.... Circumstances may change, but an integrated person remains centered. You can kill him, but you cannot make him a hypocrite. Anam gave a good chance to you. I knew it when you were raising your hands - I knew how many hands were going to hug Anam. Don't try to be so split. If you don't want to raise your hands against him, don't; raise them against me - but be true to yourself. If you are really in favor of...

... have behaved wrongly - this is not the way to communicate with a master. You are not making bridges with the master, you are making walls. We have great love for you, but no sympathy for your attitude." And if he had heard, from thousands of sannyasins, the same thing - do you think something was not going to happen to him? I hit him hard, and you hugged him hard and destroyed my whole effort...

... the illusion that it is you. But when you come to see - if you go on hanging around me - one day, when all that is not part of you is eliminated and your reality is revealed to you and to others too, you will feel grateful. And then you will understand why I hit so hard. I am chiseling, hammering all that is ugly in you, all that has been given to you by your society, by your culture, by your...

... is your peace. There is your blessing, there is your ecstasy. There is your love - the whole treasure, the whole kingdom of God. Hammering on your personality, I am trying to turn your attention from the personality towards the individuality. So please remember, whenever I hit somebody's head, you are not to sympathize; you are not to put ointment on his head. And the person who gets the hit should...

... feel grateful that he has been chosen, that he has been thought worthy, that he deserved a hit from the master. So whatever you have done with Anam, you have to undo. Anam has to be brought to his real, beautiful being. And I had to create a commune, because alone, how many people can I hit? And their skulls are so thick that small hits once in a while don't matter. Here, you are thousands of...

... twenty-five centuries have passed since Buddha meditated, lived with his disciples in Bodh Gaya; it was a holy land. If you remove the barrier of the personality, holiness suddenly explodes. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN MY HEART. IT POUNDS WHEN YOU ARE NEAR. IT IS HAPPENING TO MANY OF US. WHAT IS HAPPENING? This is the happening for which I am here, you are here. It has no name...

... man who attempted to kill me was also from Poona. This is strange, because both these people belonged to the same political party. I have always been against Gandhism, but the political party that killed Gandhi... the same people tried to kill me. I am not a Gandhian, I am absolutely and totally against Gandhi and his ideology. But the moment the knife was thrown at me, I could see the hesitancy in...

... could neither allow me to move out, nor could they allow me to grow vast. He threw the knife, and the knife fell nearabout twelve feet away from me. I was surprised! One can miss the target, but not by twelve feet. It shows something in the psychology of the man. He represented the whole Poona-Hindu mind. He wanted to kill me, and yet he wanted me to remain there. So he did both things together: to...

... have to speak slowly, when you have to shout loudly - and when you are speaking what gestures are suitable: when you have to raise your hand, when you have to hit the desk to make a point. I was simply amazed. These are actors, these are not missionaries; they are being trained. I don't know how to speak; you cannot find a more amateur speaker in the world. I don't know what I am going to say the...

... feeling so thirsty, and I cannot go on this long journey to kill that man' -- what will you do? ... Because if you give him water, you help him in murder. Decide! -- but NEVER decide before the moment because all such decisions will go false. One never knows what type of situation will be there. In old Indian scriptures there is a story: A murderer came to a crossroads where a monk was sitting...

... tell him the truth, and I will stand in his way, and I will tell him, "First kill me, and then follow that man."' It appeals, Gandhi's answer appeals, seems to be better than both the Hindu's and the Jaina's -- but look at the whole situation: the man is going to commit one murder and Gandhi is forcing him to commit two. So what about HIS karma? So what to do? I have no answer. Or my answer...

... punished. But now we know it would have been better to kill Hitler than to leave him alive, because he killed millions. So did Hitler's mother do right in not murdering this child? Was she right or was she wrong? Who is to decide? And how could that poor mother know that this boy was going to murder so many people? Who is to decide? And how to decide?... and it is an infinite sequence. Hitler killed many...

