.... So I cannot think of the Soviet Union. And I have tried all the so-called free countries and found that they are all part of America; they are not free. A message just comes from America and immediately they have to follow it. In the old days there used to be political dependents; countries were politically dependent. There were empires. All those empires have disappeared - but it is very...

... significant to understand that they have not really disappeared; they have only changed their color. Now they are no longer political, they are economic. Wherever we have been the American message reaches the government immediately, or even before I reach there: that if they give permanent residency to me in their country, their loans for the future, which are billions of dollars every year, will be...

... understand that nothing has changed. There are still empires, but they are now economic, not political. Only their structure has changed. And this is more dangerous because it is invisible. You cannot see it. You see England as completely free, you see Spain as completely free, you see Germany as completely free. They are not. In England, a one night stay at the airport was denied me by the government...

... political, social, religious, but basically one thing is in all of them, that they are repressing your enquiry into truth. They are forcing into your unconscious any doubt about the concepts that the society wants to propagate. And it does not allow anybody to question it. Any belief system that is afraid of questioning, enquiry, doubt, simply proves that it has no base in reality - and they are all...

... deep, very ancient, that time cannot change them: they are unchangeable. Many religions have disappeared from the earth, and many new ones have come in their place; still the old mind goes on thinking that religions are something eternal. Political ideologies go on changing like fashion; religious ideologies take a little time, but they also change. They have to change because man's enquiry into...

... appeal is sheer danger, a danger for human beings and their life. A man is needed who is brought up without any religious belief system, without any political ideology. His education is only a sharpening of the intelligence so that one day he can find his own truth. And remember, if the truth is not your own, it is not truth. To be truth it has to be your own, your own experience; you cannot borrow it...

... would phone, "I want to come because I come from India and you should not refuse me; I have come from so far away." But they don't phone here. There it was simple for them, because their society, their community, their religious group, their political party... nobody would know that they had gone to see me. It is not only ordinary people who are so afraid. Even a courageous woman like Indira...

... Gandhi wanted to see me, wanted to come to the ashram, and at least six times the date was fixed and just one day beforehand, it would be canceled: "Some urgent work has come." Finally her secretary came and told me, "There is no urgent work. The problem is that her political advisers prevent her. They say, 'Going to Osho can affect your political position; so it is better not to go to...

... more and more economical and political and ambitious. When ambition enters, creativity disappears -- because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future -- and a...

..., fame will be very easy. You can become a prime minister; you can become a president -- but these are all masks. Behind them you will find very violent people, terribly violent people hiding, smiling. Those smiles are political, diplomatic. If the mask slips, you will always see Genghis Khan, Timur Leng, Nadir Shah, Napoleon, Alexander, Hitler, hiding behind. If you want fame, don't talk about...

... spirituality is basically individual. It has nothing to do with country and climate; it is not confined to the boundaries of politics. Ask the Indians: "Now what about Pakistan?" Just twenty years ago it was India -- then it was spiritually evolved. Now? -- now it is the worst country in the world -- ask an Indian. It was India just twenty years ago! Now it is no more India. Political boundaries...

... a truth. And Sri Aurobindo was definitely talking about the geographical India -- because he was very fanatical, chauvinistic. He had the idea that Indians are very superior, that they have spiritual work to do in the world. No. But in another way, if you take India not as a geographical thing, not as a political map, but if you take India as an eternal search for truth, then this country has been...

... I am in an absolute will-lessness, then God's will starts functioning. And about synthesis too - Assagioli's idea of synthesis is more philosophical than existential. There are two possible kinds of synthesis. One: put together. Mahatma Gandhi did it in India. He tried to put Islam and Hinduism together. He tried to create a kind of synthesis. The motivation was political, so that Hindus and...

... Mohammedans wouldn't fight. The motivation was not religious: it was political - so that India would remain undivided. It didn't work, because political motives can never work. They are dishonest, fundamentally insincere. And how did he try to make the synthesis between Hinduism and Mohammedanism? Just a superficial synthesis: choose a few theories from the Bhagavad Gita and a few theories from the Koran...

