... garden going to happen?" By becoming a sannyasin you are becoming committed: committed to wait, committed to hope. Veet Martin. Veet means going beyond; martin means warlike. Now don't be warlike; go beyond it. In the past we have praised war too much, hence in all the languages of the world names like Martin exist. War was thought to be something great, something good, and to be warlike was a...

... great virtue. Because of that idea humanity has suffered much We have to drop the whole idea - no more war and no more warlike people. We have to create a new human being whose ideal will be love, not war, who will worship the god of love, not the god of war. This is the greatest challenge that is to be faced: centuries and centuries of warlike conditioning have to be dropped and have to be dropped...

... quickly, because the time is short. If we don't drop warlike qualities within the coming twenty-five years humanity is finished, this planet is finished; it has no future. One more war and all is finished. Once Albert Einstein was asked by a journalist, "Can you say anything about the third world war?" He said, "I cannot say anything about the third world war, but I can say something...

... to be left to the politicians. The days of the soldier are gone, the future belongs to the sannyasins; hence I would like to fill the whole world with my orange people, who think in terms of love, who live in love, as love, and who will not belong to any country, to any religion, who will be simply human beings. If countries remain, war remains. If Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism, remain...

... predominant, war remains. We have to cut ourselves off from the past absolutely. A complete break from the past, a discontinuity from the past - that exactly is the work of sannyas. Prem Jan. Prem means love; jan means God's gracious gift. Love is not within our hands. We cannot manufacture it, we cannot make it; it happens when it happens. It comes from the beyond and takes possession of your heart. When...

.... This small and beautiful life is not to be wasted in fighting. That's why I say yes, sometimes it makes me sad. When I look around the world... we are in exactly the same economic situation as the world was in before the second world war. The American dollar was going higher and higher, and all other countries' economies were falling apart. This is the kind of atmosphere when war becomes absolutely...

... necessary. When I was in India the dollar was worth seven and a half rupees. Now it is worth twenty rupees - three times higher. The same is the situation in Germany, in England, in Holland - all over the world. The same was the situation before the second world war. You cannot live in an ocean of poverty, with economies failing, nations going bankrupt, people all over the world dying and starving. Sooner...

... or later this euphoria of the American dollar will backfire; it will become an absolute necessity to start the third world war to divert people's minds. Seventy-five percent of every nation's income goes for war preparations. People are starving and dying - and you are creating bombs. Bread is needed, not bombs. Can't you see the insanity? Isn't there a single nation which can declare, "We are...

... anyway. But what to say about England? Even India, which is dying, goes on and on creating more and more war material. They are also after nuclear weapons. In the history of man there has never been such a beautiful moment, when some courageous nation can say, "There is no need for any defense. We are all human beings - who is going to attack us?" And do you see the cunningness? All these...

... one clergyman from Europe is here. He loves me, he has been coming to all the celebrations. But because I said something about Mother Teresa, he became very upset. This makes me sad. Why did he become so upset? Can't he understand a simple thing? - that Mother Teresa is helping poverty to increase in the world, and poverty ultimately means war. He said that his four girlfriends.... Strange, a...

... does not make me sad. My own inner being for three decades has never felt a single moment of sadness for myself. I have completely forgotten the strategy, how to be sad. But what goes on happening around the world just brings tears to my eyes. This world is not worth saving. Once in a while I think it will be better if the third world war happens and destroys this whole stupid humanity. Perhaps there...

... cannibal and you eat a Polack, you will know what I mean. Just a little taste of a Polack and you will go unconscious! This Polack popa is trying to create a bridge, a communication between the Christians and the Jews. Why? These things are not religious, these things are political. After the second world war they created a Jewish nation, Israel. Jews think the Americans, the British and other allies...

... have taken possession of Israel, but they were aware that if they took possession of Israel, then Jews would be against them all over the world. And Israel is surrounded by Mohammedans, the whole of the Middle East is Mohammedan; Israel itself is full of Mohammedans. It would create a conflict, a war, a continuous war between Christians on the one side and Jews and Mohammedans on the other side. In...

