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... people? -- money, power, prestige. Sekito is saying, "I also love, but not the way the ordinary people love, and not the objects that ordinary people love. I love their subjectivity. I love their subjectivity because I know my own subjectivity. Just as I am there always, they are also always there. They may know it, they may not know it. I don't love their bodies. I don't love their minds, but I...
... IN THE SHOW WINDOW FOR THE PEOPLE TO BUY? A man who has become a buddha, a man who is enlightened can share with you all that he has, but he has nothing to sell. All the religions are selling. They are selling God, they are selling beautiful places in paradise, they are selling bank accounts in paradise. They are selling everything and pocketing the money from you. And you are not getting anything...
..., and you don't know anything about what is going to happen after death. You don't have even a receipt to show to God: "I have deposited so much money with the priest. Where is my bank account? He has not given me even the number of the bank account." And one never knows. One thing is certain that everything you give to the priest goes into his pocket. It never reaches beyond that. And how...
..., and you can go into the darkness of death. It is a tunnel, whether it will end anywhere or not you have no idea. But at least while you were alive you dropped the fear of death. The priest was giving you the consolation, you were giving your money. God is for sale. All churches, all denominations, all religions are selling God. They are the most dangerous people in the sense that they are giving you...
..., not aware of what is happening all around. But they are having their dreams. Maybe somebody is earning great money, or somebody is just reaching to the highest post - one promotion more, or somebody is fighting the presidential election. And you wake them? - they will feel angry. Naturally, because they don't know any other reality than their dream. Their dream is their reality, and things were...
... threw out all the money-changers from the temple. He shouted at them and told them 'What have you done to my Father's house? It has become a den of robbers!' This story also starts: AND JESUS WENT OUT, AND DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE; AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM FOR TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE. But he was not interested in seeing those buildings, because the God that used to live there at...
... LOOKETH NOT FOR HIM, AND IN AN HOUR THAT HE IS NOT AWARE OF... But if you think there is no hurry... That's what everybody is thinking in the world: 'There is no hurry, we will see. Right now let us have more money, more sex, more houses, more cars. Right now let us indulge in the world! Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we will think of God, we will think of meditation and prayer. What is the hurry...
... avoid the essential, to avoid rebellion. Never postpone. If you want to postpone, postpone that which is wrong. Postpone anger for tomorrow, but not meditation for tomorrow. Postpone hatred for tomorrow, but not love for tomorrow. Postpone money for tomorrow, but not God for tomorrow. And people go on doing just the opposite! Anger they do right now. If somebody insults you, you don't say 'Okay, I...
...-called old people are just as childish as children, sometimes even more so. Maturity is very rare; people remain immature. If you are interested only in toys - possessing this, possessing that, becoming famous, reaching some political power, prestige, having money, becoming very famous in the world - if you are interested in these things, you remain part of this stupid world of futile fruitless...
... into your heart as deeply as possible, that whatsoever you are doing is futile. Money is not going to help, fame is not going to help, power is not going to help. Death will come and all will be snatched away from you. And what does it matter how much money you have got? The only real thing in the world is how much being you have got. Having is the fallen state: being is Christ risen, resurrected...
... wines of this world - of money, power, fame: they are all poisons. But there is a wine - the wine of God, the wine of love, the wine of meditativeness, the wine that pours from the beyond into your heart. Become available to it. And how does one become available to it? Be open. And only an authentic person can be an open person. The person who is not authentic, who is not true to himself, who is...
... written all over his face. You will not find greater egoists anywhere than you will find in the monasteries. The popes and the SHANKARACHARYAS, the priests, those who have renounced everything, naturally they feel great, egoistic. They have renounced the world - what have YOU done? They have renounced money, power, prestige. But all this renunciation is nothing but a very clever game of the mind. The...
... you go deep into its analysis it is not power that corrupts - the person has been corrupted always. Power only gives opportunity; power cannot corrupt. If you are corrupted, then power gives you an opportunity to do that which you always wanted to do but were not able to do. People think it is money that corrupts people. No, money simply gives opportunity. Poor people look so good; it is not so...
... are you doing? This is the first time you have ever done this kind of thing!" "I know," panted the still humping dog. "I have always wanted to, but I have never had the money before!" It is not power that corrupts. Power brings your corrupted unconscious to the surface, power brings your intrinsic evil into action. Power exposes you, power does not corrupt you. Power is a...
... approved.' Several months later the rancher returned to the bank to repay the loan. 'Here's your money,' he declared, peeling off bills fro a huge bankroll. 'Well, sir, let me congratulate you on your sudden prosperity,' said the interviewer, eyeing the bankroll. And for safety's sake, may I suggest you deposit that extra money in our bank?' Staring at him coldly, the rancher asked, How many bulls do YOU...
... money, prestige, power, respectability. If these things come he is ready to support anybody. He is not against crime; he is ready to protect crime if that is the way money comes. Now this man is a sophist, he is not a sage, he is not a Master - he is not even a teacher, not even an honest teacher. He is a sophist. But he has persuaded the king - 'THIS IS THE SORT OF WAY I WOULD LIKE TO FIND.' But...
... healthy person becomes a victim of a heart attack. Forty-two is the age when life comes to a certain conclusion - whether you have failed or succeeded. Because beyond forty-two there is not much hope: if you have made money, you have made it; by the time forty-two arrives, you have made it - because the greatest days of energy and power are gone. Thirty-five is the peak. You can give seven more years...
