... give or lend them any money. "You now have more money than you will ever spend," said one. "Why are you so unkind?" I have two good reasons," explained the lucky winner. "First, I hate my relatives, and second, I love my money!" To love somebody means to respect; it means not to exploit. To love somebody means to give love and all that you have without any idea of...

..., then an actor. My third marriage was to a preacher and now I am married to an undertaker." "What do all these marriages have to do with a well planned life?" "One for the money, two for the show, three to make ready and four to go!" This is a well-planned life! Remember this sutra: "One for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, and four to go!" This is...

... very simple and obvious. It is not something great to contemplate upon. He: "Have you ever loved anyone as much as you love me, Mary?" She: "No, John. I have sometimes admired men for their looks or intelligence or money. But with you, John, it is all love - nothing else." At lunch one woman said to her friend, "I don't know what to do. The other night I dreamed that John was...

... a conclusion, and, again, almost always he is wrong. So to fight with a woman - that means to love a woman - you are doomed, you are bound to fail. You cannot win a single argument because her ways of arguing are so puzzling. You want her to sit down calmly at the table and discuss, and she starts crying and throwing things. Now you don't know what to do! It is your money she is destroying so you...

... the big cities of India children are being stolen. Then they are crippled, blinded, and they are made beggars. And there are gangs: a certain man who feeds them and takes all their earnings in the evening. He feeds them, he gives them clothes, he gives them shelter. But unless they are blinded, crippled, their legs cut off or their hands cut off, who is going to give them money? The more crippled...

... and the more miserable they look, the better are their chances for begging, and the more money they bring in. So in every big place children are being stolen. And they end up in some gang where there are hundreds of children. The police know; the police take their own part of the money. The police do not prevent the children from begging on the streets; rather, they protect them. In fact they help...

..., they would be used in Madras. So they don't know where they come from or where they are right now. They cannot escape, but the police still keep an eye out so that nobody tries to escape. Everybody has his share, except that child. And if he comes one day without any money, then he gets beaten. So he has to come with it. He cannot try to hide some money from the owner, because he knows how much a...

... child earns. The owner goes on walking around and looking to see how much this child will have earned by the end of the evening. So tentatively he knows that this boy is bound to come with ten rupees, fifteen rupees. And if he comes with two rupees then he gets beaten. And where can he hide the money? That money is found immediately. So a crowd gathered and they asked, "You are both sannyasins...

.... Mother Teresa is consoling these people, giving them a Madonna, Mother Mary's statue saying, "Pray to Mother Mary and everything will be okay - and don't complain against the officers." Now, that's strange! Why? Because those officers, the government, go on showering money on her charitable trusts: "All help to Mother Teresa, all great titles of the country to Mother Teresa." Every...

... had power because they had money; through money they could purchase anything. But in Russia, the bureaucracy has every power over every individual: to let you live or to finish you off, to keep you in the country or send you to Siberia to die in that eternal world of ice. They have power over your life and death. Such power was never in the hands of the people who had money. Yes, they had certain...

... communist party in Russia is very difficult. Russia is not like other countries where you pay a little money and you become a member of the republican party or the democratic party, the liberal party or the socialist party. In Russia, to become a member of the communist party you have to prove that you are a communist every inch, that there is not even a lurking shadow of the bourgeoisie. And that you...

... he will not be rich. That is wrong! That is absolutely wrong! Do you think that if poor people breathe then you cannot breathe? All that you need is enough air. Certainly if air is in short supply then only rich people will breathe, because you will have to pay for it. Of course millions of poor people will die because they cannot pay - they don't have money to breathe. It is just like in a desert...

... war anywhere, and you will see that rich people will have facilities to protect themselves, and poor people will be simply dying. There is no need for war; there is no need for poverty. We have enough money, enough resources, but seventy percent of the whole world's resources goes towards war. If that seventy percent is prevented from going towards bringing death to humanity, there is no need for...