... leakage exists. You have to find within yourself that possibility of being attentive. Sometimes you become attentive. If somebody comes to hit you, the attention comes. If you are in danger, if you are passing through a forest at night and it is dark, you walk with a different quality of attention. You are awake; thinking is not there. You are fully in rapport with the situation, with whatsoever is...

... cannot create fear, nothing can create fear. But even fire cannot create fear when you have encountered death, when you know that death doesn't exist; otherwise, the moment you hear the word 'Fire!' you are in a panic. No need for there to be a real fire, just somebody coming running here and saying, 'Fire!' and you will be in a panic. Somebody may jump out of it, and may kill himself -- and there was...

... philosophies. Be spontaneous. If you feel like helping, don't bother about what Mahavira has said. If you feel like helping, help. Do your thing. If you don't feel like helping, don't help. Whatsoever Jesus may have said, that by helping people you will help me -- don't bother, because sometimes the help may be dangerous. A man is ready to kill somebody, and he says to you, 'Give me water, because I am...

... meditating. He was following a man. He had already hit the man hard but he escaped, the victim escaped, and he was following him. At the crossroads he was puzzled; he asked the monk who was meditating under a tree, 'Have you seen a man with blood flowing, passing by here? If so, which direction has he gone?' -- because it was a crossroads. What should this monk do? If he tells the truth, that the man has...

... gone to the north, he will become a part of the murder. If he says that he has not gone to the north, he has gone to the south, he will be telling a lie. What should he do? Should he tell the truth, and allow the murder, or should he become a liar and stop it? What should he do? There have been many answers. I have none. Jainas say that even if it is going to be an untruth, let him be untrue, because...

... is: don't decide beforehand, let the moment come and let the moment decide, because who knows? -- the victim may be a man who is worth murdering. Who knows? -- the victim may be a dangerous man, and if he survives he may murder many. Who knows what the situation will be because it will never be the same again -- and you cannot know the situation beforehand. Don't decide. But your mind will feel...

..., but who can decide whether those were the right persons to be killed or not killed? Who will ever decide and who will ever know? Nobody knows. Who knows, perhaps God sends Hitler-like people to kill all those who are wrong, because somehow or other God is involved in everything! He is in the right and he is in the wrong. The man who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima -- was he right or wrong...

... question: If they beat you, what will be your response?" The young man said, "I will thank them, I will feel grateful that they are beating me. They could have killed me. They are only beating me - they are so compassionate, so kind. It would have been so easy for them to kill me." Buddha said, "Now, the last question. If they kill you, dying, in the last moments, what will be your...

... looked at me and kept yawning." That's how we have listened to the buddhas. We have not listened at all, we have heard their words, certainly. If we had listened to them there would have been no need for us to crucify Jesus or poison Socrates or kill al-Hillaj Mansoor. Buddha says - the first thing to remember: I SHALL ENDURE HARD WORDS AS THE ELEPHANT ENDURES THE SHAFTS OF BATTLE. It is a battle...

... like to remove the presence of the awakened one so that they can feel at ease. You always feel at ease with people who are just like you; their presence does not in any way make you feel inferior. The presence of a Buddha makes you feel inferior and you are bound to take revenge. It is a battle, and a buddha has to be like an elephant who endures the shafts in a battle. FOR MANY PEOPLE SPEAK WILDLY...

.... Reverend Johnson, an old black preacher, was warning his parishioners about sin. "Sin," he said, "is like a big dog. There is the big dog of pride, and the big dog of envy, and the big dog of gluttony, and finally there is the big dog of sex. Now, folks, you gotta kill those big dogs before you are ever gonna get to heaven. It can be done - I know - because I've done it. I killed the big...

... dog of envy, and the big dog of pride, and the big dog of gluttony - and yes, brethren, I killed the big dog of sex!" "Brother!" came a voice from the back of the church, "Are you sure that last dog didn't die a natural death?" You cannot kill these dogs. Either they die a natural death - but that does not bring any transformation to you - or you have to become masters...

