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...-nine men.... If they all joined together, they could kill this man, they could take back their wives. They had to be prevented. The priest had to invent ways, because the priest was protected by Krishna. Krishna had the power, temporal power, in his hands - the army, the court, the law - he protected the priest. Hindu law says that if you kill a sudra, an untouchable, then ten years in jail is enough...
... punishment; but if you kill a brahmin, then it is the death penalty. Not only in one life but in the coming seven lives, again and again you will be murdered, killed; only then will the punishment be over. The temporal power protects the priest, the priest protects the temporal power. The priest says, "Krishna is no ordinary man, he is God's perfect incarnation and you should be happy that he has...
... that it is not a blessing but a curse, they will kill all these rich people. It is good both ways: a consolation for the poor, so that poverty is a blessing; and a protection for the rich, so that the poor cannot revolt. Religions have been the reason poverty goes on existing in the world; otherwise there is no reason at all for it, particularly now, when science and technology can transform this...
... society. You ask me, "If there is no God, no devil, what is the need of religions?" Then only is there the need of religion. When God is there and the devil is there, there is no space for religion. Those two are enough to occupy the whole space. Those two are such big fictions that there is no space left for religion. First, you have to kill God and the devil, both, completely, to make space...
... people don't kill, don't murder, don't crucify. If Jesus were really a personality, there would have been no trouble. He would have been a well-respected rabbi; the masses would have worshipped him, Jews would have remembered him as a great saint. But he was an individual. Individuals don't fit easily with others, individuals fit only with other individuals -- and then too, the harmony is not imposed...
... be altruistic, because one who is not rooted in his self, is not selfish, will not bother about anybody else. If he cannot care for himself, how can he care for anybody else? He is suicidal; naturally he will become murderous. Your whole society up to now has been a society of murderers. A few people commit suicide; they become saints. A few more go on committing murder; they become great...
... remain a learner has tremendous beauty and grace in it, because it is life itself. TRAIN IMPARTIALLY IN EVERY AREA; IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE TRAINED DEEPLY AND PERVASIVELY IN EVERYTHING. Whatsoever you are learning, learn it in its totality. Don't let it be just a hit-and-run affair, go into it as if it is your whole life. Stake everything! Be total, whatsoever you do, because it is only out of totality...
..., enforced, the harmony is natural. But individuals don't fit with personalities. Light cannot be adjusted with darkness, that is the trouble. Jesus may have been too much of a troublemaker, because he only worked for three years, and in only three years he created so much offense that people had to kill him. And Jews are not dangerous people, Jews are business-minded people. In fact for these two thousand...
... someone hits you on one cheek, you give him the other," what is he intending to do? He is trying to make you innocent. Only a foolish person would do this. When someone hits you on one cheek, a calculating mind will say, "Hit him hard, immediately." And a really calculating mind will say, "Before someone hits you, hit him. Because attack is the best defense." Ask Machiavelli...
..., these techniques will be for you. Jesus is preparing his disciples for sudden enlightenment. Just think about it. If you can be so innocent, so trusting, that if the other is hitting you, he must be hitting you for your good - so give him the other cheek also, and let him hit it. The other's goodness is believed in, trusted in; no one is your enemy. When Jesus says, "Love your enemies," this...
... was Jesus, who was crucified? He was happy. How can you crucify happiness? He was ecstatic. How can you crucify ecstasy? You can kill the body but you cannot kill the soul. Those who crucified him, they lived, but their life was nothing but a long slow crucifixion - misery and misery and misery. So the first thing is that I don't say that if you follow the inner guide you will always succeed - in...
...; I said, "But you have not done anything to me, why should I forgive you?" He said, "I have not done what I had come to do," and he showed me a big knife that he was carrying. He said, "I had come to kill you because I had been told that you are against religion, and I am a great devotee of Krishna." He was a fanatic Hindu. I said, "Then why don't you kill me...
...?" He said, "Listening to you I became aware that what you are saying is religion. You are not against religion, you are against religions. Those religions I have followed up to now, but I want to change. I had come to kill you, but you have killed me!" And that man is a sannyasin since then and has been a very stable, reliable sannyasin. Just go simply anywhere as you are and present...
... will worship you because you have conquered taste. All you have done is destroy a sensitivity that is part of your individuality. Islam is against music. Strange: "Don't enjoy music." Someone is against the tongue, another is against the ear. And there are Mohammedans who have never listened to any music. Then why not become deaf? Why not give your tongue plastic surgery? Remove those small...
... to invite you all one day, but I am lazy. So I waited for some day, but he has done my job. I am thankful to him also." And I told him, "You start." He was teaching Gautam Buddha at that time and he said, continuing, that the country in Gautam Buddha's time was so moral, so religious, so spiritual, that there was no crime, no theft, no murder. In fact, people never used locks on...
.... Somebody is average sick so you don't think that he is a mental case -- just average sick like everybody else. Somebody is a little more; you think he is a little eccentric. Somebody is a little more and you start becoming afraid; he seems to be dangerous. He can do anything -- he becomes unpredictable. He becomes afraid of himself too; he does not know what he can do. He can kill himself, he can kill...
... his mouth, warm smoke from the cigarette flows into his mouth. It is harmful, he knows; there is no doubt about its harm. It is going to kill him two years earlier -- perhaps it will create tuberculosis for him, perhaps cancer of the lungs. But it is strange... it helps him to relax. Knowing all this, whenever he feels nervous, tense, some strain, he immediately starts looking for a cigarette. The...
