... something great is happening. On the one side corporations possessing television is wrong, and on the other side, government possessing television and radio is even more wrong. Because government -- whichever party is in power -- will enforce ideas into people. Television should be in the hands of the commune. And there is no need for television from six o'clock in the morning till twelve in the night...

... parties for the elections. So finally it is government who is hiding. And we don't now how many inventions are lying in the government offices. One Japanese scientist, who has also been here, has made petrol function four times more. But nobody is going to allow him. Because if petrol functions four times more, then the petrol owners who have become great just by petrol-control, their power and prestige...

... government is willing to give powers decentralized from the federal government, and of course individuals who are great owners... It is a conspiracy, perhaps unknown. It seems that millions of starving people does not matter, only those ten people matter who are the richest. And they give to the government to take more licenses and to support the party. Every power should be decentralized. The central...

... government should be only a coordinator. The states in the government should have the real power, not the central government. But no federal government will be ripe... agree for it, because they lose everything. Nobody is interested in the human bliss, human peace. Everybody is interested how much money you have gathered. And then it does not matter whether that money is gathered with a right means or...

...", and I could not see what emergency was there. Sometimes... Now it is national defense. But who is...? And this creates problem -- anything that goes against your own constitution. In the constitution you are very beautiful and flowery. But in practice, if you want totalitarian power, you can make an parliament act, a defense act which is not under the law of the land. A man can be forced into...

... also holy for Hindus, for Mohammedans. You should invite Christians, Jainas, to make it more holy. Sheer childishness to fight on these problems, but politicians have power only if there is some fight going on. Now the government will be in difficulty. If the government sides with the Hindus, the whole Mohammedan community will go against in the elections. If they side with the Mohammedans, the whole...

.... It gives power to both. When Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the murder of a novelist, Rushdie, who has done nothing... He is a Mohammedan, and what he has written is factual, but to bring Christ to a... any reference to Koran into a novel is degrading the Koran, it is holy. And nobody condemned Ayatollah Khomeini. On the contrary, everybody supported him except me. And when I condemned him on this...

... eternal, it never finishes. Once you have loved somebody -- if it is real love, that is the criterion -- that it will remain the same to the last breath. Nothing remains the same even the second after. Soon you become fed-up with each other. And because the man has all the money, all the education, all the power, naturally he represses the woman. Woman has found her own ways to nag him, to throw pillows...

... disappears, a sadness, a burden, an anguish, anxiety -- that takes place of a joyful, laughing and dancing life. But it can be changed very easily. I don't see any problem that cannot be changed. But the problems are such that the politicians are living on them. If those problems are solved, the politician is gone and all his power is gone. So he teaches and preaches, but his practice is different. Simple...

... not acquainted with any politicians, so I cannot say who can be the right prime minister. The difficulty is, a man without power is one thing. The same man with power is altogether different. So you know a man only when he has power. Without power everybody is a saint. Okay... Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... not educated; I had to teach her each and every thing. From a hotel waitress, I made her a celebrity all over the world. And this is the reward and gratitude that she has shown me. Naturally, anybody who is in power and feels that there are people who are far more intelligent remains in a kind of phobia, wanting somehow to get rid of these people. The chancellor of the university, Amitabh, left. The...

... knees, tears in his eyes, to say goodbye to me. He has not betrayed. And they are all informing me that they want to come back, because the reason that they had to leave has disappeared. So remember, these people were not Judases - except Sheela, who proved really poisonous. But I can understand her problem. She had come to power, she had never seen so much money in her life passing through her hands...

... respected women. Sheela has betrayed that respect. The whole commune I had given into the hands of women. It will not be so anymore. Now men will have an equal share of power in everything. It is a crime against womankind. I was trying to give some compensation to women because they have suffered so long, for thousands of years. But I am having second thoughts: perhaps they needed that suffering. One of...

... India's great poets, Tulsidas, writes in one of his poems, "Animals, untouchables, and women, once in a while need a good beating." I have always condemned that man, but Sheela and her group have proved Tulsidas was not wrong. I was not right; perhaps Tulsidas is right. I have been always a supporter of women's liberation, but Sheela and her gang have proved that if women are in power, Hitlers...