.... There is no need to kill... Buddha will not suggest you kill anything. Why kill anything? If you kill anger you will never be compassionate in your life, because it is anger, and the energy involved in anger, which becomes compassion. If you kill sex you will be simply impotent, that's all; you will not attain to love. It is sex transformed that creates love energy. Love energy is confined to sex...

.... When you bring awareness to it, sex disappears but love energy is released. Anger disappears but compassion is released. Greed disappears and sharing comes in its place. It is not a question of killing; these are energies. Don't be such a fool as to kill anything, because if you kill it you will miss something very essential in your life. Transform. Religion has to be the real alchemy, the science of...

... to you to kill anything. He says: Just be awake. BE THE WITNESS OF YOUR THOUGHTS. Anger is a thought, sex is a thought. Just watch, be alert, let them move on the screen - anger, greed, lust - and you remain aloof, cool, just a witness. In the beginning it is very difficult, but only in the beginning. If you persist then within three to nine months you will be able to do the impossible. One day it...

... - strike me hard. That's what Zen Masters have been saying to their disciples: If you meet Buddha on the way - kill him immediately! And they loved Buddha tremendously. It happened, A Zen Master, Ikkyu, was staying in a temple. The night was very cold and he had no blankets - he was a beggar, and the whole temple was so cold - it was made of stones: stone coldness. In the night he couldn't sleep, so he...

... MASTER HARD AND WORSHIP IN FAITH. Love your Master so deeply that there is no clinging - you can kill, you can drop, the other disappears, the other is absorbed, only you in your crystal purity remain. But this is possible only if total faith is possible. Of course this Ikkyu must have loved Buddha tremendously, otherwise how is it possible to burn Buddha? How is it conceivable? He must have loved so...

... absence. This has to be understood very very deeply. If you miss there you will never be able to understand the nature of fear. It is like darkness. Darkness does not exist, it only appears to be. In fact it is just an absence of light. Light exists; remove the light - there is darkness. Darkness does not exist, you cannot remove darkness. Do whatsoever you want to do, you cannot remove darkness. You...

... about it, and the more you do, the more you will become fearful because then the more you will find it impossible. The problem will become more and more complicated. If you fight with darkness you will be defeated. You can bring a sword and try to kill the darkness: you will only be exhausted. And, finally, the mind will think: Darkness is so powerful, that's why I am defeated. This is where logic...

... cradle. Left alone with no contact, nobody to protect, nobody to give solace, nobody to love; a loneliness, a vast loneliness all around. This is the state of fear. This comes up because you are brought up in such a way that you don't allow love to happen. Whole of humanity has been trained for other things, not for love. To kill, we have been trained: and armies exist. Years of training to kill! To...

... love because if a person is really in deep love he cannot be manipulated. You cannot send him to war; he will say: I am so happy! Where are you sending me? And why should I go and kill strangers who may be happy in their home? And we have no conflict, no clash of interests... If the young generation. moves deeper and deeper in love, wars will disappear because you will not be able to find enough mad...

... people to go to the war. If you love, you have tasted something of life; you would not like death and killing people. When you don't love you have not tasted something of life; you love death. Fear kills, wants to kill. Fear is destructive, love is a creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you may like to sing a song, or paint, or create poetry, but you would not take a bayonet, or an...

... atom bomb, and go rushing off madly to kill people who are absolutely unknown to you, who have done nothing; who are as unknown to you as you are unknown to them. The world will drop wars only when love enters into the world again. Politicians don't want you to love, the society does not want you to love, the family doesn't allow you to love: they all want to control your love energy because that is...

... attention to his own affairs. A world absolutely selfish will be the best world possible. That's why I am against communism and all socialistic tendencies. Because they kill the individual. They sacrifice the individual for the society, for the state. They say: For the country you have to die. For the religion you have to die. For the good of all you have to die - and they go on saying this to everybody...

