... and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Man has killed so many beautiful species of animals just for his food, has killed so many birds -- whole species have disappeared. In India, the lion was the national animal, but stupid hunters -- particularly the British hunters, who have been in power in this country for almost three hundred years...

... -- destroyed all the lions, the most beautiful animal in existence. Such a dignity, such power, such grandeur! And what were they doing? -- just decorating their sitting-rooms with the stuffed heads of the lions. Today the whole species is on the verge of disappearing. There are not more than two dozen lions in the whole of India. The Indian government had to change its national animal from the lion to the...

... bribed by the followers of Acharya Tulsi. Perhaps the government is behind it, because Acharya Tulsi has a hold over many votes and much money that he manages through his followers to donate to the political parties who are in power. All religions are sexually perverted. They have to be. Their only creative and positive act through the centuries is aids-positive. And because Genesis says, "Be...

... starvation, who is responsible for it? Genesis -- and these stupid bishops and popes, and cardinals and priests. You will be surprised to know that when Ronald Reagan came to power, he immediately cut the budget for controlling the poor countries' population, because he was a fundamentalist, fascist Christian. Since he has been in power, he has fulfilled the statement of Genesis: "Be fruitful and...

... a politician, the chief minister of Haryana, has come with the statement -- because his state is starving -- that if this situation continues, India will become a subhuman species. It will lose all intelligence, it will lose all strength and power, it will lose all the dignity of human beings. It is very rare to hear the truth from a politician, very rare to hear the truth from a religious man. In...

... brahmin, and he was so angry with the moon that he decided to kill all the warriors of the country. And this man is thought to be an incarnation of God. What did the other warriors of the country have to do with his mother, or his father? And the strangest story is... He was a man of tremendous power. Sixteen times he destroyed the whole race of the warriors of this country. His whole life was wasted in...

... become so addicted to speed? The idea of one life given by Judaism, Christianity and Islam, has made people speedy. They are always running -- on the run -- because time is short and there are so many ambitions to be fulfilled. They have to become the richest man, they have to attain great power, they have to become a celebrity. They have to do a thousand and one things and life is so short. The only...

... life, running after power. Life after life, running after men or women. As you become aware of this long series of the same stupidities -- in which you have succeeded many times, but you have not gained anything .... Each life you have to begin again from A,B,C. Just visualize millions of lives behind you .... You have loved so many women and you have told every woman, "I will love you forever...

... relative reality. WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU DEPEND ON REALITY. When you don't understand -- when you are in the mind -- you are a victim of this mundane reality that you see all around. Money deceives you, power deceives you, prestige deceives you, anything ... You are living in so many misunderstandings that if you come to see, you will be surprised at how articulate you are in creating falsehoods...

... crystal clear. Then you don't ask any questions. You simply act out of your clarity, out of your transparent vision. And each of your acts has a beauty -- tremendous beauty of its own. It has a grace. And it has a power of blessings to shower over the whole world. WHEN REALITY DEPENDS ON YOU, THAT WHICH IS NOT REAL BECOMES REAL. Right now, it is a weird situation. Everything is real which is not real...

... methods are the techniques of meditation - they are just to bypass the mind. Once you have bypassed the mind, once you can have a bird's-eye view of your own mind, things start settling. It is your energy that disturbs the mind, that gives it the power to be violent, to be sad, to be angry, to be hateful, to be jealous. Now you are no longer giving it any energy. It won't take a long time. The mind...

... and somebody else can do it, he becomes higher, he has some superior power. A real saint need not be dependent on any pope to give him a certificate. His certificate should come from his own experience. It will be a declaration, nobody else can do it on his behalf. Take your delicateness and put your energy into creating beauty - in any direction, in any dimension. Remember one thing: that you...

... should not leave this earth unless you have made it a little more beautiful, a little lovelier, a little more loving. To me, this is the only strength, the only power - that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness. Accept it peacefully and joyously - wherever you are, whatever you are, however you can use your energies into some creativity. Your creativeness will help you to become...