... she is repeating two things: first, that she had to leave the commune because there was a power struggle. We had never heard about that power struggle. Who was struggling for power? And the second thing was, "I have so much information with me, almost as much as the ocean, but I will not reveal it." That is a message to the attorney general of Oregon, to the FBI - that she is willing to...

... not taken a single step; otherwise, they could inform Interpol to arrest these twenty people and bring them here. They could inform the Swiss government, they could inform the German government that these people are criminals and they should not be given shelter, before they escape into a country where the American government will have no power at all. For example, if they enter East Germany, then...

... HER OWN CHOICE, AND SEEING THE SCOPE OF HER CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, I CAN'T HELP FEELING THAT SHE ONLY LEFT BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T CONTROL YOU, NO MATTER HOW SHE TRIED. THE ROCK WAS SHATTERED BY THE FLOWER. MASTER, CAN WE EVER THANK YOU? That's something to be remembered: The rock can be shattered by a roseflower. And that is our power. In the last press conference you heard a question from a journalist...

..., and I said, "If any harm is done to my innocent people, then no American embassy anywhere in the world will be allowed to function. And my people can hijack any American planes." But that was just a joke! We do not need to do such things. Our power is of love, of innocence. And whosoever will clash with our love and innocence will be shattered. Even nuclear weapons are not more powerful...

...Logos: Power: Necessity...

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... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. STILL IT IS GIVEN THEE TO fiGHT AND OVERCOME THY FOOLISH PASSIONS: LEARN THOU TO SUBDUE THEM. BE SOBER; DILIGENT, AND CHASTE; AVOID ALL WRATH. IN PUBLIC OR IN SECRET NE'ER PERMIT THOU ANY EVIL; AND ABOVE ALL ELSE RESPECT THYSELF. SPEAK NOT NOR ACT BEFORE THOU HAST REFLECTED; BE JUST. ... REMEMBER THAT A POWER INVINCIBLE ORDAINS TO DIE; ... THAT RICHES AND...

... 'philosophy' needs to be changed again - I suggest 'philousia': the desire to see and experience essence or Isness and not getting contented with only thinking about it. The sutra... the second part, purification, continues. The previous sutra was: IF THOU CANST AT LEAST; FOR A MOST RIGID LAW BINDS POWER TO NECESSITY. PYTHAGORAS RECOGNIZED TWO MOTIVES TO HUMAN actions: the first issuing from lower nature...

... called necessity - the second emanating from a higher nature called power; but both are dependent upon the implied primordial law - TAO, DHAMMA, TORAH, LOGOS. In the East we have called the first PRAKRITI and the second PURUSH. There is every possibility that sitting in communion with the Indian sages Pythagoras learnt about these two laws. He experienced them in his own being too, but the first...

... more the law of necessity functions. The higher you go in consciousness, the less and less the law of necessity functions and more and more the law of power, the law of freedom. At the lowest, cause and effect is the only law, and because science recognizes only cause and effect it cannot recognize God, it cannot recognize consciousness. Its very methodology prohibits it. Science remains tethered to...

... exceptional. In a sense they are on the right track. In what sense are they right? They are right because a man like Mahavira, Jesus, Buddha, has attained to the other law also - the law of power - but their bodies will not follow it. The body belongs to the earth; it will follow the earthly law. Their consciousness belongs now to the world of power, to purush, not to prakriti. Their consciousness will have...

... total freedom, absolute freedom; their consciousness will not know any limitation. But we cannot see their consciousness. Unless we also reach those peaks, those climaxes, those ecstasies, we can only see the body. So we start creating stories, myths, about their bodies, as if their bodies became part of the higher law of power. It never happens. As a metaphor, good; as a myth, beautiful; but don't...

..., milk started flowing. But don't be foolish and don't try to prove it physiologically, that actually milk was flowing. The body remains part of the earth; your consciousness can become part of the sky, it belongs really to the sky. Man is a meeting of these two laws: necessity and power, purush and prakriti, bondage and freedom, earth and sky, body and soul, the visible and the invisible, the gross...