... is this chimpanzee doing with you?" Reagan said, "You are not hallucinating, he is my friend." The man said, "I am not asking you, I am asking the president. Don't interfere." In the first world war, for the first time psychoanalysts were employed by the governments to find out the intelligent quotient - I.Q. - of the soldiers. And it was a shock: the average man's mental...

... nations? Yes, a world government is needed, but not nations. Unless we create a world government, wars will continue because these nations will go on fighting - India with Pakistan, China with India - the war will continue somewhere or other. The only way to stop war is not what the pacifists go on doing - carrying posters in processions. There are a few people who enjoy it; it is good exercise. And...

... they are boiling because of discontent, so it is good in a way to shout slogans; it releases something in them. But these pacifists are not going to stop the war that is just on the horizon. Any moment, any chimpanzee can trigger it. Tomorrow is more uncertain than it has ever been. The next moment is more uncertain than it has ever been. Protest, protest marches, slogans - this is not going to help...

... into war efforts will be freed. The whole humanity can live richly. People ask me, "What are you doing for Ethiopia?" Whatever I am doing, I am not sending Ethiopia some bread, some butter - that is not going to help. In the first place it is never going to reach Ethiopia, it will reach the Christian missionaries. In the last year they collected fifteen million dollars in America for...

... for tat: throw him out. We will make the Garden of Eden here! Let God beg to come in. Why should you pray and beg that you should be accepted, when we can create paradise here? But these politicians, these priests, go on diverting your energies. They are diverting science towards war. Science has now come to a point where it can make this earth so beautiful, so comfortable, so lovable that there...

... wars are fought by men but suffered by women. Somebody's son dies, somebody's husband dies, somebody's father dies, somebody's brother dies... Men fight the war, but the woman is the real sufferer. You will be surprised to know that whenever an army invades a country, they kill men and they rape women. That is very strange. Even then, there is a difference. They kill the man... But they are full of...

... sexuality, repressed sexuality; all soldiers are repressed sexually. Soldiers and monks, these two are the most sexually repressed people in the world. The woman is the victim: she is raped. And for thousands of years it has been going on. The woman can do much if she is allowed to have an equal part in all the decisions that are made about life, war or anything. The woman cannot be for war, and there...

... should be a movement of women against war - it may be man's game but why should woman suffer for it? And half of humanity consists of women, remember. If half of humanity is against war, it is impossible to bring another war into the world. And woman can fight all efforts against peace in many ways; every woman should try to prevent war. In the old days man has taught woman that when he goes to war she...

... should not cry, she should not weep; on the contrary, she should send her husband with joy, with a prayer in her heart that he becomes a winner. But on the other hand, some other woman is sending her husband with the same prayer to the same God. If the women decide, "We will not allow our sons to go to war, we will not allow our husbands to go to war, we will not allow our brothers to go to war...

..., we will fight every inch that nobody who is related to us goes to war" - if all the women decide that, then nobody can go to war. It is a simple idea, it just has to be spread. Right now you have been told to do just the opposite. In the second world war women were preparing clothes, sweaters, woollen coats for the soldiers. Not only that, women were even offering their bodies to strange...

... to war, all armies will be dispersed. Force people to come back home, to retire from the army. "We don't want you to get gold medals, we want you to live a human life amongst human beings." Woman has never been for war. Her whole life is destroyed by war, she can blossom only in peace. The consciousness of women has to be raised. Millions of men will be in support, millions of my...

... president of the Soviet Union, and the whole world can watch on the television and enjoy. It would be such a great entertainment. And who cares who wins or who is defeated? It harms nobody. The real thing is that the people who create war don't go to war; all the great generals remain behind. Only the poor soldiers are fighting and are being killed. And when the victory is declared, then the victory is of...

... consciousness has to be aroused, so that soldiers - even if they are SOLDIERS - should go to war just to have a chit-chat with the other party and come back... and let us see what happens. There is no need to shoot anybody, there is no need to kill anybody. You can play cards, you can do anything for the whole day and come back by the evening. Man has to become alert that war is so ugly, that it does not suit...