... that were available to him. For six months he became a Mohammedan. Just see the difference. What did Gandhi do? - he just looked into the Koran, looked into the Gita, tried to find some intellectual synthesis, and created a kind of synthetic philosophy. But it is not existential, it is in-tellectual. And the motivation is political. What did Ramakrishna do? He achieved the ultimate samadhi through...

... EXCESS. Everything is balanced. Only you are the problem; the world is not the problem at all. This is the difference between a political mind and a religious mind, and you are all political minds. A political mind thinks, "I am absolutely okay, everything else is wrong." So he starts to change the world - a Lenin, a Gandhi, a Hitler, a Mao. The political mind thinks, "Everything is...

.... Thinking is political: feeling is religious. and I have never come across a political person who is religious or can be religious, unless he renounces politics. I have never come across a religious person who can be political. It is impossible. If he is political, then his religion is false. then his being religious is also part of his politics. You say: FOR IT HAS BEEN THAT WHENEVER I HAVE ALLOWED...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: LIKE ALL OTHER INDIAN SAINTS, WHY DO YOU NOT LIKE TO BE THE SAINT OF THE MASSES? I AM NOT AN INDIAN - nor am I an American or a Chinese. I don't believe in countries and I don't believe in any political divisions. Because of political divisions, humanity has suffered enough. No more of that nonsense. I have to live somewhere, so I live here...

.... Only those who are REALLY seekers and have an intense fire in them will be able to approach me. I am not interested in the masses at all. I am not a politician, and I am not interested in becoming a leader of the masses, nor the servant of the masses, because those are just diplomatic games, political games. I am here, available. If you have the intense desire and thirst, you can approach me. And...

... any guilt. "Unexpectedly, while I was there he poured on me much grace and very special attention, even though the first thing I said was I am a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh." That's why! It is so simple and so political; there is nothing much in it, not a mystery. Next time go without wearing orange, without a MALA, shave your head so he cannot recognize you; and then see. Mulla...

... structures. His approach is political, Freud's approach is psychological, but both are rooted in the idea of freedom from. All political reforms are reactions -- and when you react you are never free. This has to be understood. It only gives you an appearance of freedom, but it is never true freedom. Out of reaction, total freedom is not possible. Out of reaction, true freedom is not possible. And only...

... same on your enemies. That's why every revolution has failed. Persons change but the structures remain the same, because the idea of freedom from is basically wrong. The second idea is freedom for; it is future-oriented. The first is political, the second is more poetic, visionary, utopian. Many people have tried that too, but that too is not possible, because future-oriented you can't live in the...

..., you just are not aware of it. Looking at the future you dream beautiful dreams, but they can't change reality. The reality remains the same; dreams are very ineffective, impotent. The first, freedom from, is a reaction. The second, freedom for, is revolution. The third, just freedom, is rebellion. It is present-oriented. The first is political, the second is poetic, the third is mystic, religious...

... the world. He walked on earth but he walked in such a graceful way that he never touched the earth. Dualities disappear in him. Revolution of the head will be political, because it will be violent. The thinking process is a process of violence. Thought is a rapist - it dissects, it kills, it cuts into fragments. That's why science cannot say anything about the whole. It goes on dividing and dividing...

.... You cannot search for enlightenment - the search creates the seeker, and the seeker is the barrier. The search goes on creating you more and more. Somebody is searching for money: he is not searching for money, remember, he is searching for the ego - that can only be projected through the money. Nobody searches for money. You have been searching for political power - you wanted to become a president...

... of a country or a prime minister. Nobody is searching for political power; political power is just an excuse to project the ego. We understand that - we call these searches worldly. I would like to remind you: all search is worldly - search for God, search for enlightenment, or whatsoever you like to call it. Searching is worldly because search means desire, and desire is the world. You cannot...