... miserable. It is very rare that a person becomes aware enough to be blissful. It certainly makes a person distinguished. Money cannot do that - many people have it. University degrees cannot do it - millions have them. Political power cannot do it Only one thing can make a person distinguished, that is bliss, because only bliss proves that the person has been intelligent in his life, that he has lived...

..., but they have divided it into many things. It has become fragmentary, it is there in thousands of pieces. It has lost that togetherness which makes it a power. And these fragments are not only divided, they are divided against each other. One part of your will is fighting with another part of your will; it is a kind of civil war that goes on inside. And that's what the so-called saints have been...

... enough courage to see Jesus in the day. In the night, when nobody was there, he approached Jesus and asked, "Why am I not happy? I have everything - knowledge, money, power, prestige - still I am not happy. How can I also enter the kingdom of your God?" Jesus said to him, "Nicodemus, unless you are born again you will not be able to enter into my kingdom of God." What Jesus was...

... the center suddenly there is peace, absolute peace, virgin peace; it has never been disturbed. And once you know your center and you start existing there, the disturbance of the mind is nothing to make any fuss about. You simply accept it; it is natural, just as you accept the waves in the ocean. It no longer disturbs you, it loses all power over you. this is the victory. To exist at the center, to...

... god of bliss and wisdom. We carry the seeds for both bliss and wisdom. Unfortunately many are unaware of the seeds, so they go on accumulating wealth and a little prestige, and a little power, and life goes on slipping out of their hands; the seeds remain seeds. And to die without transforming the potential into the actual is the only sin. I call this the original sin. By becoming a sannyasin you...

... hurt - as if you have some power over people. Just because you love, does somebody else have to love you? You can offer yourself, but the other has to decide. You took the initiative, but if the woman could not like you that does not mean that you are nobody, that simply means something was not fitting between you two. And it is good that the woman denied you. If out of politeness, or out of respect...

... energy to move and just hoping that something will happen is a deception. You are deceiving yourself. Deceptions can be very beautiful and artistic and aesthetic, but still they are deceptions. Love the real. It is through reality that one grows. Beware of dreams and their power over you. They can take away the whole opportunity, they can destroy the whole opportunity. AM I A FOOL TO BELIEVE? I THINK...

... snakes here!' And Mulla said 'See! They work! They are a miracle, they have miraculous power. It is because of the seeds they are not here.' Logic is a game good only for small children to play. But a few people remain childish even when they have become old. They may be professors in the universities, but they go on playing with the game. It is a good game, an intelligent game like chess - but a game...

..., they lost all power - all political power; Christianity became politically powerful. There was no way for the Jews to be politically powerful, so their whole mind turned to the second power - money. They became focused on money. These are the only two worldly powers: either politics or money. Because they were not in the majority, they could not be politically powerful, so naturally their whole...

... power over money, and money gives them power over other things - even power over politicians. Money is such a strange power... And it goes on creating more power, so they are hated. And they have turned the whole world into a market: they reduce everything to a commodity, they reduce everything to a certain market value. That too creates a little hatred, because if everything is reduced to money, if...

... commodity is bound to be hated. But Jews are intelligent people. There is no doubt about it - one of the most intelligent races on the earth; otherwise they would not have survived. They have survived with no political power and with enemies all around and everywhere. They have been on the cross for two thousand years since Jesus' death. They have suffered too much. For one man's crucifixion it is enough...

... somewhere in the finite. You can see. You can seek money and power, but each time you succeed, you will find that you have failed. Each time you succeed, the success will bring nothing but the awareness of the failure. Money is there but you are as dissatisfied as ever, or even more so. Power is there and you are as impotent as ever. Nothing makes man more aware of powerlessness than power. Nothing makes...

... destroying individuals; the society can exist only by destroying individuals. The society has more power if there are no individuals around. If there are individuals then the power is less and less and less. If the whole society consists of individuals then there will be no power in the authorities - there will be no power in the priest or the politician. So the society tries to crush. uproot, destroy the...

... a mystical ceremony which is based on the idea of kundalini energy, serpent-power, you have to first read about what kundalini is. Naturally you have to become acquainted with what kundalini is so that you understand the physiology of the kundalini. You read Gopi-Krishna and people like that. And you know that there are many centres and there is a passage in the spine up which the energy rises...

