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..., you are very knowledgeable, you are rich, superrich - all these dimensions are of the self. And the self goes on accumulating more money, more power, more prestige, more respectability - its ambition is unfulfillable. You go on and on creating more and more layers of self. This is the misery of man, the basic misery. Man does not know who he is, yet he goes on believing that he is this, he is that...
... because all the elders of the family were suffering, only women were left in the house; the business was closed. We were children, small children, and we were suffering because there was even no money to pay the school fee. And this is the freedom for which not only my family, but thousands of families, suffered, thousands of people died. And they were all controversial people.... Mahatma Gandhi...
... were present in the court, collected the money within ten minutes. The jailer told me, "Your people have shocked all of us. Even the richest man in the country would find it difficult... because all his money is invested. Four hundred thousand dollars your people managed, and threw it on the table before the judge." Now it becomes a strange case. He is accepting that I have not committed...
... wants to pretend that there is meaning - meaning in money, meaning in power, meaning in respectability, meaning in virtue, in character, meaning in being a saint. But if you are intelligent enough, if you go on probing deeper and deeper, sooner or later you come to the rock-bottom of meaninglessness. Maybe because of that people don't probe enough; they are afraid. Some unconscious feel is there that...
... this reflection in the market-place? And when you get a ten rupee note, then will you say 'Yes, it has meaning'? What are you asking for? What do you mean by 'meaning' ? A child is playing; and the father comes home and says 'Do your homework! What are you doing? Do something useful!' Why is the homework useful? Because it is going to bring money later on - what else is its use? Play is not useful...
... because it is not going to bring any money. We have reduced the whole of life to utility; we have all become utilitarians, and a utilitarian is never religious. If you ask me who is religious and who is not, this is my definition. God is not the problem - whether one man believes in God or not does not make one religious or irreligious, because I have seen millions who believe in God and who are not...
... far away - and you say 'Look! Look at the bird on the wing!' and your friend says 'So what?' This man is irreligious, he says 'So what? The bird is on the wing, so what? What is the meaning of it?' He is asking 'Can we cash it?' He is asking 'Can it be reduced to money, economics? Can it be reduced to politics? Will it help me to win the coming election? Will it help me to have a bigger balance in...
... be meaningless; and all that is meaningless seems to be very, very important. A man goes on accumulating money and thinks that he is doing something very significant. Human stupidity is infinite. Beware of it. It will destroy your whole life. It has destroyed millions of people's lives down the ages. Take hold of your awareness - that is the only possibility to get out of stupidity. Before we enter...
... real. Yes even in the echo something of the real is there. Find the thread of reality in it. Catch hold of the thread, and start moving inwards. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS HAS GIVEN ARTIFICIAL RISE TO PLEASURES IN SO MANY WAYS. And because of this delusion that sex is the ultimate in pleasure, so many artificial things have become very important. Money has become very...
... important, because you can purchase anything for money - you can purchase sex... Power has become important, because through power you can have as much sex as you want. A poor man cannot afford it. Kings used to have thousands of wives - even in this twentieth century, the Nizam of Hyderabad had five hundred wives. Naturally, one who has power can have as much sex as he wants. Because of this delusion...
... that sex is the ultimately real, thousands of other problems have arisen: money, power, prestige. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS... It is just imagination; it is just imagination that you are thinking to be pleasure. It is an auto-hypnosis, an auto-suggestion. And once you auto-suggest to yourself, it looks like pleasure. Just think: holding the hand of a woman... and you...
... to know about chronological time you have to ask a physicist; that is not my concern. Psychological time is my basic concern. That's my whole work here: to help you get out of psychological time. The third question: Question 3: WHAT IS GREED? Sandesh, GREED is an effort to stuff yourself with something - it may be sex, it may be food, it may be money, it may be power. Greed is the fear of inner...
...? We are carrying an idea given to us by others that emptiness is death. It is not! It is a false notion perpetuated by the society. Society has a deep investment in the idea, because if people are not greedy THIS society cannot exist. If people are not greedy then who is going to be mad after money, after power? Then the whole structure of this power-oriented society will collapse. If people are not...
... not that great, their greed is very ordinary. They are asking for more money - that is very ordinary. Your saints, your mahatmas say, "This is temporary. We ask for something permanent, we want something eternal. We will sacrifice the temporal for the eternal." There is a great motivation; out of the corner of their eyes they are waiting for paradise. There they will enjoy and there they...
... saying see the stupidity of greed. In that very seeing it disappears, and your energy is free. Your consciousness is no longer entangled, entrapped, by things - money, power, prestige. Your consciousness is free. And the freedom of consciousness is the greatest rejoicing. The fourth question: Question 4: WHY DON'T I FEEL THAT I AM MYSELF? Gayatri, BECAUSE you are not yet. Your feeling is indicative of...