... necessity and the law of power, are rooted in one primordial law. Lao Tzu calls that law TAO, Jesus calls that law LOGOS, Buddha calls that law dharma. Moses calls that law TORAH. There is a fundamental law where all dualities dissolve and become non-dual - that one is God, that primordial law is God, that primordial law is truth. Truth has a body - that body consists of the law of necessity; and truth...

... has a soul - that soul consists of the law of power. Man is both: a rope stretched between two eternities. That's how Friedrich Nietzsche has expressed it: a rope stretched between two eternities, between past and future, between matter and consciousness. And to walk on this tightrope needs great skill. You will have to become a tightrope walker. That's what sannyas is all about, disciplehood is all...

... it has to it and more significance. Nietzsche has also said: Live dangerously! What does he mean by 'live dangerously!'? Those who live only conveniently don't live at all; their life is nothing but a gradual death, a slow suicide. Life exists in its sharpness, in its brilliancy, only when you live dangerously. And the greatest danger is to move between the law of necessity and the law of power, as...

... these words. STILL... Pythagoras says:... although it is difficult, because a very rigid law binds power to necessity. It is dangerous to create the harmony, it is moving on the edge of a sword - but still it is possible, it is not impossible. It is difficult, but not impossible. STILL IT IS GIVEN THEE . . This is your birthright! ... TO fiGHT AND OVERCOME THY FOOLISH PASSIONS. Here 'fight' does not...

... can win only if the higher is absent; the lower wins only in the absence of the higher. Once the higher is there, the lower has no power. That's why Pythagoras calls the higher the law of power. STILL IT IS GIVEN THEE TO fiGHT AND OVERCOME THY FOOLISH PASSIONS: LEARN THOU TO SUBDUE THEM. Your passions are foolish. Remember, Pythagoras is not against passions - because they contain all the energy...

... understanding." This is double standard. If a Hindu becomes a Christian, Christians think understanding has arisen in him; if a Christian becomes a Hindu, he has betrayed, he has to be condemned. These are double standards. The man of justness will have only one standard for himself and for everybody else. ... REMEMBER THAT A POWER INVINCIBLE ORDAINS TO DIE... Death is coming. It has already come with...

... recommended by a certain category of people. Either they have to be Nobel prize winners, or they have to be kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers. The pope is the king of that small kingdom of the Vatican, eight square miles. He is the king of that kingdom - twenty soldiers he has, and six hundred million Catholics around the world. He has great power, and people like Mother Teresa are working...

... sixty years have passed. They changed the old structure; now there is nobody who is rich and nobody who is poor. That division they destroyed, but a new division has come in: between the bureaucracy - one who is in the government - and one who is just an ordinary citizen. Now all the power is in the hands of the bureaucracy; much more so than it had ever been in the hands of rich people. Rich people...

... had power because they had money; through money they could purchase anything. But in Russia, the bureaucracy has every power over every individual: to let you live or to finish you off, to keep you in the country or send you to Siberia to die in that eternal world of ice. They have power over your life and death. Such power was never in the hands of the people who had money. Yes, they had certain...

...: direct power is in the hands of the bureaucracy. I have heard that when Stalin died.... Stalin remained in power perhaps more than anybody else in the whole world. Alexander the Great died very young; he was thirty-three, the same age as Jesus was when he died. Napoleon Bonaparte died on a small island, Saint Helena, as a prisoner. Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Stalin seems to be the only man in the...

... whole of history who ruled over the biggest of empires - because Russia is one sixth of the whole earth - for almost half a century. He had all the powers that you can imagine. He killed millions of people. Nobody could even raise a finger, because the moment you raised a finger against Stalin, the next day you disappeared. When he died Khrushchev came to power, his second man, his very right hand...

...; - because when Stalin was in power, at that time he had ordered his grave to be made near Lenin's grave in Red Square. While he was in power, the grave was already made according to his design, according to his idea. It had to be the grave of one of the greatest communists. Khrushchev said, "We have to remove that grave. It is an ugly spot." And he removed it. Stalin's bones were taken out and...