... gives a kind of consolation, it helps to soothe you. It is just like a tranquilliser. And for people who are in search of anything, in a very, very juvenile way.... America in particular is in great search for something to hang on to, because all that is available - money, power - has become meaningless. All has become meaningless. They have everything; for the first time a society has become affluent...

... any direction and they don't have any reference to the past. Their parents have never searched for spirituality, their parents were in search of money. Their parents were in search of money and they succeeded. And in that very success, everything failed. Their parents had only one thing that was enough to keep them drunk, and that was power. How to have a big house? How to have a big car? How to...

... have more money? - more power. They were drunk with power. And they had only one thing as their religion and that was work. Work is the American ethos. Work hard so that you can achieve many things in the world. And they succeeded; unfortunately, they succeeded. And now their children are at a loss. Now what? Money is there, house is there, car is there, everything is there - now it doesn't make any...

... your degree of expertise in a special subject, the more power you have. The more information you have, the more wealth you have. Knowledge too is wealth. Some people amass wealth in bank vaults, others in their memory. And remember, the one who gathers wealth in his memory system is cleverer, because the bank can be broken; the financial position of the country can change, a communist revolution can...

... happen. The bank vault is not really safe at all. Thieves, communists, the state, can snatch it away. The protection of the bank is unreliable. But to steal from the memory system is not so easy, though that too is happening now. Ways are being devised to make the theft from the memory system possible. Until now, the memory system never changed with a change of power in the state, but efforts are afoot...

... ever contests an election for the purpose of public service. True, he himself thinks that this is why he is standing. He is not just saying it, he actually believes it! He is deceiving not only you, but himself as well. "Without a position, how can I serve the public? How to serve without power?" This is his logic. But every servant, just at the moment of rising to power, is converted to...

... is not flowing in any particular direction, it is not fixed on anything; it is simply at rest. You are sitting under a tree. If you want to concentrate, then recite some mantra, some chant, or place a sacred article in your hands on which to concentrate your mind. This is nothing but an aspect of learning. This can produce power, because from the will issues power. But no peace will come from this...

... concentrated his mind to such a degree that whatever he says will enter into your unconsciousness like an arrow, and once there it will become a suggestion. It will take root there, like a seed. If Durvasa cursed you to die, you cannot continue to live. You will have to obey him; so intense is his power of concentration that you will have to submit to it, and you will wither under his gaze. In the face of a...

... unblinking eyes, and his concentration, accumulated for years, would arouse fear in you. Wherever he looked he created difficulty - this much was certain. It was just through the power of his eyes that he had gained his place behind the czar's throne. The czar's young son was a hemophiliac; just a little cut, and he could bleed to death; a small wound, and nothing could stop the blood oozing away. But if...

... forecast: he predicted that the power of the czar would cease to exist very soon after his - Rasputin's - death. Now, he made this statement of course so that the czar should protect him, and the czar indeed did his best. But within a year and a half of Rasputin's death, the three-hundred year old czarist empire came to an end. As I understand it, Rasputin's words must have reached deep into the czar's...

...-history; its events are not visible on the surface; you can only see them from within. If you are sitting under a tree and practicing concentration, power will arise in you. Power of any kind feeds and nourishes the ego. Hence you will always find that the sannyasins who practice concentration of mind are great egoists. Their each and every action is a great manifestation of their ego; whether they are...

... is like a river, actively flowing fast into a certain direction. Meditation is like the ocean, a vast expanse open to all directions, but not flowing anywhere. The river can be flooded; to the ocean, flooding is unknown. Rivers are running and narrow, a small amount of water fills them up - just a little less water and they run dry. Concentration can be flooded and stormed with great power, and...

... clothes - you can undress. But to renounce knowledge is like renouncing your skin; it is not so easy. It is painful, very painful. And from where does the pain come? The pain comes from the ego - because knowledge is the food for the ego. It is the subtlest food for the ego. The more you know, the more you feel powerful. Lord Bacon has said, "Knowledge is power." It is very difficult to...

... renounce power. Money too is power, but nothing compared to knowledge - because money can be robbed: the government can change, communists can come, money can be distributed. You cannot rely on the money; the bank can go broke. But knowledge is more secure: no government can take it away, no change of politics can take it away, nobody can rob you of it, and you cannot go so easily bankrupt. Knowledge...