... with him as a friend and not as a Master. No Master could agree to be his disciple's charioteer as Krishna does with Arjuna in the war of the Mahabharat. Rather, a Master would have his disciple as his charioteer; he would even use him for a horse for his chariot. It is a rare event that Krishna worked as Arjuna's charioteer on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. This event says it is a relationship of...

... Krishna tells him, "I knew you to be a warrior, not a renegade, an escapist. But you are talking like an escapist. You say that war is bad, fighting is bad, killing is bad. A warrior never speaks this language. Have you borrowed it from others? It is definitely not the language of a warrior. You are deviating from your path if you are trying to imitate somebody. Then you are wasting yourself. So...

... has a sword in his hand. He can find his soul and its fulfill, ment only in the depths of courage and valor, of battle and war. He cannot be fulfilled in any other manner. That is why Krishna tells him, "It is better to die upholding one's true nature than to live a borrowed life, which is nothing less than a horror. You die as a warrior, rather than live as a renegade. Then you will live a...

... to test a kind of poison. There were many other things he could have chosen for a scientific test. But this person has the mind of a knower, a brahmin; he will not derive any joy through service. There is someone whose genius shines brightest in the moments of war, war of any kind, who attains the height of his potentials in fighting When he reaches a point where he can stake his all he feels...

... going to kill some people, he is sad because he is going to have to kill his own family and relatives. If they were not his own people, Arjuna would have killed them like flies. He grieves not because of war, not because of violence, but because of his attach ments to those on the opposite side. He does not think killing is bad, although he says so. It is just a rationalization. His basic grief is...

... that he has to fight with those who are so closely related to him. Most of them are his relatives. The eldest of Arjuna's family, Bhisma, and his teacher Dronacharya are on the other side of the battlefield. The Kauravas are cousins, with whom he has grown up since childhood. Never did he imagine he would have to kill them. Violence is not the real cause of his resistance to war; he has been...

... indulging in violence, in lots of violence, for a long time. This is not his first contact with war and violence. He is not a man to be scared of killing. He is, however, scared of killing his own people. And he is scared because of the bonds of his attachment to them. It is wrong to say Arjuna is trying to become a brahman, because to be a brahmin means to be non-attached. In fact, it is Krishna who is...

.... The Geeta would not have cut any ice with Mahavira. But the Geeta had appeal for Arjuna; he was impressed and changed by it. The Geeta appealed to him not because Krishna succeeded with him, it changed his mind because he was intrinsically a warrior, because fighting was in his blood and bones. And all his distractions from war and its attendant violence, and his grief and sorrow, were passing...

... potentiality is, what his intrinsic nature is. He exposes Arjuna to Arjuna; he unfolds Arjuna to Arjuna. And if, after listening to the whole of the GEETA, Arjuna had re fused to fight and escaped, Krishna was not going to tell him, "Don't go." There was no one to prevent him from escaping. It is significant that Krishna, on his own part, has decided not to take part in the war of Mahabharat. One...

... who is not going to fight is trying to persuade another to fight. He keeps himself completely aloof from the war; he is not going to take up arms. It is extraordinarily amusing that Arjuna is persuaded to fight by one who is not going to fight himself. It is certainly a matter of tremendous significance. If Krishna had to impose himself on Arjuna, he should have asked him to follow him and not to...

... fight. And only then could Arjuna have a grievance, that Krishna was imposing himself on him. Do you know one of the many names of Krishna is Ranchordas, which literally means one who is a renegade from war? Here a renegade is inciting Arjuna to fight as a brave man should fight. If Krishna wanted to impose himself on him he should have said, "Okay, now that you are my disciple, I ask you not to...

... fight. Let us escape from the war together." No, it is not at all a matter of imposition. All that Krishna tells Arjuna is this. "I know you to be a kshatriya, and I have known you very intimately as a warrior. And I know you better than you know yourself; your innate nature is that of a warrior. And so I am just reminding you of it. I tell you who you are. Know it rightly and then do what...

