... something unexpected. It was going to be crushed. In fact, it threatened the greatest world power -- that is its success. It challenged the greatest power -- that is its success. That the greatest world power had to use illegal means, undemocratic means to destroy it, is its success. America has failed, not the commune. Otherwise a small commune of five thousand people: what harm it could have done to...

... with but has thought that it is a dream, and it is good to dream about them but you cannot materialize them. We proved it. Anybody who thinks it was a failure is absolutely wrong. We succeeded in every way. We threatened the greatest power -- what more success do you want? Such great powers are not threatened by small things. They don't take any care. They could have ignored, but they could not...

... ignore. They had to take note of it and they had to understand it clearly that if this commune goes on growing sooner or later it is going to threaten their very existence, without any nuclear weapons. It is going to take away their youth. It is going to take over their people. It is going to take away their most potential power -- human power; then they can go on keeping their nuclear weapons, they...

... whole world. I can show them an alternative that you are also in a state of creating one world... perhaps it has not dawned on their consciousness, that the power they have is not only capable of destroying the world, it is also capable of creating one world. Because never before in history two countries had so much power that the whole world will have to listen to them. All that is needed that they...

.... But it is only half true: it is only on the outside - and that too because you have not become accustomed to truth yourself. Once you see its strength, its power - then the whole world seems to be impotent. You can fight it, you can make your way, you can live your life according to your own light, and for you there is no trouble. For others there may be trouble. This I am saying to you on my own...

... authority: for me there is no trouble... and the whole world is in trouble. It is none of their business to get into trouble; I should be in trouble. But the truth has such great strength, such tremendous power of its own, that there is no need to be worried about it. Why are other people worried? Why are they creating trouble? They are worried and creating trouble because your truth makes them aware of...

... everybody wanted the kingdom to go to the five brothers and not to these hundred rascals; even without power they were harassing the people so much. But they were not ready to agree so easily, so the final decision had to be made by war - whoever wins.... Now it was a family war, and they invited all their friends, all their relatives - and they were all interrelated. The grandfather, although he loved...

... TO STAY ALOOF AND DISTANT, ARROGANT AND JUDGMENTAL OF OTHERS. THE WOMAN I LOVE, I CARE NOT FOR HER FREEDOM; BUT ONLY WHEN I HAVE POWER OVER HER DO I RELAX. IN MY WORK I SEEK SUCCESS AND PRAISE, AND FORGET THE GRATITUDE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY GIVEN TO ME. OSHO, I AM AFRAID THAT ONE DAY I'LL WAKE UP JUST TO REALIZE THAT IT IS TOO LATE, THAT I HAVE FAILED YOU, MISSED THIS UNIQUE CHANCE YOU ARE GIVING TO...

... US, TO ME. YES, MY BELOVED SWEET MASTER, I HAVE NO OTHER QUESTION - JUST THIS TREMENDOUS NEED TO EXPOSE MYSELF AT YOUR FEET, ASKING FOR YOUR DIVINE WORDS OF GUIDANCE AND LIGHT. THERE IS SO MUCH PAIN, OSHO, AND SO MUCH LOVE, TOO. Prashantam, your whole problem is a will-to-power. In your work you want to be powerful. You are a therapist; in your therapy groups you want to be powerful. Even in your...

... love, you want to be powerful over the woman you love. Reduced to a single point, will-to-power is your problem, is your tension. It is good that you exposed it, because any wound exposed starts healing. If you understand it - that will-to-power is your problem - then there is nothing to be worried about. Then you have to look into it - why will-to-power arises in the first place. It arises out of an...

... are nuclear powers. Within twenty years, twenty-five more countries will have joined the nuclear club. Thirty countries will have nuclear weapons. Already we have so much nuclear power that the whole earth can be destroyed seven times. And this will show you the insanity of man. Now what is the point of piling up more and more nuclear weapons? Everybody is not a Jesus Christ, and everybody is not...

... worried about the whole world. Their whole worry is... for example, Germany is losing three thousand people every day and thirty thousand immigrants are entering into Germany. The politician is not worried about the world, he is worried about his power, his country. If this goes on for twenty years - that their population goes on decreasing and immigrants go on coming more and more - the immigrants will...

... human welfare should teach homosexuals, uncondition their mind from homosexuality and turn it to the natural way, the well-trodden way of heterosexuality. All the religions are suffering from it, because they all teach celibacy. But no religion is ready to accept it, and whenever you don't accept an enemy you are giving more power to the enemy. Recognize it, so that you can find ways to fight with the...

... the atmosphere rises a little more, then the Himalayan ice will start melting, and that is the greatest danger. And the heat is rising because nobody is listening, nobody is caring about anything. What happens to future humanity is nobody's concern - they are concerned with their power, their politics. Atomic experiments continue, nuclear experiments continue. And it is a really horrible picture if...

... votes will become the surgeon." Then instead of surgery there would be butchery, and that is exactly what is happening. Merit should be decisive, not the power of votes. And the meritorious should be invited because the meritorious are not the ones who are going to beg for votes. A man of merit has a certain dignity. Politicians don't have any dignity. They are beggars. Although all the religions...

... coming up. And last I mention man. Man is not contemporary; he lives a thousand years back - and everything else has changed. His anger is the same, his fighting instinct is the same as when he used to have stone weapons. Now, the same man who used to have stone weapons has nuclear weapons. Man has not changed, and the technology has given him more and more destructive power. If there is going to be a...

... concerned with creating more children because more children means more power - power in two ways: more votes, and more fodder for your cannons in war. For twenty to thirty years absolute birth control should be practiced. It is not a question of democracy, because it is a choice between life and death. If the whole world is going to die, what are you going to do with your democracy? Democracy will be the...

