.... In fact the word architect means one who makes arcs. The art behind the making of an are comprises in the inverse arrangement of bricks. Half bricks are placed in inverted arrangement along the are and this is why the arch can bear any weight above. The reverse placing of the bricks causes them to press against each other. They are always at war with each other and this generates power. This power...

... remains not of destroying the opposite but of making use of it." Aristotle says, "Nature causes illnesses, so fight nature." Therefore all of the Western Science is based on fighting nature. Its whole language is of conflict. Bertrand Russell has written a book: "Conquest of nature", It is all in the language of war. Lao Tzu would laugh! He would say, "You have no idea you...

... had the right to share his room! Then if she became unfaithful? If all the world is a struggle, if there is nothing but enmity, then according to Freud, the husband-wife relationship is also a conflict. This is an expansion of the Aristotalean theory - the entire concept of the West! Freud calls the relationship between husband and wife, as sexual war. There is no element of love involved in it. It...

... is an act of war, where the husband tries to dominate the wife and vice versa. Those who are intelligent give a sophisticated turn to this domination; those who are uneducated uncivilized, indulge directly into this act of warfare. In both cases, it is a struggle alright. This is one gestalt in which all our relationships follow the same pattern. It is not that our relationship with nature alone...

..., tomorrow we find the Chinese are causing us harm. Then why not destroy them? Then we feel the Indians are dangerous - so destroy them... and so on. This is the language of war which is applicable everywhere. Whatever you find harmful, destroy it. America thinks of destroying Russia and Russia thinks of destroying America. But after the Atomic research, both America and Russia have understood the fact...

...? The oldest policy of all warmongers -- from Chanakya in India, three thousand years ago, to Machiavelli in Europe -- has been the same policy. Chanakya and Machiavelli -- three thousand years' difference, but the policy is the same: the best way to defend is to attack. Once you are on the defensive, you have already lost half the battle, and particularly in a time when the war is not going to be a...

... slow war with small weapons. When the war is going to be nuclear, it is only a question of ten minutes and the whole world will be finished. Whoever attacks, perhaps may survive. If you are on the defensive there is no chance to survive. My own understanding is, America is playing a great role behind the whole scene. It is a great conspiracy of American politicians, but very indirect: they are...

... not deceive your people by calling it "socialist capitalism" -- that is a contradiction in terms. And it is not going to help, it is going just to help America destroy you without any war -- and not only destroy you, but all the communist countries that are dependent on you and your support. The great utopian experiment evaporates just because of one man's misunderstanding. And if...

... internal vault. Brainwashing is being exhaustively investigated - how to change the head by cleansing it of what it has. It is the Chinese communists who have carried out great experiments - very dangerous! Their targets were American prisoners of war in Korea. Their effort was to brainwash these young Americans. And the brain can indeed be washed, because memory is made up of signs, and just as the...

... cassette of a tape recorder can be cleaned and re-recorded, so the memory can be cleared and recharged with new memories. Without his knowledge a Hindu can be turned into a Mohammedan Erase his Geeta, insert the Koran, and the Hindu is converted into a Mohammedan. In the same way a Mohammedan can be turned into a Hindu. Seeing their returning prisoners of war turned into communists, America was shocked...

... rendered obedient. If soldiers are sent off to war, they can be rendered fearless. It is simply a matter of erasing their awareness of death, and they will act without fear, as if there is no death. Now the means exist to erase, change, steal or renew memory. But this is only possible because memory is also a commodity. There is only one phenomenon that cannot be annihilated by anybody, and that is...

... existence wants this war to happen, let it happen; if it wants it to stop, let it stop. You just become an instrument, a tool. Let the sword stay in your hand, but allow it to be in the hands of existence. Let there be nothing of yourself within you. Then there will be action, but no concern about its fruits - because it is always the ego which looks for the fruits. Action is a part of life energy. Action...

... years there is bound to be a big war. And if you want to avoid big wars, then have many small wars, but the total will remain the same. Because of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, now a great war has become almost impossible. That is why there are so many small wars all over the world: in Vietnam, Kashmir, Bangladesh, Israel, many small wars, but the total will be the same. In five thousand years man...

... has fought fifteen thousand wars, three wars per year. A type exists who has to fight. You can change this type, but the change will be superficial. If this warrior is not allowed to fight in war, he will fight in other ways. He will fight an election, or he may be-come a sportsman - he may fight in cricket or football. But he will fight, he will compete, he needs somebody to challenge. Somewhere or...