... you choose to do." The whole of the GEETA is an effort to remind you who you are. Because Arjuna eventually agrees to fight after what Krishna has to say, you are inclined to think Krishna imposed his will on him. But this is a travesty of the truth. Krishna has no desires of his own; he is totally desireless. His desirelessness is superb and self evident. It is total. In the war of Mahabharat...

... Krishna alone is on the side of the Pandavas, while his whole army is on the other side, on the enemy side. Is this the way to fight a war, where your own army is on the side of those you are opposing? While Krishna is on the side of the Pandavas, his own army, his entire army is fighting from the side of the Kauravas. It is a rare event in the entire history of war, in the whole history of mankind. And...

... if this is the way a war should be fought then all other wars and warriors are wrong. Can you imagine Hitler would agree his army should fight on the side of the Allies, his enemies? Impossible. Armies are meant to fight for those who create and own them; there is no other meaning of an army. A belligerent's mind does every thing to see that all of his resources are used to help him win the war...

.... The Mahabharat is a weird kind of war, where Krishna is on one side and the whole of his own army on the side of the enemy. Obviously this man does not seem to relish fighting. He is certainly not a hawk, not a warmonger. He has no stake in war, but he is not an escapist either. Since a state of war is there, he offers himself to the Pandavas and his army to the Kauravas so that you don't blame him...

... later. It is an extraordinary situation in which Krishna puts himself. Really, the structure of his whole makeup, his individuality, is unique. And the Mahabharat itself is an exceedingly uncommon kind of war where, as fighting stops every evening, people from both sides get together, exchange pleasantries, inquire about one another and pay condolences to the bereaved. It does not seem to be a war...

... same family have divided themselves and joined the two warring camps; even intimate friends find themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield. And what is most amazing is that, after the war ends, Krishna sends the Pandava brothers to Bhisma to take a lesson in peace from him - from Bhisma, who is the top general of the Kauravas' army, their commander-in-chief. They have to take a lesson in peace...

... from the general of the enemy's forces, and they sit at his feet as his disciples. And Bhisma's message is known as the chapter on peace in the epic of the Mahabharat. It is amazing, it is miraculous that one goes to the enemy to learn about peace. An enemy is a lesson in war, not peace, and you need not go to him to take a lesson. But here Bhisma teaches them the secrets of peace and righteousness...

.... It is certainly not an ordinary war; it is extra ordinarily extraordinary. And the soldiers of this war are not ordinary soldiers. That is why the GEETA calls it a dharma-yuddha, a righteous war, a religious war. And there is a very good reason to call it so. Krishna does not deliver the GEETA with a view to persuading Arjuna to fight. No, he delivers it only to reveal to him his true nature, the...

... that you think he can be proclaimed as the image of God? For his whole life he was a killer. His hand was always on his sword, even in his sleep: his whole life was a continual war. Of course on his sword he had written, "Peace is my mission." A strange peace, that you have to write on your sword, "Peace is my mission." And with the sword Mohammed wanted to bring peace into the...

..., in the desert you could not fight, so in the night you could eat and enjoy. In the day, the month of Ramadan is a month of fasting and fighting. And when you are fighting it is good to fast so you are not bothered by food. Otherwise you need a foodbreak, a teabreak, a coffeebreak, and in war you cannot make all these breaks; in war you have to be totally in it, no break. In the desert, when the sun...

... sets, war ends; you cannot fight in the night. Then you are free; then with ease, with comfort you can eat, dance and enjoy yourself late into the night and then go to sleep - and be ready again in the morning with the sword to bring peace into the world. Mohammed killed an uncountable number of people, and his followers have been killing people for these fifteen hundred years continually. I don't...

... you kill somebody in a war of religion, a jihad, what Christians call a crusade... and all wars are jihads. They are for religion: they are to convert the other person. And Mohammedanism has used the lowest kind of methodology to pervert - yes, I would like to say pervert - a man into Mohammedanism. I would not like to use the word convert.... What kind of conversion is this? You have not even had a...

