... great genius; perhaps nobody else has so many discoveries to his name, to his credit, as Edison: one thousand discoveries. But he was so obsessed that once he forgot his own name. That is a very rare possibility, most improbable... forgetting one's own name! - then you can forget anything. It was before the first world war, when, for the first time in the world, ration cards were invented, and he had...

... relaxed, with no tensions. Yes, if the whole of humanity one day turns into a religious commune, many things will disappear from the world which are not needed. Ninety percent of scientific discoveries are used only in war; they are not needed. Ninety percent of paintings are just absurd; they are not needed. Ninety percent of problems that you continuously have to face are absolutely unwanted, unbased...

... are both his hands; they have to learn to be together, they have to learn to function together in harmony. If all the scientists of the world can have a little understanding of religiousness, they can at least refuse to create for war. And if politicians are very much interested, they can have wrestling matches. Everybody will enjoy it and there will be no harm. Why kill people? - people who have no...

... is more articulate, more sophisticated. Just let the politicians - rather than have the Olympics for ordinary people, have Olympics for politicians, generals, and each year you can decide who is the winner. It is simple. What I am saying is that to me it looks so simple that the world can be one. And there is the solution: the whole world, one. Poverty cannot exist. All the efforts going into war...

... city, create a religious commune. Many religious people together perhaps may be able to transform the face of the earth and to create a new world, which is urgently needed. If we miss twenty years more then there is no hope, because the other side is coming to a climax. The mad side of man - the politician, the priest - is coming to a climax where the only conclusion is war. And this war means total...

...: the servant has become the master. And the master is so polite, such a gentleman, that he has not fought back, he has accepted the slavery voluntarily. The madness on the earth is the result. We have to change the very alchemy of man. We have to rearrange the whole inside of man. And the most basic revolution in man will come when the heart decides the values. It cannot decide for war, it cannot go...

... right place as a great servant, this will affect your whole social structure. You can see it happening in my commune. The woman is the master; she is not longer mistress, and the man is no longer master. People go on asking me why, for all significant posts, I have chosen women? For the simple reason that the woman will not create the third world war. It has been a historical fact that each war is...

... created by the man, but the woman suffers most. Strange - the man is the criminal and the consequence happens to the woman! The woman loses her husband, the woman loses her children. The woman loses her dignity, because whenever a country is invaded, the soldiers are so much repressed - just like the monks.... Sexually they had no opportunity while the war was going on. When the opportunity arises...

... - they invade a city and conquer it - their first attack is on the woman. And the war has nothing to do with the woman, she is simply outside of the game - it is a male game, just like boxing - but she has to be raped. Those soldiers are hankering not to be victorious for their nation's glory - that is a faraway thing - they are hankering to get the women of the enemies as quickly as possible. I am...

... be almost impossible. Man is not as free as birds, animals, fish. What a degradation! Hence, whenever I say anything, remember the whole context of it; otherwise you will misunderstand me. I want one world, so that there is no war and no need of soldiers. I want one world government. I want the president of the world government only to be president for six months, so that he cannot do any harm. And...

... die. Be contented.... Marx was right when he said, "Religion is the opium of the people." I want to add a few more compliments to religion: it is not only opium, it is poison, it is suicide, it is murder, it is war, it is rape. It is keeping man continuously in slavery, it does not allow any freedom of thought -- and if there is no freedom of thought, consciousness has no possibility to...

...-called wise are suggesting, "Stop cow slaughter and there will be no world war"..."Learn yogic hopping and there will be no world war." A Jew was caught in Adolf Hitler's Germany before the second world war by a police officer, who said, "Listen, Jew, do you know the real reason why Germany is not as rich as it should be, is not the world's greatest power? Why did Germany get...

... defeated in the first world war?" The Jew said, "I think it is because of the bicycle riders." The policeman looked around. There was a crowd listening to what was happening, what the Jew says. He said, "Bicycle riders? What is the connection between bicycle riders and Germany's defeat?" The Jew said, "What connection is there between Jews and Germany's defeat? It is the...

..., he would not have been killed; he was their only hope of conquering the world, because he was going to produce the atom bomb. But he escaped from Germany and wrote a letter to President Roosevelt of America saying, "I can create atomic weapons which can destroy on such a large scale -- the biggest city within a few minutes -- that if you want to win the second world war, I'm the man. I give...