... great storm arose and it appeared that there seemed to be no chance of surviving. Nasruddin had a beautiful palace, a marble palace of which he was very proud, in the capital of his country. Even the king was jealous of him and he had offered him whatsoever money he wanted to take, "but give the palace to me." But Nasruddin was insistent that he was not going to give the palace to anybody at...
... any price. Great offers had come, but he had always refused. Now that his life was in danger he prayed to God and he said, "Listen! I will give the palace to the poor. I will sell the palace and distribute the money to the poor." It so happened that the moment he said it the storm started subsiding. As the storm started subsiding, Nasruddin started having second thoughts: This is too much...
...! And maybe the storm was going to subside anyway. I have unnecessarily risked my palace. But then he was in for a big surprise: the storm started rising again. Then he really became afraid. He said, "Listen! Don't be bothered with my thoughts - I am a foolish man - but whatsoever I have said I am going to do. I promise you that I will sell the house and distribute the money to the poor."...
... nothing would be left. It was almost like an entertainment for the people; people enjoyed seeing it very much. The devil should learn something from Adolf Hitler. He can earn much money if he makes a few windows in hell and sells tickets. The tickets will be sold out for almost one century ahead. Who would not like to have a look into hell? The priests have based their religion on two basic, ugly...
... professor, "would you care to tell the class what happens when a body is immersed in water?" "Sure," said Miss Jones, "the telephone rings." An experienced prostitute tells a younger beginner that the moment to ask men for money is "when their eyes go glassy." The next day she asks the beginner how she made out. "Rotten," she says, "when their eyes go...
... right, but we cannot say that he is doing right because he has no right consciousness to do it: the very foundation is missing. His action may on the surface appear to be right, but his intention cannot be right; and it is intention that is decisive. He may donate money to the poor, and of course everybody will say that this is right. Donating money to the poor - who will say it is not right? But...
... service! And on the surface they are good people, nice people, very helpful people, doing good works in every possible way, but deep down their desire is nothing but a great greed, a greed projected towards the other world. They are so greedy - more greedy than the ordinary people, because the ordinary people are satisfied with a little bit of money, a good house, a garden, a car, this and that; a...
... more for the state, for the great state. And there is a bureaucracy, the communist bureaucracy, which has replaced the capitalists. There is no need for communism to destroy poverty; science can do it very easily, because a single machine can do the work of thousands of people. But it is not being allowed because it goes against the vested interests, and those interests are pouring their money into...
... the churches. Who has made the pope "bejeweled and bedecked pontiff', Krishna Prem? Who has made Vatican the richest religion in the world, the richest church in the world? From where all that money has come? It is bribery. It is the rich people who go on bribing the church, and the church goes on preaching things which look very religious but are basically political and economical, and are...
... hundreds of letters from South Africa: all the letters are concerned... somebody is suffering from a ghost, somebody has been put under a spell, somebody is afraid of a black magician - so they need me to protect them and send them a mantra which can save their life. Now, I cannot do all this nonsense. When Indians write to me, they write always about money. They want money - they want their sons to go...
... all inner phenomenon, it is such interiority, that you cannot see it from the outside. You have to go into it, you have to be it. They argued and they argued. ONE SAID, 'HE HAS PROBABLY LOST HIS FAVOURITE ANIMAL.' That is reason, always thinking of possessions: of the house, of the car, of the animal, of the farm, of the factory, of the money, of the power and prestige. That is reason. reason is a...
... help me to come out of it?' Even if you go to the mountain you go with your money- mania. This is reason, this is head. Head is the most foolish thing in your being because it is concerned with foolish things, with rubbish. Nothing is valuable that passes through your head. It is a junkyard. ANOTHER SAID, 'NO, HE IS PROBABLY LOOKING FOR HIS FRIEND.' This is the man of heart; this is the metaphor for...
... has a beauty... the beauty is that it is a non-exploitative joy. If you want to have more money you will be exploiting others. You cannot have more money without making somebody poorer somewhere. If you want to have more political power you will be snatching it away from somebody else. All joys except meditation are exploitative. Even if you are in love with a beautiful woman it is exploitative...
..., aggression. We are dominated by people who should be called 'The Achievers'. Of course, if you want to achieve something you cannot be lazy, certainly. If you want to have more money than others, you cannot be lazy - money won't come that way. Money never comes to lazy people, that's certain. If you want to become a prime minister, it does not happen easily; you have to work hard for it. You have to go to...
... dropped out of the world one day; money, power, prestige - he had dropped those goals. Then he had put all his energies into one goal - enlightenment, NIRVANA. Now he saw the point, that this is again an ego-goal, again an ego-trip: 'I am again trying to achieve something.' Seeing this, he must have laughed. He dropped that idea too; he relaxed. That night a young woman had come to worship the tree. She...
... money." I gave him the keys back and said to him, "Everything now belongs to you. The house, the crops and the money belong to you, they are yours. I am sorry that I did not know before, but none of us wanted to go back and feel the pain." What a man! But such men used to exist on earth. They are disappearing by and by, and instead of such people you find all kinds of cunning people...
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