... battlefield.... Krishna is functioning as his charioteer and both armies are facing each other, just about to begin the war for which they have been preparing for years and which is going to be decisive for the whole of India. And it proved to be decisive: it destroyed the very backbone of the country. Three men I find responsible for India's downfall. The first is Krishna, because he destroyed India's zest...

..., gusto for fighting. He drove India into a kind of third world war, in which almost the whole country was devastated and destroyed. Everybody - whosoever was alive - became so shaken and afraid of war that they were ready to do anything rather than go to war. And then came Buddha and Mahavira who started talking about non-violence. That appealed very much to people who were so tired of war. And they...

... had seen such a great war that they never wanted to have anything to do with it again. It would be better to be slaves rather than to have such a war and such destruction. Mahabharata is the name of the war, the great Indian war; after that there have been only battles - nothing like the great Indian war. Its magnitude was almost universal: whatsoever was known of the world at that time, every part...

... of that world joined in the war, either from this side or from that side. Both sides were cousin-brothers and the problem was: who should inherit the kingdom? On one side were one hundred kauravas, one hundred brothers. Now you can see, the father was blind yet he must have had thousands of wives - even a blind fellow managed to produce one hundred sons - and his brother had five sons, the pandavas...

.... The conflict was: who is going to inherit the kingdom? They could not negotiate in any way, so that was the only way to decide: go to war. And because it was one family, all the relatives were divided - somebody was fighting from that side, somebody was fighting from this side; a brother from that side, another brother from this side - and there were all their friends from all over the world. You...

... Krishna was still persuading Arjuna. Arjuna wanted to leave; he said, "I want to renounce war because I don't see any point in it. All these people are my people: on this side are my people, on that side are my people. I see my friends on that side that I will have to kill and I see my friends on this side. These people, these hundred Kauravas are my brothers, and I have to kill these people just...

... for the kingdom? Millions of people will be killed in the war - and even if we win, who will there be to rejoice in the victory?" And he was absolutely right. "Who will there be to rejoice in the victory over the corpses of millions of relatives and friends? These are the people for whom we would have fought, for whom we would have won the victory so that they could rejoice with us...

... argument. If I had been in Arjuna's place I would have slapped Krishna then and there, told him to get down from the chariot and said, "I am going - because this is the will of God. Who am I to think? Now my whole being is saying to renounce this war; I am going. This is my God's voice. Who are you? And I am not going to think about the consequences, that people will think me a coward. Let them...

... should he be condemned? He was doing God's will and not bothering about the consequences. It was the same thing with Krishna: he forced Arjuna to do something that he wanted, argued for it - and destroyed the country for at least five thousand years. It is still not free of the shadow of the Mahabharata: that great war still falls like a shadow on India. And the last the questioner asks about is Gautam...

... is a question of the heart; this is a question of business." In the world of business this principle of balance goes on working, and everybody profits by it. But in times of war, things are different; then there is no exchange of goods. It is not, "I give you something and you give me something"; it is a question of either/or: either I have everything or you have everything; either I...

... am the winner or you are the winner; either I will be dead or you will be dead. The ordinary system of balance breaks down. In war it is not a question of balance, it is a question of victory. That's why war has been preventing human progress at each step. It disrupts all the principles that ordinarily function perfectly, it destroys all balance of life; it creates chaos. In three thousand years...

... there have been five thousand wars. It seems we have been continuously fighting, some way or other; and it is simply destructive, it has no value for life. It is in the service of death, not in the service of life. And now we are faced with a third world war - which is simply idiotic. It is not even a war; it has broken even the principles of war. The principle of war is that either I win or you win...

.... The third world war has brought destructive forces to a point where nobody wins, nobody is defeated; everybody is destroyed. If the third world war happens that will show only that humanity has been living for thousands of years an insane life. This is the culmination of centuries of madness. It was okay once in a while - sometimes in Vietnam, sometimes in Korea, sometimes in the Middle East people...

