... time things like this happen my surrender to you goes on deepening, it goes on becoming more perfect than it was before. It was perfect before too, but there are possibilities, dimensions of even perfection becoming more perfect." Seeing this, the teacher became convinced that he had some tremendous power of which he was not aware. He tried to walk on water. He said to himself, "I am the...

... != teacher, the great teacher of Marpa, and I want to go to the other shore!" And he had to be saved because he was drowning. He could not believe his eyes! But from that moment, Marpa's own miracles disappeared. Seeing the Master drowning in the water, the power that he had created through trust evaporated. It happens many times through teachers that many people start experiencing spiritual...

... becoming a Shiva! She has a garland of human skulls around her neck and in one hand she holds a freshly cut head, blood coming out from it. Why this strange image? It is not strange, it is tremendously psychological: the woman has great power because she is intuitive. Hence Lawrence is right when he says: ... BEWARE A THOUSAND TIMES MORE OF THE WOMAN WHO WANTS TO KNOW YOU, OR GET YOU, WHAT YOU ARE...

..., to be educated at Cambridge, at Oxford, at Harvard, so that they can become capable of earning more. So many letters come to me saying: "You have so many disciples all over the world. Can't you help us poor Indians to get scholarships, some support from foundations like the Ford Foundation or the Rockefeller Foundation?" Their whole interest is in how to possess more power, more things...

... these things are provoked and managed by the opposition parties. All these communal riots are being done, inspired, triggered by the same people who had come to rule with Morarji Desai for three years. The same people, the same communalists, the same Hindu chauvinists are behind the whole scene - because they have tasted once the joys of power and now they cannot remain powerless. Now by any means...

... they have to reach to power. First they will create a state of chaos in the whole country. And of course if the government cannot control the chaos, "the government is impotent." Then there are only two alternatives left for the government. One alternative is to just stand by the side and watch because "it is a democracy and everybody has freedom of expression..." And in India...

..., so they have left only two alternatives for Indira Gandhi. One is: don't do anything, just watch, try to manage somehow - which they will make impossible. The second thing is: be strict, impose something like the Emergency again. Then they will say, "Look, we have been telling you that if you bring this woman back to power she will bring the Emergency back immediately. Democracy will be...

... destroyed. Had we not said that bringing Indira Gandhi back to power would mean the end of democracy? Look!" Now these two alternatives are left for Indira Gandhi; there is no other alternative. And this is how they are hoping to come back to power. If you stand by without doing anything, then the chaos will make it absolutely clear to the country that the government is impotent, that it cannot do...

... anything - it has to be changed. Or if you do something, that means you are destroying democracy, you are taking people's freedom away, and that is enough cause to pull you down from power. My own suggestion to Indira Gandhi is: impose a stricter Emergency than before, and for fifteen years no elections in this country. For fifteen years this country needs no democracy! This country is not capable of...

..., you are trying to find out how to control existence. Knowledge is power in that sense, because it makes you capable to know of certain secrets, and the moment you know the secret you become powerful. Knowledge is basically a power trip. And Lord Bacon is right when he says knowledge is power - the very search is for power. Hence the ignorant is more innocent than the knowledgeable, but his innocence...

... he knows more, the teacher is powerful because he knows more. The people who know more are powerful; the priest is powerful because he knows more. And if he wants to be powerful some day he has to accumulate knowledge. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely - and knowledge gives you great power. The more knowledgeable you become the more power you have. And the child is interested...

... in becoming powerful. He will create power through knowledge, he will create his ego through power - these are natural phenomena - and he will lose his innocence which was part of his ignorance. There is a totally different kind of innocence which happens only to the awakened ones. Certainly their innocence also has something of ignorance in it. Dionysius calls it "luminous ignorance"...

.... Demands mean you are addicted; the body is the master. All the austerities were not meant as suicidal methods, they were not masochist - they were really an inner transformation, they were really a change of power. When a buddha is fasting, it is not to destroy the body; it is to destroy the demands. Understand it very clearly: when a buddha is fasting, he is not destroying his body, but he is changing...

... the seat of power, who the master is. The body must not be the master; otherwise, you cannot go inwards. The master is outside. How can you go inwards? You are just a slave, and you have to be around the master. The power seat must be transformed; the body must become a slave. A slave has needs, but no demands; a slave has needs, but no commandments. The commanding must remain with the master, and...

