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... President Kennedy was a political conspiracy, for the simple reason that he was weeding out the politicians, out of their power positions, and bringing in people who were never known to have any political aspirations. It will be dangerous for Rajiv, but the challenge has to be accepted because India is falling apart, becoming poorer every day. The politician always thinks of his future election. He says...
... following - knowingly or unknowingly - the old British system. They should see that the British system is a dying system. Britain has no future. It has a beautiful past, it has seen the greatest heights of power, it has been the biggest empire in the whole history of man. It was said that the sun never set on the British empire, and it was true. Somewhere or other the sun was rising, and the British...
... everything. Then how are you going to survive? It will be impossible to survive. If Gandhi is followed word for word, India will be committing suicide. And if it happens, then Rajiv will be responsible for it. Now he has the power to eliminate Gandhism completely. There is no need of such a philosophy which teaches back-to-nature. I am also a lover of nature, but I say "Forward to nature," not...
... latest developments of agriculture. And all those stupid subjects which mean nothing... What are you going to do with the dates of, when Tamerlane came into power, when Nadirshah raped the whole continent? Don't waste time on unnecessary things. Eliminate them. Now in India every child has to learn three languages. This is too much. One is his mother language, the second is the national language, Hindi...
..., because he is absolutely against politics and we are politicians.' "And none of my colleagues are ready.... Everybody understands what you are saying is right, but nobody is ready, because it will disrupt their constituency, it will disrupt their prestige with the voters. It will create troubles." So they are looking only for their own power and how to continue in power. Nobody is interested...
... through it that you are not a stranger in this world - a chance, a coincidence - but a master. At least you can play with words and do whatsoever you like with words and can create a false illusion of your power. This is what metaphysics has always been doing. It gives you a sense of power where in fact no power exists in you. It gives you an illusion of knowledge where no knowledge really exists. The...
... paradoxical: the feminine looks very powerless - therein is the power. In the very powerlessness is the power. The feminine looks fragile - therein precisely is the power and the strength. Everybody has both inside them. The man has a woman inside him and a man, and the woman has a woman inside her and a man. Now it depends on you. This is how the focus has to be changed. Intellect is male; intelligence is...
... human beings - there will be no poverty, life will be a bed of roses." But life not only remained the same, it became worse, because the British rulers knew how to rule. In three hundred years they had created a system to control, to keep discipline. Now all that disappeared with them, and the people who came into power had no idea what power was. What to do with power? How to use it? And...
... suddenly there was a tremendous outburst of violence such as India had never seen before, perhaps no other country has seen ever before. Gandhi was shattered. Now the British were gone, but the violence was a million times more, because the British had a certain discipline, power, and they had managed the country for three hundred years. Now there was nobody; everybody was free to do whatsoever he wanted...
... science has achieved so much, in spite of all the hindrances created by the religious people. What has been the basic power of science? It was doubt. Doubt, and go on doubting until you come to a point that you cannot doubt anymore. And you cannot doubt anymore only when you come to know something on your own. Then there is no question of doubt, there is no way to doubt. So this is my first request. My...
... is not there, hence talking to the empty sky is utterly foolish. The danger is, you may start hearing voices from the sky; then you have gone beyond the limit of normality. Then you are abnormal. Then you are no more capable of doing something, you will need psychiatric treatment. So before that happens - before God answers you - please don't ask. That is within your power, not to ask, not to pray...
... very effort to judge is nothing but a desire to condemn or a desire to praise. You condemn that which you yourself want to do, but you are afraid of the consequences; you are a coward. And you praise that which you want to become - it is your desire, your longing, your lust for power, for prestige, for respectability. If you look at yourself, your judgments show much more about you than about the...
... judged. A man of true understanding is without judgment, because he has neither repressed any desire nor has he any lust for power and prestige and respectability. He is clean and pure. How can he judge? Kahlil Gibran is saying a few very significant things here: OFTENTIMES HAVE I HEARD YOU SPEAK OF ONE WHO COMMITS A WRONG AS THOUGH HE WERE NOT ONE OF YOU, BUT A STRANGER UNTO YOU AND AN INTRUDER UPON...