... were mad, but the rest of the world kept doing its business; everything went on smoothly. But the third world war is not going to be local, it is going to be total. Everybody - not only man, but all the animals, all the birds, all the trees, all that is living - will be involved. So if man decides for that war, that will simply be nothing but insanity. The third world war is a good point at which to...

... drop war as such, and instead of putting so much energy into war put the energy into creating a better man, creating a better society, creating a new humanity. Question 3: YESTERDAY YOU SAID YOUR RELIGION ALWAYS CHANGES, AND THAT LOVE IS RELIGION. PLEASE TELL ME HOW RELIGION AND LOVE CHANGE. Change is the fundamental principle of life. Anything that does not change is dead - that should be the...

... must have felt the same: their hearts are hurt, their religious feelings are hurt. But Krishna is responsible for the great war in which India suffered so much. Millions of people died in the war, and he was the man who provoked Arjuna to fight. It was a family war, between cousin-brothers, Arjuna and Duryodhana. They were fighting for the kingdom, and when Arjuna saw millions of people in the battle...

... situation. If I am defeated then two million people are going to die. If I win, that victory is not worth it. He decided not to fight. It was Krishna who persuaded him. The whole of SHRIMAD BHAGAVADGITA is a persuasion. Arjuna goes on arguing against war and violence, and Krishna goes on insisting, "It is your duty, it is your destiny. It is God's decision that you should fight. And this so-called...

... ideology that you are talking about of nonviolence, of no war, of not killing is nothing but hiding your cowardice, your escapism." So finally he managed to persuade him to be for the war. And that war destroyed this country forever. After that war -- and it is called The Great Indian War, Mahabharata -- after that great war India became poor, lost nerve, was invaded by all kinds of small tribes...

..., barbarians, nomads; it has remained a slave country for two thousand years, such a vast country. It is going to be the greatest country in the world as far as population is concerned, and it has been dominated by small nations, small tribes. People simply lost nerve, they simply dropped the very idea of fighting. Mahabharata, the great Indian war, was such a deep wound that India lost its guts. If I have...

... married. And the only thing he did with his wife after the marriage was to commit suicide because the enemy was dropping bombs on Berlin. He had lost the war. And the woman was insisting for years, "We should get married." But he had been saying, "Wait till I am victorious; I don't have time for anything else. Once I'm victorious and I have proved that the nomad Nordic Germans are the...

... like smoking or drinking. He used to get up early in the morning and he used to go to bed early in the evening. He was almost a mahatma, a great soul. But Hindus will be hurt, because they think Krishna is the reincarnation of God himself; they are hurt because of a conditioning. If they have a little intelligence to see, then they can see that both persons have perpetuated war, violence, cruelty...

..., all that is life- affirmative, is born out of meditation. All that is life-negative - hate, anger, jealousy, violence, war - is born out of the mind. Man has two possibilities: mind and meditation. Meditation can be translated as no-mind; then things will be simple. Either something comes out of the mind, or something comes out of no-mind. Mind is noise, it is craziness, insanity. No-mind is silence...

... suicidal act. All scientists of the world should stop creating any war material. They should make it clear to their governments that they are ready to work, but they will work only for life, not for death. The same nuclear energy can make this earth again young, can destroy all poverty, can make humanity live for the first time in real comfort, luxury, can allow people to develop their talents, their...

.... Politicians want war. That is their vested interest. Without war, what are they going to do? You can see it in a simple fact: all your great politicians are born in times of war. If any politician wants to be a great leader, a great hero, then war is a necessity. Just look: from Genghis Khan to Tamerlane to Nadirshah to Alexander the Great to Ivan the Terrible to Napoleon Bonaparte to Adolf Hitler to Benito...

... Mussolini to Joseph Stalin to Churchill to Roosevelt - what makes these people great heroes? It is war. If there had been no wars there would not have been great heroes. Politicians live on war. And now the game has come to its ultimate peak. The old wars, those bullock- cart wars, were okay. A few people died, somebody became victorious, somebody was defeated. But now war has lost all meaning. Nobody can...