... dreary company. Still others said to one another. "Beware, for he may well be trying to lure us into his power." Curiosity led them all, including their host, to accept the hospitality. The following evening the dervish led them from the house to a hidden monastery of such size and magnificence that they were dazed. The building was full of disciples carrying out every kind of exercise and...

... SIGNS OF MOVEMENT DIFFERENT ENERGY STATES, TELEPATHIC HAPPENINGS, EVEN NEW GRAY HAIRS WILL DO. SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM, YES. BUT WHAT TO DO? The mind is always hankering. The mind is nothing but hankering, desiring something to happen. Sometimes it is thinking about money, to have more money, to have bigger houses, to have more respectability, to have more political power. Then you turn towards...

... hide your old desires in new names: don't call it telepathy, don't call it clairvoyance, don't call it spiritual power. It is the same; it is the ego. Spirituality knows nothing of power. Spirituality is a tremendous peace. I am not saying it is powerless - but it knows nothing of power. It is tremendously powerful, but there is nobody to feel powerful in it. The ego has disappeared; you are gone...

..., gone forever. Only God is. Of course, God IS powerful. The Jews call God 'Elohim', it comes from a root 'el'. The root is the same as from where the Mohammedan word 'Allah' comes. It means the source of power, the powerful. Allah means the powerful; Elohim means the powerful. God is powerful. When you are not, He is there. But there is nobody to claim power. A spiritual man IS powerful, but there is...

... nobody to claim it. When the claimer goes, only then does the power come; they never meet together. So forget about all your spiritual desires. You simply be in the moment - that's what I call being spiritual. the last question: Question 5: OSHO, WHILE YOU ARE SITTING IN CHUANG TZU AUDITORIUM TELLING STORIES ABOUT ME, I AM SITTING IN THE TURKISH BATH TELLING MY DISCIPLES STORIES ABOUT YOU. ALL I HAVE...

..., satya, achaurya, brahmacharya, aparigra, are the very base, the foundation. They have to be understood as deeply as possible because there is a possibility to move without fulfilling these five steps which constitute the first step of yam. You can find yogis and fakirs all over the world who have moved without fulfilling these five steps of the first step. Then they become powerful, but their power is...

... violent. Then they are very, very powerful, but their power is not spiritual. Then they become sort of black magicians; they can harm others. Power is dangerous; it can help, it can harm. Not only to others is it dangerous, it is dangerous to the person himself. It can destroy you; it can give you a rebirth. It depends. These five vows are just a guarantee so that the power which arises out of...

... discipline is not misused. You can see "yogis" displaying their power. That is impossible for a yogi, because if the yogi has really fulfilled these five vows he will no longer be an exhibitionist; he cannot display. He can no longer try to play with miracles -- that is not possible for him. Miracles happen around him, but he is not the doer. These five vows kill your ego completely. Either the...

... ego can exist or these five vows can be fulfilled. Both are not possible. And before you enter into the world of power -- and yoga is a world of power, infinite power -- it is very, very necessarily needed that you drop the ego outside the temple. If the ego is with you there is every possibility that the power is going to be misused. Then the whole effort becomes futile, a mockery, in fact...

... ridiculous. These five vows are to purify you, to make you a vehicle for the power to descend and for the power to become a beneficial influence, a blessing to others. They are a must. No one should bypass them. You can bypass. In fact to bypass them is easier than to go through them because they are difficult, but then your building will be without a foundation. It is going to fall any day, collapse any...

... become more and more important. Man is understanding more and more what slavery is. And man is understanding also that no political revolution has proved revolutionary. All political revolutions finally turn into anti-revolutions. Once they are in power they become anti- revolutionary. Power IS anti-revolutionary. So there is a built-in mechanism in power. Give anybody power and he becomes anti...

...-revolutionary. Power creates its own world. So, up to now, there have been many revolutions in the world and all have failed, utterly failed - no revolution has helped. Now man is becoming aware of it. Tantra gives a different perspective. It is not revolutionary, it is rebellious. Rebellion means individual. You can rebel alone, you need not organize a party for it. You can rebel alone, on your own. It is...

... important, because you can purchase anything for money - you can purchase sex... Power has become important, because through power you can have as much sex as you want. A poor man cannot afford it. Kings used to have thousands of wives - even in this twentieth century, the Nizam of Hyderabad had five hundred wives. Naturally, one who has power can have as much sex as he wants. Because of this delusion...

