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... would look for their situation. If their situation was fulfilled they would receive food; otherwise they would come back without food. The whole town would feel sad, unfortunate, that a monk had returned without food - "That simply shows that we are unfortunate people. We have missed a blessing that could have happened." This luxurious, rich country was not only luxurious and rich in money...
... to see a few of my paintings. He said, "You are mad - these paintings are far superior to mine. You can earn so much money, you can become world famous. I said, "I accept your first statement. You said, 'You are mad' - I am! That's why I am not going to leave these footprints of a madman for others to travel and follow." I have destroyed all those. I love poetry. I have written...
... sick; all the doctors should pay him. Confucius suggested that doctors should be paid for keeping people healthy, not for curing them. Everybody should have a personal physician. Every body should register himself with one physician as his personal physician, and he should pay him every month a certain amount of money for keeping him healthy, If he becomes sick the money is not to be paid to the...
... things." So they arranged for him to see the girl - just in the next village there was a beautiful girl. Gadadhar was so happy when he was dressed in new clothes, and it was almost a procession which went to the other village to see the girl. His mother had put one silver rupee in his pocket "just in case you need it." They were poor people - one rupee was a lot of money. The girl came...
... happen: science will take on a new dimension, as it took on once in the East; and the second thing will be a rise in religious consciousness. If you are no longer preparing for war and wasting seventy-five to eighty percent of your energy, life, and money preparing to destroy - if that eighty percent of energy is released to eat, drink, and be merry, if the eighty percent of energy is released to go to...
... standard of their education goes on falling. Consolidate universities so that each state has one university, all other universities become colleges affiliated to that university. There is no need for so many universities. It is a wastage of money; and when you have so many universities you cannot get the best geniuses as professors. To do that, India has many services, for example, the Indian...
... served with the best that was possible. People loved them, respected them: they have done something totally new. The Hindu religious leaders were not beggars - they were living in richness, accumulating more and more money. They were just ordinary. Gautam Buddha and Mahavira created a problem for Hindu monks, because the monks were no longer respected by the people. They could not be compared with...
...? They all have to go naked. And if you are wasting eight hours just for your clothes, when are you going to earn money for your food? When are you going to earn money to make a shelter for yourself? You need a thousand and one things. The mother is sick, she needs medicine. The father dies, now some money is needed for his cremation; at least you will need wood to cremate him. Your children will grow...
... up, their marriages will have to be arranged, you will need some money. From where is all this going to come? - your whole day is spent in spinning! Who is going to farm the lands? And who is going to create the vegetables, the fruits, and all kinds of necessities? If Gandhi is followed, India is going to commit suicide. I would like to say to Rajiv Gandhi: Be finished with Gandhism. That is poison...
... short: just a few years ago I was also a businessman like you, and beggars used to catch hold of me on the street. Everything was going wonderfully. Then a catastrophe...." The man became interested. He said, "Then what happened?" Mulla Nasruddin said, "My business was very good, money was pouring in continuously. I was a very industrious worker, totally absorbed in my business...
.... And I had a motto on my table: 'Think constructively! Act decisively!' and money continued pouring in. And then..." Mulla Nasruddin's frame started convulsing and he said, "then my wife burned the motto. That motto, 'Think constructively! Act decisively!' - the whole thing depended on that motto. And my wife burned it! That was the greatest catastrophe, and that has led me to this sad...
... a crowd." Nasruddin said, "But the dream was such... let me first tell you the dream. In the dream I went to a wife auction - such beautiful women. One woman fetched ten thousand rupees, another five thousand, and many for thousands. "I had no money. I tried and tried but there was no money. I looked in all my pockets" - and he had one pocket, he would never look in it - he...
... well it is not there." He said, "I looked even in that special pocket - and no money. I was weeping and crying." But his wife was not interested in this. She asked, "Nasruddin, and were there wives there like me also?" She asked foolishly, as any woman will ask, because no woman is interested in other beautiful women; rather, she felt jealous. She asked, "What about...
... wives like me? How much were they fetching?" Nasruddin said, "That's why I screamed. Wives like you those people had put in bundles. One dozen, two dozen - they were selling wives like you at one rupee a bunch. That's why I screamed: no money to purchase, and that was what was happening to my wife!" But he was crying and weeping even out of the dream. Dreams are effective, they go deep...