... everything. When everything was going to be okay, when I was just going to succeed, make a name or money, this heart attack has come." Now the heart attack is a beautiful camouflage; now nobody can say that you are at fault, that you didn't work hard, that you are not intelligent enough. Nobody can say anything like that to you. Now people will feel sympathy for you; they will all be good towards you...
... like to be attractive because that gives power; the more attractive they are, the more powerful they are over men. And who does not want to be powerful? Their whole lives people are struggling to be powerful. Why do you desire money? - it will bring power. Why do you want to become the prime minister or the president of a country? - it will bring power. Why do you want respectability, prestige? - it...
... world, in which love will not be a question of power at all. At least take love out of power politics; leave money, leave politics there - leave everything there, but take love out of it. Love is something immensely valuable; don't make it a thing of the marketplace. But that's what has happened. The recruit had just arrived at a Foreign Legion post in the desert. He asked his corporal what the men...
..., you will immediately get another, and blank. And it is absolutely up to you: whatsoever money you want, you draw from the bank. You need not ask me." Now Gandhi was also a born businessman and he saw a great opportunity. It was difficult to run Sabarmati - although it was not much of an ashram, only twenty people were living there. And the way they were provided with food and clothes, any...
..., "The man who was a saint in Sabarmati is just a sinner in Wardha." And this was from Nanalal Bhatt, who was a disciple of Gandhi: "The saint of Sabarmati has fallen so low, just for money." The whole of Gujarat was disappointed. But strangely enough Chiranjilal was also the cause of my going to Bombay. He met me in a Jaina fair which used to happen every year near Jabalpur. There...
... is a beautiful temple in the hills, a temple made by a very poor woman who used to grind wheat and earn a little food for herself by grinding. The whole day she was grinding other people's wheat and she saved, during her whole life, enough money to make this temple on the hill. The temple is small. And in her memory, on top of the temple - the highest peak of the temple is called a kailas; it is...
... behind bars or in mental institutions. They are perfect exhibitionists, and Delhi is the best place. This friend from Shantinath's village, hearing that his name had become so famous and seeing his photographs in the newspapers, became very interested. He went to Delhi to see him. He was a poor man; it was difficult for him to get there but he borrowed money and managed it. He wanted to see his friend...
... something in your possession, it is given by somebody. It is just like somebody can give you money and somebody else can steal it - you are not the master of it. And at least your self-realization, your enlightenment, must be something of which you are the master, which nobody can deprive you of. "It is simple logic: if somebody can give it to you, then somebody can deprive you of it; there is no...
... was very angry and he said, "You have to be punished for this. I am going to the police, I am going to the court." I was there. I said, "There is no need to be angry, and even by going to the police and to the court your hair will not be replaced. This poor man is not even asking money from you. And as far as your hair is concerned...." This man was an educated man, and I used to...
... left for your studies, nobody comes regularly the way you used to come, and nobody is there to help this old opium addict. I go on doing my thing - I can't help it." He would sometimes catch hold of children and shave them, and then their fathers would come and say, "What have you done?" And his only answer was, "I don't ask for any money, can't I even practice? Where am I...
... any money. I have not done any crime; in fact I don't have any energy to do any crime, I am just enjoying my opium. My opium has made me so simple and so innocent that people come and milk my cow and I go on seeing what they are doing, but only later on I remember that it was my cow, that they were milking my cow and they have taken the milk. "I have not committed any crime; on the contrary...
...; otherwise you can return the book and take your money back" - just a sample of a hundred pages. It is a well-known fact that almost all the books that were sold came back. Not even a hundred pages could people read. And the publisher was at a loss, but there was no question: the money was given by Gurdjieff, so there was no question, it was his publication. He said, "This is nothing to do with...
... reason. There was no price printed on it: the price varied according to the customer. That was a great idea of Gurdjieff's. From one person he would ask one thousand dollars; to somebody else he would give it free. It was according to the customer - the price was not to be according to the book. That man always had some good ideas. From a man who is really into the book you should not ask for money...
.... The book has to be given as a gift; he deserves it. And from somebody who has too much money, and is going to waste it anyhow in Monte Carlo or in some other gambling place, why not ask ten thousand dollars? And there are people who will purchase it only if it is ten thousand dollars; otherwise it is below them - it is not worthwhile. His disciples were continually asking, "Books have prices...
... worshipping her, bringing money, and bringing sweets and fruits: it is a great business. And he was a brahmin, and the thing would be managed perfectly well. If this man, Ramakant, had not come to a wrong man like me, he would have been befooled perfectly. Once the girl had seen the picture, then she would have found the man in a crowd of hundreds of people. And behind the whole thing was a friend of...
... prove wrong. They are ready to support it. You will be surprised that when I exposed it and gave a statement to the newspapers that this was all a bogus thing, the brahmins and the Jainas approached me, their leaders approached me; they knew me perfectly well. They said, "You should not have done that. What does it matter if that poor brahmin gets a little money out of this? That is not important...
... money and for his reincarnation he is earning. I said, "Go back home" - he was from Ujjain" - and get this child back to normal. Don't exploit your own child." I knew he was not going to do it, although he said, "I will try." I said, "I don't believe that you will try - you have so much invested in the whole thing." And he did not stop it. I went on enquiring...
... from my friends in Ujjain: the show is going on. To every fair and every religious conference the child is brought. It continues, and he is earning a lot of money. But you cannot do that in a Christian country, in "Jewish community, in a Mohammedan land, because they have accepted that this kind of thing is absolutely unreal. As far as I am concerned, reincarnation is a reality It is my own...
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