... that sex is the ultimately real, thousands of other problems have arisen: money, power, prestige. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS... It is just imagination; it is just imagination that you are thinking to be pleasure. It is an auto-hypnosis, an auto-suggestion. And once you auto-suggest to yourself, it looks like pleasure. Just think: holding the hand of a woman... and you...

... interfere with your imagination. Then you can picture and paint and create images of him as you like. Far away it is easier - the imagination has full power. The closer you come to me, the less and less power will your imagination have. And you will never be able to see me unless you drop your imagination. So is the case with all other pleasures. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS...

...: N.A. Length: N.A. WHEN SOME VISITORS UNEXPECTEDLY FOUND HERACLITUS WARMING HIMSELF BY THE COOKING FIRE, HE SAID TO THEM: HERE, TOO, ARE THE GODS. I HAVE SEARCHED MYSELF. TIME IS A CHILD MOVING COUNTERS IN A GAME; THE ROYAL POWER IS A CHILD'S. BIGOTRY IS THE SACRED DISEASE. There are two ways to seek the true: one is to borrow knowledge, the other is to seek yourself. Of course borrowing is easy, but...

... possible. That's why: WHEN SOME VISITORS UNEXPECTEDLY FOUND HERACLITUS WARMING HIMSELF BY THE COOKING FIRE, HE SAID TO THEM: HERE, TOO, ARE THE GODS. I HAVE SEARCHED MYSELF. And I am not just saying this because others have said -- I have known myself. He says: TIME IS A CHILD MOVING COUNTERS IN A GAME; THE ROYAL POWER IS A CHILD'S. The royal power is a child's, and time is a child moving counters in a...

... flowing? And why not be like the ocean, roaring, just enjoying? This is what Heraclitus says: TIME IS A CHILD MOVING COUNTERS IN A GAME; THE ROYAL POWER IS A CHILD'S. And every child is a king. Just watch a child -- every child is simply a king, an emperor. Look at the movement: even if the child is naked, no emperor can compete with him. Why is a child so beautiful? Every child, without any exception...

... in such a way that it becomes prayer. You can love a man in such a way that it becomes prayer. You can dig a hole in the garden in such a way that it becomes prayer. Prayer is not a formal thing -- it is the quality of prayerfulness that you bring to something. ... THE ROYAL POWER IS A CHILD'S. Why? -- because the royal power means innocence. God comes to you when you are innocent. When you are...

... cunning the door is closed. Never destroy anybody's innocence, never create doubts in somebody who is innocent, because innocence is the royal power. Never create doubt in anybody, because once trust is destroyed and innocence is broken, then it is very, very difficult -- it is just like a broken mirror. This is the problem for a master: you are all like broken mirrors, because somewhere on the path of...

... child's heart is the royal power. With innocence the power comes to you. And when I say trust, and when all the masters of the world say trust, they mean: Become innocent. But you insist that you will doubt and you will argue and you will first rationalize. You insist that you should be convinced first about something, then you will take a step -- and that is the very problem, precisely that is the...

... you taste more, you become more and more capable, and then you can take the ultimate jump. TIME IS A CHILD MOVING COUNTERS IN A GAME; THE ROYAL POWER IS A CHILD'S. And about time, also, Heraclitus has no mathematical theory. About time, also, he says that it is just like a child moving counters in a game: the day and night, they move. Heraclitus does not believe that time is going somewhere. It is...

... other. Enough of it, no need of it now! Now the earth has become one. The whole globe has become just like a small village. Let humanity also become one -- one in the search, not in the beliefs... one, because everything is divine. Always remember Heraclitus: HERE, TOO, ARE THE GODS. I HAVE SEARCHED MYSELF. THE ROYAL POWER IS A CHILD'S. BIGOTRY IS THE SACRED DISEASE. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... be the most greedy - greedy for power, hungry for power; continuously fighting with each other. Their whole time is wasted in quarrelling. The country is going to the dogs, and sitting in New Delhi, all that they do is fight with each other - how to topple the other. Everyone wants to become Prime Minister. And once you become Prime Minister, all that you do is to protect your prime ministership...