... other fighting has to be done to satisfy him. That is why, as civilization develops, people have to be supplied with more and more games. If games are not given to the warrior type, what will he do? Go and watch when a cricket, football, or hockey match is on - people go mad, as if something very serious is going on, as if a real war is happening! The players are serious, and the fans around them go...

... HAD THE HEAD MONK MAKE SOME CRUTCHES. There was a time in the world when the horse was the most valuable animal - the fastest in peacetime, the most courageous in war. It was one of the great gifts in those days. So when Emperor Doko heard that Koke had become enlightened, he thought, "What to send as a present?" He must have sent some Arabian horse, because they are the best in the world...

... this simple reason, again and again. They thought that the elephant is a great animal. He is, but in war a horse is more practical. If a marriage ceremony is happening, an elephant is perfectly good. But war is not a marriage ceremony. So Emperor Doko sent Koke a beautiful horse as a present. Now, Koke must have never ridden on a horse. There is no need for an enlightened man, living on his mountain...

... know when you are alive and when you are not. In a single moment, as you take one puff of the gas, one breath, you are finished. Ronald Reagan had been thinking to create this gas - which is going to be the most fatal instrument in any war because you will not even be able to see it. The whole earth can be drowned in the gas clouds and life will disappear. Seeing the man and the woman, God...

..., it is beyond your capacity to become a big power, so simply forget all about it -- there is no need. So I can see that there is no other alternative. Rajiv could be of great help if he understands correctly that India does not need to become a war country. Make it just comfortable, happy, rejoicing, and don't be worried about war, because war has gone so ahead of you that you cannot.... And this...

... any preference. Whomsoever the country prefers -- let the country decide -- and then join totally with that power. My idea is so that you need not create any war, machinery, technology, big army, so you can drop that and you can divert your whole energy in creating better standard of life for the people. Q:* YOU HAVE ADVOCATED THAT BIRTH CONTROL SHOULD BE ENFORCED; AT THE SAME TIME YOU SAY PEOPLE...

... wanted us to destroy the commune and leave America. It seems they loved the desert so much that now they have made it desert again. Perhaps they need a third world war to make the whole of America a desert. If they love the desert so much, their wishes should be fulfilled. But these facts that they have produced after one year... Where was this New Yorker when I was there to reply? Now they are writing...

... political party, or in the hands of the government, or in the hands of rich people. The man who came first into the conflict was the ex-vice-president Rockefeller -- because he was planning that the whole of Oregon should become a federal state. The federal government owns half of the land of Oregon, and their desire was to have all of the land in Oregon to create shelters in case of a nuclear war. And...

... Oregon is perfectly the right place -- not very populated, could easily be converted into a vast shelter in case of nuclear war. When we entered the state, the first person who became annoyed was Rockefeller -- because now that one hundred and twenty-six square miles could in no way become federal land. It was he who said in a press conference that, "This commune is an independent country within a...

... heard one case: In the First World War two brothers separated. The father divided all his property, because he was getting old and he was worried about the younger son - because he was a drunkard and he will destroy the whole thing, and even the eldest son will suffer because of the younger. So he divided them equally. And a miracle happened. In the First World War the value of money went so low, as...

..., follower of Krishna. But to be with Krishna would have been really impossible - he had sixteen thousand wives! Hermann, would you agree with this man? What kind of enlightened man is this Krishna? Sixteen thousand wives! And they were not all married to him - many he had stolen - they were married to other people! How can you agree with this man? And he persuaded Arjuna to go into war, and the reasons...

..., into such utter failure, that the German mind since then has been searching for somebody who is just the opposite of Adolf Hitler. They have found the anti-Adolf Hitler in me. It is not just a coincidence. Nature follows certain laws. If the second world war was a long nightmare, the reason was that the Germans followed a man who was giving them hope, the promise of a better world. And by the end of...

... to fill the whole of Germany with beautiful jokes. Such a powerful nation needs some dimension of creativity to put its power, its intelligence into. It does not deserve Adolf Hitlers. There will be many Germans here. Remember, to prevent Germany again falling into the same ditch... it fell into one in the first world war, it fell into it again in the second world war. And Germany still has...

... accelerator. More people die every year in car accidents than in a world war. The Second World War was nothing, more people die every year in car accidents. People go on getting more and more speedy; then they become intoxicated. A moment comes when they are not in their minds and the speed has taken over. Start running one day and just watch what happens - a moment comes when the speed takes over: that is...

... conscious, then too mind disappears. If you cannot become totally conscious, then a Master will slap you to at least bring you back to the body, because at that moment also there is no mind. That's the beauty and the appeal of sex; it slaps you so deeply that you come back to the body - for a single moment, thinking is lost. And that is why in a war, people feel very exhilarated, euphoric, because when...