... for yourself, DO IT. And if somebody feels good, attracted, magnetized - help him, but out of love, not out of any missionary spirit. That is poison. Question 7: 'IF YOU MEET A BUDDHA ON THE ROAD, KILL HIM IMMEDIATELY!' - WHAT ABOUT YOU? HOW DO I BOTH LOVE YOU AND KILL YOU. Do the same to me. First try to find me and then when you have found me - kill me immediately. Because that's how you will...

... the disappearance of hope, future disappears. Future is nothing but the extension of hope. Future is a hope-project. JITOKU WENT TO THE MASTER FULL OF HOPES, BUT AS SOON AS HE ENTERED THE ROOM HE RECEIVED A WHACK. The master did well. He had not even uttered a single word, he had not asked anything, and he had been hit hard. When you come with hopes, that is the only way to bring you to the moment...

.... If I hit you hard on the head, at least for a single split moment you may come here. Otherwise you are in the future. Zen masters have been hitting their disciples out of their compassion. Once you start understanding me, I am going to hit. Right now I know you will not understand; you will simply escape - so I go On persuading you to be near me. Once you are ready... a good hit on the head is...

... simply a tremendous gift. One should receive it in deep gratitude. It brings you to the earth. It brings you to the herenow. You have gone so far away that only a hit on the head can bring you here. ... BUT AS SOON AS HE ENTERED THE ROOM HE RECEIVED A WHACK. HE WAS ASTONISHED AND MORTIFIED: NO ONE HAD EVER DARED TO STRIKE HIM BEFORE, BUT AS IT IS A STRICT ZEN RULE NEVER TO SAY OR DO ANYTHING UNLESS...

... ASKED BY THE MASTER, HE WITHDREW SILENTLY. But he missed. He followed the rule, but he could not respond to the situation. When you follow a rule, you miss the situation. He knew that it is a rule that unless the master says something you are not expected even to utter a single word - and he had not said anything. He had to withdraw. But deep down he was hurt. The master had hit his head to bring him...

... HIM BEFORE... inside he said - he moved to the past - 'no one has ever dared to hit me before.' The master hit him to come herenow; he moved to the past. From the future he jumped to the past. He missed the middle point. He followed a rule. Rules are not helpful with a master. You have to respond, not according to rules. You have to watch the situation. You are not to interpret according to your...

... ZAZEN AND YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT HIS TREATMENT OF YOU MEANS." It is a great act of compassion. A master is beyond anger, beyond ego, beyond hurting anybody, but out of his compassion he can even hit. The hit is surgical. The knife is not against you. The knife is not in the hands of the enemy. It is in the hands of a doctor, a surgeon. He's going to cut you deep. He has to take out the...

... you; to learn how to feel that which is already surrounding you from all sides. Many times I have to hit you; It may not be a physical whack on your head, because to tolerate that is not very difficult. Just the other night a sannyasin came and he said, 'Last time I came to you, you called me a coward!" He was very much offended. Just because I called him a coward, he was so much offended. He...

... missed an opportunity. The ego started thinking, the ego came in between. It was a hit on his head. He missed. Now I will have to take another opportunity. And there are certain moments when only then can I hit you. Even then there is no certainty that you will not miss them. Only in rare moments you can be hit - and then too you can miss. Be alert. And don't philosophize, because that can again be a...

... trick. When I hit you, respond. Be alert. It is not to offend you; it is to awake you. And I know, the day you understand, you are also going to feel HIS BLOW WAS FAR FROM HARD ENOUGH. To seek life, to search for truth, is to be ready to die - to die to that life that you have been thinking is life. It is not. I have to destroy you in many ways; in fact, dismantle you - only then can the new arise...

... have written that the Prince was very arrogant, stubborn and unnecessarily violent - because the monkey was not doing anything wrong, he was just enjoying himself. Why should the Prince be offended? Why should he have felt that this monkey had to be killed? That prince must have been a very, very egoistic person. He tried to kill, and the monkey was simply defending himself, nothing else. If you look...