... will be heard of no more. You and your whole company will just go down the drain, because the country has seen that you have deceived and cheated it. In the name of democracy all kinds of wrong people have become powerful in India. And they have not done a single thing since they have been in power except quarrel. I must remind you of the three monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi. You must have heard of them...

... reach to power, they become destructive. And what wrong is happening here that they are afraid should not be known in the world at large? One thing. A great synthesis is happening here - something that has never happened before, of which they are afraid, and which NEEDS to happen. It is a must for humanity's survival. I am trying to create a great synthesis: the synthesis between Zorba the Greek and...

... represent the real image of India? And remember also: India is not a small country, it is a vast continent. It is not one tradition, it is many traditions. But the people who are in power now are basically Hindu chauvinists. A very wrong kind of person has come to power. Their whole idea is of a very narrow Hinduism - so narrow that it does not even contain the whole current of Hinduism. Hence it is very...

..., sir, I would suggest to you... Your government is very skillful in creating commissions. That's an that you have done within this year and a half that you have been in power. All that you have done is to create commissions. Why don't you create a commission to visit the ashram to see what is happening here? Just remember one thing: be careful, because people who come here get caught. And be careful...

... invited, Mr. Advani. And what kind of democracy is this? You came to power in the name of democracy. Even Indira did not dare to interfere with my work. And you are democrats...? Nothing but Hindu chauvinists! India is a vast continent. Do you think Charvarka and his materialism is not India? Do you think Buddha, who denies God, who denies the soul, who denies the world, who is a nihilist - an utter...

... Hindu chauvinists. But what kind of hypocrisy is this? Now they pay tribute and call him Father of the Nation. And these are the murderers; they created the climate in the country to murder that man. And now they worship him. In his name now they are in power. India has many currents. And it is beautiful. It is not a monolith, that's why it is beautiful. It is a rainbow, it has all the colours...

... warn the country: if these people persist in trying to force Hindi on the whole of the country, that will be the reason one day or other that India becomes split. South India is bound to go on its own way against the North, because the North is becoming too Hindu chauvinistic. If this country is going to be destroyed one day, the reason will be these people who are in power today. India cannot have...

... you have understood, only once, that God is nothing but a hypothesis created by the priests, the politicians, the power elite, the pedagogues - all those who want to keep you in psychological slavery, who have some vested interest in your slavery.... They all want to keep you afraid, always afraid, trembling deep inside, because if you are not afraid, you are dangerous. You can either be a person...

... enforcing, conditioning your mind with Christianity, with Judaism, with Mohammedanism, with Hinduism, and they keep you trembling deep inside. That is their power, so anybody who is interested in power, whose whole life is nothing but a will-to- power, has tremendous use for the hypothesis of God. If you are afraid of God - and if you believe in God you have to be afraid - you have to follow His orders...

... his authority and power from God - His only begotten son. The pope derives his authority from Jesus - His only true representative, infallible. And it goes on and on to the lowest priest... but there is no God; it is your fear You asked for God to be invented because you could not live alone. You were incapable of facing life, its beauties, its joys, its sufferings, its anguishes. You were not ready...

... anybody. This is simply outrageous." But people are people.... People were still going, so finally he decided, "I have to visit these people. Who are these people? They have declared themselves saints! I don't even know who they are. I have not even been informed, and it is in my power only to sanctify a person to be a saint." So he was very angry. He went in his boat - and he had a...

... learn the prayer, they had not asked anybody, "What is God? Where is God?" - nothing. They were simply innocent people, and out of innocence was their faith. That faith does not prove that God is; that faith simply proves that innocence is a power. It is only a story, but innocence is a power. Yes, you can walk on water, but out of innocence; and out of innocence if there is faith.... But...

... matter in what the faith is. Innocence gives power, but innocence is destroyed, and this is what I am trying to bring back to you, so that you become innocent again. And to become innocent again you will have to pass through these stages. You will have to drop this idea of God which helps you to remain unafraid. You will have to pass through fear and accept it as a human reality. There is no need to...

... escape from it. What is needed is to go deep into it, and the deeper you go into your fear, the less you will find it is. When you have touched the rock bottom of fear you will simply laugh, there is nothing to fear. And when fear disappears there is innocence, and that innocence is the summum bonum, the very essence of a religious man. And that innocence is power. That innocence is the only miracle...