... I kept absolutely silent." Even walls have ears in Russia; you cannot even whisper in your bathroom, because nobody knows... and particularly people who were in power, like Khrushchev, who was next to Stalin. His bathroom, his bedroom, everything must have been bugged. A slight suspicion and that was enough. Stalin never wanted proofs for anything; just a suspicion was enough proof for him...

... horse, your hands, your land - everything became state-owned. Hence, in Russia it is not communism. I call it state capitalism. The state became the only monopoly - capitalist. In America there are many capitalists; in Russia there is only one capitalist. And certainly to have many is better. Rather than giving all the power to one person.... And it is like a pyramid: the communist party is the base...

... and then slowly the pyramid becomes smaller and smaller with higher bureaucrats and finally and ultimately at the apex comes the central committee of the communist party with only twelve persons. One of the central committee will be the president and one of them will be the prime minister. And the prime minister is the real power; the president is only a rubber stamp. He has to sign anything that...

... the prime minister decides. Even if the prime minister decides that the president has to be sentenced to death, he has to sign it. He has no other power except to stamp it. Whatsoever comes from the prime minister, he stamps it. This is a new class structure. Now, the pope seems to be not aware that to call the class struggle a sin means you are supporting not only America, you are also supporting...

... excuse is that she is having cold. Q:* WELL, WHY DIDN'T YOU SORT OF DEPOSE HER, TAKE HER AWAY FROM HER POSITION OF AUTHORITY HERE? A:* She was... while she was in power, nobody has said anything against her criminal acts. she has removed all people who could have been probable competitors. She has put in all powerful positions just her own people, a group of twenty people, and... Q:* YOU KNOW HER VERY...

... sannyasins around the world respecting her in my name, because she was my secretary and I was in isolation and in silence. So she was speaking on my behalf. So around the world she was being respected, that she had never dreamt of. Suddenly the very human nature, lust for power.... Q:* SO YOU DIDN'T THINK SHE WAS MORE CAPABLE OF THAT THAN SOME OTHER PERSON? I MEAN, YOU DIDN'T THINK SHE HAD THOSE PARTICULAR...

... TENDENCIES... A:* Everybody has it. Unconsciously everybody is full of the desire for power. Q:* A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE IT BUT WOULD NEVER ACT ON IT EVEN IF THEY WERE.... A:* Because they don't have the opportunity. Q:* BUT EVEN IF THEY DID HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.... A:* No, I have never seen a single person who has the opportunity and has not acted. Q:* SO IF SOMEBODY ELSE FROM HERE WAS IN THAT SAME POSITION...

... THEY COULD DO THE SAME THING ALL OVER AGAIN? A:* Certainly, if the same opportunity is given. Q:* SO YOU WON'T LET THAT OPPORTUNITY BE GIVEN AGAIN? A:* No. I have decentralized the whole power situation. It is no more now in one hand. Now ten corporations' heads have equal power. The power is distributed. The religion I have declared dead, so nobody is a high priestess of a religion, so nobody can...

... THEM FOR REVOLTING AGAINST...? A:* Certainly, because all politicians want their countries to be as big as possible because that gives them power. My own... because in India before it became a slave country -- it has never been one country. In Buddha's time twenty-five centuries ago there were two thousand kingdoms in India. All have their languages, all have their cultures, all have their different...

...? I MEAN, HOW DO PEOPLE RESPOND TO THEM? A:* People are afraid of them just as they are afraid everywhere. Here in America, a nuclear power, the world's biggest power is afraid of five thousand sannyasins because they have thirty semi-automatic guns. Q:* WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST BASIC ISSUE, BASIC QUESTION, IN PROMOTING WORLD PEACE? A:* It is very simple. Nations should disappear. UNO should...

... become a world government. All the armies of the world and all nuclear weapons and everything should be surrendered to UNO. Just if the world is one the possibility of third world war can be avoided. And UNO is impotent just as nations, League of Nations, was impotent, for the simple reason because they don't have any power. Have all nations represented, but all nations should surrender their war...