... just competing with others. Because others are doing things, you have to do them. The American mind is the most shallow, ambitious mind that has ever existed in the world. It is the very basic worldly mind. That's why the businessman has become the top-most reality in America. Everything else has faded into the background; the businessman, the man who controls money is the top-most reality. In India...
... Russia the proletariat, the downtrodden, the oppressed, the laborer is the top-most reality. In America it is the businessman; VAISHYA, one who controls money. Money is the most competitive realm. You need not have culture, you need only have money. You need not know anything about music, anything about poetry. You need not know anything about ancient literature, history, religion, philosophy -- no...
... others have it and they are talking about Picasso, you have to show your culture. You simply show your money. So whatsoever is costly becomes significant; whatsoever is costly is thought to be significant. Money and the neighbors seem to be the only criterion to decide everything: their cars, their houses, their paintings, their decorations. People are having sauna baths in their bathrooms not because...
... missing. The world view, the spiritual world view is missing in the West. Otherwise, many Buddhas could be born. The season is ripe -- despair, meaninglessness is felt; it is in the air. The society has achieved affluence and found it lacking. Money is there, power is there, and man feels deep down totally impotent. The situation is ripe, but the world view is lacking. Go to the West and give the...
... that many so called religious teachers from the East are moving in the West, and they are more materialist than you. They are there simply for the money. They cannot give you the world view of spirituality. They are salesmen. They have found the market because the season is ripe. People are hankering for something, not knowing what. People are finished with this so-called life, frustrated, ready to...
... take a jump into something unknown, unlived yet. The market is ready for people to exploit, and there are many merchants from the East. They may be called Maharishis, that makes no difference. Many merchants, salesmen, are moving in the West. They are just there for the money. With a real Master, you have to come to him, you have to seek him, you have to find him, you have to make efforts. A real...
... message -- because you will not be materialist if you go and spread the news in the West. You will not be materialist because you have been enough, you are finished with it. When poor people from the East go to the West, of course they start accumulating money. That's simple. The East is poor and now the East is not hankering for spirituality, it is hankering for more money, more material gadgets, more...
.... Money is his god. The sannyasi should be Western: one who comes from the roots of the West, who realizes the meaninglessness of life, who realizes the frustration of the whole effort towards materialism, who realizes the futility of all Marxism, communism, and all materialist philosophies. This frustration is in the blood of Western man now, in the very bones. That's why my whole interest is to make...
...! If you go to engineering, if you become a doctor, that is understandable, we will try to help in every possible way. Even if we have to borrow money, we will borrow money, but not for philosophy." So I said, "You need not worry about it. I will manage." I went directly to the vice-chancellor and I told him, "This is the situation; my parents say they cannot help me if I go into...
... becoming prime ministers, of the evil people becoming rich? The evil people are bound to win in the race with the good people if the race is for money, if the race is for power, prestige, respectability. But if the race is for inner silence, peace, calm, coolness, silence, meditation, godliness, then the evil people will not get anything, anywhere. I don't see any problem at all. If you had asked this to...
... life, of faith, of prarabdha, of karma - all bogus and fictitious things. The reality is very simple: goodness has nothing to do with earning money. Goodness earns something more valuable, it earns peace of mind. The virtuous person need not be worried about mundane things. He may not have a palace, but he will live more blissfully in his hut than a king lives in his palace. The virtuous will not be...
... able to manage a palace, but he will be able to manage blissfulness. The cunning will manage to reach to the palace, but he will lose all peace of mind, he will lose all contact with himself. So it is very simple to me. If you want the inner world and inner riches, be good, be virtuous, be nice, and don't be jealous of those poor people who are simply cunning and earning money, who are doing every...
... kind of criminal act and reaching to high posts and respectability. Do you want to have both? Do you want money and also meditation? You are asking too much. Something has to be left for the cunning too! He is making a lot of effort. And he is suffering so much inside. You may be suffering on the outside, he is suffering inside - and that is a bigger suffering than you know of. So I don't see that...
..., we have our own hospital. Naturally, they are very much jealous. This land was there lying for fifty years and nobody cared about it, and suddenly we come from outer space and change the whole site. And we live comfortably, we live luxuriously, because I am the first religious man who respects luxury, who respects money. I am not in favor of poverty. I do not want a single individual to be poor...
..., but he cannot live without bread. And if eight hours he is just spinning clothes for himself, when he is going to earn bread? When he is going to earn enough money for the old father, his medicine? When he is going to earn money to make a shelter to live in? He cannot live under the spinning wheel. But Gandhi had a tremendous appeal, because he supported.... He was against birth control. He was...