... the master must be inside, not outside. The deeper the master, the more is your freedom. So when a buddha is on a fast, it is to change the seat of power. He is saying to his body, "Now I will fulfill your needs, but not your demands." The body will struggle - no one can lose the power, the master, the sovereignty, so easily. And you have lived with the body as the master for millennia...

.... Change the seat of power; be more in control. And give to the body all that is needed by it, but never fulfill any addictions. It will be painful in the beginning, but it is a bliss when you have reached beyond the body and have become the master. And when you are on the throne, it is one of the deepest blisses possible. Matter and energy are not two things. Matter is just energy, energy is just matter...

... become attracted to a sexual energy that is moving upward. And they too are not ordinary sexual beings: upward- moving sexual energy has become an attraction, a magnet. So you can help them; if you do not become involved, then you can help them. Question 2: IN THE AWAKENING OF THE KUNDALINI, IN THE OPENING OF THE PASSAGE, ISN'T THERE AN INCREASE IN SEXUAL POWER? The increase in sexual power and the...

... opening of the kundalini passage are simultaneous - not the same, but simultaneous. The increase in sexual power will be the thrust to open up the higher centers; so sexual power will increase. If you can be aware of it and not use it sexually - if you do not allow it to be released sexually - it will become so intense that the upward movement will begin. First the energy will try its best to be...

... THEN, I FEEL GREAT POWER IN ME. A DOG WAS BARKING THE OTHER DAY AT ME FEROCIOUSLY. I SAID WITHIN MYSELF, 'STOP!' AND HE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. THEN I TRIED IT ON A MAN WHO WAS WALKING TOWARDS HIS HOUSE. I SAID INSIDE MYSELF, 'RUN!' AND INSTANTLY HE STARTED RUNNING. AND THEN I TOLD SILENTLY TO A WOMAN WHO WAS WALKING JUST AHEAD OF ME, 'LOOK BACK AND WINK AT ME.' AND SURE, SHE DID. BUT SINCE THEN I AM...

... FEELING VERY WEAK. WHAT HAS HAPPENED? I HAVE TRIED IT IN MANY OTHER SITUATIONS SINCE THAT TIME, BUT NOTHING HAPPENS. WHAT HAS GONE WRONG? You have just run out of gas. And in these days of power scarcity you should be a little more careful! But it happens. Out of silence it happens, one feels powerful - because in those twenty-one days, energy goes on gathering, it becomes a reservoir. You waste your...

... energy by talking. You waste your energy unnecessarily, for no purpose. You go on dissipating energy - you have a thousand and one leaks in your boat. When you were silent for twenty-one days, you preserved, you conserved. Then suddenly you had that feeling of power. If it comes another time, don't use it - if you use it, it is again a wastage. Just by stopping a dog from barking... and what is the...

... power, shakti, it is just unconscious - unawares you use it. The dog was barking, you suddenly said, 'Stop!' Not that you had deliberately thought about it - just that the power was there, and the power forced you to say it. And you were not expecting that the dog would stop - dogs don't listen so easily. But when the dog stopped, you were puzzled. You must have thought maybe it was just a coincidence...

... become almost an egoist. You knew it happens; you knew now you can do something. Now you tried with a woman - she should look back and wink at you. And she did. And now the ego must have soared high; it must have peaked. And when the ego enters, one becomes weak again. The power can become very very ego-fulfilling if you use it. So all the secret scriptures of the world say: When this power happens to...

...-rrrraaaa! ' 'Shhhhhh!' says his wife. 'You'll wake the children!' So this is what has happened to you. Next time, please be a little more aware. Whenever you feel powerful, remember: this power can be lost very easily. And you have all the mechanism to lose it - your whole past is a leaking past. It is your past that has played a trick upon you, it is your past that has managed to befool you. By stopping...

... the dog barking, or making a man run, it is your past that has befooled you. You have run out of gas. Next time you feel powerful again, remain powerful - don't use it at all. If you remain powerful, without using it.... The urge will be there; the urge can become very great, you can become very restless - because the power is there, and you can do something foolish with it. And all that you can do...

... is foolish, it doesn't matter what it is. If you can keep yourself cool and calm, and the power remains and remains, and the urge goes to use it - then YOU REALLY become powerful. And then that power is no more in the hands of the ego; it slips deeper. Then the ego is no more strengthened by it. In fact now it becomes your humbleness, your egolessness. And when power becomes humble - when it...