... more power, more and more riches. Greed is unthinking, ambition is blind. And it is good that you have come to some understanding on the first day because in my eyes, you are a criminal and sooner or later I was going to send you to jail. It is better that you have relieved me of the trouble of sending you to jail. But remember that you are the cause of all the crimes and you are never punished for...
..., this is how your society provokes people. I have never been in any way interested in politics; neither am I interested now. But don't provoke a lion while he is meditating! I can throw all these dummies, from Poona to Delhi, out of their power - alone; I don't need anybody else's support. And I don't want the power for myself. I will simply expose - this whole system is nonsense created by the...
... the ashram? What urgency has arisen? We have lived here for seven years without any fight, without any firearms - and we are still without any firearms. But we don't need firearms, we have the fire of our souls. I have never cursed anybody - I am keeping it, accumulating its power. The day I decide to curse, then it is not going to be an ordinary curse, it will be nuclear! LIKE A PROCESSION YOU WALK...
... not be even people to bury them or burn them. The by- products of so many people -- for example, in India fifty million people will die -- their death and their rotting bodies will create millions of diseases, about which nobody is bothering at all. The Indian prime minister goes to Russia to get more military power; he goes to America to get more uranium so that he can also make nuclear weapons. It...
... successful as it was in America... but I am certain in India we would have been destroyed exactly on the same lines. In fact, they are trying, because we are still gathering, things are returning... people are coming again, and the fear in New Delhi is great. It is strange: they have all the power, but still they cannot see people happy, joyous, creative, loving and living their own way, living their own...
...-called wise are suggesting, "Stop cow slaughter and there will be no world war"..."Learn yogic hopping and there will be no world war." A Jew was caught in Adolf Hitler's Germany before the second world war by a police officer, who said, "Listen, Jew, do you know the real reason why Germany is not as rich as it should be, is not the world's greatest power? Why did Germany get...
... same. Destroy bicycles and I promise you, Germany will start rising in riches, power, it will become a world power." The policeman said, "You seem to be absolutely mad!" He said, "If I am mad, then what is Adolf Hitler and the people who are following him?" Adolf Hitler lied completely saying that it is the Jews -- which is absolutely irrelevant -- because of the Jews...
... people, because they are also carrying the same song hidden, the same dance. They have been crippled by their society. They also have the same eyes for beauty, but they had been blinded by the society. They have also the energy to celebrate, but this society does not believe in celebration. This society is absolutely insane. It believes in money, it believes in power, it believes in violence, it...
.... Nothing is wrong in the fear. It is absolutely realistic. The future remains open. She is with you today; tomorrow she may not be. So rather than creating too much anxiety about tomorrow, be happy with her today because she may not be with you tomorrow. ... Just tell the mind, 'Yes, it is possible but nothing can be done about it.' The future always remains beyond our power, that's why it is the future...
... coming back will not be easy. You can go in very easily because it is slow and there is no effort needed. It is downhill. Even if your car has no gas in it, it can go. But when you want to come out of it, then the uphill task. If you don't have any power, you are stuck in the valley of darkness, in depression. Then knowing nothing, people go on moving downwards because at least moving downhill they...
...-gravitation states, for the first time you will know who you are. So continue. Howsoever tired you are, don't be worried. One thing is certain - no group can kill you ! [laughter] No group can kill you... except me ! [A group assistant says: I've seen aspects of my personality come out that are hard for me to accept - like greed and a desire for power.] Just watch. There is no need to accept right now...
.... Acceptance is a later growth of awareness. Greed is there, watch it. Ambition is there, watch it. A lust for power is there, watch it. Right now don't make it complicated by the idea of accepting if, because if you try to accept and you cannot, you will start repressing. That's how people have repressed. They cannot accept so the only way is to forget about them and put them in the dark. Then one is okay...
... darkness will disappear. In fact that which is not will disappear, and that which is will be revealed. Awareness is a light. Just bring awareness into your inner being and you will see many things start disappearing. Greed is just like a ghost. Ambition and power-lust are just like ghosts. So just watch. For one month, don't do anything else and then remind me. [A sannyasin says: I think the groups have...
