... fatherless The gift of your love branded me bastard The testimony of your love has imprisoned me Your song of love has made me voiceless I shall sing no more I am no more You have loved me into oblivion Let me repeat: You have loved me into oblivion... Then love has not proved much of love. It is a subtle way of domination. And when there is domination, love disappears. When there is possession, love...

... can be helpful from the outside to find the inner woman and the inner man. But there is no 'how' to it. Reverence is needed. Think in terms, meditate in terms of the other's divinity. The other is divine. Let that attitude prevail. Let that climate surround you. And it is going to happen, it is already on the way. Question 5: WHY ARE PEOPLE MISSING YOU? SINCE I TOOK SANNYAS I CAN SEE THEIR STUPIDITY...

... driving energy in man. It has to be curtailed, it has to be cut. If man is allowed total freedom in sex, then there will be no possibility to dominate him: to make a slave out of him will be impossible. Have you not seen it being done'? When you want a bull to be yoked to a bullock-cart, what do you do? You castrate him: you destroy his sex energy. And have you seen the difference between a bull and an...

... one bullock-carts. Look, and you will find behind you a thousand and one bullock-carts, and you are yoked to them. Why can't you yoke a bull? The bull is too powerful. If he sees a cow passing by, he will throw both you and the bullock-cart, and he will move to the cow. He will not bother a bit about who you are, and he will not listen. It will be impossible to control the bull. Sex energy is life...

... allowed natural growth. These are the five tricks through which man has been turned into a slave. into an ugly phenomenon, a cripple. The first is: Keep man as weak as possible if you want to dominate him. If The priest wants to dominate you or the politician wants to dominate you, you have to be kept as weak as possible. Yes, in certain cases, exceptions are allowed that is, when the services of...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. THE TAO PRODUCES ALL THINGS AND NOURISHES THEM; IT PRODUCES THEM AND DOES NOT CLAIM THEM AS ITS OWN. IT DOES ALL, AND YET DOES NOT BOAST OF IT. IT PRESIDES OVER ALL, AND YET DOES NOT CONTROL THEM. THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED THE MYSTERIOUS QUALITY OF THE TAO. All that is subtle in existence is invisible. Things are visible according to their grossness. That...

... also cannot see, nor touch nor understand, and yet whose existence we cannot deny. This third category is God himself. Lao Tzu refers to it as Tao. Tao means religion Tao means the law, Tao means the supreme rule, the ultimate reality. This third Lao Tzu refers to as Tao. Whether we say Ishwara or atman or truth it makes no difference because all names are given by man. Buddha has referred to this...

... not be fighting in the elections but only thinking about it. Such people climb the steps of ego in their thoughts, which are a substitute for action. It is not everyone who can perform. Action has its own problems, its own difficulties, but everyone has the capacity to dream. All men cannot be kings but they can rule over the kingdoms of their dreams. But an act in your dream also helps to push the...

.... Then, the mercury falls. "IT (TAO) DOES ALL, AND YET DOES NOT BOAST OF IT. IT PRESIDES OVER EVERYTHING AND YET CONTROLS NOTHING." This sutra is very subtle. Tao is the all-in-all of everything, yet does not control anything. A common question that has been asked throughout the ages is that if God is, and if everything happens according to His will, then why does he allow a thief to steal...

... is free to be good, the freedom to be evil enters along with the freedom to be good. God is the totality and yet he does not control anything. This means that God creates, but He creates freedom. A man is free to be good and free to be bad - as bad as he wishes - when God is the Lord of everything. This is because true freedom exists only if there is freedom to do what one wishes, be it good or bad...

...; the space, the path, the darkness, the light, the very person who walks is Tao; and yet, Tao does not command: "go to the right, go to the left." Tao gives us life, but it makes freedom the very basis of life. This freedom can become the agony of life or the benevolence of life; the choice is entirely ours. This freedom can cause that which lies hidden within to be revealed. This freedom...

... cannot be a communist and still believe in God. He has to be an atheist, because the very meaning of God is freedom - no control. What Lao Tzu said dates back 2500 years before Marx. Independence and freedom can only be in absence of control. Only where there is freedom is there the possibility of development. But then, the responsibility rests with us. If we wish to avoid it, we will have to find some...

.... What will I say to my child - "This is the world I have brought you into"? Only sleepy people can bring children into the world, because they don't know what they are doing. Their children are accidental. My child cannot be accidental. This world is no longer the place to give birth to more children. For at least twenty to thirty years there should be total birth control so that the...

