... the sun has set and the darkness of night covers the earth. That darkness is not far away. Its name is the third world war. Every moment we are coming closer to it. That is going to be the night, unending, perhaps forever and forever. It is going to destroy all that is living and all possibility for life to exist on this planet. It has happened on other planets; it is now a recognized scientific...

... have their vested interests -- and if the problem is solved, then what will happen to their vested interests? So they go on talking about solving the problem -- poverty, war, disease, death -- but just talking, and they have been talking for thousands of years. Their philosophers have been thinking, creating great treatises, but what is the outcome? What is the outcome of that whole genius of the...

... derogatory -- "Listen, woman, I have not fought this war for you. I have fought this war for my own prestige, for my kingdom's prestige, for my forefathers' prestige. It is not a question of you, so don't get a big head because Rama fought for you for three years." These are ugly words. And then he is known to have forced the woman to pass through fire to prove that she is pure, that she has not...

... because they also follow the same logic. It happened in the second world war. For three years Adolph Hitler continued to win, and the reason was that he was illogical.. All the other countries that were fighting with him were fighting logically. Of course, they had a great science of war, military training and this and that, and they had experts who would say, 'Now, Hitler is going to attack from this...

...' advice. He had an astrologer who would suggest where to attack. Now this is something never done before -- a war is not run by astrologers. Once Churchill understood, once the spies came with the report that they were not going to win with this man because he was absolutely illogical; that a foolish astrologer who didn't know anything about war, who had never been on the front, was deciding things...

..., deciding by the stars -- what have stars got to do with a war going on on the earth? -- then Churchill immediately appointed a royal astrologer to the king and they started following the royal astrologer. Then things started falling in line because now two fools were predicting.... Things became easier. If a burglar is going to follow Aristotle he will be caught sooner or later because the same...

... fact I have a certain respect for Nixon. A man like Stalin in Nixon's place, or Mao Tse-tung, or Adolf Hitler, or Mussolini in Nixon's place would have done something that you cannot imagine - and that idea must have crossed Nixon's mind too. That is a simple method: when things were getting so hot, the best way would have been to drag the world into a war. Then Watergate would have gone down the...

... drain. Then who would have cared about Watergate? All that was needed was that people's attention just had to be diverted. And that's what these leaders would have done - immediately started a world war. Nixon would have remained the president and would have become the greatest president of America. If he had passed through the war and proved himself victorious, he would have proved the greatest man...

... mind: just put the world into such a chaos that Watergate becomes a small thing compared to the chaos that arises out of a world war. And everybody would have forgotten about Watergate. But the man seems to be much more moral than people have thought him. That's why I say I have a certain respect for him. He decided rather to descend and be the first president in American history to come out of the...

... White House with such condemnation. But he accepted the condemnation, the worldwide notoriety, and did not drag the world into a war. He proved more a man than a politician, more human than any other politician would have proved. The criminal mind wants power because without power you cannot do anything. Just as the painter needs paints, and the poet needs a great vocabulary, language, the feel of...

... somewhere the remaining parts of the body. And thousands of people - it was impossible to figure out who you were looking for. Why did he do that? So that nobody could be recognized. Even if somebody was found dead, he could not be recognized; he did not even have his whole body. And you say that man is civilized? And this is not the end of the story. Seeing the second world war, one would have thought...

... that just a little intelligence is needed and the second world war should be the last world war - seeing what man himself has been doing to man. But no, we are preparing for the third world war - and the last. Albert Einstein was asked, "Can you say something about what is going to happen in the third world war?" And Einstein said, "Excuse me, I cannot say anything about the third...

... world war, but I can say something about the fourth." The questioner could not believe it. He said, "You cannot say anything about the third - and it is so complicated - yet you are ready to say something about the forth, which will be even more complicated!" Albert Einstein said, "You don't understand. I can say something definitively, categorically, about the fourth. And that is...

... basic foundation is one. And the basic foundation is that when you are fighting, you should not be there but utterly absent; then no sword can cut you. And if you see two swordsmen fighting, you will simply amazed.... One of my friends - he became my friend after he came from Japan - was caught in the second world war. He was in the British army, a colonel. He was a Sikh, a sardar; Chanchal Singh was...

... his name. He was caught by the Japanese as a war prisoner. And then one of the Indian revolutionaries, Subhash Chandra, went through Adolf Hitler to Germany, and then to Japan; and with Adolf Hitler's recommendation Japan allowed all the Indian war prisoners to be trained by Subhash to fight against the British army. The Japanese thought this a good idea; otherwise they were unnecessarily a burden...

.... Subhash was fighting for the freedom of their country so he was easily able to convince the Indian prisoners. For them too it was good. In the first place, who would not like to fight for one's own country? Secondly, it was better than being a prisoner. There was a chance to escape too! Subhash trained them in all martial arts. After the war, when the prisoners were released, Chanchal Singh came back. I...

...?" And a plant worth fifty million was sold for fifty dollars! - the whole secret file, the whole plan, the place, everything. A French private detective was purchasing all information. He had no purpose against India, but if such secrets are being given so cheaply they are worth collecting; any moment you can earn millions. If India goes to war with China, then China will be ready to pay anything...