... one meal a day, and that too is not going to last long. By the end of this year half of the India will be in the same situation as Ethiopia. Q:* YOU'RE FOR REDISTRIBUTING THE RESOURCES.... A:* Yes, if the world is one, then naturally everything can be easily redistributed, changed. India has immense labor power, very cheap. You can create great industries in India. And all that is so costly in...

... FEEL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE CHANCES OF THE WORLD FOR SURVIVAL AND...? A:* Certainly, because I can see that nobody is ready to die, neither America nor Soviet Union nor anybody else. If they don't want to die, they will have to come to some negotiation that makes war impossible. And the only way is that UNO becomes really the power and everybody surrenders to UNO. Everybody has its representative there...

... creating a world academy of scientists, and invite all the scientists from all over the world. And you make an effort to create a world government." National governments can remain but they will not have any power -- military power. They will be functional governments. They can manage everything else but not war. They can send their representatives, they can bring their problems to the world...

... it. At least that contentment will be there. We were not politicians. We had no power. But whatever we could do, we did it. If two journalists can manage and force the president, Nixon, to resign from his presidency, can not the whole world of media -- television, radio, newspapers, magazines -- if they all insist, they certainly can create an atmosphere in which change is possible. And there is...

... Jewish people from Roman domination by even greater miracles of power and marvels of racial triumph. The rabbis had gathered together almost five hundred passages from the Scriptures which, notwithstanding their apparent contradictions, they averred were prophetic of the coming Messiah. And amidst all these details of time, technique, and function, they almost completely lost sight of the personality...

... that his divine will of your choosing may be accomplished, and in those instances where you may engage in any choice or act of your divine-human will which shall only involve departures from the natural earth order as to time. In all such events I am powerless, and your creatures here assembled in perfection and unity of power are likewise helpless. If your united natures once entertain such desires...

... his final declaration concerning all other urges of the flesh and the natural impulses of human nature. (1518.4) 136:6.5 His superhuman power he might possibly use for others, but for himself, never. And he pursued this policy consistently to the very end, when it was jeeringly said of him: “He saved others; himself he cannot save” — because he would not. (1518.5) 136:6.6 The Jews were expecting a...

... Messiah who would do even greater wonders than Moses, who was reputed to have brought forth water from the rock in a desert place and to have fed their forefathers with manna in the wilderness. Jesus knew the sort of Messiah his compatriots expected, and he had all the powers and prerogatives to measure up to their most sanguine expectations, but he decided against such a magnificent program of power...

... it would be “through much tribulation that many of the children of all ages would enter into the kingdom.” Jesus was now passing through the great test of civilized man, to have power and steadfastly refuse to use it for purely selfish or personal purposes. (1521.2) 136:8.7 In your consideration of the life and experience of the Son of Man, it should be ever borne in mind that the Son of God was...

... day. (1521.3) 136:8.8 Jesus portrayed to all the worlds of his vast universe the folly of creating artificial situations for the purpose of exhibiting arbitrary authority or of indulging exceptional power for the purpose of enhancing moral values or accelerating spiritual progress. Jesus decided that he would not lend his mission on earth to a repetition of the disappointment of the reign of the...

... Maccabees. He refused to prostitute his divine attributes for the purpose of acquiring unearned popularity or for gaining political prestige. He would not countenance the transmutation of divine and creative energy into national power or international prestige. Jesus of Nazareth refused to compromise with evil, much less to consort with sin. The Master triumphantly put loyalty to his Father’s will above...

... every other earthly and temporal consideration. 9. The Fifth Decision (1521.4) 136:9.1 Having settled such questions of policy as pertained to his individual relations to natural law and spiritual power, he turned his attention to the choice of methods to be employed in the proclamation and establishment of the kingdom of God. John had already begun this work; how might he continue the message? How...

