... uncle! Neerja's love affairs may come and go, but Siddhartha's love affairs remain. Even ex-boyfriends of Neerja are still friends with Siddhartha - he goes on asking them... whenever he needs money he goes to them. And he gets money from everywhere - he is the richest person in the commune! He comes to Sattva every day and Sattva has to give him five rupees - that's the fixed amount! One day Sattva...

... had no money, so Sattva said, "I'm sorry, Siddhartha, today I have no money." He said, "Why didn't you ask me?" And after ten minutes he came with five rupees and gave it to Sattva! He said, "I have so many friends! Whenever you need money you can ask me - I can find it anywhere!" In a commune a child will not be obsessed with his parents. He win have more freedom, more...

... money in creating atom bombs .... I am perfectly happy that the bombs worked, and now we will be growing more into atomic technology." And Truman was blessed by the pope. Churchill was blessed by the pope, and Eisenhower was blessed by the pope, and MacArthur was blessed by the pope -- and these were the killers. But on the other side also, you will be surprised: God is one, and the archbishop of...

... story, you will not believe it. In Pennsylvania, U.S.A., a former Seventh Day Adventist priest, who had been out of work for months, chose to starve himself and his family to death rather than spend money which he had put aside for God. He had four thousand dollars with him, but he had put it aside for God. So, rather than feeding his children, his wife -- they were starving ... How can he touch the...

... money once he has committed it to God? That will be betrayal, that will be not being faithful. His only son died of starvation. Then he was caught by the police, and asked how the son had died. Now he is in jail. The police went into the house -- a beautiful house, with good furniture, everything perfect, only no food -- and found the wife was almost dying, the daughter was almost dying, and the...

... priest himself was on the verge of death after three weeks of starvation. All those people of the house were taken into the hospital, and the priest was asked, "You had money in the house -- because the police found those four thousand dollars." He said, "I would rather die, and I would rather my wife and my children die, but I cannot betray my faith." And even in this situation...

... the truth -- can entertain himself. It is almost like a bank, the same principle. If you have money the bank is ready to give you a loan. If you don't have money, no bank is ready to give you a loan. Strange! The ordinary logic will be: the man who has no money, give him the loan; and the man who has money, there is no need to give him a loan. But that is not how banks work. The same is true on a...

... another country, you will need money. But if you want to go inside for the inner journey, no money is needed. So many things are needed for the outside. If you talk to somebody, language is needed, but if you want to be just alone, silent, no language is needed. So whether you speak german or english or french, makes no difference. When a frenchman and a german and an englishman are sitting silently...

... through things happiness is not possible. Through things only things are possible. If you have money, you can have many more things, but happiness is not possible. I am not saying to renounce, I am saying simply disconnect this idea of having happiness from things. Disconnect it from without; reconnect it with within. And by and by, you will see the sun rising. By and by you will see a subtle change...

... miserable. It is very rare that a person becomes aware enough to be blissful. It certainly makes a person distinguished. Money cannot do that - many people have it. University degrees cannot do it - millions have them. Political power cannot do it Only one thing can make a person distinguished, that is bliss, because only bliss proves that the person has been intelligent in his life, that he has lived...

... dance, not a dragging. Unless it is a dance it is not life at all. All these fragments have to be joined together again, welded together, and then you become a great energy. And to feel that great energy pulsating in you creates bliss. Bliss is a simple outcome of overflowing energy. The child is so happy, for a single reason: he has nothing - no money, no bank balance; he is not the president of a...

... enough courage to see Jesus in the day. In the night, when nobody was there, he approached Jesus and asked, "Why am I not happy? I have everything - knowledge, money, power, prestige - still I am not happy. How can I also enter the kingdom of your God?" Jesus said to him, "Nicodemus, unless you are born again you will not be able to enter into my kingdom of God." What Jesus was...

... the village were going, and he started telling them, "I would like to come." But they said, "You don't have any money." So he collected money from every house. But by the time he had collected money, the other pilgrims had already left. So alone, he started his journey. Just outside the village, underneath a tree was sitting a man who was going to become his master -- Junnaid...

.... And he said to the young man, "Where are you going?" al-Hillaj said, "I am going to Kaaba. All the pilgrims from my village have already left." Junnaid said, "Come here!" The voice of Junnaid was such ... his eyes were such that al- Hillaj could not say no. He said, "Give me the money! There is no need to go anywhere. I am the Kaaba and I have come to your village...

... just for you. You can make seven rounds of me, just as the other pilgrims will be making seven rounds of Kaaba. That is a stone -- I am a living human being." al-Hillaj was so magnetically drawn to the man that he gave all his money to him, and made seven rounds. And Junnaid said, "Now you can go to your village. And I will be leaving tomorrow morning, so if you want to come with me, you...

... can come." He went to the village. The villagers asked, "What happened? You had gone to Kaaba" -- it used to take three months walking to Kaaba, and three months to come back -- "and you are back just within half an hour! Where is the money?" al-Hillaj said, "What to do? I met Kaaba just outside the village. He was sitting under a tree." They said, "You idiot...

...! You have given the money to THAT Kaaba?" He said, "He asked, and he told me to make seven rounds around him. So I made seven rounds and I am feeling so fulfilled, and so dignified that Kaaba himself has come." They said, "You come with us. We want to see who this man is who has cheated you. You are a simpleton! How can Kaaba come here, and for you?" He said, "You can...

... night now -- and they could feel as they started coming closer to him, that he was in deep silence with closed eyes. The light was radiating, and al-Hillaj was not wrong, there was an immense attraction, the man had charisma. They all went around him and Junnaid opened his eyes and said, "First put the money! I have traveled to your village and you are doing your haj without paying the money...