... for these secrets. If Pakistan goes to war against India, Pakistan will be ready to pay anything: Whatever you ask, you will get. The most miraculous thing is that Russia tries to send spies into America, and America sends spies into India.... Then too it is not an easy job to find secrets. And the French agent gave the news to the media that "in the afternoon something was decided by Indira...

.... Hidden behind is the basement; preparation is going on. It is just like the peace between two wars: the First World War, the Second World War, and the peace between the two. People count those as peaceful days -- they were not. They could not be. Otherwise how could you prepare for the Second World War? Those were not peaceful days. Now they have found a right word; they call it 'cold war'. There is a...

... hot war, and between two hot wars, a cold war; that is the preparation behind the screen. Between two dream cycles there is a twenty minute gap; it is like an interval. Everything is getting ready and you are also getting ready. It is not non-tense, it is tense. When you relive the whole day, dreaming stops. Then you fall in such a bottomless depth. You go on falling and falling and falling as if a...

... to reach that fame, name. It is a competitive world. You don't want wars, but you are violent - in everything you are violent. And you condemn wars. And have you seen the pacifists and their processions How violent they look! Their slogans against war, their shouts against war - and sooner or later the procession turn into a riot. And they are burning cars and destroying offices and burning buses...

... and trains and attacking the police - and they had gone to protest against war! Now what is happening? These people are violent people; war is just an excuse. Their protest is nothing but their expression of violence. They are not concerned about war, they are using it as a pretext. This society is created by you. And then you say that society is responsible. NOBODY IS RESPONSIBLE EXCEPT YOU. This...

... TRIED TO SAVE THE WORLD BEFORE HE HAD SAVED HIMSELF, AND THAT WE ARE HIS CHILDREN: POLITICIANS OF LOVE, SEEKING HEAVEN ON EARTH. Politician, and Christ? Politics and love are impossible to be together. Love is anti-political; politics is anti-love. I know politicians talk about love, but don't be deceived by their talk. They talk about peace and prepare for war. Never listen to what the politician...

... don't communicate, they don't say much. In fact, they want to hide so that things are not known. They talk about peace and they all prepare for war. They talk about love and they all create hatred in the world. But they are tricky, very diplomatic. When they say, "Love your country," they are saying, "Hate your neighbors." But they hide their hatred in the love of the country. When...

... you say, "Love your motherland," nobody is going to raise any question about it. There is no question: everybody has to love his motherland. But deep down in the teaching of the love of the motherland, they are preparing you for war. Then you start hating the neighbors: they don't belong to your nation, they don't belong to your race, they don't belong to your religion. Love your religion...

... have to stop loving the religion. you have to stop loving your color. If you really want to love human beings you have to stop all political nonsense. But they are very tricky - diplomatic. They talk about love and they sow the seeds of hatred, they talk about nonviolence and they prepare you for violence. They say they are preparing for war because without war. peace will be impossible. And they...

... because he was the man who proposed that atom bombs should be made. He had written a letter to the American president: "Now it is time - unless atom bombs are made the war can go on for years and years and will be very destructive. Just making the atom bombs, the very threat of it, will stop the war." But once the power - any kind of power - reaches into the hands of the politicians, you...

... driving the car, smoking the cigarette, talking to the friend, and thinking a thousand and one thoughts inside. Most accidents happen because of this. More men are dying every year in car, train, airplane and similar accidents than die in war. Adolf Hitler may not have killed as many people as are being killed every year by the mechanical behavior of man around the earth. But what can you do? That's...

... pulling you into thousands of directions. It is a miracle how you go on keeping yourself together. Somehow you manage this togetherness - it is only somehow, it is only a facade. Deep behind it there is a clamoring crowd, a civil war, a continuous civil war. Thoughts fighting with each other, thoughts wanting you to fulfill them. It is a great confusion, what you call your mind. But if you are aware...

... they are at ease. They have known it. They are finished with the thing. I have heard: After the Second World War a german soldier raped a french woman and told her, 'In nine months you will have a son - you may call him Adolf Hitler.' To which the french woman replied, 'In nine days you will have a rash - you may call it measles.' But by calling names, it changes nothing. What you call is absolutely...

... you will eat only that which is needed, you will eat only that which is least harmful to you and to others. You will eat only that which is not based on violence. But awareness will be the decisive factor. Otherwise you can be forced to become obedient, but deep down you go on being rebellious. I have heard a Second World War story. A sergeant and a private were up on a charge of kicking the colonel...

... saw the sergeant kick the colonel, sir. So I thought to myself, "The war must be over, so I can also kick".' Whenever somebody enforces a discipline on you, deep down you resent, deep down you are against it. You may surrender to it, but you surrender always reluctantly. And that's how it should be, because the deepest urge in a human being is for freedom, for moksha. To be free is the...

... core. You decide it. We go on throwing our responsibility on others. It is easier. You can always say that your father said to do it, so you have done it - you are not responsible. You can always say the leader said to do it, so you have done - you are not responsible. The whole country was going to do it, was going to war and was killing other countries - you have done it because you simply obeyed...

... orders, you simply obeyed. When Adolf Hitler's colleagues were caught after the Second World War, they all confessed before the court that they were not responsible, they were simply obeying orders. Whatsoever order was given they were obeying. If the order was given, 'Kill a million Jews!' they killed. They were simply following orders, they were simply obedient. They were not responsible. Now look...