... should he take over John’s mission? How should he organize his followers for effective effort and intelligent co-operation? Jesus was now reaching the final decision which would forbid that he further regard himself as the Jewish Messiah, at least as the Messiah was popularly conceived in that day. (1522.1) 136:9.2 The Jews envisaged a deliverer who would come in miraculous power to cast down Israel’s...

... enemies and establish the Jews as world rulers, free from want and oppression. Jesus knew that this hope would never be realized. He knew that the kingdom of heaven had to do with the overthrow of evil in the hearts of men, and that it was purely a matter of spiritual concern. He thought out the advisability of inaugurating the spiritual kingdom with a brilliant and dazzling display of power — and such...

... have happened on Urantia had this God-man, now in potential possession of all power in heaven and on earth, once decided to unfurl the banner of sovereignty, to marshal his wonder-working battalions in militant array! But he would not compromise. He would not serve evil that the worship of God might presumably be derived therefrom. He would abide by the Father’s will. He would proclaim to an...

...:9.6 Rome was mistress of the Western world. The Son of Man, now in isolation and achieving these momentous decisions, with the hosts of heaven at his command, represented the last chance of the Jews to attain world dominion; but this earthborn Jew, who possessed such tremendous wisdom and power, declined to use his universe endowments either for the aggrandizement of himself or for the enthronement...

... of his people. He saw, as it were, “the kingdoms of this world,” and he possessed the power to take them. The Most Highs of Edentia had resigned all these powers into his hands, but he did not want them. The kingdoms of earth were paltry things to interest the Creator and Ruler of a universe. He had only one objective, the further revelation of God to man, the establishment of the kingdom, the rule...

... moral nobility when he refused to grasp temporal power as the prelude to spiritual glory. (1523.2) 136:9.10 If the Son of Man had any doubts about his mission and its nature when he went up in the hills after his baptism, he had none when he came back to his fellows following the forty days of isolation and decisions. (1523.3) 136:9.11 Jesus has formulated a program for the establishment of the...

... temporal power. (1523.4) 136:9.12 In rejecting these methods of enhancing the coming kingdom in the eyes of the expectant Jews, Jesus made sure that these same Jews would certainly and finally reject all of his claims to authority and divinity. Knowing all this, Jesus long sought to prevent his early followers alluding to him as the Messiah. (1523.5) 136:9.13 Throughout his public ministry he was...

... power, and you never know what you will do with the power. You can destroy: you can destroy others, you can destroy yourself. Power is dangerous, it is risky. People decide to live at the minimum so there is no risk. When you have power there is every risk that you will use it. When you have a sports car which can go two hundred miles per hour, there is risk:one day you will decide to go that fast. Mm...

...? the very thing that's possible becomes a challenge. So people live at a low key because if they know how much they can rise in power, how powerful they can be, then it will be difficult to resist, the temptation will be too much; they would like to go the whole way. Then one does not know what will happen: if you go two hundred miles an hour in a car you never know; hence the fear. Your fear is not...

... of vulnerability; your fear is of the strength that you are feeling arising. The snake is uncoiling and you don't know what to do with such power. Patanjali has written a whole chapter in his Yoga sutras about power just to help every seeker to walk very carefully in this area, because great power will be available and there will be great danger. Just to warn people, to make them alert, he has...

... written that chapter; it is one fourth of his Yoga sutras. He has taken great care to describe every possible aspect of power. Why? - because the seeker could be lost; it is better to warn him beforehand. But with me it is totally different. If the vulnerability grows together with power, there is no fear; if power grows alone without vulnerability, then there is fear, then something can go wrong...

.... That's what Patanjali is afraid of, because his Yoga methodology is such that it is against vulnerability. It gives you power but no vulnerability. It makes you more and more strong, like steel, but not strong like a rose flower. That is where I differ: my whole work consists in making you strong on one hand and vulnerable on the other hand. Both go together, they keep balance and one need not be...

...'. ... THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. Zarathustra has no respect for the higher man, because the higher man is nothing but the old man with a bigger ego. He may be higher because he has power, he is a king; he may be higher because he has knowledge, which is all borrowed; he may be higher because he has virtue and a moral character, which are all rotten and old-fashioned, which are not in tune with the time at all...

