...) merely from a different spot on earth. The difference in the case of the Judahites was that old country and holy city were the same; that Jehovaism demanded a triumphant return and restoration of temple-worship, over the bodies of the heathen destroyed; and that this religion was also their law of daily life, so that a worldly political ambition, of the ancient tribal or nationalist kind, was also a...

...;centre" of the dominant empire to come, was essential (as it still is); its importance in the pattern was political, not residential. Levites in Babylon added Exodus, Genesis, Leviticus and Numbers to Deuteronomy Thus the Levites in Babylon added Exodus, Genesis, Leviticus and Numbers to Deuteronomy. Genesis and Exodus provide a version of history moulded to fit the "Law" which the...

..., its supreme tenet. This was a political move of genius. The claim to the firstborn evidently had become a source of grave embarrassment to them, but they could not possibly surrender the first article of a literal Law which knew no latitude whatever in "observance"; to do so would have been itself a capital transgression. By one more reinterpretation of the Law they made themselves proxies...

... a "political" purpose. The Torah was not revealed religion but "revealed legislation" "A unifying idea underlay it all", says Dr. Kastein, and this unifying idea was tribal nationalism, in a more fanatical form than the world has otherwise known. The Torah was not revealed religion but, as Mr. Montefiore remarked, "revealed legislation", enacted to an end. While the Law was...

... I commanded not, neither came it into my heart". Because of these very "abominations", Jeremiah continued, the Lord would "cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the land shall be desolate". This is the famous political forecast...

... Prizes, because those are all political games. I have no respect for any politician in the world because all politicians are mentally sick, and they are suffering from an inferiority complex. So if you point to me then certainly you hurt them, offend them. There is no need to do that. If they are admiring you, it is perfectly good. They expect to be admired by you in response. They cannot expect to be...

... of time you have ever worked; and you are without any money. You are left with no time of your own; and you have got into so many troubles - financial, legal, social, political - that it is just wasting your life. So if some commune is going successfully, and the people who are there are absolutely happy and contented, it is good. If some commune is going into bankruptcy and still they are pulling...

... what the connection is you are keeping with the old - and why you are keeping it. Is it just a habit because from the very childhood you have been taught certain concepts, ideas, certain religions, cults, creeds? - or is there some nourishment that you get from them? Or, on the contrary, are they sucking your blood? You just have to see within yourself about each thing - whether it is political...

... the pope has great powers - political powers - over the government and over the media. We will need our own media, our own agencies, our own publications to inform you. And for any information that you want, you need headquarters from where you can get that information; otherwise it will become impossible even for you to find out where I am. But their function is not to govern you; their function is...

... that I am traveling around the world. Then they simply won't let me in. And there are political pressures, religious pressures. So we need our own independent media which can continue to inform you and other people - so these people cannot do any harm. Now their only fear is that my words will reach people. This is a great victory for us. That means they have an absolute certainty that they cannot...

... it has nothing else to cling to. This is the only prop for its ego. For twenty-two centuries India has been in political slavery. Now, a country existing for twenty-two centuries in slavery cannot have any source of ego as far as the political world is concerned. It cannot brag about world conquerors like Alexander the Great. For five thousand years, India has been living in a very superstitious...

... technology, no richness, no political freedom, no democracy. You can see the problem. The problem is... But a nation has to depend on some props, because a nation is not a true reality, remember; it needs props. The individual can exist without the ego because the individual is a reality and the reality has no need of the ego. But the nation, the race, the church, the state -- these cannot exist without...

... a false center. And there was no ordinary alternative available -- money, technology, science, political power -- so the only thing to fall back upon was a spiritual longing, the other world. And it is easy, because then you are dealing with invisible goods. Nobody can prove it, nobody can disprove it. It is very easy to live in hope of the other world. But who will create that hope? Then you have...

... the right track. They cannot ignore me. Either they have to be with me or they have to be against me -- either way I am willing -- but I would like it to be a decisive phenomenon. Even if a few intelligent people are with me -- and they are with me -- we can transform this whole rotten culture and give it a new life. It needs compassion. Five thousand years of spiritual, political, economic slavery...

... convert one percent of the whole world into mad orange people, dancing, singing, meditating, not at all political.... Those protest marchers ARE political; politics is the root cause. We need non-political persons. I have not ever voted in my life, and people would come to me and they would say, 'But you can vote for the person you would like.' I said, 'For whomsoever I vote, it goes to a politician. I...

... cannot vote. I am a non-participant. They are all the same; their names differ.' Now this pacifist is also a political person. I would like you to create a few people who are non- political. 'Non-political' is what I mean by religious - a person who says, 'Okay, if it is going to happen, it is going to happen. Why should I waste my time? I should meditate, I should enjoy, I should delight. Meanwhile, I...

... the Russians themselves. More than any other place, Berlin has drunk the bitter cup of Soviet occupation to the dregs, and it is by no means fortuitous that it is in Berlin that the point has been made most persistently and urgently that our spiritual and political dispute is not with the Russian people but with the Soviet system. Again and again, we in Berlin have stressed that we have no hatred...

... struggle. Today we see that the identification of all Germans with National Socialism, and the consequent demand for 'unconditional surrender', is one of the mistakes for which all of us, victors and vanquished, must alike pay heavily. It has taken time for this error to be men-tally overcome, and meanwhile tensions have been engendered which it would have been better to avoid. This serious political and...

