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... of Mohammedans. When I was staying there I came to know about a strange ritual - and that was because Surat is their headquarters; their chief priest lives in Surat. You have to give... when somebody dies, he wills that five lakh, fifty thousand rupees, should be given to the priest, because the priest has a direct line with God - no operators, nothing. You give the money to the priest, the priest...
... gives you a receipt and the receipt is put with the dead man, in his pocket, when he is being laid in the grave. He has to show the receipt to God and he will get five lakh rupees in cash immediately - a simple transaction of money. And people have been doing that! And the chief priest must be one of the richest men in the country, because all that money goes into his pocket. I asked my friend, "...
... of their winnings should be given back to God. "Let us draw a small circle on the ground, throw our winnings up in the air, and what lands in the circle goes to God," the Catholic priest suggested. "No, let us draw a large circle," said the Protestant minister, "throw the money up, and what lands outside the circle will go to God." "Wait," cried the rabbi...
.... "Forget all about circles. Let us throw the money up, and what stays up God can keep." Mind is very clever. But as far as meditation is concerned, mind is absolutely impotent. Your question is, "For the past few weeks, I have been able to sit and allow my mind to be quiet - sometimes for only a second, but sometimes for longer. Since this has been happening, I have experienced many...
... that. But one thing more has to be remembered: that whatever beautiful experiences may be happening to you, your inner being knows perfectly well that there is yet so much more. Mind does not know that. In a way, mind is very poor. All its experiences are very mundane - about money, about power, about prestige, about borrowed knowledge, about a thousand and one things but they are all trivia. Mind...
... for the university my parents, my father, my family people, all wanted me to become a scientist -- there was much more of a future for a scientist -- or a doctor at least, or an engineer. I refused absolutely. I said, "I'm going to do what I want to do, because I don't want to live a boring life. As a scientist I may succeed -- I may have respectability, money, power, prestige -- but deep down...
... I will remain bored because that is not what I ever wanted to do." They were shocked because they could not see any prospects in the study of philosophy; philosophy is the poorest subject in the universities. Reluctantly they agreed, knowing that I would be wasting my future, but finally they recognized they were wrong. It is not a question of money, power and prestige; it is a question of...
... small amount of money so that he could at least manage to survive. Four days a week he would fast and three days a week he would eat. He had to fast for those four days because from where was he going to get his canvases and paints and brushes? But he was immensely happy -- his juices were flowing. He died when he was only thirty-three; he committed suicide; but his suicide is far better, Bob Luka...
... dressed as Adolf Hitler visited a psychiatrist. "You can see I have no problems," he said. "I have the greatest army in the world, all the money I will ever need and every conceivable luxury you can imagine." "Then what seems to be your problem?" asked the doctor. "It's my wife," said the man. "She thinks she's Mrs. Weaver." Don't laugh at the poor man...
... are interested in something bad, something sensational. So they are in search of sensation. And you can find enough sensational things here, more than you can find anywhere else. You need not invent them - we provide them! Father Murphy was a priest in a very poor parish. He asked for suggestions how he could raise money for his church, and was told that horse-owners always had money. He went to a...
... to Delhi, from Delhi to London. He had the biggest cases on his hands - of maharajas, kings, queens - but he was a drunkard. He earned enough money; and when he retired, he donated the whole of the money so that a university could be founded. So he was the founder vice-chancellor of the university that he created. I used to go for a morning walk, and he was the only one whom I used to meet on my...
... don't have maps of the earth on which they live. I was visiting Agra. Agra has the most beautiful piece of architecture, the Taj Mahal. In Agra and the surrounding area there is a Hindu sect, Radhaswami. When their founder died, they decided to make something better than the Taj Mahal, because it was going to be in the same city, Agra. They have poured in enough money and for almost a hundred years...
... Company in New York. Ties of race and interest bound these men together. The web of their communications quivered at the slightest touch. They maintained between them an incredibly accurate network of economic, political and financial intelligence at the highest level. They could withdraw support here, provide additional funds there, move immense sums of money with lightning rapidity and secrecy from...
... one corner to another of their financial empires, and influence the political decisions of a score of countries". This was the "Jewish international" "Ties of race and interest ... web ... network ... intelligence at the highest level... move immense sums of money ... influence political decisions ...": there can be no reasonable doubt that this was the "Jewish...
... inserted in her kethubah as a special security for the sum of that kethubah, apart from the general security on all his estate, or (b) her husband assigned to her after their wedding as special security for her kethubah, or (c) she had brought to her husband as marriage dowry and for the money value of which he had made himself responsible to her (v. B.B. 49b ff). Cit. 55b, B.B. loc. cit. The ruling that...
... purchase money and the women lose portions of their kethubah. The husband and the donees are only claiming a gift. That all the estate is confirmed in the possession of the buyer. Cf. supra p. 606, n. 7 and 9. The donor. Cf. supra p. 606, n. 7. Cf. supra p. 607, n. 4. Lit., 'what did he (mean) to say?' Cf. supra 607. n. 7. In explanation of our Mishnah. Lit., 'and so'. The total value of whose purchases...
... so and so, for I took them from him [by way of tax] and have had no need for them. R. SIMEON SAID, AT FIRST … GATHERERS OF THE PRODUCE OF THE SABBATICAL YEAR. What does he mean? — Rab Judah said: This; at first they [the Rabbis] ruled that gatherers of the Sabbatical produce3 are eligible, but traders in it are not. But when they saw that large numbers offered money to the poor,4 who...
... case of Terumah, a hundred fold is necessary. Cf. Ter. IV, 7. I.e., no one may make use of it. Tosef. Ter. VI. Which is lower than that of ordinary produce, owing to the small demand for it, as only priests may consume it. Which in any case belonged to the priest. Sabbatical produce may be sold on condition that both the produce itself, and the money paid for it, be consumed before the 'time of...
... hands,13 as it is written, And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound [two talents of silver in two bags…] And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. And he said unto him, Went not my heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive...
... access to him at all. This was said after Gehazi left Elisha; v. 27. In the uncensored editions there follows here, 'and not like R. Joshua b. Perahjah, who repulsed Jesus (the Nazarene) with both hands. Gehazi, as it etc.' II Kings V, 23-26. [Name of the Chapter in Mishnah Shabbath XIV, 1. Cf. Lev. XI, 29.] That is the meaning of 'Is it a time to receive money, and… garments, and oliveyards etc...
... bererah so that the one partner would thus be entering his own and the other partner would similarly be entering his own, whereas the Rabbis maintained that there is no bererah. R. Eleazar said: If a man sells a pit to another, as soon as he hands over the cover of the pit to him, the conveyance is complete. What are the circumstances? If money was paid, why was the conveyance not completed by the money...
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