... men have been destructive. And the people I call the mystics have not been strong men, but they have created. They have participated with God in creation, they have known power at its highest peak. Question 5: BELOVED OSHO, DO YOU HEAR SERMONS IN STONES? My God! Stones hear sermons when I pass them. People like me - who have been speaking continuously for decades - become deaf, because we only speak...

... “And now, Simon, when you do finally see all of this, and after you have shaken off your depression and have gone forth proclaiming this gospel in great power, never forget that I was with you even through all of your season of discouragement, and that I will go on with you to the very end. You shall always be my apostle, and after you become willing to see by the eye of the spirit and more fully to...

... day at the customhouse when you first set out to follow me; but many more must come before you will be able to see the vision of a brotherhood in which gentile sits alongside Jew in fraternal association. But go on with your urge to win your Jewish brethren until you are fully satisfied and then turn with power to the gentiles. One thing you may be certain of, Levi: You have won the confidence and...

..., but in all ordinary circumstances it would be far better to placate the wrath of unbelievers that you might live and continue to preach the glad tidings. As far as lies in your power, live long on the earth that your life of many years may be fruitful in souls won for the heavenly kingdom.” (1958.3) 181:2.16 When the Master had finished speaking to James Zebedee, he stepped around to the end of the...

... therefore freely recognize. From this hour you may exercise no authority over your brethren unless they restore such jurisdiction to you by their definite legislative action after I shall have gone to the Father. But this release from responsibility as the administrative head of this group does not in any manner lessen your moral responsibility to do everything in your power to hold your brethren together...

... law that people who are in power... and I had given her all the powers, simply because I was not interested in getting involved in small things. It was impossible to be silent and get involved in small things. She removed all the people who were in some way more intelligent, stronger, and a danger to her position; any day they can be the competitors. So she removed those people, and she chose people...

... power. It was their political game. I told Sheela again and again, that the people who have come to the commune have not come just to work; they have come here to meditate, to grow, to come to a realization of their self. But she was not interested in that at all. Her interest was only one: that she should remain on the top. But it is good that on her own she has taken all the stupid people. A few are...

... alive. I want my people to rejoice in life. Work is part of it, but not the whole of it. We will make houses, and we will make roads, and we will make everything, but for what? Just for the sake of making them? So necessarily, I had to start speaking. And you will be surprised that all the people who were in power - Sheela, Vidya, Savita, Krishna Deva, your mayor - they are all leaving with Sheela...

..., fresh, humble, clean. The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed. My sannyasins have to be aware of it. Hence, my insistence for being just ordinary. And it is so beautiful, because I am saying it out of my experience. No egoist in the whole history of humanity has said that ego is beautiful, that it has given him great ecstasies. All the...

....... Russell asked, "Why in the trinity is there not a woman included? God the father, God the son, and the Holy Ghost - what kind of family is this? This holy family seems to be very idiotic. Why could they not put a woman in it?because all the religions have been against women. To put a woman into the trinity, in the highest position of power, was impossible for them; hence they had to put the Holy...

... Catholics there are: the more Catholics, the more power he has. The shankaracharya is interested in more Hindus, so he has more power. Everybody is interested in power. In the name of God they are simply trying to become more and more powerful. God is just a useful instrument in the hands of the priest. Whatsoever the priest wants, he makes God say: he writes the scriptures, he writes all kinds of...

.... Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. 40. WHEN PURITY IS ATTAINED THERE ARISES IN THE YOGI A DISGUST FOR HIS OWN BODY AND A DISINCLINATION TO COME IN PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH OTHERS. 41. FROM MENTAL PURITY THERE ARISES CHEERFULNESS, POWER OF CONCENTRATION, CONTROL OF THE SENSES, AND A FITNESS FOR SELF- REALIZATION. 42. CONTENTMENT BRINGS SUPREME HAPPINESS. Nonviolence...

