... politicians I am criticizing the political structure of your mind. Aristotle is right only on this point, according to me, when he calls man a political animal. Your politician is still in a latent state. It has not been possible for it to have an opportunity to come into its true colors. That's why power corrupts - in fact, power has nothing to do with corruption. It appears that power corrupts because...

... power gives you the opportunity to bring out all your fantasies, dreams, and change them into reality. You have the power to do it. And Acton is right that absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have to criticize the politicians because they are what you would like to be. Presidents, prime ministers, governors, ambassadors - that's what you would like to be, but it is only a seed in you. And in the...

... seed you cannot see all the flowers and all the colors. When I criticize the politicians I am criticizing you as if your politician had come into power. And in a certain way... you may not be very powerful, but everybody has a certain power over certain people. The parents have power over their children, the husband has power over his wife - at least he believes that. The real power is with the woman...

... mountainous burden and these small children were simply victims. You were right: it was because I could not show my domination towards anybody else - I am just an ordinary school teacher - but I could show my domination and my power and my greatness and my superiority, and deep down fulfill a certain ego. Since the day I dropped the idea of being violent with the students, slowly slowly my eyes have become...

... activities as separate from each other either. They are all part of a network. If I want a revolution in human consciousness I will have to hammer on the heads of politicians as hard as possible, because politicians are the ones who are always standing and they have the power to prevent any kind of revolution, any kind of change. They want a society with a status quo, because any revolution is going to...

... throw them from their power positions. A conscious humanity cannot tolerate idiot politicians guiding it. I have had to criticize the so-called leaders of religion, high priests, popes, shankaracharyas, because they are making every effort that man's mind remains retarded. Only a retarded mind can be exploited. And you ask me not to be offensive, not to be violent. Your idea must be that if I am not...

... offensive, if I am not outrageous in my statements, if I don't criticize those who are in power - politically or economically - then my message will spread more easily. You are wrong. The whole of the world's media is interested in something sensational. They are not interested in the softer values of life. It is said that a good man has no life - as far as reporting about the good man is concerned, he...

... illegality goes to the government, because I was asking them: "Either you extend my visa or you say no. If you say no I am going to court - on what grounds can you deny me?" So they were in a puzzle: they could not say no, because once they have said no their power would be gone. Now the power would be in the hands of a court where they would be a party, and they would have to prove why they had...

... passage of entrance closed to Him. THREE VITAL LINKS There are three stages in the process of keeping this passage ever open -- three vital links that bring about your unison with the Supreme Soul. I am going to discuss them here. I shall tell you how that power of sympathetic reaction can be generated in you whereby the gross gets dissolved and the subtle comes to the fore. The empiric object vanishes...

... love it is impossible to go beyond the mundane, the physical, and the temporal. The power of love is the only power in man that is spiritual and unearthly. The ,steps leading up to the benign presence of the Supreme Soul can be climbed only by holding on to the unearthly link of love. But let me sound a note of caution. Surely some difficulty will be experienced on hearing this advocacy of love of...

... need be surprised if life founded on illusion turns out to be ugly and uninspiring. The beauty of life can never fructify through the process of self-conflict, for the individual coming into conflict with himself loses his power, his prop and stay which would have ensured success in his life. Himself at the back, he makes his hands fight each other. In that case, who can conquer whom? Neither success...

... life, to be sure, which should be transformed, sublimated and raised up. Man possesses certain powers which are intrinsically neutral. They are neither auspicious nor inauspicious, neither good nor bad. They are neutral. They assume the form in which we utilize them. What is called sexual potency, the power of passionate lust against which the so-called spiritual leaders have waged an interminable...

... war is but a neutral potentiality, because that power, when transformed, evolves itself into a divine force. It is the primordial creative power, and what it is competent to do depends upon how you use it. What it can be, does not depend on it alone but on our understanding and on the art of living our lives. Does it not, on being transformed, attain the nature of brahmacharya, the power of the...