... REVERENCE THAT DOES NOT VENTURE TO ASK FOR FRIENDSHIP. IF YOU WANT A FRIEND, YOU MUST ALSO BE WILLING TO WAGE WAR FOR HIM: AND TO WAGE WAR, YOU MUST BE CAPABLE OF BEING AN ENEMY. YOU SHOULD HONOUR EVEN THE ENEMY IN YOUR FRIEND. CAN YOU GO NEAR TO YOUR FRIEND WITHOUT GOING OVER TO HIM? IN YOUR FRIEND YOU SHOULD POSSESS YOUR BEST ENEMY. YOUR HEART SHOULD FEEL CLOSEST TO HIM WHEN YOU OPPOSE HIM.... HE WHO...

... to figure it out - what does it mean? - because it is never asked. But you have made an honest statement, and it will make you stronger, nourished. Every sincere act and every honest word is going to make you more and more strong. IF YOU WANT A FRIEND YOU MUST ALSO BE WILLING TO WAGE WAR FOR HIM: AND TO WAGE WAR, YOU MUST BE capable OF BEING AN ENEMY. These are the implications: if you want a...

... friend, naturally you are agreeing on one point - that his enemies will be your enemies. Otherwise what is the meaning of friendship? If you want a friend you must also be willing to wage war for him. You must be ready, because friendship means you are committing yourself, means that you will be on his side in good days, in bad days, in moments of joy, in moments of sadness, in times of glory and in...

... times of failure - but you will be by his side, just like a shadow. To wage war you must be capable of being an enemy. And if you are afraid and a coward and you cannot be an enemy, then forget the idea of being a friend - they both go together. Either you have to drop both or you have to accept both. Gautam Buddha will help you to understand. He is reported to have said, "I am no one's friend...

... coming from the East; the problem is coming from the West. The problem is the Western intelligentsia is fed up with life, so there is no real resistance from the intelligentsia against nuclear weapons, against a third world war. In fact, it seems deep down the Western mind is somehow hoping that it happens soon, because life is meaningless. Rather than taking the risk of committing suicide yourself, if...

... politicians can manage to destroy the whole world, that will be far easier. You will not be in the dilemma of to be or not to be. You will not have to think whether to destroy yourself or not, to wonder if perhaps tomorrow things may be different. It is an individual responsibility to commit suicide, but a global war, a nuclear war - all your personal responsibility disappears. It is not your doing, it is...

... every action. So perhaps the Western intelligentsia is just in the situation of spectators, watching when it is announced on the television that the third world war has begun. Listening to the radio, reading the newspaper.... But are you going to do something or not? It is doing that keeps your juices running. If you are simply watching, your own juices dry up. You become just a skeleton. I am...

... earth. And this sun is a very mediocre one; there are very big suns that you see as stars. There are millions of solar systems, but no solar system can claim a Gautam Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Bodhidharma, a Kabir. This earth has done something immensely great, it has made the whole universe rich. It cannot be destroyed. War should be stopped - and it is within our hands to do so. Don't be only a spectator...

... argument against the philosophy of Gautam Buddha. His condemnation is that his philosophy must be wrong because it creates a feminine grace, it makes people incapable of violence. Gautam Buddha"s meditation techniques will destroy war, and without war there will be no great men. It is war that creates great leaders. A strange argument in favor of war. A very strange idea against peace, against...

.... Instead of talks about war, instead of politicians giving speeches all around the world, instead of the sermons of stupid priests who know nothing, it will be far better that every man and every woman is able to see the hilarious side of life and to enjoy it. Two jokes for you, Maneesha: On his way home from work one day, the husband was suddenly filled with inspiration and bought his wife a bunch of...

... all this garbage of centuries that has collected around our beings. But it is possible - not only possible, it has to happen because there is a limit to everything. This insanity that we have lived with for thousands of years has come to the peak. Because of this madness we have created nuclear weapons, knowing well that if any war happens it will be the destruction of all. Nobody will be defeated...

..., nobody will be victorious. Still nations go on creating nuclear weapons. Even poor nations, which are not able to feed their people, want to join the race, want to put billions of dollars into destructive war material. By scientific calculations, by the end of this century twenty-five nations will join the nuclear club - right now there are only five nations which have nuclear weapons. Of the remaining...

