... has been creating all the wars in the world and killing millions of people. Q: MAYBE THERE'S DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONSCIENCE. A: All the consciences: Mohammedans have done that, Hindus have done that, Christians have done that. For three thousand years there have been five thousand wars in the world, and they are still preparing for the third, total war. This is the conscience of your presidents, of...

... secret pact between themselves.... Q: UNTIL THEY COULD USE IT, OR UNTIL SOMEBODY COULD USE IT. A: There was no question.... Yes, my father told Swarupananda, "If there is any need any day, you are authorized, he is your son." Q: WE HAVE STILL TWO, THREE MORE IMPORTANT CONFLICTS. YOU PREDICTED WORLD WAR THREE FOR SOME TIME, FOR SOME UNDISCLOSED YEAR BETWEEN 1984, I THINK, AND 1999. HAVE YOU...

... COULDN'T SAY WHO IS MORE RESPONSIBLE, AND WHO IS NOT SO RESPONSIBLE...? A: Everybody is responsible. Q: YOU GOT SOME ADVICE FOR THE POLITICIANS? A: One piece of advice: that all nations should dissolve into one global government. The only way to avoid the third world war is that there are no more nations, but only one world. Q: IN THAT CONTEXT YOU HAVE SAID YOU WERE GOING TO SAVE THE ELITE OF THE WORLD...

... BY CREATING UNDERGROUND SHELTERS. FURTHERMORE, THAT ONLY SANNYASINS WILL SURVIVE THAT WAR, AND THAT ALL THE REST OF MANKIND WILL PERISH OR COMMIT SUICIDE OR WILL DEGENERATE INTO MONKEYS. SO, ARE THESE THE PROSPECTS OF WHAT THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER THAT WAR? A: If the war happens, then only a few people are going to survive. Perhaps even they will not survive. Q: AND THE SANNYASINS WILL...

... righteous, not a sinner. Sometimes the people who call themselves righteous think that even if they sin sometimes, it is just to protect their virtue, to protect their righteousness. It happened: India and Pakistan were at war and everybody was in a war mood. Even Jain saints were in a war mood. At least THEY shouldn't have been - they have been preaching non-violence for centuries. But I came across the...

... news that Acharya Tulsi, one of the greatest Jain MUNIS, had given his blessings to the war. What did he say? He said it was to protect 'the country of non-violence'. "Even if violence has to be done, it has to be done - to protect the country of Buddha, Mahavir, Gandhi." Do you see the trick? Non-violence has to be protected by violence. One has to go to war so that peace reigns. I have to...

... disappear as a nation; let it become an international land. That will be proof, concrete proof. But people go on talking about non-violence in India, and go on preparing for war. They go on talking about brotherhood and the unity of all religions, and just go on doing the opposite of it. Because I am exposing things as they are, because I am functioning like an x-ray, they are angry. Nobody likes the x...

... ignorant of the outer world. We can combine. A great friendship is needed. You can watch; it has happened already. Japan is more affluent than it ever was. Just because of the Second World War, it came in contact with American technology. Now it is one of the richest countries of the world. In the East it is the richest. It has happened very illogically, because a country is destroyed in a war, and Japan...

... to the communist bloc remains as poor as ever. I have heard, a Jew suggested in the Jewish parliament, "The only way for us to become rich is to declare war against America." Now, Israel declaring war against America - the whole parliament laughed. "Have you gone mad?" they said. "How can we win?" The man said, "There is no need to win. If we are defeated, then...

... why politicians tend to become violent sooner or later. Politicians hanker deep down for wars, because it is only in war that a politician becomes a GREAT politician. If you go through history you will see the point. Winston Churchill would not have been such a great leader if there had been no second world war. Neither would Adolf Hitler have been such a power if there had been no second world war...

..., not would Mussolini. The war created the context: they were able to be as violent as possible. They were able to butcher people, to murder people, in millions. People immediately pay attention when you are violent. If you live a peaceful life, no newspaper is going to report about you in your whole life. But if you kill somebody or you commit suicide, you will be immediately in the newspapers. Just...

... yes so many times that when it was really asked they could not say no. It had become an inbuilt program. And their life was so ugly, that's why they were ready to die. I have always loved a certain story. An English diplomat went to see Adolf Hitler before the second world war. They were standing on the terrace of a three-storey building, talking. Just to show his power to the English diplomat...

... things would disappear from the world if people were intelligent; almost ninety-nine per cent of things would disappear. War would not be possible. On the earth, war is almost the major work of humanity - it has been for centuries. Seventy per cent of money is wasted on war - seventy per cent! What are you doing? Simply preparing for war? You don't know anything else. You know only how to kill. People...

... have become efficient only in killing. This can be done only by dull people. Intelligent people will throw away the arms. They will dump all the atom bombs in the Pacific and they will say goodbye to all war. For what? Life is so short and there is so much to enjoy the stars and the moon and the flowers and the men and the women and the rivers and the mountains. And you are just fighting and living a...