... becomes simple, egoless - then God starts functioning through you. When you are powerful, only then can you become a medium of God. You can become a vehicle. Many lotuses are waiting to bloom in you, but they need power. Rather than stopping a dog barking, let the power go inside you, let it permeate your whole being. Many lotuses, a thousand and one lotuses, will flower in you. Don't be foolish again...

... always afraid of the intelligent. But the unintelligent are always in a majority. They have a power which the intelligent cannot claim: they can always have the support of the herd. That's what has happened. Morarji Desai has the majority in the parliament. And his whole gang is so much afraid of Indira, that if she remains in the parliament then their days of power are very limited, they can be...

... was try;ng to bring this country to a certain order - that was her fault. She was trying to bring this country to a certain discipline, was trying to destroy the smugglers, the hooligans, the dacoits, the exploiters, and all those have joined together behind Morarji Desai. They are all afraid. If she comes back into power, again there will be trouble. Morarji is a protection. The real power is not...

... that of Morarji Desai: the real power is in the hands of the Hindu fascists of this country. Morarji Desai said when he punished Indira Gandhi, expelled her from the parliament and imprisoned her, he said, "Now people can know it, now it is proved, that I am not an impotent person. I can do things." But in fact it proves just the contrary: it simply proves he is impotent. He is impotent...

... against the fascist forces that are working behind him. He is just a facade; the real forces are in the hands of Hindu fascists. This act has simply proved that he is utterly impotent, that it is not HE who is in power, but a few other people who are standing behind him, they are in real power. They want to crush Indira Gandhi, to destroy her. They want to destroy all the forces that are revolutionary...

... and progressive in this country. This act is also anti-democratic. It is an insult to the people who had elected Indira Gandhi to the parliament. It is utterly anti-democratic. But whenever people are in power, they tend to become undemocratic. People use democracy only as a ladder to reach to power; once they are in power, who cares for democracy? But I am happy that Morarji Desai did it. I am...

... happy because this is the beginning of the end of his power. I am happy because this has enhanced Indira Gandhi's prestige. There is a subtle logic of history, and that logic is that whenever somebody is punished in such a way - ugly, undemocratic - the masses start feeling a certain sympathy for the person. And that's what has happened: people are feeling more sympathy for Indira Gandhi than they had...

...) 134:4.9 Freewill beings who regard themselves as equals, unless they mutually acknowledge themselves as subject to some supersovereignty, some authority over and above themselves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their ability to gain power and authority over other persons and groups. The concept of equality never brings peace except in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence...

... evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time. (1488.3) 134:5.5 Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem...

... at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power — the family — and the final consummation of political growth — the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind. (1488.4) 134:5.6 Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans which become...

... must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of supernational power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind. (1489.3) 134:5.12 Peace will not come to Urantia until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make...

... war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all the peoples of Urantia create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among...

..., alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government — the sovereignty of all mankind. (1491.4) 134:6.10 The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much...

..., and with whom he wrestled in spirit, and whom he defeated in power, were real; they were his archenemies in the system of Satania; they were not phantasms of the imagination evolved out of the intellectual vagaries of a weakened and starving mortal who could not distinguish reality from the visions of a disordered mind. (1493.3) 134:8.4 Jesus spent the last three weeks of August and the first three...

...: N.A. Length: N.A. Be a Junnatha - a seeker. The P.S. continues. The first book is Friedrich Nietzsche's WILL TO POWER. He never published it while he was alive. It was published posthumously, and meanwhile, before it was published, many of your so-called great men had already stolen from the manuscript. Alfred Adler was one of the 'greatest' psychologists. He is one of the trinity of psychologists...

...: Freud, Jung and Adler. He is simply a thief. Adler has stolen his whole psychology from Friedrich Nietzsche. Adler says: Man's basic instinct is the 'will to power'. Great! Who was he trying to deceive? Yet millions of fools are deceived. Adler is still counted as a great man. He is just a pygmy, only to be forgiven and forgotten. George Bernard Shaw steals his whole basic philosophy from Nietzsche...