... celibate? This brahmacharya is not hostile to the power of lust; verily it is its sublimation. similarly the power that manifests itself in fury becomes peace, calmness and quiescence. It is only a question of transformation. In our life the process of creation possesses greater importance than the process of destruction. If this fact is clearly understood, the question of a struggle with, or a hostility...

... spiritual quarters. It is necessary to free ourselves from this hostility. The mind is a power, and, like all powers, it is also a divine power. It is a highly developed subtle power. Censuring it, being hostile to it or abusing it is sheer stupidity fraught with fatal consequences. It is but proper for us to realize that even today man is not thoroughly acquainted with all the mysteries of the mind; nay...

..., he does not know how to use his mental power. The mind, now, is more or less in the same state as that of electricity. Once there was a time when electricity was only a destructive agent. But it is being employed today in colossal creative projects. Men's understanding of his own mental powers in their entirety will usher in one of the most creative and blessed moments in human history. The mind is...

... noble or contemptible and fall in love with all that I am in my totality, then a compact, indivisible personality will emerge within me. Such is the formation of personality, for love, a cementing force, amalgamates heterogeneous elements, and when my different faculties are amalgamated into one unified whole, a wonderful energy is generated within me. The power that is severed and split flows in...

... personality is the foundation of this self-transformation. If one wishes to improve oneself, to renovate oneself, one has necessarily to become a single unified whole. The individual, split into several wee pieces, wastes his entire energy in pitting one piece against another, in controlling them and in maintaining the balance of power among them. There is no surplus energy left with him for the...

... the work of the Paradise Master Force Organizers; but in the superuniverse domains, when emergent energy becomes responsive to local or linear gravity, they retire in favor of the power directors of the superuniverse concerned. (357.6) 32:1.2 These power directors function alone in the prematerial and postforce phases of a local universe creation. There is no opportunity for a Creator Son to begin...

... universe organization until the power directors have effected the mobilization of the space-energies sufficiently to provide a material foundation — literal suns and material spheres — for the emerging universe. (357.7) 32:1.3 The local universes are all approximately of the same energy potential, though they differ greatly in physical dimensions and may vary in visible-matter content from time to time...

.... The power charge and potential-matter endowment of a local universe are determined by the manipulations of the power directors and their predecessors as well as by the Creator Son’s activities and by the endowment of the inherent physical control possessed by his creative associate. (358.1) 32:1.4 The energy charge of a local universe is approximately one one-hundred-thousandth of the force...

... universe organization by the power directors and other beings originating in the Third Source and Center. From the energies of space, thus previously organized, Michael, your Creator Son, established the inhabited realms of the universe of Nebadon and ever since has been painstakingly devoted to their administration. From pre-existent energy these divine Sons materialize visible matter, project living...

... creatures, and with the co-operation of the universe presence of the Infinite Spirit, create a diverse retinue of spirit personalities. (358.4) 32:2.2 These power directors and energy controllers who long preceded the Creator Son in the preliminary physical work of universe organization later serve in magnificent liaison with this Universe Son, forever remaining in associated control of those energies...

... which they originally organized and circuitized. On Salvington there now function the same one hundred power centers who co-operated with your Creator Son in the original formation of this local universe. (358.5) 32:2.3 The first completed act of physical creation in Nebadon consisted in the organization of the headquarters world, the architectural sphere of Salvington, with its satellites. From the...

... time of the initial moves of the power centers and physical controllers to the arrival of the living staff on the completed spheres of Salvington, there intervened a little over one billion years of your present planetary time. The construction of Salvington was immediately followed by the creation of the one hundred headquarters worlds of the projected constellations and the ten thousand...

... evolving divinity of the Supreme Creators of the time-space universes in, by, and through the power-actualizing Deity of the Supreme Being. (362.3) 32:3.14 The divinely perfect creature and the evolutionary perfected creature are equal in degree of divinity potential, but they differ in kind. Each must depend on the other to attain supremacy of service. The evolutionary superuniverses depend on perfect...

... integrated. Each requires the other to achieve completion of function, service, and destiny. 4. God’s Relation to a Local Universe (362.5) 32:4.1 Do not entertain the idea that, since the Universal Father has delegated so much of himself and his power to others, he is a silent or inactive member of the Deity partnership. Aside from personality domains and Adjuster bestowal, he is apparently the least...