..., that all over the world the same experiments are being repeated in every nation; it is unbelievable. All these people together can do miracles. Divided, it becomes more expensive. For example, if Albert Einstein had not escaped from Germany then who would have won the second world war? Do you think America and Britain and Russia would have won the second world war? No. A single man's escape from...

... Germany, Albert Einstein escaping from Germany, has shaped history. All these bogus names: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler - they don't mean anything. That man did the whole thing because he created the atom bomb. He wrote a letter to Roosevelt: "The atom bomb is ready with me, and unless you use it there is no way to stop the war." He regretted it his whole life, but that's another story...

.... The atom bomb was used - President Truman authorized it - and the moment it was used then there was no question of Japan going on fighting. The war was won: Hiroshima and Nagasaki burning ended the second world war. Albert Einstein was working on the same project in Germany. He could have written to just a different address - instead of to Roosevelt, to Adolf Hitler - and the whole of history would...

... between the priest and the politician. They are two sides of the same coin. They help each other. And they all are interested in you remaining miserable - so the priest can have a congregation and the priest can exploit you; and the politician can force you to go to wars in the name of the nation, in the name of the state, in the name of this and that - and it is all nonsense, but he can send you to war...

.... Only miserable people can be enlisted for war; only deeply miserable people can be ready to fight, can be ready to kill and to be killed. They are so miserable that even death seems to be better than their life. I have heard Adolf Hitler was talking to a British diplomat. They were standing on the thirtieth floor of a skyscraper, and to impress him, he ordered one German soldier to jump off. And the...

... want to kill - even if the risk is that they may be killed. The politician exists because you are miserable. So Vietnam can continue, Bangladesh, the Arab countries. War continues. Somewhere or other, war continues. This state of affairs has to be understood - why it exists and how you can drop out of it. Unless you drop out of it, unless you understand the whole mechanism, the conditioning - the...

.... There happens the ultimate union, the ultimate marriage, where you and the whole meet and dissolve into each other, and disappear into each other. That disappearance of the two into one is what ecstasy is. I have heard about a soldier in the Second World War who would drop his rifle on the battlefield and run to pick up any little scrap of paper, would examine it eagerly, then sorrowfully shake his...

..., anything can disturb you. If you are not there, then disturbances will come and pass through the emptiness without touching it. You are there - very touchy, a wound; anything immediately hurts you. I have heard about a scientific story. It happened after the third world war that all were dead; now there was no one on the earth, only trees and hills were there. One big tree thought to create a great noise...

... sudden upsurge of happiness. It comes because you have become one. With a dancer a moment comes when dance takes over the dancer disappears - then happens a sudden blessing, a sudden beatitude, a sudden ecstasy. He is filled with unknown bliss. What has happened? Only the doing remained and the doer was no more. At the war-front, soldiers sometimes attain to very deep bliss. It is difficult to conceive...

... springs of joy that ordinary life cannot give to you. That may be the reason why war is so appealing. And that may be the reason why KSHATRIYAS, warriors, have attained to moksha more than brahmins; because brahmins are always thinking and thinking - much mental activity. Twenty- four Jain TEERTHANKARAS, Ram, Krishna, Buddha, were all KSHATRIYAS, warriors. They have attained to the highest peak. No...

... almost always remain mediocre.. Even a gambler may attain to higher peaks of bliss than a businessman, because a gambler moves into danger. He stakes everything that he has got - in that moment of total stake the doer is lost. That may be the reason why gambling is so appealing, war is so appealing. As far as I understand, behind whatsoever is appealing, there must be some ecstasy lurking somewhere...

... that deadly serious. The setting of the Gita is unique: war is the most serious affair. You cannot be playful about it, because lives are involved, millions of lives are involved - you cannot be playful. And Krishna insists that even there you have to be playful. You don't think about what will happen in the end, you just be here and now. You just be a warrior playing. Don't get worried about the...

... - unnecessary violence, unneeded. But because of the rift between the devil and God, you have to choose in you what part belongs to God and what part to the devil. The world, if divided into two, will create a division in you also, and then there is tension, anguish, anxiety. Silence becomes impossible; there is only a fight, a war, a continuous fight. Look at the face of Jesus; look at the face of Buddha...

...-religious for a Christian mind. A Jesus saying, "If someone hits you on one cheek, give him the other," and a Krishna converting, convincing, arguing with Arjuna for a war - go into war; they become inconceivable. But the basic problem arises because of this concept of non-contradictoriness in existence. Existence is dual but not contradictory! And the duality is only in the expression, not in...

... and effect. She cannot cause this in anybody, but just because she has such a vibe, any weaker person, weaker than herself, will immediately start vibrating in the same way, will imitate her, and both will be unaware. And because 't she is constantly fighting within herself, a civil war going on, if she is in a group people start fighting - people who were not fighting just a moment before. And I...

... person is all around. The whole world consists of them, hence after each few years a great world war is needed; somewhere or other a war is a must. It is a release, a catharsis. In just the same way, when a person lives in the present with no image, with no idea - the rose is happy to be a rose - a great blessing arises. His very presence becomes a soothing presence in existence; wherever he moves he...