... take the vow of celibacy, you may become a monk, you may be worshipped as a saint - but your physiology knows nothing about your Christianity, about your Hinduism. Your physiology has its own program, which is not under your mind's control. It goes on functioning according to its own program. You may have this idea in your head, that celibacy is spiritual, but it will never reach to your blood cells...

... shankaracharya. These people are still going on preaching celibacy. These people should be immediately imprisoned. There is no question; no two opinions about it are possible. Anybody who teaches celibacy is teaching homosexuality, is teaching sexual perversion. And these people go on teaching no birth control, no Pill, no abortion. Do they want to see the whole world starve and die in agony? Their interest is...

... totally different. If people use birth control methods, then from where is Mother Teresa going to find orphans? Her whole business will be finished. And these orphans are being converted into Catholics, so the pope is in absolute support. You give Nobel Prizes to these people who need to be sentenced to prison for their whole life! They are the cause of poverty in the world, they are the cause of the...

...? He can part the ocean, he cannot part the condom? So leave it to him. If he wants - he is all-powerful, all-knowing, present everywhere - he will do whatsoever he wants to do. Why are you bothering and teaching people against birth control methods?" Her next letter came without any answer to what I had written. She simply wrote, "I will pray to God to forgive you." I had to write to...

... conceive that in this ugly situation anybody who has some love will bring children into the world. This is impossible for a loving heart. Use all birth control methods, and let us see God's omnipotence. I tell you he is absolutely impotent. He does not exist. Question 4: BELOVED MASTER, ALMOST DAILY WE HEAR YOU VILIFY HOMOSEXUALS. ARE YOU WITHDRAWING YOUR LOVE FROM THE THOUSANDS OF US WHO ARE HOMOSEXUAL...

... small; he wants to substitute the root by the branches. Such a person sows the seeds of his failure right from the beginning. Let this golden rule be remembered: that the self cannot be converted through conduct; it is the conduct that is converted by the self. Correct knowledge is the basis of correct conduct. Therefore, Hari Bhadra has said: "The soul is non-violence and the same is violence...

... have all returned to him. The currents that he suppresses appear to be gaining speed and he does not know why. The desires with he is at war, whose heads he cuts off from the body and throws away, stand surrounding him again and again, with thousand heads, to his utter surprise! Neither violence, anger nor lust can be made to disappear through suppression alone. These currents do not end through...

... negation and opposition. That way they become still more subtle and act on the deeper surfaces of the mind. What Freud has called the 'subconscious mind' becomes their field of activity through suppression. After passing through this state of suppression and opposition, the individual cannot become free; he certainly becomes confused. In fact, in the world of experiences of life nothing has ever been...

... it be intolerable, is at least familiar. Death carries into the unknown. This unknown gives fear; and then we have no control over it. We cannot do anything with it. This helplessness destroys our ego from its very roots. The ego, whose development we had taken for life, appears to be breaking and destroyed. That alone was our being; that alone were we; and therefore death appears to be the end of...

... the same has to be awakened. This is the problem. From the conscious perception of thought; from the proper awakening of it, we experience the gap between the flow of thought and the inner flow. This gap gradually becomes wider. By merely seeing the thought by merely becoming its seer, without any suppression or struggle, it gets realised. The sight of the flow of thought takes to negation of...

... side of the road. What is wrong with the right side? You can say that it makes no difference whether you drive on the right side or left side, it is simply a rule. Don't Quakers follow this simple rule? You don't take it seriously, there is no problem in it; it is simply a question of managing the traffic. It can be done in both ways, so there is nothing serious about it. It is not something like an...

... stupidity, not your silence. I have been in the courts. I have taken an oath, but before I take the oath I certainly make a statement telling the judge, "I will follow the rule, I will take the oath, but the oath cannot make any difference to me. I will speak only that which I want to speak. "And your oath, in fact, frees me from telling the truth and only the truth, because the oath I am taking...

... BIBLE. I said, "I will keep a little distance." The judge asked, "Why?" I said, "Because it is such garbage I don't want to touch it. It is your rule, so I will put my hand on top of it, but I will keep a little distance. I am very allergic." There is an immense difference between my criticism of this system of oath taking and the Quakers' criticism. I am not saying that...