... tents are not tents but permanent structures." We asked them to come and see: are they permanent structures? Nobody ever came to see. They already decided that we have to pay that much money as punishment. We had to go to the court. I said to my people, "Take a tent. There, inside the court. Within ten minutes we put up the tent. Without ten minutes we unfold it and put in the truck. And...
..., it is just the cheapest watch possible. In other way it is valueless. If somebody offers me one billion dollars for it, I am not going to give it. Love is never for sale. They have arranged ninety Rolls Royces, and I know they will be able to manage three hundred sixty-five. QUESTION: IF YOU SOLD TWO OR THREE ROLLS ROYCES, YOU COULD BUILD ANOTHER LAKE WITH THE MONEY. ANSWER: They will make the lake...
... double it. Two and a half million dollars worth lake, and we are now planning to make it double. Already it is great, but when it enters deeper into mountains it will be more scenic for boats, for people to go deep in the mountains. We are making everything. As far as money is concerned, it is not a problem. We can create. All my communes around the world are living richly. Here you can see it, not...
... same steam that you know in your kitchen, in your kettle, the steam running an engine, running hundreds and hundreds of passengers and such a load? The same steam that you are so well-acquainted with? This is not believable. Do you know what happened in England? When the first train started, no one was ready to sit in it - no one! Many people were persuaded, bribed, they were given money to sit in...
... important things are to be done. First postpone it until later. You can meditate at any time. Money is more important. Gather money first, then meditate at your leisure. How can you meditate without money? So pay attention to money, then meditate later on." Meditation can be postponed easily, you feel, because it is not concerned with your immediate survival. Bread cannot be postponed - you will die...
.... Money cannot be postponed - it is needed for your basic necessities. Meditation can be postponed, you can survive without it. Really, you can survive without it easily. The moment you go deep in meditation, you will not survive on this earth at least - you will disappear. From the circle of this life, this wheel, you will disappear. Meditation is like death, so the mind becomes afraid. Meditation is...
.... A person who loves his car cannot be more of a person: loving a car, you show what type of person you are. A person who loves money becomes more and more like the money: just dirty currency notes. He also becomes like them. You can see it in the eyes: if a man is too much of a miser, you can see it in the eyes - currency notes, dirty notes, floating. He loses his soul; he is reduced to something...
... forgotten his own heart. Kabir says: BHAKTI KA MARAG JHINA RA - subtle is the path of love. Yes, it is not gross. The head is very gross. The head is nothing but logic, arithmetic, calculation, cunningness, cleverness; good to exploit people, good to torture people, good to collect money, have a big bank balance; good to become a politician, good to overpower people, good to destroy. The head is very...
... will feel a new change, a transformation - energy falling from the head towards the heart. And you will start moving in a totally different way. New values will arise, because the head has different values. You fall in love with a beautiful woman, but the head says, "What are you doing? This woman is beautiful but she has no money." the head says, "Better find a girl who has money...
... people; they only give, they don't take. They have moved to another extreme. They are more mature than the first, but there is still another maturity. This is again ego: "I can only give." One man I know is a rich man, a very rich man, and he has been giving all sorts of help to his relatives, friends. He has distributed much of his money. He used to come to me. He said once, "One thing...
... money, but he also prevented my friends who have been trying to spread my word. The commune in Poona has existed for twelve years, but all the properties that we have purchased are not in our name; they are still in the name of their old owners. We have paid the money but the ownership has not been transferred. In every possible way... but the reason was political. They were all exploiting Mahatma...
... invited the American politicians: "You should come and see before you decide anything." But they did not even have the guts to come and see what a beautiful oasis has come into being. And if we can create such oases around the world in many places, they will become models for the coming society, for the coming humanity. There was no money used in the commune. You might have had millions of...
... dollars with you... they were useless. Your needs were fulfilled, but money as a means of exchange was no longer used within the commune. You could donate it to the commune because the commune could use it with the outside world; but I came to realize that once money is not used, suddenly the person who has millions of dollars and the person who has nothing are equal - financially, economically. What...
... because he has to maintain the lady in grace, the prostitute is needed. With the prostitute you may have a more vigorous sexual exercise, gymnastics, but you can't have orgasm there either because there is no love. Money cannot purchase love. Only love and sex in their totality, accepted, blissfully enjoyed, can bring orgasm. The word is very beautiful because it comes closest to the meditative state...
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