... non-vegetarian food is not allowed in the universities because to kill, to do violence just for food, is so ugly and so inhuman that you cannot expect these people to behave lovingly, sensitively, humanly. Non-vegetarian food is one of the basic causes of the whole society being almost in a continuous fight. It makes you insensitive, it makes you hard, it makes you a stone. And it creates things in...

... you -- anger, violence -- which can be easily avoided. Taking care of the body means the body should be given adequate exercise. Students are sitting in the universities the whole day and in the night they have to do their homework and they have to go to the movies. They become just sitting idiots. The body, by nature, is not created just to go on sitting. Students should be walking, running...

... because with barriers fixed, a very strange thing happens: the most intelligent student has to keep pace with the idiot. The idiot and the intelligent person each have twelve months in the class; the lowest denominator in the class is determining the pace for everybody. It is not right; it is sheer violence against intelligence. If the idiot wants to stay in the class two or three years, it is up to him...

... to lead - and the leadership will have such a beautiful quality. It will have no violence in it. Otherwise there is violence - when you look at somebody as being a participant and you are a leader, there is violence. Then you are to interpret, you are to judge, you have to show the way. He is the ignorant one and you are the know-all; then you have the upper hand. It is you who is going to decide...

... Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Prem means love, sanjaya means a special kind of victory... not just victory but a special kind of victory. In English there is no word to translate it. Victory is possible in two ways: one is through coercion, violence; the other is through love. And the ways of both are totally different... not only different but diametrically...

... opposite. In the first kind of Victory you rape the other person's being. That is the meaning of violence: that which violates the other's being. So only on the surface can you be victorious. Deep down the person will remain antagonistic to you; deep down the person will wait for a time to take revenge. So the victory is only a shadow victory. The heart has not been won, the heart remains totally...

... you feel superior to somebody else, you have hurt him. You may not have said a single word - you just passed by the person and you felt yourself higher and above and holier - but you have hurt the man, you have wounded the man. He may not know, you have not said, but the wound has happened. That very energy passing by has created a wound inside him; violence has happened. One need not carry a sword...

... against Jainism. And I said, "This man cannot understand the difference between prose and poetry. Poetry has a truth but it is not factual; it is true, but it is not factual. It has a meaning, a significance, which cannot be said in any other way." Mahavira was the first man to bring non-violence as the basis of a religion - non-killing, not giving any kind of pain or suffering to anybody. Now...

... we are sending a plane, bring him by plane." But a few of my people went by car and their cars were stopped. And they looked for me - a gang of eight persons. You cannot believe! On the one hand people talk about non-violence.... His whole life he has been a monk, a learned monk; and then because he cannot cope with me intelligently, he thinks to murder me. And I told the meeting on that day...

... scholarship, a certain articulateness - should not be so easily accepted. If he can commit violence, then his celibacy is suspect, then his whole personality is that of a hypocrite." And that's what happened. He escaped with one of the richest men's girl to New York. Now he is in New York, married to the girl. And New York was chosen because the girl's parents had a big business in New York. So he is...

... something which is beyond the words can descend. It is just helping to open your heart to be receptive, to be welcoming it. Because when the energy knocks on your doors, they should not be found closed. This is one of the most fundamental things in spiritual life, that the master's energy cannot even knock on your doors - that too will be violence, that too will be trespassing. The spiritual work is very...

... cause which can justify the destruction of the whole of life. Neither can communism nor capitalism nor any other ism - no cause can justify the destruction of the whole of humanity, because then what is the point? If all are dead, nobody is victorious and nobody is defeated. The third world war will be the most stupid world war, because the war is fought with the idea to be victorious: somebody will...

... support the war, he will be against the war. And perhaps each individual has even to be made aware of the world opinion that the war is going to happen. So it is not only a question of saving the world. The few years that you have got, you have to realize yourself before they destroy all humanity and all life on this planet. This is a double-front attack against destruction and the drowning of humanity...

... respectful of the body. Be respectful how much you eat, don't overburden the body, because that is a kind of anger, violence. And violence is so subtle that you have to watch it. When a person goes on stuffing himself he is being violent with his own body, he is destructive. Or he can go on a fast, then again he is violent. Just see the point of it. You can eat too much and you can be violent, and you can...

... you turn against it, you become the enemy of the body. As if it has been the body's fault. Then you start fasting, and again you start torturing your body. But it is violence. And violence is so deep in man that you have to watch it continuously, otherwise it will come from some other way. Morarji Desai goes to other countries - he is against innoculation, any kind of innoculation. Now this is...

... were relatives, friends, colleagues, teachers; Arjuna could not believe it: to murder all these people... The whole Srimad Bhagavadgita, the most famous Hindu religious scripture, is full of persuasion for violence. And the most amazing thing is that the great Mahatma Gandhi, who used to think that he was nonviolent - perhaps the greatest nonviolent person in the world - called Srimad Bhagavadgita...

... his mother. Nobody objected that the Bhagavadgita is completely violent; it preaches violence and war. Adolf Hitler could have called it his mother, and that would have been consistent, but not Mahatma Gandhi. But just a blindness that does not allow you to see into your own tradition... All that is old is gold for these people. They never think that the past was not as great a past as you think. If...

... magazines, newspapers, in books, that I am a "self-styled god." But they were not aware that once I drop the word bhagwan, I am going to expose all your Bhagwans as self-styled; there is no other way. And I am going to expose them on every single point: poverty, ecology, celibacy, violence. All these religions have been destructive, harmful, a curse to humanity. They need to be completely...

..., living with him for almost thirty-five years, slowly slowly the essential core of his teaching. This was one of the most important things, but it is primitive. According to me, there is no need to find which is your chief characteristic. We have to go beyond it. What is the point of finding it? You have to be a witness of all the things: anger, greed, envy, jealousy, violence - whatsoever it is, you...

... everything is drawn. I desire to see the root, the original. I long to see that from which the whole universe is created and into which the universe, in its ultimate annihilation, is absorbed; from which this vast expanse of existence spreads out and into which the great destruction draws it all back." It is for this reason that the sun is also known as Yama - the god of death. Bear this in mind: Yama...

... disciple tastes experience. A teacher gives information which may not be his own, but the master gives only that which is authentically his own. He is his own authority. So the Upanishads are just the most spiritual documents in the whole history of man. About GITA, it is different. I do not agree with Krishna for the simple reason that he is trying to persuade Arjuna to fight - he is for violence. I...

... would rather be in tune with Arjuna than with Krishna. Arjuna was making every argument not to fight: "What is the point of fighting when all of our people will be dead? Even if I am sitting on a golden throne there will be tears in my eyes. What is the meaning of all this? Let them fight, I will go to the Himalayas. But violence does not seem to me to be the answer." Krishna continually...

... that the people who make the revolution have one kind of expertise and the people who can make a country, create a country, create responsibility in people, are a different lot. They don't participate in destruction, murder. But they cannot get to the power. Power goes into the hands of those who have been fighting. So, naturally, every revolution is intrinsically bound to fail. Unless what I am...

... to a new man in himself. And if the whole country is rebellious.... The most wonderful thing about it is this: in rebellion both kinds of revolutionaries can participate, because in rebellion much has to be destroyed and much has to be created. Things have to be destroyed in order to create, so it has an appeal for both - those who are interested in destruction and those who are interested in...

...; he is cutting the stone - destroying the stone as it was - and he is, by destroying the stone, creating a beautiful statue that was not there before. Destruction and creation go together, they are not divided. Rebellion is whole. Revolution is half-half - and that is the danger of revolution. The word is beautiful, but down the centuries it has got connected with a split mind. And I am against all...