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... from she to he. There are twenty-four teerthankaras, twenty-three are men, one is a woman, but they could not even tolerate that. They have changed the history. They say that she too was a man. It happens every day that history is changed. In this century when Joseph Stalin came to power, he changed the whole history of revolution in Russia. Leon Trotsky's pictures were removed from everywhere, from...
... all photographs. His name was removed from all history books. He was so completely removed that if anybody wanted to search he would not have found a single reference anywhere that this man, Leon Trotsky, had ever existed. And he was one of the most important men of the revolution, next only to Lenin. Stalin was nobody, not at all important. But when he came into power and murdered Leon Trotsky he...
... changed the whole history. And then again it happened. When Stalin died and the power came to other people they changed the history again. Now Stalin exists no more. In Russian history books Stalin exists no more, not even in footnotes. It is as if he never happened. This has been happening down the ages always. People go on changing the history. When they are in power they change the history. And...
... whosoever is in power manages to have the certain kind of history that he wants to have. So the whole of history is bunk . It has nothing to do with truth, it is all false. It is as fictitious as any fiction. For example, a man like Mahavira existed in India but Hindus have not even mentioned his name in their books - not even his name. Why? Such a great man, not even mentioned? If Jainas had disappeared...
... is sexually interested, you have a certain power over the husband. You enjoy that power, but at the same time you also feel that you are being used. Because the husband looks at you sexually, that means that he looks at you as a means towards a certain satisfaction. You feel that you are being used.' Almost all women feel that they are being used, and that is their problem. But if the husband stops...
... taking interest they forget all about being used, and they become afraid. Then they start thinking that the husband is going far away. Now they have no more power over him, they don't possess him. So I told the woman,'Just look at the fact: if you want to possess the husband you will have to be possessed by him. If you want to possess the husband, then you will have to be used by him.' A mind which is...
... possessive will be possessed. To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself. The freedom comes when you unlearn possessiveness. When you unlearn possessiveness, then you are not in search of any power over anybody. Then jealousy does not arise. And when you are not trying to possess the other, you create such beauty around yourself that the...
... possessed she feels,'I am being used.' If she is not being used, then she feels that power is disappearing. So a woman always remains in a suffering, and it is the same with men. To look deeply into a problem is to be healed, because the very look shows you that you have learned some wrong trick. Unlearn... there is healing. People are mentally ill because they have been conditioned wrongly. Everybody has...
... things, only then can you reach the highest post. It is not easy to reach there: you have to compete, by wrong means or right means. In politics there is nothing wrong or right: everything is right which gives you results. Use all kinds of ladders to reach the highest post, and once you have reached, nobody is going to remember what you have done on the way. Once you are in power, people simply forget...
... power for a long period: he changed the whole history, he made a new history - invented! Once he died, the same was done to him by Khrushchev - he changed the history again. Even Stalin's body which was preserved like Lenin's was removed from its place, because his body was lying next to Lenin's. HE had only changed pictures and words! Khrushchev removed Stalin's body. People spat on his dead body. It...
... you see? This is my answer! You cannot stand and say your name before me; that was the same situation with me in those days. I can kill you - he could have killed me!" And the same was done to Khrushchev. That's how it has been going on. In power politics you don't think of right or wrong means. In politics there is nothing right, nothing wrong: whatsoever succeeds is right and whatsoever fails...
... discover his inner self. A really selfish person cannot be interested in money, cannot be interested in power, cannot be interested in prestige. If he is really selfish, his first interest will be: "Who am I?" The people who are interested in money and power and prestige don't know real selfishness. I also teach you real, authentic selfishness, because my own observation is: out of it arises...
...?' There is no possibility of any conclusion through philosophy. Philosophy remains in a state of non-conclusion. It is a futile activity; it leads nowhere. The politician simply wants to possess the world, to own it. He is the most dangerous of all because he is the most violent. His interest in life is not in life itself but in his own power. He is power-hungry, power-mad; he is a maniac, he is...