... YOU'LL BE OF ONE MIND WITH THE BUDDHA. BUT WHY SHOULDN'T WE WORSHIP BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS? DEVILS AND DEMONS POSSESS THE POWER OF MANIFESTATION. THEY CAN CREATE THE APPEARANCE OF BODHISATTVAS IN ALL SORTS OF GUISES. BUT THEY'RE FALSE. NONE OF THEM ARE BUDDHAS. THE BUDDHA IS YOUR OWN MIND. DON'T MISDIRECT YOUR WORSHIP. BUDDHA IS SANSKRIT FOR WHAT YOU CALL AWARE, MIRACULOUSLY AWARE. RESPONDING...

... you what exactly Bodhidharma must have said. DEVIL AND DEMONS POSSESS THE POWER OF MANIFESTATION. THEY CAN CREATE THE APPEARANCE OF BODHISATTVAS IN ALL SORTS OF GUISES. BUT THEY'RE FALSE. NONE OF THEM ARE BUDDHAS. THE BUDDHA IS YOUR OWN MIND. DON'T MISDIRECT YOUR WORSHIP. The disciple is saying that worshiping a buddha is denied because the devils can pretend to be buddhas. If you worship, the...

... India. India created the greatest meditators in the world, and from India the whole of Asia learned meditation. It still is alive in the monasteries of Japan; but in India there is no support from any source for India's own greatest contribution to human progress. But the reason is clear: the people who are in power don't understand even the ABC of being silent. They know only a tense mind, anxieties...

... and worries, ambitions, cunningness, pulling each other's legs, sabotaging each other's power. Their whole concern is a tremendous ambition for being in power. Meditation is totally different; not only different, but a diametrically opposite dimension. It is the way of the humble man, it is the way of the simple heart. It is the way of those who want to rejoice in disappearing just like a dewdrop...

... people, in power. And there are a thousand and one things, the whole thick jungle around you, to be lost in. Remember, non-attachment is the secret of finding yourself, then awareness can turn inwards because you don't have anything outside to catch hold of. It is free, and in this freedom you can know your self-nature. ...DON'T BECOME ATTACHED. ONCE ATTACHED, YOU ARE UNAWARE. BUT ONCE YOU SEE YOUR OWN...

... consciousness -- not the body, not the mind, not the heart, not your money, not your prestige, not your power, not your house, but just pure consciousness -- then you can pass through the barrier of death unscratched. Then death cannot make even a dent in you. Death has power over you only if you are attached. You are not afraid of death. The basic psychology is you are afraid of death because it will take...

... you away from all your attachments. If it were possible that you could take your wife and your children and your house and your money and your power and everything that you think belongs to you, with yourself when you are dying, I don't think you would be afraid. You would rejoice; a great adventure -- going with the whole caravan. But death cuts everything away from you, leaves you utterly naked...

... shapes and sizes should be kept as far away from the state as possible because the state is power, and if superstitions become joined with power they can do immense harm. They are doing immense harm even without the state. They have managed to create power of their own, they have their own generators. That's what is meant by "organized religion". A religious person has no power. He is humble...

... organized." If there had been no organized religion on the earth we would have seen a totally different flowering of humanity. A different fragrance would have been there on this earth, not this stink that you can see everywhere, in every church, in every temple, in every mosque, in every synagogue. It is through organization. Organization immediately becomes power. Now, six hundred million Catholics...

... organized under one leader - it is power. Otherwise the pope is just an ordinary polack. But the crowd that follows him ... and the crowd is following Jesus Christ - and not even Jesus Christ; the crowd is following God .... It is a very strange game. They can't see God's back, whom they are following. They can't even see Jesus' back, whom they are following. They can see only this polack pope. But he...

... apart, maybe in a crowd, it did not matter; that was his divine power. Duryodhana said, "We know that your chakra alone is enough, it can cut off anybody's head. So I want a promise. The army you have given to me - what about your arms, because that chakra is with you." Krishna promised that he would not use it, but he did use it. "Now, you ask me to take an oath on this man's book, who...

... politicians, which needs amendments every day? Just be a little more respectful about truth. Can't you simply trust me? - you can trust my oath. This seems to be stupid: you can trust my oath - as if an oath has some miraculous power - and you cannot trust me! Just trust me. And what is your business here? So many jurors, twelve jurors, three judges, and the opposite party's advocates - what are you all...

... way are these things against the state? And if these things are against the state then you should teach in every school hatred, unconsciousness, lying, deceiving, cheating; that will be true education. Then every politician should declare that he is a cheat, hypocrite, deceiver, mean, because these are qualifications for being a good politician, and these are qualifications for being in power. A man...

.... (332.31) 30:1.85 15. Seraphim. (332.32) 30:1.86 16. Cherubim and Sanobim. (332.33) 30:1.87 17. Unrevealed Spirit-origin Beings. (332.34) 30:1.88 18. The Seven Supreme Power Directors. (332.35) 30:1.89 19. The Supreme Power Centers. (332.36) 30:1.90 20. The Master Physical Controllers. (332.37) 30:1.91 21. The Morontia Power Supervisors. (332.38) 30:1.92 IV. EVENTUATED TRANSCENDENTAL BEINGS. There is to...

...-origin Beings. (334.13) 30:2.5 4. The Sons of God. (334.14) 30:2.6 5. Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. (334.15) 30:2.7 6. The Universe Power Directors. (334.16) 30:2.8 7. The Corps of Permanent Citizenship. (334.17) 30:2.9 These groups of will creatures are divided into numerous classes and minor subdivisions. The presentation of this classification of the personalities of the grand universe is...

...:2.85 3. Tertiaphim. (336.33) 30:2.86 4. Omniaphim. (336.34) 30:2.87 5. