... paintings - a pioneer. And the pioneer is always laughed at; a creator who is not repeating the past, but bringing in the future, is bound to be misunderstood. His brother told a friend, "I will give you the money; at least purchase one of his paintings. He will feel happy that at least one person understands his paintings." The man had no sense about paintings, but he went. Van Gogh was very...

... happy, and showed him this painting, that painting, but the man said, "Any will do. Don't waste my time; here is the money." It was a shock. The man did not even look at the paintings: "Any painting will do - you just take the money and give me the painting." Van Gogh said, "These paintings are not for sale, and tell my brother not to waste money unnecessarily. This is not...

... your money, because I can see you don't have any sensitivity. You have been sent by my brother just to give me some consolation. Just get out of this place! My satisfaction is not in my paintings being sold; I am utterly content in creating them." The creator's joy is in creation itself; there is no other reward. And the moment you start thinking of any reward beyond your act, you are only a...

... ready to give him money to be a priest, but he was not ready to give him money to be a painter or to send him to a painting school. His brother felt deeply for him. He asked a prostitute, "In his whole life" - Van Gogh was thirty - "he has never known love. It would be very kind of you... I will give you the money... you pretend to love him." The prostitute was willing; it was her...

... the funds. But Santagel craved permission to advance the money himself, which he did, 17,000 ducats in all, about $20,000, perhaps equal to $160,000 today. It is probable that the loan exceeded the expedition's cost. Associated with Columbus in the voyage were at least five Jews: Luis de Torres, interpreter; Marco, the surgeon; Bernal, the physician; Alonzo de la Calle, and Gabriel Sanchez. The...

... world. It is the gateway where the bulk of American imports and exports are taxed, and where practically all the business done in America pays tribute to the masters of money. The very land of the city is practically the holdings of the Jews. A list of the property owners of the metropolis reveals only at rare intervals a Gentile name. No wonder that Jewish writers, viewing this unprecedented...

... into lower prices without any explanatory change in the general situation, have been those lines in which Jews exercise the widest control. Business to the Jewish mind is money; what the successful Jew may do with the money after he gets it is another matter, but in the getting of it he never permits "idealistic slush" to interfere with the dollar. His dollar of profit is never "...

...;clipped" by any of the voluntary reforms by which a few men are trying to ameliorate the condition of the workers. This is not by any means due to the hardness of the Jewish heart, but to the hardness of the Jewish view of business. Business is to it a matter of goods and money, not of people. If you are in distress and suffering, the Jewish heart would have sympathy for you; but if your house were...

.... But is not this incongruous with the following: 'Castus,2  amomum,3  and the principal spices, crowfoot, asafoetida, pepper and lozenges of bastard safron may be bought with second tithe money but they are not susceptible to food uncleanness; so R. Akiba. Said R. Johanan b. Nuri to him: If they may be bought with second tithe money why are they not susceptible to food uncleanness? And if...

... they are not susceptible,4  they5  should not be bought with second tithe money',6  and in connection with this R. Johanan b. Nuri stated, 'A vote was taken and they decided that these are not to be bought with second tithe money and that they are not susceptible to food uncleanness'?7  — R. Hisda replied: When that Mishnah8  was taught the reference was to dill...

... Files V. BaH. [G], a fragrant root, Cf. [G], a spice indigenous to India and Syria. To food uncleanness, which is evidence that they are not regarded as a foodstuff. Since only foodstuffs may be bought with second tithe money. 'Uk. III, 5. Now how is this Mishnah (from which it follows that flavouring spices are not susceptible to food uncleanness) to be reconciled with the inference drawn supra from...

... despoiler16  as witness; e.g., robbers, and those who have trespassed by [false] oaths.17  Surely this refers to both a vain oath18  and an oath concerning money matters?19  — No; in both cases,20  oaths concerning money matters are alluded to; then why state 'oaths' [plural]? — [To indicate] oaths in general.21 An objection is raised: Do not accept the wicked as witness...

... to designate one who transgresses a Biblical command in general. [H] carrion, an animal that died a natural death or which was not slaughtered according to ritual law. I.e., his greed for money, because it is cheaper. Because he is classed with the wicked, who commit their misdeeds for gain. I.e., to defy, and show his contempt for, the law. Cf. Ex. XXIII, 1. [H], 'violence', 'plunder'. Cf. Ex...

... money, in contradistinction to Raba's opinion. Actually, only one case is mentioned, viz., oaths. But the phrase is used on the questioner's hypothesis (v. n. 6), and the answer proceeds to demolish that assumption. I.e., such as are made in litigation. Hence his wickedness must, to disqualify him, have been prompted by gain for money only, in contradistinction to the opinion of Abaye. Tosef. Mak. I...

... matter that has to do with the ritual part of the Law, while the claim to a found object is only a matter of money. In regard to the latter the deduction from Ex. XXII, 3, dealing with theft, to include 'ground' may be explained as an extension of the law of agency, i.e., the thief's 'ground' is treated as his, agent and it may be applied to other 'money matters'. The Scriptural indication is however...

...  [It must] therefore [be said that] the enjoyment of the right [to give the tithes to whom one likes]10  is not [regarded as something that has a] money [value] by which one could acquire [goods] as 'exchange'. In the same way [it must be said that] the enjoyment of this right is not [regarded as something that has a] money [value] for the purpose of being acquired through immovable...

...] halipin; cf. Ruth. IV, 7. What need was there then for Joshua and Akiba to pay R. Gamaliel for the lease of the ground? Cf. supra p. 30. n. 3. The tithe offered by R. Gamaliel to Joshua and Akiba was not really the former's property as it belonged by law to the Levite poor. R. Gamaliel's right was limited to the choice of the person to whom the tithe was to be handed over. This right has no money value...

... Jacob our ancestor, as it is written, And Jacob said when he beheld them.31  Samuel said: He beheld the ashes of [the ram of] Isaac, as it says, God will see32  for Himself the lamb.33  R. Isaac Nappaha said: He saw the money of the atonement, as it says, And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and it shall be a memorial34  etc. R. Johanan said: He saw...

... the Temple, as it is written, In the mount where the Lord is seen.35  R. Jacob b. Iddi and R. Samuel b. Nahmani differed on the matter. One said that He saw the atonement money, the other that He saw the Temple. The more likely view is that of him who says that He saw the Temple, since it is written, As it will be said on that day, in the mount where the Lord is seen. A MAN SHOULD NOT ENTER THE...

... shoe, and you want to derive it from a short cut! What is this [reference]? As it has been taught: 'A man should not enter the Temple mount either with his staff in his hand or his shoe on his foot, or with his money tied up in his cloth, or with his money bag slung over his shoulder, and he should not make it a short cut, and spitting [on it is forbidden] a fortiori from the case of the shoe: seeing...

... beneficial. I was sitting in his shop when a man came, he was very annoyed. He said, "I have been taking this medicine since last month but it has done no good to me, no benefit to me. So give me back the money I have paid for it." Mulla said, "It is written on the packet that the money will be returned if it is not beneficial. Well, you may not have benefitted but I have, so why should I...

... return the money?" It all depend on one's own definition. You see life as you want to see it. Accordingly, the meanings of words change and the meanings of truths change. You build up a world of your own beliefs and you go on living in it. To keep up those beliefs one goes on finding one's own reasons to strengthen them so that they may not break. Mulla Nasruddin quarreled with someone in the...

... there asking for money, someone goes asking for a wife and someone goes asking for a son. You do not realize that you never step out of the market. Is this the way to go to the temple? You are taking the whole of the market with you to the temple. If you are like this, then the temple cannot purify you, you will pollute the temple. The temple is not a place, it is a state of mind. There can be no...

... says that if the time devoted to meditation could have been utilized in doing business, then some money could have been earned, or "I would have become a leader by contesting an election. The whole world is busy doing something or the other and I am doing meditation! I am not attaining the divine and am losing the world as well." This thought arises only because you still have attachment to...

... this world. Therefore it will be better if you go back to the marketplace because your sannyas will not be real and your meditation also cannot be real. Your attraction to money is still there. You are only curious about meditation. You are not thirsty, you are not a seeker yet. That is why I say that you had better return to the marketplace instead of sitting and thinking that existence is being...

.... If the attraction for women remains in the mind then running away from your wife is not going to help you; some other woman will attract you. If you are interested in money, giving it up will not make any difference. You will start collecting coins in some other sense - maybe this time the coins are of renunciation and austerity, but coins are coins. You will start amassing the other kind of wealth...

.... First you used to announce about the amount of money you possessed. Now you will announce about how much you have renounced. Your vanity will remain just the same. I want to free you from the world; I do not want to break you off from it. In this commune I am trying to make you free to live. If you can be free while living in this life then that is real freedom. You walk in water, but your feet should...

... tell you to run away from a woman; I say, "Wake up from the attachment to women." I do not say, "Give up money"; I say, "Understand money." In that understanding is freedom. Money is not holding you, you are holding it. It is your inner condition, it is your attraction. You can be free of this attraction only when the experience of life will tell you that this is useless...

... will think that you have gone mad. If it is rubbish, then throwing it away does not mean renunciation. And if it was not garbage, then why did you renounce it? When you announce your renunciation, you are actually saying that I had money but I renounced it under the influence of someone. You were not ready yet, you were not ripe yet; you were still raw and you took the step in a hurry. No one ever...

... division; that if you are hungry you won't purchase a television, you will purchase food which is a more basic necessity. But if you have enough food you are not going to go on purchasing food. You will start thinking of purchasing something else - better furniture, a better house, a television, or radio or literature or music. You will start, but if suddenly your money is gone then the first things to...

..., but you cannot become a good man. It happened that just in the last part of the last century, Rani Rasmani built a temple in Calcutta, in Dakshineshwar on the bank of the Ganges. But Rani Rasmani was not a high-caste Hindu, she was a sudra, she was untouchable. So no brahmin was ready to worship in her temple, although she was immensely rich and she was ready to give as much money as you wanted. And...

... she explained to the brahmins, "I have not even entered the temple; I simply go up to the steps and bow down from there. I have not entered the inner shrine; I have not even seen the statue of Krishna that is inside the temple. It is made with my money, but money cannot be sudra because money is continuously changing hands from sudra to brahmin, from brahmin to chhatriya. So you cannot call the...

... temples are made by sudras, there is no question about it. And money does not matter - money goes on moving. And I cannot refuse her because it is a question of Krishna being there, unworshipped. You have made Krishna also a sudra, an untouchable. The rani herself cannot enter. I am going." He went. The rani was happy but alerted because the man looked a little eccentric. But someone was better...

... society is based on judgment. Even our so-called fair courts are all judgmental, prejudiced. Just the other day I was looking at a judgment one court in America has given against my commune. In the judgment the judge has made it clear that all the laws are in favor of my commune, but still he feels that the money - one hundred and forty thousand dollars - should be given to this man, from the commune's...

... fund. He says in his judgment "I assume" - that is a strange word in a judgment - "I assume that this man needs that money. All the laws are in favor of the commune. They are for the commune." And that man was a servant of the commune. He was receiving one thousand dollars per month. He managed, with the clerk who was giving the salaries, that rather than getting one thousand...

... been damaged. His act has not been yet decided, whether he cheated the commune or not, but because we have put the case against him and published it in the paper, his name has been condemned, and he needs the money. And the judge himself feels that all the laws are in our favor, but still he "assumes". Our whole society depends on aspects, judgmental. Now this judge must have been feeling...

..., that I have thousands of followers who can do anything for me, that I have unaccounted sources of money, that however big the bail is - five million dollars, ten million dollars - I can jump it and go out of America. I have not committed any crime. My arrest is unjustified, but bail cannot be given because I am capable of getting out of America. This raises two points. One, is America such a weak...

... much money he may manage to get out of America. Then no rich man should be given bail. But for me a special reasoning has been found: the real thing has been put aside, that I have been arrested illegally without any arrest warrant, without any reason for arrest; and a secondary thing, which is absolutely illogical, has been used. That means only poor people can get bail, the very poor who cannot...

... escape, who cannot purchase a ticket from one place to another place, who don't have any friends - only these people can get bail. Anybody who has friends, who has money, who has sources, cannot be given bail. And the real reason... when I came back to the jail, the jailer was very much shocked. The old man's eyes had tears. He told me, "This is sheer injustice as I have never seen in my life...

...... and not only your condemnation, the way you told me, the way you looked at me." I refused to go in that car. I got out. I said, "Tell the ashram to send another car. This lady smells too much of smoke." The driver said, "I will be in trouble because you were not smoking and this woman is dangerous. She gives money, so she has great hold in the ashram." I said, "Either...

... unnecessarily wasting money. And he was so particular and such a perfectionist that only the best satisfied him. If I would not take something then he would find ways somehow to smuggle the thing into my house. Once, when I was leaving - I used to stay with him at least three days every year, that was a commitment. So three days I used to stay with him every year, and when I was leaving he said to me - which...

... said, "He is so miserly, and he has so much money. And we have only three daughters, who are married and have rich houses, so there is no problem. And there is no son, there is nobody after us, but he goes on collecting - even I don't know how much he has." They lived in a place, Chanda, in Maharashtra. She said, "He had purchased almost one-third of the houses of the city - it seems...

... he is going to purchase the whole city. If there is any house for sale, he is not going to let anybody else purchase it. And his only joy seems to be just accumulating money. I have brought many Jaina monks" - because they were Jainas, and they were Gandhians - "and I have brought many great disciples of Gandhi, thinking perhaps somebody will change his mind. But he is very straight and...

... sex as an instinct that is forcing him to do something, he becomes in a certain way a master of himself and he starts having insights, visions which the unconscious, instinctive man cannot have. Just looking at me - not a single word had been said - he said, "I have found the person." And then whenever I needed any amount of money, for myself or somebody else, I had just to inform him...

..., "Give this much money to this man." He never asked, "Who is this man and why is so much money needed for him?" He simply gave it. His wife was simply shocked. She could not believe that this miserly man... how suddenly he had completely become just the opposite. I told her, "There is no problem. He is not miserly - it was your misunderstanding. He never wanted to give to those...

.... The instinctive man clings to everything: to sex, to money, to power - to everything. I asked him, "Why do you go on purchasing all the houses?" He said, "Some day you may like to have a commune - then from where am I going to suddenly give you a commune? By that time I will have purchased the whole city. I know that you will take a little time before you need a place - I am preparing...

... think I am a miser - I don't care a bit about money. What am I going to do with the money? Soon I will die and all this money will be lying here. But to travel in the third class is an experience: the crowd, the people, the gossips, and things that go on happening in the third class of an Indian railway train...." He had traveled all over India, and he had friends at every station; he would call...

... telling him, "You are getting trapped. First, why did you come back from the university? Don't you have any guts? You could have done anything - pulled a rickshaw, been a coolie at the railway station. You could have done anything." I told him, "Your poetry is just lousy. They stopped sending money to you so you are back; now they are arranging your marriage and you don't know that that...