... releases some tensions inside their being. It is a catharsis, but it is not art. It is therapy through art, but not art itself. If Picasso is prevented from painting, he will go mad. Vincent van Gogh went mad before he committed suicide. And I have been looking into his life deeply and my feeling is he went mad because he could not paint as much as he wanted. He had no money to paint. His brother was...

... giving him money enough just to survive, and he was not eating for four days per week. He would eat only for three days and four days he will fast to save money to paint. How long can you do that? But painting was more important for him than food - and it ended in madness. He could not paint as much as he wanted, and when he saw that there was no possibility to paint anymore - the brother is tired, the...

... ready to pay. If you want more money, I am ready to pay." Picasso said, "It is not a question of money. I don't know where the nose is." His paintings are nightmarish. And it is not only Picasso; Picasso simply symbolizes the whole of contemporary art. He is the most representative modern artist. He is right, in a sense, because the world makes no sense. The world has never made any...

... religion has also to be objective, really authentic; otherwise it is speculation, philosophy. The third question: Question 3: BELOVED MASTER, I WANT TO GIVE UP SMOKING. WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT IT? Mahendra, why? Why in the first place do you want to give up smoking? What is wrong in smoking? Yes, it is a little stupid, silly - just poisoning your breath, taking smoke in and out, wasting money, life. But it...

... that "We renounced so much money, so much gold." Still they go on talking about it! Forty years have passed, but they are still taking the pleasure. You see the point? You can take pleasure when you HAVE gold, you can take pleasure when you RENOUNCE gold. In fact, when you have gold you can't take so much pleasure as when you renounce it. Why? - because millions of other people have gold...

... not more than a deputy collector or maybe a collector... or, if you insist, a commissioner, but nothing more than that. People take pleasure in gold, so much so that when they renounce it, still the pleasure lingers; one goes on thinking of it. Ego can fulfill itself either by having more money or by renouncing more money, but it always needs money and it always needs more. Remember it. Buddha says...

... in the desire for money, somebody is caught in the desire for power, somebody is caught in the desire for renunciation, somebody is caught in the desire for paradise - all desires! A real man of understanding has no desire. He lives in the moment and whatsoever is available, he enjoys it to its totality. He squeezes each moment, he drinks each moment! He eats whatsoever is available. He sleeps, but...

... stupid! But the reason is that people cannot abandon their miseries. They can renounce the gold and the palaces and the money and the power, they can renounce everything, but when it comes to renouncing the miseries, this becomes the most difficult thing they encounter, because miseries have been with you so long that you don't know any other style of living. The only style that you have become...

... doorman greeted him warmly. "Do you know him?" asked the wife. Quickly he answered, "He is my errand boy. He works at night to make more money." Inside the nightclub, the bunny-girl pinched his cheek and said, "Hello, Signor Giovanni." Suspicious, the wife asked, "How come you know this girl?" Perspiring, he answered, "Well, she is one of the models who works...

... cancelled: one-thousand- rupee notes became invalid within a second. And people did all kinds of things with those one-thousand-rupee notes. Of course a little time was given - you can go to the bank and change them - but there were troubles. Those notes have to be white money. You will have to explain from where you got those notes. And as everywhere there are double things, in money also there is white...

... money and black money. Black money means you have it, you can use it, but you cannot publicly declare it because you have not paid taxes on it, you have not showed from where it has come. You may have earned it through smuggling or some other illegal source. So many people could not declare those notes. They made cigarettes out of one-thousand- rupee notes and smoked the cigarettes! Why miss such an...

.... I have heard... Several men who had been involved in a serious road accident were brought to hospital on stretchers and the dead were separated from the living. One of those believed to be dead had been accompanied by his wife, who was mainly interested in the insurance money to which his death would entitle her. As soon as she arrived therefore, she approached one of the harassed doctors dealing...

... stretcher, and said 'I'm not dead, doctor!' 'Lie down' snapped his wife. 'The doctor knows!' Now, her interest is in the insurance money. It shows; you cannot hide it. It will show in some way or other. It will empty out of you. You must have heard about great RISHIS and MAHATMAS doing their meditations in the forest. And then APSARAS, beautiful damsels from heaven, come to distract them. But why should...

... at ease, always in anger. Have you seen people who have repressed sex? They become aggressive, and they start finding ways and means to express their aggression. They become politicians, they become money-oriented. They have to find some way out for their aggression. It may be politics, it may be money, it may be some other kind of ambition, but they become very aggressive. And have you known this...

... too - or not - that if you want to earn money you will have to repress sex? If you don't repress sex you will not have enough aggression left to fight in the market, to compete with people. If you want to become a great politician you will have to repress sex; otherwise, from where will you find this stupid energy to be a politician? You have to repress sexuality so that energy starts becoming more...

