desires; they are too small. Existence does not need...

... money, what will existence do with money? Existence does not need power. It has all the power, infinite and eternal. Nothing more can be asked and nothing more can be added to it. What will it do with prestige, respectability, honor? These are desires of the small mind of man. But enlightenment is not your desire. It is not part of your mind, it is coming from some deeper source, some higher source...

... enough, one can laugh even in those situations. Then laughter becomes a tremendously helpful technique in transforming you, a great alchemy. Hymie Goldberg went to his doctor, feeling very run down due to worry over money matters. "Relax," the doctor ordered, "just two weeks ago I had another fellow who was upset because he could not pay his tailor's bills. I told him to forget them and...

... now he feels great." "I know," said Goldberg, "I am his tailor." Now, there are situations... but if you are a little alert, even in the situation of Hymie Goldberg, you would have laughed, "This is strange! This doctor has suggested to my customer, 'forget all about paying money,' and he is feeling great. And he is telling this to me and I am the tailor." But such...

... comfortable for your many future generations." Sudas replied, "My lord, money cannot be higher than love. The soul cannot be sold for rupees. As long as it was just a flower, I wanted to sell it. But the moment I thought of your feet, there was no question of selling; I myself could offer it. Poor people too can love. Poor people too can respect. Poor people too can trust. Poor people too have a...

... up lower values for higher ones, is really learned. Sudas has rejected money for the sake of love." Can we call people of today "really learned," who reject love for money? Can we call people of today educated whose whole education is destroying higher values and embracing lower values? Can we call those learned who are always ready to give up the supreme for the petty, who are ready...

... to sell the soul for the body, who have no higher value than money, for whom there is no other journey in life than reaching a position of power, and those in whose life and mind the meaningful receives less attention than the meaningless? Can such learning liberate? No, it cannot. We are making our children engineers, doctors, mathematicians and chemists. But that is not education, that is only a...

... like a madman. It makes no difference then whether the race is for money, position or power; but we teach a race, the fever of race. Fevers never make one healthy. I have heard: Once, a dog living in Varanasi thought of going to Delhi. When so many people are running to Delhi, it is not surprising that a dog also should get the idea of going to Delhi. Times have changed. There was a time when people...

... try in any way to escape, I'm going directly to your wife." He said, "What? No! Why to my wife?" I said, "Then just keep quiet, and whatsoever salary my Nani is going to pay - because the envelope will be closed - I will deliver it to your wife. The arrangement is already made. I'm not interested in the money part, but the envelope has to reach your wife, not to you. So before...

... teach? Are you going to teach me?" I said, "Why not? I am paying you; obviously I should teach and you should learn. Money can do everything." My Nani said to the man, "Don't be afraid, he's not that bad. He won't create any trouble for you if you promise not to provoke him in any way. Once provoked, then I cannot do anything to prevent him because he is not under any salary. In...

... fact I have to persuade him to accept some money for sweets, toys and clothes, and he is very reluctant about that. So remember, don't provoke him, otherwise you will be in trouble." And the fool did, the very first day. He came, early in the morning. He was a retired headmaster, but I don't think that he ever had a head. But that's how people are divided in the whole world, into heads and hands...

... real bargain. He thought that if I could take the nails out, and the ghosts had not disturbed me at all, then they must be very friendly to me, and he thought that it is good not to antagonize the boy. The boy himself is a nuisance, and if the ghosts are helping him, then nobody is safe from him. He used to give me money, I used to give him nails. I told my grandmother, "To tell you the truth...

... there, in the tree? We got it almost free of cost, for almost nothing, just token money. The owner was happy to get rid of it. My father had told my Nani, "You will be alone there with, at the most, this small boy who is more trouble than any ghost. With so many ghosts and this boy too, you will be in trouble. But I know you love the river, the view, and the silence of the place." It was...

...? Sixty million people can be easily saved within a single moment; just a little consciousness, that you are eating somebody else' food, and killing yourself, and killing him. You can save yourself and save the other person. In my commune there was no currency, there was no money used, because every need was fulfilled by the commune. If five thousand people can live without money... I have not seen a...

... everybody? This was their problem. And just few days before the Attorney General of America has accepted it unknowingly. He was asked why Bhagwan was not imprisoned. He answered that "Our priority was to destroy the commune, because the commune was becoming a problem to us.Nobody could use money in the commune, so you may be a billionaire, and you may be a beggar, but nobody was rich, nobody was poor...

.... If you cannot use your money in the commune, your money is useless. Without enforcing any dictatorship of the proletariat, we managed to create a higher quality of communism. That was the problem for the American politicians. It became more problematic than Soviet Union, because Soviet Union is still poor. And the commune was becoming richer, because everybody was productive, and everybody was...

... to remember, it is very easy to ask questions as mind gymnastics. I am not interested in mind gymnastics because it leads you nowhere; you remain stuck where you are. You only become more burdened with knowledge - knowledge which is meaningless because it is not part of your own experience. Rabbi Bierstein was asking his congregation to donate money to help build a new synagogue. Suddenly, the town...

... prostitute stood and shouted, "Praise the Lord. I repent. I will give two thousand dollars right now." "Well, as much as we need funds, I am afraid I cannot accept tainted money," said Bierstein. "Take it, Rabbi," shouted a man from the back, "after all, it is our money anyway!" Now, what are these guys doing in a synagogue? Just a formality. They are visiting...

... prostitutes. The prostitute is more authentic. Perhaps the money also belongs to the Rabbi; that"s why the man is saying, "It is our money anyway." Mind has been befooling man for centuries. After holding mass in Warsaw Cathedral, the pope was giving words of encouragement to a group of devout Poles. One of them asked, "Your Holiness, Poles are such devout Catholics, why was Christ not...

... is ugly, but the reason is because Vila(*) has been feeding the politicians, giving the money for the politicians for election; and the same is true of other super-rich people. So you see people in the government, they are not the real government, there are king-makers behind. They have to be exposed. And the government has to be put right, that you are keeping the country poor. The whole world is...

... ready to pour money, technicians, technology; but one guarantee is certainly needed - that you will not nationalize it. And there is no need to nationalize it. Stop the population growth, open all the doors for the whole world, to open all kinds of industries, all disemployment disappears, and nobody is poor, all labor is used. And this will be only a transitory time. Within twenty-three, thirty years...

... can teach his spirituality, if he has any, but this seems to be his only spirituality. All over the world he has been teaching the same thing, that this is a sin against God. And if he is not willing to do that, then tell him that you are not welcome here. And open the doors for the whole world. There is money, there is technology, but there is not labor. We have labor, cheap labor, the same car...

... that can be produced there in two lakhs we can produce in one lakh. Just we need the technicians, the money, the plants to produce it. Our labor is so cheap. In America I came to see that almost everything was ten times costlier than it is here for the simple reason that labor is not available. Even the richest cannot afford servants. And this country is full of people who have labor, but don't have...

... any place where to use it. They are all educated people, who are ready to do anything, but no employment. So the only way is, India becomes an open investment land, with full government support and a guarantee, not only by this government, but a guarantee for any government to follow, that the money that has come from out cannot be nationalized. And within ten years you will see. Your country is a...