... walk on all fours. You cannot climb a tree like a monkey. The monkey and the Prince are both in the same boat. THE PRINCE SHOT AN ARROW AT THE MONKEY, BUT THE MONKEY DEXTEROUSLY CAUGHT THE ARROW IN MID-FLIGHT. The Prince is more violent than the monkey because the monkey's display is simply to ask: Why should you kill me? But man is more violent than any animal. There is a zoo in Tokyo - if you ever...

... egos but they are still innocent, not so violent. But man is violent, man seems to be the only violent animal. Tigers kill, lions kill, but just to eat, never otherwise. Man kills not only to eat, he enjoys killing. Hunting is a game for him. He will simply kill to kill - and no animal in the world kills his own brothers and sisters, no! A lion will not kill another lion, a monkey will not kill...

... another monkey. Man is the only animal which kills other men. There is an in-built protection in every animal; zoologists say that every animal carries an in-built mechanism not to kill the same species. But it seems that something has gone wrong with man, he kills his own species. There is nothing like war in the animal world, although individuals fight. Animals have more understanding. If two dogs...

... simply intelligent. He is weak, so what is the need to get into a fight? It is proved, and it is proved innocently without any bloodshed. The same thing is going to be proved even through a fight. Why go to war unnecessarily?' This is more economical. AT THIS THE PRINCE ORDERED HIS ATTENDANTS TO MAKE A CONCERTED ATTACK. Look at the foolishness! Just to kill a monkey a concerted attack is needed, many...

... laughing at what you have done. THE MONKEY WAS SHOT FULL OF ARROWS AND FELL DEAD. THEN THE PRINCE TURNED TO HIS COMPANION YEN PU'I.... And look how even in our foolishness we prove that we are wise! This Prince had killed unnecessarily and in no way could this be called a victory. Just to kill one monkey took a concerted attack of a hundred persons with arrows; and the monkey was without any weapon...

... take revenge. It may be that Jesus was crucified because the masses could not tolerate his superiority - and he was superior. They could not tolerate this man of quality. He was extraordinary, they had to kill him. Athens could not tolerate Socrates. He was rare - one of the most unique minds ever born, so penetrating that there is no comparison. Athens could not tolerate him, everybody felt offended...

... cannot forgive you. People can forgive fools, but they cannot forgive wise men. That is why Jesus was crucified, Socrates was poisoned. You feel so utterly inferior before a Jesus or a Socrates, how can you forgive them! It is natural, you will make a concerted attack. You will all make a concerted attack to kill that man. Then you will feel that a burden has been thrown. A Jesus is so superb - if he...

... live in a climate, a milieu, then you come near a sage - you have changed the climate, you have come to the Himalayas, to the Alps, to Switzerland. Now the climate is different, now he is not going to support your illnesses. He will by and by take away all supports. Without the supports the illness fails. And when there is no illness, your own health flowers. All that needs to be done is to remove...

... the illnesses - health is already there, it is not to be given to you. Only remove the illness and health flowers. Near a sage, the climate changes. But you have to be open. If you go to Switzerland, and you have iron, steel armour around you, you will not be changed because your steel armour will carry its own climate within. Go to a sage without any armour, without any defense - that is what the...

... thief - because then who will prevent you? Only your fear was preventing you; you were not going to murder your enemy because you knew you would be caught. But if a situation arises where you can murder the man and you cannot be caught, you cannot be punished for it, you will murder him immediately. So it is only through weakness that you are good. But how can goodness arise out of weakness? Goodness...

.... One of the facts is this: that people who go mad are the best, people who go into crime are the most rebellious. They can become great saints and it is not a surprise if a Valmiki becomes a saint. Valmiki was a dacoit, a murderer, he lived by murder and loot. A sudden happening - and he became enlightened. One enlightened person was passing, and Valmiki, a murderer, a man who lived by theft, caught...

