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... mahatmahood. They all laughed behind his back, they thought that he was a crackpot. But they were interested in political power, and that man had the whole country in his hands. So until these political leaders came into power, they went on listening to Gandhi. The moment they were in power, nobody bothered about Gandhi. Gandhi said, "I have become absolutely useless. Nobody listens to me, nobody is...
... power within ten years' time. Their way of working was strange, one which no political party has ever known. This was their strategy. First, they were only nineteen people. They would go to all other parties' meetings and disturb them. For that, nineteen people were enough. Those nineteen people would be sitting separately in the crowd, and suddenly they would start beating people. Naturally, if...
... thousand million dollars per year he earns. Of course millions of dollars he gives to charity, to Christians, so that religion is involved. They are afraid if he becomes a sannyasin, those millions will not go to Christianity. The children are afraid because it is all their inheritance but it is in his power. The psychiatrist is there, ready to help bring him back to the Christian fold. Psychiatrists...
... can see how conspirators, without even meeting each other, go on functioning in synchronicity. America is trying to sabotage that country; the pope is trying to sabotage it from his side. Those four priests - what wrong have they committed? I don't think there is any problem. If the priest becomes an education minister the pope should be happy that now the priest will have enough power over...
... priesthood, then your becoming the head of the whole government.... And the Vatican may be small but it has immense political power around the world, because six hundred million Catholics.... So the land may be small - that does not matter - but six hundred million Catholics around the world, that is his real state. It is all over the world, spread all over the world. But I wonder whether he himself...
... thought about it, what he is doing. It can backfire. But it won't backfire because nobody who has power is going to say anything against it; they will all be happy. By the way these priests were thrown out, the pope has shown his attitude - that he is against the leftist government, that Catholics should get out of this movement, that they should be against the govern ment, not for the government. He...
..., they don't come to receive any Acharya Tulsi, they don't come to receive any Mohammedan Sufi. What is special about the pope? He has six hundred million people behind him; he has a tremendous political power. But Zen is not interested in political power. It has a totally different kind of power - the power of love. That does not reduce you into a slave, into a shadow, but raises you up to the same...
... dancing, looking sad, you have found K.D. Nobody is interested in politics here, nobody is on a power trip. Contentment is a state of consciousness. I teach contentment. And out of contentment comes real progress. The discontented man has created the world - ugly, disgusting. This is not progress. The repressed, so-called contented men - the monks of all the religions - what progress have they brought...
... best physicist of his time. But he was a Russian. He was director of the Academy of Sciences in Russia, the highest post for a scientist - position, respect. The Russian government did not want him to receive the Nobel prize because it comes from capitalist countries, and in the Russian mind - particularly in the communist party and the people who are in power there - it is a kind of bribe, in the...
... what happened to them. Sakharov knew what he was doing: when he accepted the Nobel prize the same would happen to him. And he accepted the Nobel prize, and the same happened to him. He was immediately removed from his power and position. His car was taken away.... A car is a great luxury in Soviet Russia, because only very powerful people can have their own private vehicle. Everybody else has to use...
..., and you can enjoy it. If those fools insist on fighting, perfectly good. The Soviet prime minister wrestles with Ronald Reagan - enjoy it, there is no harm. But these people should not be given power to destroy the whole humanity. My people cannot in any way create anything that will be harmful. They can create only something which will be a joy to see. They have created this small commune which has...
..., and you go on and on accumulating money - that feeds the illusion; your territory, your power, goes on increasing. I want you to know a state of utter nothingness. That is your reality. The child is not born with an ego. Ego is being taught by the society, religion, culture. You must have watched little babies: they don't say, "I am hungry." If the baby's name is Bob, he says, "Bob is...
... blessing can be that you enjoy the moment to the fullest, and if in the next moment you feel the bridge has collapsed, then say good-bye to each other - at least in a friendly, compassionate way. The ego and all its games... marriage is its game, money is its game, power is its game. All the games are the games of ego. The society up to now has remained playing games; it is an ongoing Olympics all over...
..., naturally you have to be very alert and awake, because there is no one protecting you from on high. Even Jesus was under that delusion. On the cross he was crying, "God, my Lord! Have you forsaken me?" He was thinking that God was behind him; that was giving him an illusory strength and power. His authority was because he was God's messenger. Jesus was fully convinced that on the cross God was...
... else in the world. Everybody should be on his own, choose his way. I would rather go to hell, but not losing my freedom, than to heaven, being directed by somebody else." You are asking why we go on seeking the approval of others. It is because you are uncertain of yourself. You have been brought up in such a way that uncertainty has become your very second nature. Somebody with authority, power...