.... Great G.B.S. - Nobel prizewinner, George Bernard Shaw. Whatsoever he says is contained in only a few sentences of Nietzsche's WILL TO POWER. Even a so-called great Indian saint was not far behind Adler and Shaw. His name is Shri Aurobindo. He is worshipped by millions all over the world as the greatest sage of the age. He stole his idea of superman from the manuscript of WILL TO POWER. Shri Aurobindo...

... was only a mediocre scholar, nothing much to brag about. Nietzsche's book was not published until many years after his death. His sister prevented it. She was a great businesswoman. She was selling other books which were already published, and waiting for the right moment when WILL TO POWER could best be sold. She was not concerned about Nietzsche, his philosophy, or his contribution to humanity...

... pales before WILL TO POWER. It is not a philosophical treatise, written systematically, it is just maxims, paragraphs. You have to find the connection. It is not there written for you to read. Hence, even though it is published it is not read much. Who bothers! Who wants to make any effort? - and WILL TO POWER needs tremendous effort to understand it. It is the very essence of Friedrich Nietzsche's...

... saying she represents me. That's how the whole thing happened. And I don't condemn Sheela, either. It is just a human weakness. Everybody carries will to power within him. Just a question of opportunity. If you get the opportunity, the will to power takes possession of you. And she had a good opportunity. These people had tremendous trust in me. She was representing me. She used the opportunity to...

... not happen for the one reason that I am going to speak directly to my people. Secondly I am making every arrangement to decentralize power. Thirdly I am making arrangements to change power positions more often so nobody takes their position for granted, as if it is their inheritance. And I am telling my people to be alert and aware because my teaching is for freedom, not for fascism. I value...

... democracy not dictatorship. To me, individual and respect for his individuality are highest values. And no individual should be humiliated. So now I will have to teach them that, "You have to be aware of your own power elite, too. And anything you see, immediately inform me." This was a ugly nightmare but they could not do any harm to the commune. They tried. Money does not matter; if they have...

... something immensely valuable, but the third-class politicians cannot keep up with the constitution, that's the difficulty. I can understand. The constitution has such high goals and ideals and the politicians have no goals and no ideals except a lust for power, so the gap is big. They are doing things which are unconstitutional, illegal. So in every way I would like to be part of this country, but I will...

... psychological. Power, lust, is something psychological. Perhaps the person is not responsible at all. It is just some instinct that takes possession of him and he does something. And it is wrong to behave in the same way. Eye for eye -- that is not civilization. And he can be treated. And you don't have any right to destroy a person's whole future because of a single act in the past. The past is over, the...

... urgent things to say. First: one of my very intimate and ancient enemies, ex-Prime Minister Morarji Desai, has been thrown out of his home in Bombay by the Supreme Court. At his age - he must be more than ninety .... He has been occupying the house, Oceana, on Marine Drive, for twenty-two years illegally. When he was in power the owner of the house could not do anything, but now he is no more in power...

... ask him to do anything else - he can go on spinning his wheel day and night. We will provide him with every facility that is possible, even though while he was in power he tried constantly to destroy this ashram, not knowing that in the end only this ashram would provide him a home. Life takes strange turns. Secondly: all over India, the progressive and intelligent newspapers and magazines have...

... of years kept them separate .... There is no need to keep them separate - they are separate. The politician is worried, not about the temple, not about the scriptures - but because the harijans have one fourth of the Hindu votes. If they go out of the Hindu fold, these politicians will be out of power. They are completely silent on such an important issue, and rather than arresting the priests who...

... who became president was neither a harijan nor a woman. The person who became the prime minister .... The whole power went into the hands of those same exploiters who had been oppressing this country for centuries. From the British, it passed into the hands of the old exploiters, and India remains in slavery. Because I am telling the truth, it hurts. Mahatma Gandhi used to pray every evening and...

... priests together are the cause of the poverty and the slavery of this country. But they are interested only in their power. I am not a politician, but they seem to be very much afraid of me. It is a strange story but even Indians coming to the ashram are being harassed by the police; and these are police sent from Delhi, by the central government. And Indians are being asked for their passports - in...

... .... When he was just a pilot, he was asking again and again to come here to see me, to ask my advice. And now he is the person in power who is trying all around the world, through the Indian embassies, to refuse to give visas to anybody who is coming to Poona. Poona has become my personal property! I want the whole world to know that if people are harassed because they are coming to Poona, then no...