... be defeated and nobody can be victorious. With war losing all meaning, politicians have lost their greatest vested interest. And if politicians disappear, there is no need for nations. I cannot conceive why nations should exist. Science has turned the whole world into a small global village. Yes, there can be a functional world government. But there is no need of armies - millions of people just...

... rule over the world. And all the energies which are being wasted in creating war materials - and that is not a small amount: seventy-five percent of the energy of the whole of humanity is being diverted into war. We are living on only twenty-five percent of our energy. Just think: if one hundred percent of our energy is available, there is no need for any Ethiopia to happen. There is no need for...

... the proletariat. They don't have any respect for democracy; to them, democracy is a cunning device to exploit people, to keep the poor, poor, to make the rich more rich. In the name of freedom, it is nothing but exploitation. And there is some truth in it. So politically, the gap is vast, and meeting is impossible. What is more possible is a world war, rather than a world merger and a world...

... from nuclear weapons before the war begins, and both are trying simultaneously to find something more dangerous than nuclear weapons; for example, death rays. No weapon is involved - it is just like an X ray. Rays just come and pass through a person, and the person is dead; you will not find even the cause of it, why he died. There will be no possibility of finding out. Both powers are interested in...

... Soviet Russia. There is nothing like psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia because nobody goes as crazy as they do in California. They cannot afford it, they are poor. These are luxuries: psychoanalysis, all kinds of therapies, primal therapy - and new schools go on producing new theories about how to bring man to his normal state. Soviet Russia may step back from jumping into a third world war - its people...

... are not suicidal. And the capitalist countries are worried. Their worry is that the more they wait, the more countries will go on becoming communist. If they had gone to war immediately after the revolution in Russia, they would have crushed the Soviet Union without any difficulty; but they waited, and the more they have waited, the more countries have joined the communist camp. Those who have...

... name. And the fear of the capitalist countries is that their number goes on lessening; more and more people are turning towards communism. So if they want to have a war, the quicker the better; otherwise, if they wait to the end of this century, only the U.S. will remain alone to fight the world. And then it will be pointless to fight, then their defeat will be certain. And you can see it every day...

... that only two people died. And there is a great difference between two and two thousand - one thousand times more. But why is this happening? This is happening for the simple reason that America, deep inside, feels afraid that if there is no war, America is going to lose. If there is war at least America will not lose - the whole of life will be destroyed. If there is choice - either to be a loser...

... without a war or to destroy the whole of humanity - America is ready to destroy the whole of humanity. These are the signs of a decadent society, a society which has come to a suicidal point - a society which itself does not have any reason to live, and feels, why should anybody else have any reason to live? Communist countries are poor, have no freedom, are not democratic; but this whole thing has made...

... does not arise, only that of immense richness. I told you that during three days we waste so much money for war preparations, that it is enough for one year's food, clothing, shelter - every ordinary need - for the whole of humanity. Just in three days... and these figures are five years old - it may now be just one day. Every day we are wasting so much that the whole earth could live on it for one...

... year comfortably. If there is only one government, there is no need for war. With whom are you going to fight? Then the whole energy is released for creative purposes. Nobody needs to be poor, nobody needs to be without medicine, nobody needs to be without education. We can make this earth a living paradise. But the whole thing depends upon the American government. The mad dogs should be thrown out...

... some talent, of some genius." The whole thing depends on America because America is in a hurry to go into a third world war. Russia is not in a hurry, because Russia knows that sooner or later all poor countries are going to become communist. It is not a question of communism having to be imposed from the outside - communism is not to be imported; people are going to become communist by...

... themselves. The world is going to be theirs without any war. So why fight? - just wait. Russia's whole strategy is to prolong, to give time. And America is afraid of it because there is no way for America; as time goes on, America goes on losing its friends. So the danger is from the White House in Washington. That is the most dangerous place on the earth today. I don't know whose idea it was to make it a...

... the sleep of man, but still man is asleep, and whatever he is doing proves that he is asleep. The two world wars prove that he is asleep. The coming third world war can be prevented only if we can awaken enough people so that they become infectious and go on awakening other people in a chain. And it has to be done so fast, because there is not much time. Otherwise, the sleepy people are going to...