...; This man was converted in a second. The same story happened with Buddha. There was one man who was almost mad, a mad murderer. He had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people, not less than that, because the society had not treated him well. He would take his revenge by killing one thousand people. And from every person killed he would take one finger and make a rosary around his neck - one...

... completed his vow. And he was a man of energy because he was fighting the whole society: only one man - and he had killed a thousand people. And kings were afraid of him, generals were afraid, and the government and the law and the police - nobody could do anything. But Buddha said, "He is a man, he needs me. I must take the risk. Either he will kill me or I will kill him." This is what buddhas...

..., so beautiful, he thought, that even a murderer felt compassion for him. He thought, "This man seems to be absolutely unaware that I am here, otherwise nobody goes along this path." And the man looked so innocent, so beautiful, that even Angulimala thought, "It is not good to kill this man. I'll leave him, I can find somebody else." Then he said to Buddha, "Go back! Stop...

... there now and go back! Don't move a step forward! I am Angulimala, and these are nine hundred and ninety-nine fingers here, and I need one finger more - even if my mother comes I will kill her and fulfill my vow! So don't come near, I'm dangerous! And I am not a believer in religion, I'm not bothered who you are. You may be a very good monk, a great saint maybe, but I don't care! I only care about the...

... finger, and your finger is as good as anybody else's so don't come a single step further, otherwise I will kill you. Stop!" But Buddha continued moving. Then Angulimala thought, "Either this man is deaf or mad!" He again shouted, "Stop! Don't move!" Buddha said, "I stopped long ago; I am not moving, Angulimala, you are moving. I stopped long ago. All movement has stopped...

... have come on purpose because this is the last chance for my body to be used in some way; otherwise people will burn it." Angulimala said, "What are you saying? I thought that I was the only madman around here. And don't try to be clever because I am dangerous, I can still kill you!" Buddha said, "Before you kill me, do one thing, just the wish of a dying man: cut off a branch of...

... this tree." Angulimala hit his sword against the tree and a big branch fell down. Buddha said, "Just one thing more: join it again to the tree!" Angulimala said, "Now I know perfectly that you are mad - I can cut but I cannot join." Then Buddha started laughing and he said, "When you can only destroy and cannot create, you should not destroy because destruction can be...

...; Angulimala opened his eyes and said, "I am so grateful to you. They can kill the body but they cannot touch me, and that is what I was doing my whole life and never realized the fact." Buddha said, "Angulimala has become enlightened, he has become a brahmin, a knower of Brahma." It can happen in a single moment if the energy is there. If the energy is not there, then it is difficult...

... thought, "This man is the enemy, he is destroying the very base. Without the crowd how can we live?" By going and teaching the ninety-nine sheep to go astray, they will huddle together more. And if you go on teaching them they will take revenge, they will kill you, they will say, "Enough is enough!" We live in the crowd, we are part of the crowd. Alone we cannot exist. We don't know...

...?" Purnakashyapa said, "I will feel they are very good people. They could have killed me, but they are simply beating me." Then Buddha said, "Now the third question: if they really kill you and murder you, then at the moment when you are dying how will you feel?" Purnakashyapa said, "I will thank you and them. If they kill me, they will have freed me of a life where many...

... your dreams. They have a big business because you cannot analyze your own dreams. They are symbolic, they are not real. They say something only in metaphors. If you want to kill your mother and get rid of her, you are not going to kill her even in your dream. You will kill someone else who looks like your mother. You will kill your aunt or someone else, but not your mother. Even in dreams you cannot...

... be real. Then psychoanalysis is needed; a professional is needed to interpret - but you may describe the whole thing in such a way that even psychoanalysis is deceived. Your dreams are also totally false. If you are real while you are awake, your dreams will be real. They will not be symbolic. If you want to kill your mother you will see a dream in which you kill your mother, and no interpreter...

