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... mind that is found in America or in capitalist countries - no difference in that mind. But the outer structure of the society has been changed. And the outer structure of laws, state, economics, politics - that has been changed. Once the police force, the governmental power is taken away, man will fall back to his old pattern again. The Russian society can be managed only by force, it cannot become...
... theories. For centuries in India they have been consoling the poor. 'You are poor because you committed wrong things in your past lives - this is a consolation. People are not poor because they have done wrong things in their past lives. People are poor because they are being exploited. Now the priest is in the hands of the exploiters - naturally, because they are the power, they are the power-holders...
... free keeps one unfree. Every desire is a chain, a bondage, an imprisonment. No desire can ever be fulfilled. By dropping the desire, its fulfillment happens. Now, the greatest desire in the world is that of inner transformation. The desire for money is nothing, the desire for more power, prestige, is nothing. The greatest desire is the so-called spiritual desire. And once you are caught in that...
... painful, not by rejecting it. By rejecting it you will become smaller and smaller and smaller, and you will have less and less power. And you will be in a constant inner war, a civil war, in which one hand will fight with the other, in which you will simply dissipate your energy. A very fundamental thing to be remembered: only communion with psychological pain opens the door for its liberation and...
... to materialize unless it reaches to the unconscious. That's why hypnosis goes far deeper than any other methodology. Hypnosis works directly on the unconscious. You may try for years to drop a certain habit, and you will not be able to, because you will try only from the conscious mind. And the conscious is very small; it has no power before the unconscious. And the unconscious has no way to know...
...-called old people are just as childish as children, sometimes even more so. Maturity is very rare; people remain immature. If you are interested only in toys - possessing this, possessing that, becoming famous, reaching some political power, prestige, having money, becoming very famous in the world - if you are interested in these things, you remain part of this stupid world of futile fruitless...
... into your heart as deeply as possible, that whatsoever you are doing is futile. Money is not going to help, fame is not going to help, power is not going to help. Death will come and all will be snatched away from you. And what does it matter how much money you have got? The only real thing in the world is how much being you have got. Having is the fallen state: being is Christ risen, resurrected...
... wines of this world - of money, power, fame: they are all poisons. But there is a wine - the wine of God, the wine of love, the wine of meditativeness, the wine that pours from the beyond into your heart. Become available to it. And how does one become available to it? Be open. And only an authentic person can be an open person. The person who is not authentic, who is not true to himself, who is...
... said, 'I would like to serve humanity.' Gurdjieff looked at him and laughed. And he said, 'But where are you? I don't see you anywhere. I am sorry to say it to you but you don't exist! Who is going to serve humanity?' A similar case is reported in Buddhist scriptures. A man came to Buddha and said, 'I have much money. I have much power.' He was one of the richest men of those days. And he said, 'Just...
... Christians that is more than enough. They should be Christians, that is the thing. They should live in Christ, that is the thing. Now that you have a big crowd behind you, what does that crowd matter, how does it matter? But the crowd creates power in the world of politics. If you have many Catholics, Catholicism is more powerful. Then the pope of the Vatican becomes more powerful. If you have more Hindus...
..., then the Shankaracharya of Puri becomes more powerful. It is really power-politics. People are different and they all need different approaches towards God. One should remember only one thing: that one is moving towards God. How he is moving, in what garb, with what language he prays, is irrelevant. But the conflict is there, the politics is there, and the politics is a shadow of egos. So many...
... sane. But because insanity is so widespread, it is so normal that we don't become aware of it.... Once YOU become awakened then you are surprised how people are living, what they are doing to themselves and to others. Their whole life is nothing but sheer madness. Somebody is mad after money, somebody is mad after power, somebody is mad after fame - and all these things are futile. Death comes, and...
... two and half hours you have been doing it. Why waste your time? Throw the whole bag! What is the point of counting?" But this is how human mind functions: even if it renounces it counts. It is the same mind which was accumulating; now it is renouncing. One is after power, prestige, then one day one escapes to the mountains as far away from the capital as one can go. But the capital remains the...
..., that is your treasure. And you will be surprised that when you reach to the other shore, the beyond, your treasure will be awaiting you there, to rejoice, to receive, to welcome you. Either you can collect money, power, prestige - which will be left on this shore - or you can accumulate a totally different kind of treasure: of meditation, of love, of bliss, of understanding, of awareness, of...