... without a visa, without a passport. Otherwise, there is no need for any nations on the earth. What is the need? Can't we all live as one humanity? It would be tremendously beautiful and tremendously beneficial... because if the whole world is one, you cannot create wars. Unless you find some planets and start creating wars with them, there is no possibility of war. The only way to let war disappear is...

...? A: I will go on saying yes, it is going to happen, because if it is emphasized continuously that it is going to happen, it can be prevented from happening. If the whole world becomes alert that it is coming close, something has to be done to prevent it. Politicians go on saying, "Don't be worried, nothing is going to happen." It is the same as they were saying before the second world war...

..., before the first world war: "Don't be worried, we will take care; and God is with us." The third world war can happen only if people are not alerted beforehand. If people are alerted in every country, in America and Soviet Russia, then these same people will hang their politicians rather than have a third world war. This will be far better, when I see the president of America hanging from the...

... tree, and by his side the Soviet prime minister and the queen of England.... Just hang all these people on one tree, make it a great memorial, and be finished with the third world war. I have been saying those things because they are possible; but if you say to people that they are only possible, then they think there is nothing to be worried about, it is only a possibility, far away. People don't...

... see that far ahead; they don't have that farsightedness. They are too much occupied in their day-to-day affairs. They have to be hammered continuously to realize that the war is coming closer, that the holocaust is coming closer and something has to be done to prevent it. My prediction is not the prediction of an astrologer. I don't mean that it is bound to happen, that it is destined to happen, no...

... -- God has never helped. For five thousand years the wars have been continuing, and in every war God has been asked to help. And sometimes it is very hilarious: the Germans were asking the Christian God to help them; the English were asking the same Christian God to help them, the French were asking the same Christian God to help them, the Americans were asking the same Christian God to help them...

..., Mussolini was asking the same Christian God to help him. I have heard a story that after the war ended, one German general was staying with an English friend. Just at the tea table the talk drifted towards the second world war. The German said, "I have always wondered what went wrong. We were strong, we had a rare leader, we had unity, we had a strong nation. What went wrong?" The Englishman...

... others, other contacts. But, strangely enough, the more they are persecuting, the more new young people are becoming sannyasins in the Soviet Union itself. We will create as much disturbance as possible to prevent the third world war, because it is not only a question of some nation being victorious and some other nation being defeated. If it was only that, I would not have cared. It is a question that...

... to do now? Except a nuclear war, they will not be able to see any other possibility. Already so many nuclear, atomic and other weapons exist on the earth that they can destroy this earth seven times. They can kill each person seven times. And the poor people in the world are not Jesus Christ that they will be resurrected. Once dead, they will remain dead. Even Jesus Christ was never resurrected. It...

... people that whether the third world war happens or not, you get enlightened! Be awake! -- because this earth may not be able to survive after this century. Only fifteen years are left. It is a great device, too. When you are challenged with global death and the gap is only fifteen years, you have to think about yourself. For the first time, you cannot go on living the same old way, doing the same old...

... stupid things. Something essential that can bring a transformation to your being before the world comes to an end becomes significant. So if my people are awakened, I don't care. If those people don't understand, let them have the third world war. Let them be satisfied to their hearts' content. Q: DO YOU THINK THINGS LIKE BIOENGINEERING WOULD PRODUCE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO WANT TO BE AWAKE...

..., because if somehow we can postpone the nuclear war, the world population is going to kill humanity. It is growing with such a speed that unless science is diverted towards human needs, it is very difficult not to have many Ethiopias. And it is a sad thing that all around you there are people dying and you cannot do anything, you feel almost helpless. Everything can be done, but all science is geared...

... world war. Unless homosexuality and lesbianism disappear completely, we cannot prevent it from spreading. So heterosexuality should be preached from every pulpit; it should be rewarded, praised, and the people who do not follow heterosexuality should be put under treatment. They are psychologically sick. If we want AIDS to disappear, then homosexuality and lesbianism have to disappear. Otherwise...