... food in their stomachs. If they can manage one meal a day they are very fortunate. And India is ready to give wheat to purchase more of the war materials necessary for creating atomic energy, nuclear weapons, and being ready for a third world war. It is not a question of some individual gone mad, it is the whole humanity which has gone crazy. This is the very limit, unbearable. Either we have to...

... decided to make this world more beautiful, and we have decided to dissolve nations so that we can dissolve wars, and we have decided to dissolve religions because they are also causes of war and discrimination..." Unless such a miracle happens man's history has come to its last chapter. Question 2: BELOVED MASTER, HOW WILL YOUR NEW MAN EXPRESS HIMSELF? WILL HE FIND NEW WAYS OR WILL THE EXISTING...

... people become attuned with me, fall in love with me, not only Adolf Hitler but even the third world war is impossible. To create a third world war you will need all kinds of geniuses, talented people, young. And if they have in some way fallen in love with me, they are not going to serve any destructive cause at any price. They are going to simply refuse. My influence is diametrically opposite to Adolf...

... also, because in war it is not necessarily so that you will only kill and you will not be killed. So those leaders were emphasizing, "Be ready to kill or be killed. The stake is great: the nation's pride, the race and its ego, the religion and its messiah." All these people have been teaching you just death, either somebody else's or your own. I am simply amazed when people start comparing...

... is long, and their experience is wrong. And whenever there has been a man of influence, he has created trouble. Adolf Hitler created the second world war. Now they are afraid; if their younger generation is being influenced by me and is ready to do anything that I say, naturally fear arises. Again the same situation may happen. But just tell them, with me it cannot happen. Without me it can happen...

... that there is nothing to fear? My people are peaceful and wherever they will go they will bring the peace, the silence, the rejoicing. They will bring songs to every country and ecstasy to every land. Our war is totally different. They don't understand. We are spreading a certain kind of atmosphere around the world which can prevent wars, which can prevent Adolf Hitlers, which can prevent nuclear...

... retarded. He talks about nonviolence and the philosophy of nonviolence; and he calls the Gita his mother. He never could conceive that the Gita is full of violence. Krishna's whole teaching to Arjuna is to go to war, to fight: "This is your religion. You are a warrior: to kill and to be killed is your life, and this is what God wants." I myself would not call Krishna Bhagwan, in my sense of the...

... make Jinna responsible for Pakistan; Mahatma Gandhi and his so-called nonviolence, which was bogus, are responsible for Pakistan. The Gita and nonviolence cannot go together. Have you ever heard that in Jaina mythology Krishna is still in hell for teaching that philosophy to Arjuna and creating the greatest war in Indian history? After this war, India could never recover - it simply broke India's...

... as our Bhagwatta is concerned, there is no difference. WHY DO YOU HAVE MORE NON-INDIAN SANNYASINS THAN INDIAN? In fact, I do not believe in nations. To me the whole earth is one and the whole humanity is one. The moment you start thinking of Indians and non-Indians, you create unnecessary divisions which ultimately lead to war and violence, hatred, inferiority, superiority and all kinds of ugly...

... become a slave - that's what happened down the ages. And an aggressive man, emphatically aggressive and never tender, is bound to create wars, neurosis in the world, violence. Man has been fighting, continuously fighting; it seems that man exists on the earth just to fight. In three thousand years there have been five thousand wars! War continues somewhere or other, the earth is never whole and healthy...

...... never a moment without war. Either it is in Korea, or it is in Vietnam, or it is in Israel, or India, Pakistan, or in Bangladesh; somewhere the massacre has to continue. Man has to kill. To remain man, he has to kill. Seventy-five percent of energy is put into war effort, into creating more bombs, hydrogen bombs, neutron bombs, and so on and so forth. It seems that man's whole purpose here on earth is...

... war. The war heroes are respected the most. The war politicians become the great names in history: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong - these names are going to remain. Why? - because they fought great wars, they destroyed. Whether in aggression or in defense - that is not the point - but these were the warmongers. And nobody ever knows who was aggressive - whether Germany...

... Germans; naturally they would have a different vision. Nobody knows what is true. One thing is certain: that man puts his whole energy into war effort. The reason? - the reason is that man has been taught to be just man, his woman has been denied. So no man is whole. And so is the case with woman - no woman is whole. She has been denied her male part. When she was a small child she could not fight with...