... the media and the destruction of any sense of national pride by a (not so subtle) media campaign over the years. It's agenda? It is set up as a shadow, or forerunner, of the Supreme World Council that will represent every nation. Every ambassador to the UN has either done something to curry Illuminati favor and been rewarded, or is a political figurehead chosen to make the organization "look...

... expedient thing for them to do. They are liars, and will hold out a hand to a popular political figure, throwing them a figurehead role in one of their organizations, to make the UN look better, and as a group that promotes "interracial harmony" and "unity" and "peace". The real leaders would never publicly allow their real feelings to show. The UN is a preparation, but it is...

... if Gautam Buddha was alive, he would not receive the Nobel prize because the Nobel prize is a political game. It is not decided by the height of your intelligence; you need some political reasons. Even politicians like Kissinger have received the Nobel prize, yet J. Krishnamurti's name was never even mentioned. One of my sannyasins works on the Nobel prize committee. He is a member who chooses who...

... not deserve it, I simply mentioned your name. And I was threatened that, I would be thrown out of the committee and would lose a good job. They said if I went on working silently, perhaps I might get the Nobel prize for being a great economist, but I was never to mention the name of my master." I don't have any political support. On the contrary, I have all the political antagonism from all...

... Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REBEL AND A REVOLUTIONARY? Maneesha, there is not only a quantitative difference between a rebel and a revolutionary, there is also a qualitative difference. The revolutionary is part of the political world. His approach is through politics. His understanding is that changing the social structure is enough to change...

... been proved by all the revolutions, because they have all failed. No revolution has yet succeeded in changing man; but it seems man is not aware of the fact. He still goes on thinking in terms of revolution, of changing society, of changing the government, of changing the bureaucracy, of changing laws, political systems. Feudalism, capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism - they are all in their own...

.... The revolutionary cannot stand alone, he needs a crowd, a political party, a government. He needs power, and power corrupts - and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All the revolutionaries who have succeeded in capturing power have been corrupted by the power. They could not change the power and its institutions; the power changed them and their minds and corrupted them. Only names became different...

... that is old. The old religions, the old political ideologies, the old man - all that is old, you disconnect yourself from it. You start life afresh, from scratch. And unless we prepare humanity to begin life again - a resurrection, a death of the old and a birth of the new... It is very significant to remember that the day Gautam Buddha was born, his mother died; as he was coming out of the womb, his...

... Stalin to decide on my behalf" As Lenin died, Joseph Stalin started throwing out important figures one by one. He was really clever. To fight with nine important leaders of the revolution would have been difficult. He tried a simple political method; he would manage to set eight against one. He would create, invent situations in which that one man was caught. And the other eight were great leaders...

.... Slowly it became clear that you could not attend a communist meeting. They had thousands of members, but this small group of criminals managed one thing: nobody else except them could hold a meeting without any disturbance. In their meeting there was no disturbance because they were the disturbers. So when Adolf Hitler was having a meeting.... And people are addicts. There are political addicts - if...

... they don't go to a political meeting for a few days then something troubles them; they start feeling that something is missing. Now, the socialist party, the communist party, democrats, liberals - nobody can hold a meeting. The first program of Adolf Hitler was to make it clear to the whole country that the only man who could hold a meeting without any violence to the audience was Adolf Hitler. And...

... he made it clear with a simple strategy. He was the only man who was in the news, who was on the media, because he was the only political leader who was being heard - and thousands of people were coming to listen to him. And those idiots - socialists, communists, liberals, democrats - could not even figure out his strategy. It was such a simple strategy. They could not even figure it out why his...

... would be a political strategy. Then Adolf Hitler was the only speaker, Adolf Hitler was the only man in the news; the membership of the Nazi party started growing in leaps and bounds. Within two years he had thousands of followers - and all the other parties were simply crushed. Before the election he managed it - that there was no other party except the Nazi party. He came into power. Now, if you...

... Christian, nor a Mohammedan. In the commune you are not a communist nor a fascist. The commune does not live according to any ideology -- political, or religious, or social. Each individual lives according to his freedom, according to his responsibility, according to his meditative consciousness. And the more a person meditates, goes deeper into himself, he starts living on the outside with new values...

... question was asked, it was not about peace, it was about coexistence. And I said: "Never." Because coexistence is an ugly word, political; it means you are you are an enemy, I am hostile, I am an enemy, but what to do -- we have to live. I am here, you are here, and we have to live somehow, so some compromise is needed. That is coexistence. I don't believe in coexistence. Either I will turn...

..., and there are hundreds of sannyasins there. They can bring more people if they want; otherwise, we are going to bring more people. Q: WILL YOU AND RAJNEESHEES GET INVOLVED IN THE OREGON POLITICAL SYSTEM YOU SO DESPISE, RUN FOR OFFICE? A: No. There is no political problem for us, and we are not involved in any way with the politics. The sannyasins who are living in Antelope, they were being tortured...

... -- we wanted more lands, we wanted more houses. Our interest was not politics at all; nobody is running for Assembly... You have many idiots to do that in the State, you need not... Q: YOU'VE RECEIVED SO MUCH OPPOSITION FROM THE POLITICAL ARENA THAT YOU'VE MENTIONED THAT YOU'VE BEATEN THEN AT THEIR OWN GAME BEFORE. A: No. But if sometimes the need arises, we will do everything to beat them on their...