... Princes — the ordained policies and procedures for that universe — always prevail. There is no division of authority; never is there a cross working of divine power and purpose. The Deities are in perfect and eternal unanimity. (363.2) 32:4.4 The Creator Son rules supreme in all matters of ethical associations, the relations of any division of creatures to any other class of creatures or of two or more...

... rich in personality possession and potential spiritual attainment. God has given us himself that we may be like him, and he has reserved for himself of power and glory only that which is necessary for the maintenance of those things for the love of which he has thus divested himself of all things else. 5. The Eternal and Divine Purpose (364.3) 32:5.1 There is a great and glorious purpose in the march...

...-is, is engulfed with out dreams, projections. This force to create illusions around oneself is maya - this magic, this power of the mind to create things which are not, or to give things qualities which are not. And we live in this world, this created one. Of course, obviously, disillusionment is bound to come. It may take time, but it comes - any moment the reality asserts, the dream is scattered...

... the dream is shattered. But again, again we begin to believe that, now this person is just hatred. First, we believe this person is just love, now we again fall into the second trap, the other trap; now this person becomes just hatred, poison. This again is just a projection: the other part is being projected. And we go on living in these projections. This is the power of maya. This is the inner...

... the shattering of the maya. The rishi says that the maya is a natural capacity to hypnotize oneself, it is auto-hypnosis. This auto-hypnosis can create things which are not, and can hide things which are. And for a seeker of the truth, of the real, this has to be understood; this has to be felt very deeply. This power, this maya must be understood deeply, because this is our bondage, this is our...

... ignorance, this is our insanity, this is our suffering - creating dreams and then creating frustrations; creating illusions then disillusionments. And one goes on repeating - lives and lives one goes on repeating, and the power goes on working again and again. But whenever we are disillusioned, we are not responsible for it; the other one, the situation, the object, is responsible. When we create this...

.... Everyone is facing the screen, and on the screen are just projected images. The real, the power is behind. The film, the power to project, is behind, but no one looks at the projector; everyone is looking at the screen. The whole world is just a screen; the whole objectivity is just a screen, and the projector is within. And we go on projecting images on the screen of the world, and then we begin to...

... to live, again to create the old illusion. Buddha says when there is death, meditate - meditate on it. This is the moment. When there is suffering, meditate on it. When there is disillusionment, meditate on it. This is the moment! Don't lose this moment in anything which deviates you from the gap! This mechanism, this capacity, this power to create illusions is maya. It is there, and very real...

... yourself on the same path. In de-hypnosis you come back - on the same path but towards yourself. So meditation is de-hypnosis, the technique to de-hypnotize yourself from a natural hypnosis, from a natural power called maya. Now we should start de-hypnosis. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... healthy person becomes a victim of a heart attack. Forty-two is the age when life comes to a certain conclusion - whether you have failed or succeeded. Because beyond forty-two there is not much hope: if you have made money, you have made it; by the time forty-two arrives, you have made it - because the greatest days of energy and power are gone. Thirty-five is the peak. You can give seven more years...

... like to be attractive because that gives power; the more attractive they are, the more powerful they are over men. And who does not want to be powerful? Their whole lives people are struggling to be powerful. Why do you desire money? - it will bring power. Why do you want to become the prime minister or the president of a country? - it will bring power. Why do you want respectability, prestige? - it...

... brings power. Why do you want to become a saint? - it brings power. People are searching for power in different ways. You have not left women any other sources to be powerful - only one outlet: their bodies. That's why they are continuously interested in being more and more attractive. Have you not watched it, that the modern woman does not care so much about being attractive? Why? Because she is...

... entering into other kinds of power politics. The modern woman is getting out of the old bondage. She will fight the man in the universities for the degrees; she will compete in the marketplace; she will compete in politics. She need not be worried too much about looking very attractive. Man has never bothered much to look attractive. Why? That has been left completely to women. For women that was the...