... respectability, with power - but basically it is the same old man. The superman is an absolute discontinuity; it is totally new. So remember that distinction in your mind. The meetings with higher men are not meetings with the superman, although the higher man has always thought himself to be the superman. That is his egoistic attitude. The superman knows nothing of superiority - that is his superiority. He...

.... Possessiveness is always a sign of a power, and power signifies poverty, inferiority. Only the inferior man wants to be superior, because to live with inferiority is difficult. The inferior man wants to have riches, wants to have kingdoms, wants to have knowledge, wants to become a holy man, but in some way he wants to cover his inferiority so that he can forget all about it. He is not an open book; he cannot...

... HIGHER MAN, TO SEEK HIM OUT AND HELP HIM. HE LEAVES HIS CAVE, AND SETS OUT ON A PATH ON WHICH HE MEETS DIVERSE PEOPLE. FIRST, THE KINGS.... Obviously they think they are the highest human beings, because they possess so much - their territories, their kingdoms, their money, their power. Obviously they believe they are higher. And the kings have been forcing poets to sing songs in their praise, forcing...

... difference - neither in their blood nor in their bones. But the kings are the first because of their brutal power. The people have accepted that they are higher. And they have spread strange ideas in the world. In the middle ages it was thought, in England, that the Queen of England has not two feet, two legs separate, but they are joined, because nobody had seen the queen's legs. The dresses were such...

... miracles are managed. And I know many miracle men in this country. They are nothing but sorcerers, magicians." They should have been on the streets, because I have seen on the streets better magicians, doing better miracles. But these people have become great babas, spiritual leaders. The kings, through their brutal violence, are in power by killing, murdering, burning living people, by invading...

... power; they were cunning, crude, and they managed to rule portions of humanity - the emperor of China is a direct descendant of God. And all these people have nothing which can be called higher; it can only be called lower. They are more animalistic, more lustful for power, for money, for women. And still we continue to think of them as higher men. Zarathustra wants to remind you that your higher men...

... fictions of God, heaven and hell. Freedom will be his very heartbeat, and consciousness will give him a life of grace, beauty, blissfulness, benediction. He will be overflowing with love. He will be immensely powerful, but not over others. His power will be his love. His power will be his treasure that he can share. His power will be his constant sharing. He cannot reduce anybody into a beggar; he cannot...

... or material creation is not infinite, but it is perfectly co-ordinated. There are force, energy, and power, but they are all one in origin. The seven superuniverses are seemingly dual; the central universe, triune; but Paradise is of single constitution. And Paradise is the actual source of all material universes — past, present, and future. But this cosmic derivation is an eternity event; at no...

... characteristic unity of divinity. And this divinity of purpose manifested by the Supreme Creators and Rulers of the time-space domains eventuates in the unifying power potential of the sovereignty of experiential supremacy which, in the presence of the impersonal energy unity of the universe, constitutes a reality tension that can be resolved only through adequate unification with the experiential personality...

... realities of experiential Deity. (641.3) 56:6.2 The personality realities of the Supreme Being come forth from the Paradise Deities and on the pilot world of the outer Havona circuit unify with the power prerogatives of the Almighty Supreme coming up from the Creator divinities of the grand universe. God the Supreme as a person existed in Havona before the creation of the seven superuniverses, but he...

... functioned only on spiritual levels. The evolution of the Almighty power of Supremacy by diverse divinity synthesis in the evolving universes eventuated in a new power presence of Deity which co-ordinated with the spiritual person of the Supreme in Havona by means of the Supreme Mind, which concomitantly translated from the potential resident in the infinite mind of the Infinite Spirit to the active...

... functional mind of the Supreme Being. (641.4) 56:6.3 The material-minded creatures of the evolutionary worlds of the seven superuniverses can comprehend Deity unity only as it is evolving in this power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being. On any level of existence God cannot exceed the conceptual capacity of the beings who live on such a level. Mortal man must, through the recognition of truth, the...