... of power and riches to see, but he could not find peace, contentment, silence. He could not find himself. Utterly frustrated, he moved out of the palace one night - because this life is going to end in a few days, or in a few years. It is not something to cling to. Each moment death is coming closer; before death grabs you, you have to figure out something which is eternal, which is immortal. All...
... to meditate, suddenly, from nowhere, such beautiful girls start coming. And you open your eyes and there is nobody. And not only girls. If you have not known money, thoughts of money; if you have not known power, thoughts of power; if you have not known what it means to be a celebrity, then a deep desire to become famous... And the mind will go on weaving a thousand and one thoughts and desires...
... much turmoil - just avoid.'" ... Just by going for a meeting with a man who has no power, who is not interested in politics! But I can understand, those politicians were right. If she had come here Mohammedans would have said, "We are not going to vote for you"; Hindus would have said, "That man has spoken against our VEDAS, we are not going to vote for you. That man has spoken...
... tremendous power to transform your whole being. Sagaresh, it was in a way good that you went into isolation at Dharmagiri practicing vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka. It has been a good experience. You say, "I have never experienced such pain." You deserved it. Why did you go there? You say, "I have never experienced such suffering and doubt ever before. Presently I feel...
... hands; he will change you. The dead cannot change you. You can change the dead. You are powerful over the dead saints, but over the living you have no power. Naturally you love your power. When Gautam Buddha was alive, dozens of attempts were made on his life. And finally he died with food poisoning. He was condemned as much that you may not believe. He was passing through a village, the whole village...
... with this man? He jumps, he goes beyond the law of gravitation. And even more strange was the phenomenon when he had jumped high, gone beyond the limit of gravitation, he will start falling back. The ordinary way is, you fall fast with a thump on the ground. But that was not the way with Nijinsky. He will fall like a feather, very slowly, coming with ease, as if it is within his power, as if...
... gravitation has no power over him. He was asked by the scientists, "How you do it?" Nijinsky said, "Don't ask me that, because I have tried it. Whenever I try, I cannot do it. I have failed always, whenever I have tried. It happens only when I forget completely, and there is only dance and the dancer disappears. Then it happens. I am amazed as much as you are amazed. I don't know how it...
.... Then certainly mind has a beginning. But it is strange. The great Christian theologians have never asked a simple question, that what God was doing for eternity, before six thousand years. Secondly, why suddenly one day, it must have been January, Monday, why he began the creation? Why he created the whole world? What caused him to create it? Is there some bigger power than him, who ordered him to...
.... It is absolutely up to you! No parent decides it. It is your decision to choose a partner, or not to choose a partner. One thing more to be remembered: that at the age of nearabout eighteen you have the greatest sexual power that you will ever have in your life. After eighteen your sexual power starts declining and it is sheer stupidity to decide for marriage at twenty-five, when sexual power has...
..., how vast, how infinite it is going to be. It is going to be absolute orgasm. But if you have missed the first, you have no possibility to attain the second. The first was an indication of a new dimension. You will collect money and power and prestige and you will die as everybody has died. In the commune the children will have all orgasmic experiences and before they decide they will know what kind...
... simply have chosen the white. Now I cannot give neither the white nor the black and I have to report to the king that, `Drop this search, there is nobody who is not henpecked.'" So I would like to say to these ladies of the president of America and Russia, that you have immense power in your hands, you can change the whole course of history -- just scream loudly, break plates, throw things all...
... AUTHENTIC AND REAL. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT? Indradhanu, one of the problems that every human being has to face is the world in which he is born. His being and the intentions of the world don't go together. The world wants him to serve, to be a slave, to be used by those who are in power. And naturally he resents it. He wants to be himself. The world does not allow anybody to be what he is by nature...
... your position, to your power. They will become your competitors. Always keep a distance. Remain surrounded by mediocres.'" Hence, every politician who is in power remains surrounded by mediocres. He finds people who are at such a distance that they cannot dream of taking away his power or his position. People who are too close are dangerous. But such is the worldly teaching. That's why...
... power - it seems to be your real self. But the wheel goes on moving, personalities after personalities. You can judge it very easily. When you are with your wife do you have the same personality that you have when you are with your girlfriend? Anybody can say - just seeing you, anybody can say - whether you are with your wife or with your girlfriend. With the wife you look so serious, so afraid...
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