... satisfy you, they never make you contented. In fact every new achievement in the world creates more desires. Rather than satisfying you it sends your mind into new trips, so whatsoever power you attain in the world, you use it only to create new desires. Whatsoever money you can gather in the world, you invest it to gain more money. Then the more money comes; you invest it for still more money; and this...

... accumulating - knowledge, money, power, prestige. You go on just accumulating. Your whole life is a stuffing in. And of course if you become a dead weight there is no wonder in it. That's what you have been doing: collecting dust and thinking of it as if it is gold. The valueless becomes of immense value if seen through the ego. The ego is a great falsifier, the great deceiver. It goes on lying to you, and...

..., a very beautiful one. "Tell me, where do you Catholics get all the money to build cathedrals?" asked a rabbi to his friend. "Well, Abe, you see, we Catholics have a system called Confession. Whenever anybody does something wrong, he comes to church, confesses his sin, puts a little in the kitty, and is forgiven; and in this way we can collect large amounts of cash." "...

...;Father, I have sinned grievously." "What have you done my son?" "Last night I consorted with three women." "Well, then put three pounds in the kitty and your sins will be forgiven, my son." Abe can contain himself no longer: "What a way to make money; what a wonderful system. Do me a favor. Let me do the next one, just to get some practice." "Well, Abe...

... was no other way." These people, because I was completely isolated and in silence, took advantage of the power. Sannyasins love me -- in my name these people were telling them to do things, in my name they collected money. Two hundred million dollars have been used in the commune, but forty-three million dollars they saved in a Swiss bank in Sheela and Savita's names. Her old secretary who is...

... criminal. Now the forty-three million dollars are there in the bank, but they cannot take them out because wherever they will use them they will be caught immediately and asked where they got forty-three million dollars. None of them is rich. None of them can manage to show from where that money has come. Q:* BUT THEY ARE NOT THAT OLD. THEY CAN USE IT TO THE END OF THEIR LIVES. A:* We will not allow that...

.... My sannyasins are all over the world and they are watching their every step. The banks in Switzerland... my sannyasins are watching every bank, where these people go, what they are doing. We will not allow them... because that money belongs to German communes. It had come from Germany, it was to come here. Q:* SO IT BELONGS TO YOU, OR TO THIS COMMUNE. A:* Yes, it belongs to this commune or it...

... taken over and this was why all those people were brought here. She had told me that after our annual festival we had three million dollars' surplus, so it would be a good thing to use that three million dollars for some humanitarian purpose. I said, "If you have more money than you need, then certainly use it." She said, "My idea is to bring people from the streets and give them a...

... am going to stay, and I am going to fight these politicians. I have always enjoyed fighting, because to fight for truth is such a joy. And I am telling my advocates, "Try to get permission so that I can fight myself. You can assist me but you cannot represent me. I am quite capable of representing myself." Q:* I WAS GOING TO ASK ABOUT THE FINANCIAL STUFF, TOO. HAS SHE TAKEN LOTS OF MONEY...

...? A:* No, not from here. From here she has not taken a single cent. But she has already stopped money that was going to come here, which was coming from German communes as a contribution for this commune. She had put in a Swiss bank forty-three million dollars, and she had put it in her own name. We are not going to leave it there -- that belongs to the communes. Either it should go back to the...

... to know that I have any financial problem, from all over the world money will start moving towards Rajneeshpuram. That is not a problem. Right now we are perfectly sound, so there is no question. And she has not taken anything from here. Q:* IN HER INTERVIEW SHE HAS COMPLAINED ABOUT ROLLS ROYCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF...? A:* She is just lying. Those Rolls Royces sannyasins have...

... say that we are ready to fight on every point. Q:* COULD YOU IMAGINE THAT YOU MUST PERHAPS LEAVE OREGON? AND WHERE WOULD YOU GO? A:* No. We are not going anywhere. America can go anywhere it wants; we are going to be here. Q:* A BIG PART OF YOUR MONEY IS IN OUR BANK IN SWITZERLAND, SOME FORTY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS. WILL YOU OPEN AN ACTION IN MY COUNTRY AGAINST THE BANK, OR AGAINST THE PERSON WHO...