... the sky with no roots in the earth. His desire to come in contact with others' bodies disappears. FROM MENTAL PURITY THERE ARISES CHEERFULNESS, POWER OF CONCENTRATION, CONTROL OF THE SENSES, AND A FITNESS FOR SELF REALIZATION. This man is so blissful, this man who has now no need to be in contact with others is so blissful in his freedom, so cheerful, celebrating -- his every moment is an intense...

... should be destroyed, completely forgotten. When somebody says something bad you should say, "Too bad to be true, cannot be believed. You must have imagined." But no, it is not so. Misery seems to be the natural thing; happiness, something unnatural. "From mental purity there arises cheerfulness, POWER OF CONCENTRATION...." People try to concentrate remaining rooted in the body; then...

... read the whole book just by passing. And if you read with the body you may forget. If you read without the body there is no need to memorize it; you will not forget it -- because you have understood it. Power of concentration arises in a man of pure body, of pure consciousness, of purity. "... CONTROL OF THE SENSES...." These are consequences, remember. They cannot be practiced; if you...

...: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. THROUGH SAMYAMA THE IMAGE OCCUPYING ANOTHER'S MIND CAN BE KNOWN. BUT PERCEPTION THROUGH SAMYAMA DOES NOT BRING KNOWLEDGE OF THE MENTAL FACTORS THAT SUPPORT THE IMAGE IN ANOTHER'S MIND FOR THAT IS NOT THE OBJECT OF SAMYAMA. BY PERFORMING SAMYAMA ON THE FORM OF THE BODY TO SUSPEND RECEPTIVE POWER, THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE EYE OF AN OBSERVER...

... see into another's mind? You have tremendous power then over the other, but yoga is not a power trip, and a real yogi will never do it. But it happens. There are people who try to attain it, and it can be attained. It can be attained even without being religious. Even without being a real disciple of yoga, it can be attained. Sometimes it happens just by accident also. If your mind comes to a silent...

... completely aware and your desires have dissolved.... Look. When your thoughts dissolve you become capable of reading others' thoughts: when your desires dissolve you become capable of reading others' desires. BY PERFORMING SAMYAMA ON THE FORM OF THE BODY TO SUSPEND RECEPTIVE POWER. THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE EYE OF AN OBSERVER AND THE LIGHT FROM THE BODY IS BROKEN, AND THE BODY BECOMES INVISIBLE. You must...

... ignorant necessarily respected the knowledgeable. Hence in the past it was almost inconceivable that the younger people would disrespect the old people, or could even think in their dreams that they knew more than the older people. Knowledge was very decisive. The people who knew had the power, and the people who did not, had no power. It was in those old days that the proverb must have been coined...

...: "knowledge is power." That was the only criterion in life, so you never heard of any revolt of the young against the old. This generation has come to a new, totally new stage. The child never goes following in his father's footsteps. He goes to the school; his father goes to his shop or to the office or to the farm. By the time he comes back from his university he is twenty-five years old...

... meaningless things, money, power, prestige. But there is another dimension where there is no need to be in a hurry, because there is no competitor. You are alone. In your inner world nobody can enter. In your stillness you suddenly find yourself, absolutely alone, surrounded by nothingness. Just rejoice in it, relish it. Your enjoyment of your aloneness and nothingness will make you ripe for the...

... chains you have accepted, and you have accepted them very willingly, very joyously, because those chains are made of gold. Those chains are made of power, prestige, respectability; they are covered with beautiful flowers. So not only have you accepted them, you go on desiring more and more because you think they are ornaments. You think they are the very aim of your life, the very meaning and...

... for centuries. And America had killed two birds with one stone. In America, Jews are among the richest people, so they have great power over the American congress. They have a lobby of their own, and because politicians depend on contributions from rich people for their elections, they cannot avoid the Jews. They cannot ignore them; their presence is too important -- they have cash money. So this...

... making every effort to absorb Taiwan back into China, and Taiwan cannot fight, it has not the power. The same is going to happen to Israel, any day. It has happened the same way in Iran: it was American support that kept the shah of Iran in power. He had no hold on the people; the people are fanatic Mohammedans under the control of Ayatollah Khomeini, but because of American support, American army...