... only source to attain some power. And for men there were so many other sources that to look attractive looked a little bit effeminate, sissy. That is for women. This has not been always so. There was a time in the past when women were AS free as men. Then men used to be interested in being attractive as much as women were. Look at Krishna, his picture - with beautiful silk robes, with a flute, with...

... ATTRACTIVE TO MEN? That's why - that is their only power. And who does not want to be powerful? Unless you understand that power only brings misery, power is destructive, violent; unless through understanding your desire for power disappears - who does not like to be powerful? And you ask:... BUT WHEN THEY WANT TO BE ATTRACTIVE TO MEN, WHY DO THEY ALSO RESENT THEIR SEXUAL DESIRES? For the same reason. The...

... woman remains powerful only when she goes on hanging in front of yoU like a carrot - never available and always available, so close and so far away. Then only is she powerful. If she immediately falls into your lap, then the power is gone. And once you have exploited her sexuality, once you have used her, she is finished, she has no more power over you. So she attracts you and yet keeps aloof. She...

... attracts you, she provokes you, she seduces you, and when you come close to her, she simply says NO.! Now that is simple logic. If she says yes, you reduce her to a mechanism; you use her. And nobody wants to be used. It is the other side of the same power politics. Power means the capacity to use the other, and when somebody uses you your power is gone, you are reduced to powerlessness. So no woman...

... joy of power. Pulling you - and you are pulled almost as if pulled by strings - and then saying no to you. reducing you to absolute powerlessness. And you are wagging your tail like a dog - then the woman enjoys. This is an ugly state. This should not be so. This is an ugly state because love has been reduced to power politics. This has to be changed. We have to create a new humanity, and a new...

... world, in which love will not be a question of power at all. At least take love out of power politics; leave money, leave politics there - leave everything there, but take love out of it. Love is something immensely valuable; don't make it a thing of the marketplace. But that's what has happened. The recruit had just arrived at a Foreign Legion post in the desert. He asked his corporal what the men...

.... And people are naturally beautiful! That is no need for any make-up. All make-up is ugly. It makes you more and more ugly. The beauty is in simplicity, in innocence, in being natural, in being spontaneous. And when you are beautiful, don't use that beauty as power politics - that is profaning it, that is sacrilegious. Beauty is a gift of God. Share, but don't use it in any way for domination, for...

... when the bell goes off or the whistle goes off - equal opportunity - you run." You are giving equal opportunity, but those people are unequal. The lazy is not going to win the race. And it will not be his fault. What can he do about it? He is born lazy, just as the other is a born runner. So communism is not possible. It is an impossible idea. And those who will be in power, the dictators...

... greatest dictator. In fact, Joseph Stalin had more power than any man ever had in the whole history of man. Strange: in a powerless, equal, classless society, Joseph Stalin happened to be history's most powerful man. I don't think anybody has killed so many people as Joseph Stalin: at least one million, without any doubt, and with no difficulty. He is the only man who has converted a whole country into a...

... is being spied on by at least as many people as he knows. The wife is spying on the husband and the husband is spying on the wife, because the husband belongs to a communist group where he becomes more and more respectable the more he reports about his wife, about his children, about his brothers, father, mother. He becomes more respectable, he gains power; he becomes a more significant member. He...

... own friends, because nobody knows who is going to betray them. It has been only a proverb in all languages that "walls also have ears," but in Russia it has become an actuality: walls have ears. Communism exists nowhere, and the people who are in power have remained in power for all these sixty years since the revolution. The same group has controlled the country for sixty years...

... continuously. One by one - if one person dies then another, next to him, of the same group, comes into power. And at the other end, one person gets promotion into the group. But the group as such is the same that came into power in 1917. It is 1985: the same group is in power - you cannot throw it out. There are no strikes in Russia, because how can you strike? It is the government which is communist, it is...

... passed. It was needed to overthrow the old society - which has been overthrown. Now the new society has come into being. There is no communism. These people who are in power are rich, richer than ever. And the people who are powerless are poorer than ever. But they cannot even say that. Yes, old classes have disappeared but new classes have come into being: the powerful and the powerless. There were...