... he would do if the new head of the Church should order the Society of Jesus dissolved, the work in which Loyola had invested his whole life. He replied, 'Fifteen minutes in prayer and all will be the same.' An immensely significant reply. An unfriendly Pope had come into power and there was every possibility that Loyola's whole work would be dissolved. He had created a small society of mystics. The...
... something to do with gold. And everybody is interested in gold. The Church is very interested in gold, not in God. Loyola was a great mystic. He had created the Society of Jesus. And a very antagonistic Pope was in power. Somebody said to him, 'What will you do? What will happen now? The Society can be dissolved by the order of the Pope.' Loyola said, 'Fifteen minutes in prayer, and all will be the same...
... himself. Somebody else is afraid that if he has no power in the world, how is he going to protect himself? Somebody is afraid that if he does not have enough money in the world, how is he going to survive? And so on and so forth - just watch people and you will find ALL kinds of fears dominating their lives. Sherlock Holmes arrived in heaven. The angels turned out en masse to meet him; the Lord himself...
... a real man. And the wife also thinks that unless she makes the husband afraid of her she is no more in power. It is all power politics! And naturally the man is a loser, because the man has to fight in the marketplace - so many competitors, so much competition, each is at the other's throat - and by the time he comes home he is tired from the whole day's battle. And the wife is fresh. The whole...
... unhappiness to somebody else. It has no truth about it; it is only your dream. And you can have any dream you like. To somebody power is happiness; to somebody money is happiness; to somebody else money is misery - he escapes, renounces the money; he escapes from all power, goes to the jungle. To somebody, people are happiness; to somebody, aloneness. It depends on you. But I am not interested in happiness...
... beginning- because Jainism was an established firm, and if you can get an established firm.... For ten thousand years it had existed, and had gone deep into the soil. It had tremendous power - roots, money, people. Buddha was hesitant to start a new business from the very scratch. First he tried to compete with Mahavira. If he could be accepted as the twenty-fourth tirthankara, then things would be...
... twenty-four tirthankaras who was naked.... Now, how people go on distorting history. It is strange: even religious people do the same as did Stalin in Russia. When he came to power he changed the whole history of the revolution. Pictures of Trotsky disappeared from everywhere, and the names of Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinovyev - all the important people who were the leaders of the revolution. Stalin was not...
... Photographers were asked to do every possible trick to replace Trotsky's photo with Stalin's photo. In group photographs Trotsky disappeared and Stalin appeared - just trick photography. For forty years Stalin was in power. Of course, whatsoever he wanted to be was the history. One can accept a politician doing such a thing, but that's exactly what has always happened in religion too. Mahavira was naked, so...
... Mahavira's followers finally made the other twenty-three tirthankaras also naked; now, they were not alive to protest, "What are you doing?" In Jaina temples you will find twenty-four statues all naked. They are all replicas of Mahavira, they look exactly the same as Mahavira. But the people who knew Parshvanath and who had followed him - and he was a man of such charismatic power that after two...
... all okay, but who is this fourth?" - because there was a face at the fourth window. The small boy said, "Pontius, the pilot... otherwise the other three would crash." I like it; rather than Pontius Pilate, Pontius the pilot is far more fitting. And the boy really had great imaginative power. You don't have even that much imagination, that when I say pope the polack.... I insist on...
... disciple. A fox is a very cunning fellow, calculating, rational. The fox mind is always in search of more information, more knowledge - not more understanding. The fox mind is just grabbing whatsoever can be grabbed from every source so he becomes more knowledgeable. Because knowledge brings power. The fox is in search of power. The sheep is in search of a powerful person who can protect, and the fox is...
... in search of power. The fox pretends to be a sheep many times just to grab a little more from somebody, but deep down the fox is learning only to become more egoistic. There are people who come to a master just to become a master sooner or later - that's their only goal. They don't come to learn; in fact, deep down they have come to teach. Reluctantly they learn, because it is difficult to teach...