... TOOK THE MONEY? A:* Yes, we are working on how to find out... because we don't know which bank it is in, what the account number is. But we are working and finding out, and we are keeping our sannyasins on guard on each bank in Zurich so they cannot take the money out from anywhere; they cannot even enter any bank. We will not leave them this easy. If they had told us, "We want to create a small...

... commune in Switzerland and these forty-three million dollars are there," we would have willingly given it to them -- there is no problem, because it belongs to sannyasins. Whether it is used here or it is used in Switzerland does not matter to us, we are world citizens. And the money was coming from Germany. But rather than doing that, they have stolen the money. We will not leave them so easily...

... have never seen before. Sheela was only a waitress in an ordinary restaurant. Now having millions of dollars pouring in every day -- two hundred million dollars we have put into the commune here.... It is how the ordinary human mind thinks, and particularly the mind of a woman, to put some money here, some money there. It is not much. And then the pressure of the hostile forces around also has fifty...

... unimportant to somebody who is only interested in money. For him, a note, a hundred-rupee note, is more important. He will ask, "What is the use of the roseflower?" In fact, he will be very much worried why people go on singing songs of rose flowers -- "Why don't they sing songs of hundred-rupee notes?" When I was at university I had a colleague who was really a money-maniac; his whole...

... interest was money. Even somebody else's hundred-rupee note, and he would take it in his hand and he would touch it with such love that you may not have even touched your woman with that love -- with such care, with such tender hands, as if the note was alive. And his eyes would shine, candles would burn in his eyes when he saw a note -- even if it was somebody else's note. A note is a note! And his...

... whole thinking was money: how to have more money? And then there is the one about the shipwrecked Englishman: as he gets out of the water onto the beach of a remote island, he is greeted by another man standing in the shade of a palm tree. "Pleased to meet you," says he, and then enquires, "Eton?" "Yes," responds the new arrival. "Oxford?" "Yes." "...

... possibility of expressing themselves, who have no other intelligence. The politician needs no other qualification, no talent. In fact, the more unintelligent he is, the greater is the possibility of his being successful. A tourist was visiting New Delhi. Walking on a side street late one evening, the visitor was held up by a bandit. "Give me your money!" he threatened, "or I will blow out...

... your brains." "Blow away..." said the tourist. In New Delhi you can live without brains but not without money. I have to be direct. And I am not a politician, so why should I be diplomatic? Truth is never diplomatic -- it is straight. And the politicians cannot understand what I am doing here, and I don't expect them to understand. It will be great if they simply ignore us. That's...

... their poverty. Only on the surface they have possessions, but deep down they are poor, very poor. They can't leave their poverty - they can't depart from their past. They are carrying it; it has become a habit, it has become second nature to them. Hence the clinging to the money. They cannot spend, they cannot use their money. I know a person who has at least ten buildings and earns a lot of money but...

... it... it will be known all over the city who has stolen it, it makes so much noise!" I told a common friend that I would like to meet the man, and I asked him, "Why are you living in such misery when you can live beautifully, in a beautiful house? You have enough money, more than you need, and once you are dead there is nobody else for whom you are collecting all this." He said...

..., "I know it, but somehow I cannot spend. That is impossible. Once I get some money, the hardest thing for me is to spend it." Tears came into his eyes and he said, "I also feel, What am I doing to myself? But I lived in poverty - my parents died when I was very young. I have been a beggar; slowly slowly I have earned money. I gambled, I did all kinds of things, and that poverty is still...

... had saved up his money for years so that he could fulfill a longtime dream - to take a Caribbean cruise. But he had not reckoned with seasickness. On the second day out from port, the captain noticed him, green-faced, hanging on the ship's rail. "Sorry, sir," said the captain politely, "but you can't be sick here." "No?" said Tannenbaum. "Watch!" Rabbi...