... the rich and the poor, now they are the powerful and the powerless - which is a far bigger poverty, to be powerless. And far bigger and richer is the group of people who are powerful - and total power is in their hands. Now, fighting against this society is the other group, democracy. But that too is only an ideology: "For the people, of the people, by the people" - but where does it exist...

... - naturally when the country became free they found themselves in politics. My uncles would tell me, "You are an educated person - why don't you use your power of vote? That is power to create government or change government." I said, "I understand, but to change one dodo for another dodo is just futile. It doesn't matter; it just changes names and everything remains the same." In fact...

... it is better to keep the old dodo there, because sooner or later he will have accumulated enough wealth, power, name, fame; he will become less greedy. Obviously, there is always a saturation point. When you change from the old dodo, you give power to a new dodo - one was Republican, the other is Democrat; the new dodo immediately plunges into accumulating as much as he can, because four years will...

...; the only projects that are chosen are for war. Life seems to be nobody's interest. Death seems to be immensely attractive. I was talking to Indira Gandhi, and I told her, "India is so poor, you cannot hope to become a world power; there is no possibility. You cannot compete with Russia or America. It will take you at least three hundred years to come to where America is now. But in these three...

...? You cannot compete with the nuclear powers. If there was any hope I would have said, okay, go ahead; let people starve - they have been starving for millions of years, they can starve a few hundred years more. And anyway, starving or not starving, everybody is going to die; let them die, forget about them. You go ahead and compete. "But you have no power to compete. Then will it not be a wise...

... before. They will immediately capture power; they will immediately capture power by saying, 'This woman has to be medically treated,' and nobody will listen to me." She wanted to come to me. So many times she made a time, and then at the last moment she would inform me, "It is difficult, because the people around me don't allow me even to come to you, because they say, 'Even going to this man...

...: Yes Video Available: Yes Length: 116 mins Question 1: BELOVED OSHO, HOW IS IT THAT GOING INTO SOMETHING CONSCIOUSLY HAS SUCH A POWER TO REVEAL ALL THE THREADS WHICH MAKE UP THE TANGLE? Devageet, the reality is just the opposite. All our tangles in life are created by our unconsciousness, so the moment you become conscious those tangles disappear. It is not the power of consciousness that makes them...

... disappear. It is the power of unconsciousness that creates them. All the tangles of life, of love, of relationship are created by our unconsciousness. We don't know what we are doing, and by the time we become aware it is too late. What has been done cannot be undone. Our unconsciousness is very supportive to the ego -- they have a co-existence. Coming of consciousness will not only disperse all the...

... be gone. At the last moment the candle suddenly becomes bigger with all its power. Nobody wants to go. It is a well-known fact to medical science that people at the time of death suddenly become completely healthy; all their diseases disappear. This is the last effort of their life -- to resist death. The people who are related to them feel very happy that suddenly all diseases have disappeared...

... bothers about the man's body. He can grow fat; he can become a Winston Churchill. Still he attracts attention because he has power. In the same book just beside Sophia Loren is Winston Churchill -- ugly, as fat as you can conceive, the whole face sagging. He needs a face-lift -- not Sophia Loren -- but he will not bother; there is no need. He can have power, he can be the prime minister. He can be this...

... you. If you get hurt about something that must be your own mind. But perhaps you are just a victim in that too -- it is unconscious. Devageet, you are asking, "How is it that going into something consciously has such a power to reveal all the threads which make up the tangle?" They have been made in your unconsciousness. They have been made in the darkness of your being. And when you bring...

... step towards maturity, can be turned into a beneficial opportunity. That is what I call intelligence; otherwise, what is the difference between intelligent people and unintelligent people. Devageet, it is true consciousness has tremendous power, but it is not used in revealing and dispersing the tangles of your life; they simply disappear as you become conscious. Gautam Buddha used to say that when...