..., and I take great interest in every kind of problem. I get completely lost in their problems, I become completely absorbed. I forget the whole world when somebody is facing me with his problem: that problem is my whole world - whatsoever the problem. Whether is is sex, whether it is money, whether it is over-eating, whether it is body health, meditation, God, prayer does not matter - whatsoever it is...

... is ever punished for sex. Nobody ever goes to hell for sex; otherwise God would be responsible, not you. He has given it to you, you are born with it; you have not created it. It is nothing like your invention, it is not like an atom bomb, it is not like a bayonet, it is not like a sword, it is not like money, it is not like politics - these are inventions of man, of the ugly human mind. These...

..., he is not interested in death. He goes on saying that within ten years he will solve all the problems of the country. Within ten years.... How long does he think he is going to live? No, he has not thought about that at all. Nobody does. He is not exceptional. And people are completely absorbed in their games. Somebody is absorbed in his money game - how to have more money, how to grab more money...

.... But still he could not gather enough courage to go one thousand miles just for a dream. He was a poor man and he would have to beg for the money to purchase tickets. And who knows whether that bridge exists or not? He had never been to the capital. But the third day the dream came again and with great persistence the dream said to him, 'You just go and find it. It is all yours. Just by the side of...

..., that's all. So I have looked at it. It is not a discovery, it is a rediscovery. It was given to me. It has been with me for millennia, from the very beginning. Not for a single moment had I lost it. I had just lost a memory. So it is a recognition - PRATYABHIGYA, a recognition.' It is just like when you have money in your pocket and you have forgotten about it. and suddenly you become a beggar because...

... you don't have any money. And then after a few years, one day, searching for something else, you put your hand in your pocket and the money is there. It has never been anywhere else, it has been there always. You just forgot about it. So Sufis say that God is not lost but only forgotten. God has not to be found, only remembered - JIKR. Hindus call it SURATI, Buddhists call it SMRITI - just to be...

... AND TOLD HIM TO WRAP HIM IN A SHROUD. 'WHEN THE PRESIDENT PASSES BY,' SAID THE LAWYER, 'HE WILL PERHAPS ASSUME THAT THIS A CORPSE, AND HE MAY THROW SOME MONEY TOWARDS MY BURIAL - AND I WILL GIVE YOU A SHARE OF IT.' THIS WAS DONE. A GOLD PIECE FROM THE HAND OF THE PRESIDENT FELL UPON THE SHROUD. THE LAWYER SEIZED IT OUT OF FEAR THAT THE UNDERTAKER WOULD GET IT FIRST. THEN HE SPOKE TO THE BENEFACTOR...

... some day I need them I will send a message.' That old man started weeping and crying. I couldn't under stand what was the matter. He said, 'Don't say that - because I am so poor I have nothing else to give you except money.' He said, 'I am so poor! I have nothing else to give to you except money. And if you reject my money, it feels you have rejected me because I have nothing else. Money I can give...

... deathless, will remain; only the deathless you, the immortal you, the brahma. FINALLY THE LAWYER FOUND AN UNDERTAKER AND TOLD HIM TO WRAP HIM IN A SHROUD. 'WHEN THE PRESIDENT PASSES BY,' SAID THE LAWYER, 'HE WILL PERHAPS ASSUME THAT THIS IS A CORPSE, AND HE MAY THROW SOME MONEY TOWARDS MY BURIAL - AND I WILL GIVE YOU A SHARE OF IT.' Now it becomes a struggle. The lawyer is trying in every way to defeat...

... SHROUD. 'WHEN THE PRESIDENT PASSES BY,' SAID THE LAWYER, 'HE WILL PERHAPS ASSUME THAT THIS IS A CORPSE, AND HE MAY THROW SOME MONEY TOWARDS MY BURIAL - AND I WILL GIVE YOU A SHARE OF IT.' THIS WAS DONE. A GOLD PIECE FROM THE HAND OF THE PRESIDENT FELL UPON THE SHROUD. THE LAWYER SEIZED IT OUT OF FEAR THAT THE UNDERTAKER WOULD GET IT FIRST. THEN HE SPOKE TO THE BENEFACTOR: 'YOU DENIED ME YOUR BOUNTY...

... was not to be defeated so easily. He was richer than the king; in fact the king owed much money to him. He said, "It is not right of you. You are the king, but right now we are competitors. I will give four times more than what the king is giving." And this way they went on four times, four times ...and Sudas lost track of how much money. The poor man did not know much arithmetic either...