... people were worshipped as saints, great saints, and all that they had done was mutilate themselves. Do you think these people are mentally healthy? Is not something wrong? All the religions preach fasting, which is against nature. You are starving yourself, torturing yourself. But you are respected for it, your ego is fulfilled because of it. So there is competition among saints: who fasts longer? They...
... to present to me. I said, "Why do you unnecessarily take this trouble, coming two miles to the station?" He said, "You have helped me so much. Since that day I am finished with fear, I am finished with my father. Now I can forgive him. Before that it was impossible, always wanted to kill him; now that idea never arises in me." Every man is brought up in a society where it is...
... right leg. Remove it immediately! You are interfering with my work. This is a transgression!" But the other said, "I cannot remove it. I have not put it on your leg. And if you have any courage, then remove it yourself and see what happens!" Now they were standing with two sticks, and they were almost going to beat the master. Suddenly the master became aware that something was wrong...
... medicines. And there are so many doctors that you can escape death but you cannot escape the doctors - they will kill you in the end. Whatsoever you do they will kill you. Fifty percent of diseases can simply disappear from the earth. Hypnosis is a great force, but with every force there is danger - it can be misused. But just because a force can be misused you need not go against it... because anything...
.... Then whom to follow and what to do? Mohammed is with his sword in his hand and Mahavira says that even to kill an insect means that for lives you will suffer. Mohammed is with his sword, so what to do? Mohammed goes to war, and Mahavira escapes from life completely. He escapes so much that he is afraid even to breathe, because while you breathe, many lives - many, many lives - are killed through it...
... death, because only women sin; man never sins - because all these scriptures are written by men. And this was a great problem, so they asked Jesus about it. They were playing a trick, because if Jesus would have said, "No, don't kill this woman, don't be the judges," then they could say, "You are against the scriptures." And if Jesus would have said, "Yes, kill this woman...
... more you try to trap him you will get trapped with him. So Jesus said, "The scripture is absolutely correct. But come forwards only those who have never sinned. Take these stones in your hands and murder this woman, but only those who have never sinned." The crowd started disappearing. Those who were standing in front went back - because who will stone this woman? But they became enemies of...
... center is massaged from within and the society is against this. Take slow breaths, shallow breaths. Don't go deep, then the sex center is not hit! Really, civilized man has become incapable of deep sexual orgasm because he cannot take deep breaths. In the love act your breathing must be so deep that your whole body becomes involved. Otherwise you will not achieve orgasm, and then you will feel...
... it partial; a very small doubt will not allow it to be total. But that also you can decide - whether there is any doubt. We go on doing things with doubts inside. Those doubts kill every effort. It is not so much that you are not reaching because of not enough effort. It is more because of your doubts standing behind. So whatsoever you do. that sceptical part of the mind goes on denying, goes on...
... it. If the whole world stands against it as a witness, even then your feeling of its being true cannot be shaken. That's how a Jesus can die, a Mansoor can be killed. They can be killed, but they cannot be changed, converted. They cannot be converted! You can kill a Mansoor: you cannot convert him. He will go on saying the same thing. Mansoor was saying, "I am the God." In Mohammedan eyes...
..., that is KUFRA - heresy, egoism. It is not a religious expression. A religious person must be humble, and this Mansoor goes on telling, "I am the God - ANAL HAK, AHAM BRAHMASMI - I am the Brahma." So they killed him. They thought that when they began to kill him he would come back to his senses. But he went on laughing, and someone asked, "Mansoor, why are you laughing?" Mansoor...
... said, "I am laughing because you cannot kill a God. You cannot kill a God! AHAM BRAHMASMI! ANAL HAK! I am the God!" Jesus says as his last words, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." He asked the Divine to forgive all those who were crucifying him because, "They do not know what they are doing." But Mansoor and Jesus, they are very arrogantly certain...
... him, 'Arrest me, I have committed a murder.' They are so innocent that if you have committed a murder.... And he said, 'Although there was no intention, one thing led to another - we were fighting, and I pushed him from the mountain, and the poor fellow died. I feel sorry for him, but I have committed murder. There is no eyewitness; except me, nobody knows it. And in my parts, in the forest, there...
... is no police station, so I had to come almost one hundred and fifty miles to report.'" I asked this man, "If he was educated, do you think he would have come to report that he has committed a murder, when there is no eye witness, when there is no police for one hundred and fifty miles? These aboriginals... you think you are doing a selfless service - you are destroying them." I have...
..., "I was feeling so ashamed. I betrayed you, your love, your friendship. I am not ashamed of the murder - the man I murdered needed it! I am ashamed that I betrayed your love and your trust." I said, "Forget about it. You have not betrayed anything. I love you as much as I loved you before - perhaps more, because you had to pass through such a torturous ordeal." I went there every...
... do to her in the future - the child may even murder her - but that is irrelevant, that is not the point at all. The mother is unaware of the past of the child, unaware of the future. But to the stranger who has come in the form of the child, she gives all that she has. Existence is also a stranger. We don't know exactly what it is, why it is, from whence it has come, to where it is going. Neither...
... kill you, and only when you are completely consumed, you are. That which is consumed is the false you and that which comes out of the fire is the real. The myth of the phoenix is not just a myth: it is the story of man, the story of spiritual rebirth. Each disciple has to be a phoenix. He has to be consumed by the fire the Master is. And out of that, out of the ashes, a new being is born... the...
..., they love, they hate, they make war, they kill each other, they commit suicide, they go mad, they die, but all in dream. It is very rare for ordinary people to have a few moments of awakening in their whole lives. Gurdjieff used to say that even if for seven single seconds man can be alert in his whole life, that is a miracle. But this is what we think life is. This is not life. The real life begins...
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