... child can do it. But when somebody hits you and you don't hit back, it is strength. When Jesus was crucified and he prayed to God, 'Father, forgive these people because they don't know what they are doing,' it is strength - the strength of the meek, the power of the humble. Remember, the same word, if used by different people, becomes different. In fact, there should be different dictionaries...
... a lie. Now it is clever argument. It is no longer a statement of truth, it is a cunning device. It is sophistry. Yes, that is exactly the word for it. This man is not a sage, he is a sophist. You must have heard about sophists. They existed in Athens in Greece. Before Socrates there was great power in the hands of the sophists. They travelled all over the country. They convinced everybody, they...
... money, prestige, power, respectability. If these things come he is ready to support anybody. He is not against crime; he is ready to protect crime if that is the way money comes. Now this man is a sophist, he is not a sage, he is not a Master - he is not even a teacher, not even an honest teacher. He is a sophist. But he has persuaded the king - 'THIS IS THE SORT OF WAY I WOULD LIKE TO FIND.' But...
... insisted, 'Tell me, what is electricity? You are explaining how the fan moves, how the switch works, how the motor works, but I am not asking about the motor and the fan and the switch, I am asking about electricity, the power behind it. What is it?' And the man said, 'You are asking a difficult question. I am just a graduate. I will ask my principal to come - he is a D.Sc. He will explain!' The...
... worldly, as worldly as you are. Right now he is not so worldly, that's why he has come to the ashram and has become a sannyasin. He is other-worldly. He does not care a bit about money, power, prestige - all those trips. He is very other-worldly. You can see. And you can see many young people here - ninety-nine per cent of my sannyasins are young people. Why? Why should young people be so interested in...
... thinks first about the non-essential: money, power, prestige, pull, car, house, bank, insurance. He thinks about these things first; security comes first. He is not at all worried about who you are. For whom is this security? For whom is this bank balance? For whom is this house and this car? For whom? You are disappearing, your life is slipping out of your hands - and you are worried about the non...
..., because orgasm is so momentary that it only creates more desire for it; it never gives you any satisfaction. The second symptom that it is a drug is its power of addiction: people become addicted to sex. And a very strange thing about addiction is that if you have the drug, it is nothing; if you don't have it, you are missing. You never think what you are missing because when you have it, it is nothing...
.... The instinctive man clings to everything: to sex, to money, to power - to everything. I asked him, "Why do you go on purchasing all the houses?" He said, "Some day you may like to have a commune - then from where am I going to suddenly give you a commune? By that time I will have purchased the whole city. I know that you will take a little time before you need a place - I am preparing...
... and giving an interview. Sheela was sitting in front so she could not see, but K.D. was at the side so he was amazed when he saw that the man was touching the bottom of a girl in the picture! And these are the people who are in power. He is one of the persons who has been creating all kinds of hindrances for our commune in Poona and still goes on doing it. In parliament he spoke against me. In...
... shoe, the price, the power - whether the shoe has a powerful shape so when you go walking on the streets your male ego is exhibited through it. Each thing that the male ego chooses has to be somehow a phallic symbol. The male ego chooses a car with great speed - a phallic symbol, forceful. You will always find impotent people sitting in great phallic cars - impotent people. The more impotent they...
... become, the more powerful a car they choose. They have to compensate. The male ego always chooses that which will fulfill the male ego: I am powerful - - that is the basic consideration. The feminine ego chooses something which gives another sort of power - I am beautiful. Hence they never agree. If your mother purchases something, your father is bound to disagree with it. They are not made to agree...
... the river, tremendously happy, but he has not been yet able to gather courage to take a jump. He has still much involvement with the bank, in the world. He has much involvement in ordinary, mundane things - money, power, prestige, family, body, health - a thousand and one things. He is not yet courageous enough to let go. Srotapanna means one who has surrendered, who has entered the stream...
... God and any belief in God, then man can never be free; because then there is a dominator, a dictator. With a God in the world, there can be no democracy - impossible. If God has created man, then of course He is the ultimate power. If He's omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, then how can freedom exist? You are never left alone, He's everywhere: that's what the so-called religious people teach. They...
... LORDS AS A PARTICLE OF DUST THAT FLOATS IN THE SUNBEAM. He says: All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they...
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