... without learning. The fox is too cunning to be humble. The fox is too cunning and knowledgeable and calculating to move in a deeper relationship with a master, to move in love. The sheep cannot be a disciple because the sheep is too much afraid; the fox cannot be a disciple because the fox deep down is on a power-trip. But these both are there. And Asheesh has really watched it rightly, exactly rightly...
... search of power. A disciple is in search to know what this life is. He does not want to conquer, he does not want to prove himself in the world that he is somebody, he simply wants to know, 'Who am I?' He is not in any way interested in proving, he simply wants to know, 'What is this mystery that has happened to me?' In deep humbleness he asks. His query is not of curiosity, his query is not only of...
... in a household. The children there were about to take part in a race. They said, "Baba, what is the secret of winning the race." I answered, "Courage, dear children." I hastened then to add, "Be sure to remember this even in the race of life. There is no greater power of success than courage in the race of life." 167. One day, as we were walking along a field, we saw...
... remain devoid of activity. Let it be void and empty. That is to say, let it be disengaged, for the cessation of activity is the beginning of the stir of consciousness. The death of the mind heralds the life consciousness. 211. Why is life so purposeless, alienated, mechanical, and lonely? Why is it so insipid and boring? Because we have lost all sense of wonder; the power to marvel at things. Man has...
... entity, individual or power. What exists is God. "God exists" -- this is not the proper way of putting it. Existence itself is God. In "God exists" there is tautology, circumlocution. Questioning the existence of God is questioning the existence of existence itself. All other things have their apparent existence but not so God, because He is existence Himself. All the rest possess...
... power but not so God because He is power Himself. Moreover, how can the "full one" be known like other things? He cannot be 'knowable' to me, because I too am in Him and identical with Him. Yet, it is possible to be one with Him, to sink into Him. In fact, we are one with Him, drowned in Him. This can be known after losing the, "I". Knowing this is knowing Him. That is why I say...
.... The higher is seeking the help of the lower. It is a very miserable state of affairs. It should not be so. The whole history of science proves this in many ways. When intuition was used as the method, then alchemy existed. When intellect came into power, alchemy disappeared; chemistry was born. Alchemy is intuitional; chemistry is intellectual. Alchemy was moon; chemistry is sun. When moon was...
... from the moon to the beyond. Their target and goals are totally different, diametrically opposite. It happens, then, sometimes you start feeling the first glimpse of pratibha, of the beyond, and you become so powerful - you are filled with power, you are power - and in that moment you can fall again. Power corrupts; you can fall. You can get into the head so much, you can get into the ego so much...
..., that you would like to have a ride on it - the power. You would like to do miracles or other foolish things. All miracle mongers are in a way foolish - whatsoever they say. They may say that they are doing these miracles to help people. They are not helping anybody; they are simply harming themselves - and harming others also. Because in doing such things they are falling below the beyond. And then...
... lives in the world of the psychological, the will to power; at least something - very egoistic, but at least something; a little more open than Freud. But the problem is, just like Freud reduces everything to sex, Adler goes on reducing everything to inferiority complex. People try to become great because they feel inferior. A person trying to become enlightened is a person who is feeling inferior...
..., and a person trying to become enlightened is a person who is on the trip of power. This is utterly wrong, because we have seen people - a Buddha, a Christ, a Krishna - who are so utterly surrendered that their trip cannot be called a power-trip. And when Buddha blooms he has no ideas of superiority, not at all. He bows down to the whole of existence. He has not that idea of holier-than-thou, not at...
... more power to be attained, no more riches to be attained. He was one of the most beautiful men ever born on this earth, he had one of the most beautiful women as his beloved. All was available to him. But Adler would go on searching for some inferiority because he could not believe that a man could have any goal other than the ego. It is better... better than Freud, a little higher. Ego is a little...
..., "You are a power-trip, an ego" - and so on and so forth. Remember, you have to stop only when there is no answer coming, not before it. If some answer is coming that, "You are this, you are this," then know well that some center is providing you with an answer. When all the six centers have been crossed and all their answers canceled, you go on asking, "Who am I?" and no...
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