... nonviolence. Things are interconnected. It cannot be that you just start developing a philosophy... unless it has some roots somewhere. India suffered so much in the great Indian war that it was necessary to develop a philosophy and a way of living which excluded war completely, even violence, completely. Gautam Buddha and Mahavira, who are both great teachers of nonviolence, were both born as princes in...

... works. It gives momentum to the mechanism. In the whole world, nobody has developed a philosophy of nonviolence to such an extreme. That is a proof to me that these people must have experienced an extreme violence; otherwise their philosophy is impossible. Mahavira sleeps in the night only on one side; he does not change sides. And he sleeps on the floor, on a bare stone floor. He does not use any...

... are also not right when they say I am an anarchist, because anarchists like Prince Kropotkin and others are beautiful people but their philosophy is naive. They want there to be no government, no police, no law. They are too naive, too simple, too innocent, too childlike. They don't understand man - that he is full of animality, barbarism, cruelty, violence, murder, rape. If all order and discipline...

... people who were taught to be repressive and could not repress and went against society; and now society is taking revenge. I teach you to be expressive and to accept all your nature with pride - it is your inheritance from nature. Living naturally without inhibition, things like rape will disappear. Living silently and meditatively, violence is not possible. Compassion will be just a natural phenomenon...

... man to be chosen as the third in the poll simply shows that the vast majority of Americans don't think at all. They are not even concerned that they are putting Jesus Christ fourth, and God fifth. They don't think that they are insulting their own religion; they don't think that they are betraying Christianity. But the mediocre mind is just like that. It enjoys violence, it enjoys war. It is not...

... in the world, it is clear that he has no brain; he himself may be retarded. The poll is very significant. It shows the human mind - its violence, its animality, its barbarousness. It is good that it exposes the hypocrisy. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... this moment: as you are. What can you do? Who are you to do anything? You are that which you are. Do not divide yourself. But we are divided. When I say, "There is anger and it should not be," or "There is violence and it should not be," who is dividing whom? I am angry and in my thoughts I divide myself in two. I say that I am someone else - some supreme self, some superconscious...

... imagination is destructive. Comparison is destructive; it is violence. You only create images to condemn yourself. But once the observer is there, imagination changes its nature. It becomes creative. Then it is not creating images for the future. It becomes a help in observation. Because life is so rich, we have never known it. But if you observe it with a very imaginative mind, with a very sensitive mind...

... pure poison. He kept it just in his neck, at the fifth center. The fifth center is the creative center. It became completely poisoned, and Shiva became the god of destruction. So Hindus have three gods: Brahma who creates the world, Vishnu who sustains the world, and Shiva who destroys the world. His destructiveness came from his creative center being poisoned. And the poison was so great that it...

... cannot be a small destruction; he can only destroy the whole of existence. When Vishnu is tired of maintaining it, Shiva destroys it. By that time Brahma has forgotten -- millions of years have passed since he created the world; he again starts creating it -- just an old routine! Brahma is the creator god, but in the whole of India there is only one temple devoted to Brahma, because who cares about him...

... of Baluchistan, spreading out over the valleys of the Indus and Ganges and slowly moving southward into the Deccan. This Andite pressure from the northwest drove many of the southern and eastern inferiors into Burma and southern China but not sufficiently to save the invaders from racial obliteration. (880.3) 79:2.5 The failure of India to achieve the hegemony of Eurasia was largely a matter of...

... the Deccan after the racial obliteration of the Aryans. Thus the vast majority of the population fell into the bondage of the enslaving superstitions of inferior religions; and so it was that India failed to produce the high civilization which had been foreshadowed in earlier times. (882.8) 79:4.8 The spiritual awakening of the sixth century before Christ did not persist in India, having died out...

... laugh at yourself. This is worth achieving. This is cultured. And this man is valuable who can laugh at himself. He has risen above vulgarity. He has risen above lowly instincts - hatred, aggression, violence. "And the third is the last - the highest. This is not about anybody - neither the other nor oneself. The third is just Cosmic. You laugh at the whole situation as it is. The whole situation...

... shaking comes from shakti. When you are shaken, it is energy - it is shakti. Go into it, allow it and cherish it! Cherish the dance! And the second thing: never try to impose any sexuality on the body; that is violence. When it comes on its own, that's okay; when it doesn't come, that too is perfectly okay. In tantra you must have been trying deep down to bring sexuality. Somewhere deep down you must be...

... humanity as if from ABC. The past has been ugly, sickening, nauseating. It has been very very inhuman, and the whole sickening phenomenon existed because of the idea of violence, war. Up to now we have not lived in peace, in love, we have not made the earth a home yet. We are still divided into countries, into races, into colors, into ideologies, into churches; all these divisions have to go. That's what...

.... 13. My respects to you. I have just returned from Rajnagar in Rajasthan. I was invited to a religious function there organized by Acharya Shree Tulsi. I put four hundred monks and nuns through an experiment in meditation. The results were extraordinary. In my view meditation is the essence of all religious practice. All the rest - such as non-violence, renunciation of wealth, celibacy etc. - are...

... revolution but to self-destruction. Give my regards to all there. You are not coming to Poona - I shall miss you. 43. Love. You have asked me about sense of humour. We can talk about it in detail when we meet but first of all: the sense of humour should be directed towards oneself - it is a very great thing to laugh at oneself and he who can laugh at himself gradually becomes full of concern and compassion...

... her and bring her here quickly; such a sight she will never see again! The next day, walking amidst the ashes of his hopes and dreams, the 67 year-old inventor said: What benefit there is in destruction! All our mistakes have been burnt to ashes, thank God! Now we can begin afresh all over again! God's grace is endless. We just require the eyes to see it. 134. Love. Wittgenstein has said somewhere...

... fixed and finished, life is living what is, a process, just riverlike, flowing always into the unknown, from the shores of the known to the shores of the unknown. Love. Anger, violence, greed or envy cannot be overcome by the cultivation of their opposites, because anger itself will cultivate its opposite and violence will be present in its cultivated non-violence. So always be aware of the hypnotic...

... spell of the opposite: it never solves any problem because it is beating around the bush. Do not fall into the trap of the opposite but understand anger, violence or greed or anything else directly. To seek the opposite is a way of escape. To seek the opposite is cowardice. Live with your mind as it is. Do not try to change it. Be brave and face it and understand it. When the light of awareness falls...

... on anger or greed or envy there is change. Awareness acts as a catalytic agent - and then anger does not change into its opposite, it is not that violence becomes non-violence, but there is no-anger, there is no-violence, and when there is no-violence there is no-mind, and an altogether different dimension opens its door: the dimension of the spontaneous, the dimension of the divine. Love. Moment...