... are going to give it to Gautam Buddha. I don't know anything about him, I have just heard his name. If the man is such that you are fighting to give any amount of money, then I will not miss the chance. I will present the lotus flower to Gautam Buddha. Let him be doubly surprised." From a poor man, who was being offered uncountable money .... But he refused. Sudas went. The king and the rich...

... much money. I cannot give you anything." There were tears in the eyes of Sudas, and he said, "If you can just hold my flower in your hand, it is enough. It is far greater than the whole kingdom. It is far greater than the super-rich man's whole treasury. I am poor, but I am perfectly okay; I earn my livelihood. There is no need for me to be rich. But it will be a historical event remembered...

... eternity available to you -- not only seventy years. The West is very poor. They have only seventy years for each person. The East may look poor from the outside, but its inner arrangement is very rich. Eternity behind -- eternity ahead. Secondly, just one life is not enough to make you bored. Seventy years goes so fast that boredom is not possible. But life after life, running after money. Life after...

... something else that you have never done before. Meditation fits perfectly well in the Eastern vision of life. That is the only thing you have never done before. You have earned money, you have become rich, you have been in politics, you have become ministers and prime ministers and presidents. You have become great celebrities. You have done everything, because in so many lives there was so much...

... relative reality. WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU DEPEND ON REALITY. When you don't understand -- when you are in the mind -- you are a victim of this mundane reality that you see all around. Money deceives you, power deceives you, prestige deceives you, anything ... You are living in so many misunderstandings that if you come to see, you will be surprised at how articulate you are in creating falsehoods...

... his younger son came and said, "Father, what are you doing here? Although we had agreed to sell the palace, no sale deed has been written yet. And of course the king is not going to pay the money. I have every suspicion that he is behind the fire." And again the tears started coming. And the situation was the same; nothing had changed. Only the idea had changed; the house became his, then...

... there was great misery. The house was no longer his, all misery disappeared. And then the king himself came in his chariot and he said, "You need not be worried. I am a man of my word. If I have purchased it, I have purchased it. No sale deed has been written, no money has been advanced, but because yesterday we agreed verbally, that is enough. It is MY house that is burning. You need not be...

.... And she was continuously creating a commune here, so she had in her hands the immense power of money. We have put more than two hundred million dollars in the commune. From all over the world, sannyasins have poured whatsoever they could. Just an opportunity.... Who does not want to be rich? There is nothing wrong in being rich, but one should not try to be rich through wrong means. Create wealth...

..., and be rich! This was simply theft. The money was coming for the commune, and she was slowly taking a few parts and accumulating it. And this woman who has informed was her secretary five years before. They were intimate friends, so whatever she says seems to be meaningful. She is dying of cancer, and it always happens when you are dying, you want to unburden yourself of any lie that you have been...

... hiding. That's why she has written the letter saying that "I am dying, but I want to relate that Sheela has stolen forty-three million dollars and she has it in a bank account in Switzerland." So money - it is everybody's desire, and there is no harm in it, but be creative. Stealing, and that too stealing from a commune who loves you, is criminal. She has no money of her own. She was just a...

... simply absurd. But we cannot help you to make cabins. You will have to wait. Let the city be legal, then the city can give you the permission to make cabins. There is no problem. We will be making them ourselves, so you don't have to put in your expenses. We have enough money. Question 7: BELOVED MASTER, I HAVE NO MORE QUESTIONS WITH ME. That's great! Okay? Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

..., "Then forget all about it. One who asks the cost is not worthy of receiving them. They are priceless. But just to satisfy your enquiry I will say that a few billion dollars will be needed." The king said, "There is one condition. You will remain in one of my palaces, guarded inside, and do whatsoever ritual, prayer you want to do. And the moment you bring the clothes here, the money...

... will be delivered." The man said, "There is no problem; as far as I am concerned it is perfectly good. But I will have to deliver the money when I get those clothes from God - and I am a poor priest, you have to give me money now. And I will remain in your palace. Keep all the doors closed, keep the palace fully surrounded by your military, so that you can feel comfortable. And the moment I...

... king hesitated. He knew that there was nothing, that he was standing almost naked, only the underwear was left. But now it was too late. If he said, "You cheat! You have taken so much money," that wouldn't be right because the whole court was dancing with joy: "You look so beautiful, just like God!" The poor king had to part with his underwear too. Now he was standing completely...

.... Royal families are not allowed to marry outside royal blood: status, money, power.... Nobody can love anybody in such circumstances, where the relationship is financial. The woman is dependent on you because you earn. And for centuries men have not allowed women to be educated, to be in business, to have jobs, for the simple reason that if the woman has her own financial status, her own bank account...