... discover other people - India is a vast continent: so many cultures, so many different kinds of people - but their first acquaintance was with Bengalis. And they were smelling so badly of fish, all the Bengalis, that it was a word of condemnation to call them babu. Britishers started calling Bengalis, babus. It was sheer insult, humiliation. But to be close to the people who have the power... the word...
... file may remain somewhere in the huge pile, it will never come to the top. And the bureaucrats enjoy many files there; that makes them big, special. They have power over so many people; all these files, to them contain their power over people. Files don't move unless you are after them. Bribe one table, the file moves to a higher table. Bribe again, it moves to a higher table. The moment you stop...
... failure, richness or poverty, sickness or health, life or death - everything is in the hands of an unknown power called fate. "I am doing my best, still I go on failing. I am following all the moral principles preached to me, still I am poor. And I see all kinds of immoral people becoming richer, getting higher, becoming famous. It is all fate." It gives you solace. It gives you solace that...
... attracted by the face, handsomeness, as they are attracted by achievement. An achiever, one who has much money, power, prestige, is more attractive to women than anybody else,. because a woman is constantly in search of somebody to lean upon. You may be beautiful, but if you have no power you cannot give any guarantee and security to the woman. If you are powerful, maybe you are not beautiful, you are not...
... intelligent, but that doesn't matter. But it you are powerful, reliable, the woman can lean on your shoulders. There is a certain guarantee in you. Men are attracted by physical proportions, body-beauty; a woman is more attracted by fame, prestige, power, achievement. So if men are too mad after power, the arithmetic is simple. Even in the face of death or in the face of danger people go on lusting. Jeevan...
... time - traditions are very deep. They have long roots in the past; moreover, our vested interests are with the political power, with the religious institutions, and we are naturally afraid they can destroy us. It is better to be with them; it is dangerous to be with a man like Socrates or Gautam Buddha. I am widely misunderstood. I don't think that it is in any way disrespectful to me. This is a...
... power is at risk; they are afraid. They understand what I am saying; they do not misunderstand. The situation is quite different. When Jesus was crucified he said to God, "Father, forgive these people who are crucifying me because they know not what they are doing." With me the situation is different. Naturally, in two thousand years man has become more intelligent. I cannot say, "...
... - "You should resign from your post and dissolve this whole nonsense of Christianity which is based on this book." Just yesterday I got information that the pope had instructed all the newspapers, magazines, radios, that are under his power or under some other Christian influence, that nothing should be said about me if I come to Italy - neither positive nor negative - "because this man...
... simply don't want any miraculous power, and I don't want any meditation. I simply want to go home. Just help me to get rid of the monkeys. I am giving your mantra back - but who knows about the monkeys?" If you try forcibly to keep something out of your mind, it is bound to come. This is a universal law. Seeing the false methods, understanding that the mind is a constant process of thought, I want...
... climb out?" One of the boys replied, "You needn't worry, mister. These crabs are like politicians: if one of them tries to climb up, the others will pull it down!" Now because Indira's Congress Party has come into power in many parts of the country, in Gujarat particularly, the defeated politicians are trying to find some excuse or other. And because Indira is favorable to me and the...
... politicians are drunk with power, with money, with prestige; they can't see clearly. Navin Mehta is from Kutch. His other friends are here: Mavji Savla is here, Nirmal Vaswani is here, and many people from Kutch have started coming to see the ashram. And they are all feeling sorry because we were going to move two years ago to Kutch but because of Morarji Desai it became impossible. He created such a...
... bounds. It is greedy for money, and then it is ready to do anything. It is greedy for power, and then it is ready to do anything. If somehow you manage to shift your greed from power and money then it becomes greed for spirituality. Again it is ready to do anything. A rough-looking building worker entered a bank in an expensive part of town and was received at the counter with some distaste by a rather...
...; maybe you are practical in the outside world. But there is an inner world too which needs as much scientific approach as the outside world does. In fact, it needs more accurate observation, more unprejudiced mind, more existential approach than the outside world. But I can understand your problem. It happens to all the so-called practical people who think in terms of money, power and prestige, who are...
.... That's why you cannot see that there is any purpose in meditation. In fact, in a totally different sense you are right: it will not serve any purpose if you are interested in money, power, prestige, fame. Meditation will not be of any help; in fact, it will destroy all your desires for money. It will destroy your greed, it will take away your ambitiousness, it will show you the stupidity of all power...
... trips. It will kill the very root of your ambition: the ego. In that sense it will not serve any purpose. But money, power, prestige you can have, still inside you will remain a dark continent, unknown to yourself You will remain unaware of your infinite treasures, and outside treasures cannot fill your inner emptiness. Whatsoever you try is bound to fail; you will feel only frustrated. You say: MY...
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