... the lights are on and from the windows people can see that the master is awake, thieves don't come close. When the lights are put off, only then do thieves come close to the house to see whether the master has gone to sleep and it is the right time to enter. He was saying this about consciousness. He used to call sex, greed, lust for power, position, respectability all thieves. They come to you only...

... when they see that there is no light in the man; inside it is all dark. Once you are radiating consciousness and light, those thieves don't come close to you. But consciousness has its own power. It is simply in the presence of consciousness that tangles disappear. The power is not used for dispersing the tangles and problems; the power is to bring blissfulness. The power is to bring peace, silence...

... to you? In fact, the power of consciousness gives you so much that you become capable of sharing with people. For the first time, you can give to people. They are living in darkness; they haven't seen any light. They don't have any idea what a conscious being is. They don't have any conception, comprehension of the power of consciousness, how many flowers shower, how much fragrance becomes natural...

... to you. You can give, and you can give them a taste and you can give them a direction, so they can also find the same power which is dormant in them. A conscious man awakened can help millions of people to move towards the source of joy, real and authentic life, to pure love which knows nothing of hate, which knows nothing of jealousy, which has nothing to do with body and biology -- which is just...

... a spiritual communion, a feeling of deep compassion for your innermost being. Yes, the power of consciousness gives you many things. The treasure is inexhaustible, but your problems and tangles that have been created by unconsciousness -- for them no power is needed, just the presence of consciousness is enough. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT VIRTUE? Fantastic! Here, we are...

... realization of who you are. Have you watched it, that sometimes you come across a person who may not have anything visible, but still you feel a tremendous energy surrounding him? His impact is almost magnetic, mesmeric. He looks into your eyes and you cannot look into his eyes -- a great power. It is not the power of things; he may not have any. He may be just a beggar on the road. It is not the power that...

... comes through politics. He may not be a prime minister or a president because that power is bogus. That power belongs to the chair, not to the man. It belongs to the chair and not to the chairman. Once he is out of the chair, he is as powerless as you. Look at Richard Nixon: a tremendous power was there when he was the president. Now, he is just simply citizen Nixon. All power has disappeared. That...

... power was not his; it was a reflected glory. And you can see it, it is not very difficult. You know men who have much power -- power of things, power of big palaces, power of politics, money, prestige, heritage but you can see that they are poor people. They don't have any personal power. They don't have any magnetism in their souls. If you put their things aside, t]hey are more ordinary than ordinary...

.... All extraordinariness disappears. Kings and queens, once they are not kings and queens, are simply ordinary human beings -- almost empty, nothing in them. But you sometimes come across a person whose power is not derived from the outside, whose power comes from some inner spring, some inner source. He is a reservoir of power. Wherever he sits, the place becomes sacred; wherever he sits, the place...

..., yes," she said, "but not stone blind." Even in love you continue to remain the man of the outside. Even in love you continue to think in terms of money, prestige, power. Even in love you don't allow the unpredictable to assert, you don't allow your innermost being to have its say. Even then you remain a manipulator. Our minds are almost always interested in the very ordinary. It has...

... power it needs absolute control of the country. India can be put in a better situation only if the government starts working on a war footing - less than that won't do. If th e country understands only one language then you have to speak that language. My own name for this cross between democracy and dictatorship is "benevolent dictatorship" - not absolutely dictatorial, so there can be a...

... possibility to change the government. After at least ten years the government can be changed, but for those ten years the government has to be totalitarian, with absolute power, and all lawlessness will disappear immediately. In these thirty-three years India functioned in a disciplined way only when Indira declared the Emergency. In those few months India functioned without any lawlessness. The smugglers...

... still know only one thing: how to create chaos. They go on doing the same. And those leaders perfectly well that the only way to be in power is to go on creating chaos. The whole concern of those who are in power is to remain in power, and they can only remain in power if the country remains in chaos. So people go on fighting and they go on managing somehow, proving to the world that they are very...

... much needed, otherwise the country will fall apart. And the interest of the people who are not in power is also in creating chaos because that is the only way to come back into power or to come into power. So the politicians have learned one trick: they have gained freedom - freedom means they have gained power for themselves - and they know they have gained the power through creating chaos; that's...