.... "Well, for heaven's sake don't!" said the first man. "I took one bite and went blind." This is what your knowledge is - just inferences from coincidences. Just the other day I told you a joke about a Polack who had come to New York to earn name, fame, money, power, prestige. He heard a voice coming from far away in the sky, "Climb up to success!" A little hesitant, a...

...: he is trying to make his disciples a third category. The old, ancient categories are two. The first is the worldly, the householder, those who have a home. They are called householders for the simple reason that they live in the fallacy of security, safety - a safety that they think comes through money, power, prestige, a security that they think comes out of relationships. The wife thinks she is...

... safe with the husband, the husband thinks he is safe with the wife, the parents think they are safe with their children. The safety is fallacious because neither the family nor money nor anything else of this world can save you from death. When death comes it shatters everything; it shatters all your sandcastles. The householder lives in a kind of dreamworld, a world of his own projections. It is not...

... category is of those who have renounced the first category, who have moved to the other extreme - who don't live in houses, who don't live in families, who don't earn money, who don't even touch money, who have moved to exactly the opposite extreme. They are known as sannyasins. They used to wander around the country in small or big groups. Jaina monks are not allowed to move alone. In Buddha's time...

... THOSE WHO HAVE A HOME. He does not linger with the first category, the people who are obsessed with money, power and prestige. He does not waste his time with these people, he does not linger with these insane people. And he says: ... NOR WITH THOSE WHO STRAY - nor with those who go on roaming around the country in groups because that is another kind of security, a subtler kind, but the mind is the...

... that he wants is that God is there: "If nobody is there then at least God is there; I am not alone." The whole idea of God as a person is the fiction created by the people who cannot be alone; hence they have created God. When nobody is there, at least God is always there; you need not be worried about that, he is everywhere. To have an idiot box you need some money and you cannot carry the...

... you going to call great? Ronald Reagan? Are you going to call people who have mountains of money great? In America the richest man has four million dollars; in Japan the richest man has twenty-six million dollars. Certainly this man must be called Bhagwan. He has defeated everybody in the world. Never before has anybody had twenty-six million dollars. Forgive me, he has twenty-six billion dollars...

.... Japan is only one-fourth, as far as land is concerned, of the United States, but its value is four times more than the whole U.S.A. Now Japan should be called a great nation - the richest. People who have money, people who have political power, people who have scientific knowledge... Are you going to call Albert Einstein, the man who created atomic energy, Bhagwan? What does it mean? All these...

... meaning of the word. But not Mahavira. Standing naked... what affluence? He had not even a begging bowl in his hands. Sixth, detachment. If detachment is the criterion, then what about Mohammed having nine wives? - and the richest woman he married just for money. He was only twenty-six and the woman was forty. She was a widow, but had the most money in Saudi Arabia. He married the woman not for beauty...

..., not for any love, but just for her money. His whole life he was holding his sword, although on his sword he had written, "Peace is my message." Strange... He killed as many people as you can conceive, and peace is his message! Mahavira will accept neither Mohammed nor Jesus. Jesus was very much in love with wine. He even converted water into wine - absolutely a criminal act. He was...

...," Rama's ego was hurt. If he had really loved Sita, he should have renounced the world - detachment. But rather than renouncing the world and all the money and the whole kingdom, he renounced a poor pregnant woman without telling her even where she was being sent. And you call it detachment? This man was too much attached with the kingdom. And these Dalits, oppressed Buddhists, don't know at all...

... come to your own being. It is not by effort. Yes, money is gained by effort, political power is gained by effort, but not spirituality. Desire... That's why I told you I have had such a hilarious day. Bhagwan means desire - and all the teachings of all the great enlightened people of the world have been against desire. Unless you become desireless you cannot attain to your innermost luminous self...