... will be needed to show you what your dream means. But we are so false. In dream you are alone, still afraid of the world and the society. To kill a mother is the greatest sin, and I wonder whether you have ever thought about why to kill a mother is the greatest sin. It is the greatest sin because everyone feels a deep enmity toward his mother. It is the greatest sin, and it is taught, your mind is...

... conditioned, that even to think of harming your mother is a sin. She has given birth to you. All over the world, in all societies, the same is taught. There is not a single society on the earth which will not agree to this, that to kill a mother is the greatest sin. She has given you birth and you are killing her? But why this teaching? Deep down there is the possibility that everyone goes against his...

... is the greatest sin to kill your mother. Even in thought, even in dream, you cannot kill your mother. I am not saying that you SHOULD kill her, I am simply saying that your dreams are also false - symbolic, not real. You are so false that you cannot even dream a real dream. These are our two false faces: one is there while you are awake, one is there while you are asleep. Between these two false...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: BELOVED OSHO, IS WORSHIPPING IN THE COMMUNE RELATED TO MEDITATION? WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANY MEDITATION TIME SEPARATE FROM WORSHIPPING? It has been one of the most dangerous ideas down the centuries that life can be divided into separate parts. Life is indivisible, it is an organic whole. The moment you divide it you kill it. This is one of the...

... they will be killed anyway. If I am not killing them, somebody else will kill them. And he will not kill them with such love, with such compassion. How can I leave this profession? "These animals are going to be killed. If I don't kill them somebody else will kill them and he is not going to kill them with such meditation, with such love. So I would be leaving these poor animals in the hands of...

... hands of somebody who will simply kill them and not even bother about what he is doing. He said, "I am so concerned with these animals and I love them so much - I cannot leave them in somebody else's hands. Whatsoever happens to me, that I am ready to face." I can see why the people who could understand called him a master, a saint. He never gave a sermon, he never preached anything. He was...

... understand. Ordinarily when you want to kill an animal he tries to escape, but from this butcher no animal tried to escape. He hugged the animal. The animal was not bound by anything, tied with anything. He was completely free. It was as if deep down he wanted to die by this man's hand. And the emperor asked one thing, about the knife that he used to kill the animals. The knife looked so shiny, as if it...

... we are here only to fight and kill each other and murder each other. Now, this kind of world cannot allow love to grow. It depends on hate. The politician cannot allow love to happen. The priest cannot allow love to happen. If the priest allows love to happen then how will you manage your crusades and holy wars? If love is allowed, love will not know the distinction between a Christian and a Hindu...

... loving that they will see the whole stupidity of war. "Why should we fight? Why should we kill each other? We can make this earth a paradise." And the energy that we put into war is tremendous. Almost ninety percent of human energy is being wasted in war. War has been our constant history - chronic. In three thousand years man has fought five thousand wars. The earth seems to be mad! - as if...

... for how it all started, because the question arises: if man is by nature loving, then why did he manage such a kind of society in the very beginning? It was a question of survival. We have forgotten all those days, but five thousand years back man was constantly afraid of being killed by the animals. He was in constant fear. He had to fight back; to survive he had to constantly kill. Now all those...

... days are gone - there is no need to kill. In fact, there are not any animals left to kill. Now we are trying to protect them, whatsoever is left. But the old habit persisted. First we were fighting with animals, for centuries, for millennia; then it became an instinct - fighting. Then we started fighting with people, tribes, nations, ideologies, religions. The fight Continues - we only change the...

..., the priests are against me. And I am not teaching people to murder each other. I am simply teaching people to be more loving. Why are they so against it? Their very foundation is based on hatred. They hide it. They write in big letters: "Love is God" - but behind it are only bayonets, atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, super bombs - piles upon piles. Man has accumulated so many bombs that we...

... can kill each person seven times. Now this is futile. One person is killed in one go; there is no need to kill him seven times. But just in case one might survive... we will not allow him to. And this goes on! Each country goes on giving the major proportion of its wealth to war - even a country like India which talks about nonviolence, which talks about great ideals, Mahatma Gandhi, et cetera. But...