.... Bring the money first!" al-Hillaj said, "Now you know that he is not an ordinary Kaaba, he speaks too!" And the whole village, whatsoever they could bring, brought and gave to him. Junnaid allowed them to make a round, and the day after, he left with al-Hillaj. The whole village had come to send them off. They thought, "This al-Hillaj, although he was an orphan, proved to be more...

... time for Sardar Gurudayal Singh. Put on the light! Old Miss Crumbum, the Jehovah's Witness, is going round from door to door collecting money to send missionaries abroad. She knocks on the door of Hamish MacTavish, the Scotsman, and when Hamish opens the door she starts her speech. "Praise the Lord, good sir!" intones Miss Crumbum. "We are planning to send twenty Witnesses of Jehovah...

... Goggle. "And their answer is ... their answer is ..." And the old fortune teller rubs her thumb and forefinger together under the old Greek woman's nose. "Oh, yes!" cries old Mrs. Lilypopolis, fumbling in her purse and bringing out a handful of money. She puts it on the table and then Madam Goggle continues. "Well, there is some good news and some bad news. First the good news...

... for money, fight for prestige. This whole society is based on fighting, competition, struggle, putting each individual against the whole. So it is almost everybody's situation. And then you listen to me about let-go. Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but...

..., the father of Laila, was afraid that it will contaminate the family's name and he will not be able to find the right man for his daughter. So he left the village to go to a faraway country, where nobody will know anything about Majnu. The day they were going, a great caravan... because he had so much money and so many things to take, hundreds of camels carrying things. Majnu was standing by the road...

... you will be authentic. To be natural you will be human. And to be natural you will be a being full of rejoicings. It is your unnaturalness that is creating the whole misery, and just as money brings more money, misery brings more misery. Whatever you have attracts its own kind. If you have a little joy, you will attract much joy; if you have a little silence, then even from the faraway stars you...

... knowing anything about meditation. It is afraid of meditation, for the simple reason that a meditator starts living a life of freedom, a life which has its source within himself. He does not care about respectability, honor, money, power. All these things become trivia, because the meditator knows real, valuable things: he knows silence, he knows peace, he knows love, he knows a dancing heart, he knows...

... the music that is within his own being and also outside of him. He becomes aware of all these treasures. Now money is like children's play; power is violent, brutal, barbarous. Anything that needs to be competitive he will not participate in, because every competition means enmity, every competition means putting somebody down. Your victory is going to be somebody's defeat, and he cannot conceive...

... that he can be the cause of anybody's defeat, sadness and suffering. He becomes a dropout from the competitive, egoistic, money-minded, power-oriented society. Hence every society has been afraid of meditation. They teach you things which, taken to the extreme, are bound to create insanity in you. And once you are a participant in their game, there is no way not to go to the extreme. One thing leads...

... Jainas, so all the money for elections comes from them; the politicians cannot annoy them. The situation is absolutely clear, that the girl is now of age and she has every freedom and right to decide what way of life she wants to live. If she does not want to remain a nun you cannot force her - by police, by law or by the court - to live a life which she does not want to live, which she hates to live...

... capable of doing but hopes someday to do - if not in this life then in some other life that blissful moment will arrive when he will also renounce all the riches, all the wealth, the whole kingdom, the whole outside world. As far as the present is concerned he can do a little bit by donating his money to the poor. So the rich people started donating a little bit of their money to the poor to get rid of...

... opportunity to speak for all. Sangam Lal Panday, create an atmosphere in the poor that the world is not illusory, that wealth is not a sin that creating wealth is one of the most creative activities. I am teaching my sannyasins... believe me, in the new commune we are going to grow money on the trees! Secondly, help the poor to understand that no more children are needed. This will be real service. I don't...

... you, they're not telling you the whole truth. Second: No matter what they are talking about, they're talking about money. Fourth: Fact is solidified opinion. Fifth: Facts may weaken under extreme heat and pressure. Sixth: Truth is elastic. Seventh: The other line always moves faster. This applies to all lines - bank, supermarket, tollbooth, customs If you change lines, then the other line, the one...

... and freedom. And it is not only your problem; it is everybody's problem, more or less. People are in a double-bind - they would like to love and they don't want any dependence. They would like to love and be happy but they don't want to feel miserable if love disappears. They would like to have much money but they don't want the problems that come with money. They would like to be as free as a...

... you meditate and feel ecstasy, immediately shower ecstasy on the whole existence. Immediately say "Let my ecstasy be of the whole existence."' Don't go on hoarding it, otherwise that will become a subtle ego. Share it, immediately give it, so that you are empty again. Go on emptying, never hoard. Otherwise hoarding can be the same: as you hoard money, you can hoard ecstasies, peak...

... between the two; it cannot flow with one bank. [The visitor says: I was afraid to drop my ego because I feel that I have to plan, because I have to have enough money to live.... I'm afraid to just drop it, for I fear I will have no one to give me guidance on where to go.] In fact, if there is no ego you have more freedom to decide about your future, you become more of a master. When the ego is not there...

..., saying, 'Come and try to convince him to take his resignation back,' but I know you more - he does not know you. So I cannot say anything about it. I have come only to say that if at any time you need money I will be always available, as long as I am alive." I said, "I will not need money. I have never contributed anything to the family except trouble. And you have enough financial problems...

...." He said, "If you have said you are not going to take any money, there is no point in arguing with you. I will do something on my own without asking you." I said, "That is up to you." What he did was, he made a beautiful house with all the facilities that I would need; he put money in a bank account so that in case I wanted, I could come back. He created a beautiful garden...