... history he is even mentioned, not even in the footnotes! George Gurdjieff has an argument there; he says it is simply a drama. Nobody has been able to criticize George Gurdjieff; you cannot find anything that can contradict what he is saying. So what is the truth? Take the oath; if that is the rule of the game, play it accordingly. But make it clear that it makes no difference to you. Perhaps it was...

... THE BIRTH OF THE NEW MAN THROUGH TEST-TUBES AND GENETIC ENGINEERING COMES NOT FROM THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF, BUT FROM FEAR OF WHO MIGHT CONTROL THE TECHNOLOGY. HOW CAN WE GUARANTEE THAT THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL BE USED BY CONSCIOUS HUMAN BEINGS, RATHER THAN THE IDIOT POLITICIANS WHO WOULD TURN OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD INTO ORWELL'S 1984? Who controls the technology today? Who controls all your nuclear weapons...

... brightened. "Tell me, quickly, does he have a part for me?" He has forgotten everything. Out of employment, you cannot fight with your agent. In life, you go on compromising without knowing, not only with the society but even with your family. Even the people you love demand compromise. Nobody likes the individual; everybody wants to overpower you, to dominate you. The husband wants to dominate...

... the wife; the wife in her own ways tries to dominate the husband. The parents dominate the children; the children also in their own way dominate the parents. It is a constant struggle going on in multiple ways, where nobody is allowed to be just himself, where to be oneself is a crime. But to accept the challenge and to remain yourself, in spite of all the odds, is a great joy. To keep your...

... individuality intact, undamaged, in a society where everybody is trying to dominate you... I don't think it is good to escape from such a society. In the Himalayas, in deep forests, you may think you are yourself -- but that is a false notion, because there is no context in which you can put it to the test. The society is every moment a test. And here, to be just yourself, not out of arrogance, not out of...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. WHERE IS THAT DOOR? WHAT MANSION IS IT WHERE YOU SIT AND OVERLOOK YOUR CREATION? INfiNITE SOUNDS ARE RINGING, AND INfiNITE ARE THE PLAYERS; INfiNITE THE SINGERS, AND INfiNITE THE MELODIES THEY SING. WATER, fiRE AND WIND SING YOUR GLORY, AND THE GOD OF DEATH SINGS AT YOUR DOOR; CHITRAGUPTA, SHIVA, BRAHMA, DEVI - ALL SING YOUR GLORY; AND INDRA ON HIS THRONE...

... the world that prevents you from singing and dancing. Dance, sing - and you stand in the footsteps of God. Nanak says it in such poetic words: WHERE IS THAT DOOR? WHAT MANSION IS IT WHERE YOU SIT AND OVERLOOK YOUR CREATION? INfiNITE SOUNDS ARE RINGING, AND INfiNITE ARE THE PLAYERS; INfiNITE THE SINGERS, AND INfiNITE THE MELODIES THEY SING. WATER, fiRE AND WIND SING YOUR GLORY, AND THE GOD OF DEATH...

... the door; therefore, his words are straightforward and simple. As if this is happening before his eyes he says: WHERE IS THAT DOOR? WHAT MANSION IS IT WHERE YOU SIT AND OVERLOOK YOUR CREATION? INfiNITE SOUNDS ARE RINGING, AND INfiNITE ARE THE PLAYERS; INfiNITE THE SINGERS, AND INfiNITE THE MELODIES THEY SING. WATER, fiRE AND WIND SING YOUR GLORY, AND THE GOD OF DEATH SINGS AT YOUR DOOR. CHITRAGUPTA...

.... Whenever a person progresses in meditation the opposite process begins, he moves towards happiness and song. The closer he approaches the door of His abode, the more pronounced the celebration becomes. As the internal festivity begins, suppressed desires, the gaze of the outside world, and a sense of guilt raise their heads and stand in the way. The need to suppress it finds a thousand and one ways to...

... always looking for someone else to oppress and torture. Neither group has any bearing on religion; for neither can ever hope to hear the music within. They are the two sides of the coin of sorrow, and sorrow has no relationship to God. When your connections are broken you become unhappy and you suffer. Illness means your connection with nature is broken. Suffering means your connection with God is...

... displeased by your displeasure. Nanak says: He gives you importance and glorified you. What He has created He surveys, and He likes what He surveys. HE DOES WHAT PLEASES HIM. NONE CAN INTERFERE WITH HIS ORDER. NANAK SAYS, HE IS THE KING OF KINGS. ABIDE BY HIS WILL. One must remain well within His order and abide by His will. If you go outside His rule, He will not be displeased or annoyed, only you will...