... appreciation of beauty, and the worship of goodness, evolve the recognition of a God of love and then progress through ascending deity levels to the comprehension of the Supreme. Deity, having been thus grasped as unified in power, can then be personalized in spirit to creature understanding and attainment. (641.5) 56:6.4 While ascending mortals achieve power comprehension of the Almighty on the capitals of...

... progressive until his power becomes experientially infinite in the space potency of the Unqualified Absolute, while his personality manifestation becomes experientially infinite in the manifest presence of the Deity Absolute, and while these two potentials of infinity become reality-unified in the Universal Absolute. (645.3) 56:9.8 But beyond subinfinite levels the three Absolutes are one, and thereby is...

... loved by him, and who, by thus becoming God-knowing, may choose to be like him, may elect to attain Paradise and find God. (646.1) 56:9.14 The universe of universes is altogether unified. God is one in power and personality. There is co-ordination of all levels of energy and all phases of personality. Philosophically and experientially, in concept and in reality, all things and beings center in the...

... spirit, so does this divine and supreme ideal become power-unified in Supremacy and then personalized as a God of fatherly love. (647.7) 56:10.16 All insight into the relations of the parts to any given whole requires an understanding grasp of the relation of all parts to that whole; and in the universe this means the relation of created parts to the Creative Whole. Deity thus becomes the...

... and his Sons as divine mercy. They manifest their qualities through the Spirit and his spirit children as divine ministry, the portrayal of loving mercy to the children of time. These three divinities are primarily manifested by the Supreme Being as power-personality synthesis. They are variously shown forth by God the Sevenfold in seven differing associations of divine meanings and values on seven...

.... They have their own victories upon themselves. They have no enemies outside, they have created the enemy within. And then they fight with it, and when they win they have a very egoistic feeling. They feel power. So the second thing to be understood: whenever you feel powerful, remember you have attained a crystallization of the ego. And whenever YOU are powerful, you cannot meet the divine, you...

... cannot meet the truth, because power exists in conflict, power exists in fight. Power is created through war, through violence, through aggression. Power is against love, power is against silence, and power is against the total. You cannot meet the Brahman, the absolute, if you feel yourself to be powerful. You meet the total only when you feel yourself to be totally powerless, helpless, no one, nobody...

.... If you are feeling powerful in any way, you are creating a barrier. When you are powerful you are blind to the total. And you are so much disturbed through your power, so much in inner turmoil, that you cannot have that silence which can become a meeting, a communion with the total. Hence, the emphasis of all religions to dissolve the ego: only then can you enter the divine. Jesus says: "Only...

... more you try to be powerful. Because you think that if you are powerful, then you can do something about death. At least you can postpone it; you can push it away a little. But the more powerful you grow, the more death becomes significant. The more powerful you grow, the more you become afraid of death, because with the power grows the ego. If you are rich, politically powerful, you will be more...

... afraid of death. If you are poor, with no power, you will not be so afraid of death. Western people, when they come to the East, simply cannot understand why people in the East are so indifferent to death. They are so powerless. They do not have very fixed and solid egos so they cannot be so much afraid. You become more afraid. You become afraid in proportion to what death is going to take away from...

... you. If you do not have anything, what can death take away from you? A poor man is not so afraid of death. Really, death cannot take anything away from him. He may attain something through death, but he cannot lose. The richer you grow, the more afraid you are because all your riches will be taken away. Whatsoever is achieved will be taken away. The more power you have, the more you feel powerless...

... before death because it will make you impotent again. All the glory and all the power will go and you will die like any beggar. Death is absolutely communistic: it equalizes all. The lowest, naturally, cannot be much afraid. The highest will be afraid because he will be pulled down. Death will take your presidentship, your prime-ministership, and death will take from the beggar his beggary. The...

... to death. This is the reason: they have not much to lose. They are existing on the lowest rung, so death cannot become a fall to them. They are already fallen; they are already existing in the grave. What I intend to say is: power gives you ego, ego creates lust for power and this becomes a vicious circle. And when you are powerful you become afraid of death. When you become afraid of death you...