... the only way to be in power. So India should not be left alone - let people fight in every possible way. When people are fighting, their energies are wasted in fighting each other and you can easily rule them, because then the people become weaker every day. And those who are not in power know that if they can create more chaos than you can control, then of course sooner or later they will be in...

... power. So it is a political game. Nobody is really interested in the welfare of the country. The second thing to remember is that India has lived in a very repressive way. The cause lies in the phony morality. If people have lived with repression then whenever there is some freedom, that repressed energy starts uncoiling itself. Any energy repressed is sooner or later going to take revenge. Whenever...

... certain atmosphere. For the transition period democracy should be put aside. For the transition period a presidential form of government with more dictatorial power than the American President has will be of immense help. But that power has not to be used to impose the same old character - no need to commit the same mistake again - that power has to be used to de-programme people from the past and to...

... were going to make everybody rich. They had no other idea. Their idea was simple - they were simple people: that when the Communist Party is in power everybody will be rich and happy, employed. But when the Communist Party came into power thousands of other things started happening, which the people had no idea would happen. They had not made the revolution, they had not fought the czar and his...

... politics. Wherever there is a desire to have power over another person, it is politics. Power is always political - even over small children. The parents think they love them, but it is only in their mind, because they want the children to be obedient - and what does obedience mean? It means all the power is in the hands of the parents. If obedience is such a great quality, why shouldn't the parents be...

... person, throughout all his career in the school, college, and university, has always been coming in third class, you have reduced his sense of self-respect. You have killed his self-respect; he knows that he is worthless. Now anybody can have power over him. The very words "third class" have become so ugly in India that if you ask somebody, "What class have you passed with?" - if he...

... don't have guts. You have castrated the whole humanity in different ways, and this castration is very political. So those who are in power go on remaining in power from generation to generation. Now in India, after forty years of the freedom struggle, one family has been dominating. It has become a dynasty, not a democracy. And it is impossible to remove them because in forty years they have managed...

... everything so that they cannot be removed. They have become indispensable, and they have collected files - I have seen with my own eyes the files Indira Gandhi used to have against all the other politicians of her own party and of the opposition. In those files are all the crimes those politicians have committed, all the bribes they have taken, all the illegal things they have done, all the misuse of power...

.... That keeps that politician afraid that if he goes against Indira Gandhi he will be exposed. Now those files will go from one generation to another in the same family. And that is a great power. You will be surprised: when Sanjay Gandhi, Indira's second son, died in an accident... she was a politician first and a mother second. His airplane had fallen just a few blocks away from where Indira lived. As...

... elections - millions of dollars. A politician can sacrifice everything, but he cannot sacrifice his power - and it is unconscious. And when she was told that those two keys had been found and were at the police station, rather than going to the hospital to see the condition of her son, she went first to the police station to get those two keys - because those two keys were far more important than a...

... to live with Jawaharlal - the power was there, and she was the only daughter. Jawaharlal had no son, his wife had died. Indira had every possibility of succeeding him. What could her husband give to her? Finally, there was a complete separation and he started drinking too much; perhaps he died of drinking. But Indira continued to live with her father because everything was there; the whole power of...

... and freedom seem only words to hungry, starving people; two rupees seem to be more significant. So whoever has the money, whoever has the resources and the right connections for bringing in money will continue to be in power. It is impossible for India to get rid of Nehru's family. In name it is a democracy, but it is simply a monarchy, a dynasty. And this is the situation all over the world; it is...

.... They are really afraid of a single individual who has no power, but who has insight. They are all blind, and those blind people cannot do any harm to me. They are so afraid that they are creating lies against me, propagating absolutely absurd ideas about me. But this won't help, because I am going to take every nation which has been behaving in this way to court, and they will have to prove...

... abuse I have been propagating or have been participating in or am responsible for. I will not leave these people alone. They are powerful - I have no power - but they are full of lies and crimes, and I will expose them in their courts. They are creating lies about me which they cannot prove. How can the British parliament prove that my staying in the airport lounge overnight was dangerous to England...