... Paper 28 Book Contents Notes What are you going to do about it? Sensational interview with rabbi Abe Finkelstein about Jewish control of the world Contents Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses 1. The Tertiaphim 2. The Omniaphim 3. The Seconaphim 4. The Primary Seconaphim 5. The Secondary Seconaphim 6. The Tertiary Seconaphim 7. Ministry of the Seconaphim Ministering Spirits of the Superuniverses...

... phenomena are additional to the established universe technique of the Reflective Spirits. (309.3) 28:4.9 Though apparently deprived of the personal presence of the Master Spirits above and of the Creator Sons below, the Ancients of Days have at their command living beings attuned to cosmic mechanisms of reflective perfection and ultimate precision whereby they may enjoy the reflective presence of all...

... these two versions of wisdom, immediate appeal is made to the Divine Counselors, who forthwith rule as to the proper combination of procedures. If there is any doubt as to the authenticity of something coming in from realms where rebellion has been rife, appeal is made to the Censors, who, with their Discerners of Spirits, are able to rule immediately as to “what manner of spirit” actuated the adviser...

... Center. But when mercy is exhausted, when the “memory” thereof testifies to its depletion, then does justice prevail and righteousness decree. For mercy is not to be thrust upon those who despise it; mercy is not a gift to be trampled under foot by the persistent rebels of time. Nevertheless, though mercy is thus precious and dearly bestowed, your individual drawing credits are always far in excess of...

... revealed in disinterested labor for the welfare of one’s earthly fellows, particularly worthy beings in need and in distress, that is the real measure of planetary greatness. And the manifestation of greatness on a world like Urantia is the exhibition of self-control. The great man is not he who “takes a city” or “overthrows a nation,” but rather “he who subdues his own tongue.” (317.2) 28:6.21 Greatness...

... to the mind. As a poor man you were so happy, so joyous. You had nothing, but you had a beautiful being. I am not saying throw away your money. Just don't let your mind dominate you. Then wherever you are you will be peaceful." If your mind dominates you, even in paradise it will say, "This is paradise? - there must be something more!" All the houses look so old and rotten and used...

... you have seen me, and remember it in the examination; otherwise, I am going to visit you again!" The whole year I enjoyed being outside. And he gave me a hundred percent mark because he did not want me to do anything more. He was thinking, "This boy can bring anything..." He still believed that it was a real snake. Teachers want you to be obedient; it is easier for them to control you...

..., to dominate you. All my teachers were complaining to my father, and my father was telling them, "Who am I to complain to? Do you think I am in power? Do you think he is going to listen to me? Do whatsoever you want to do: punish him, expel him from the school - whatsoever you want to do I absolutely agree. But don't bother me about him, because the whole day... have I nothing else to do? Or...

... just looking at every child's life, you can understand the beginning of all the people who have existed on the earth. So the first thing is that obedience has to be forced; for obedience, fear has to be used. That fear becomes in religious terms, hell. For obedience, reward has to be used; in religious terms, that becomes paradise or heaven. And to keep control over everything a father figure is...

.... Man, as a child, is more helpless than any animal's child. Just join these two things - man's helplessness and the cunningness of the priests - and this is the whole story of all your religions. And it is not just a question of what happened in the beginning. Every child is a beginning, and every child is born out of parents. Those parents are already under the control of some priesthood, of some...

... complex. Because of it, many other things happen to you: jealousy is part of it, anger is part of it, sadness is part of it, attachment is part of it, possessiveness is part of it. You can see why - why you want to dominate as a husband, as a wife, as a parent. Why do you want to dominate? Just to make sure that the other is absolutely under your control. Hence everybody is trying to keep everybody else...

... under control. But deep down it is only the fear of being alone. And it is not only today; perhaps from the very beginning - if there has ever been a beginning - the fear has been there. And, Sadhan, because you are a woman it is even more complex, because man has taken away all possibilities of your independence. Mostly he has not allowed you to be educated, he has not allowed you to learn any...

... am preparing you so that one day you can laugh about everything that has been a fear, a misery, a possessiveness, a domination, and you can joke about everything that people are taking too seriously. Two Irish girls were commiserating with each other about their unmarried state. "At least I was two-thirds married once," said Maureen. "What do you mean, two-thirds married?" asked...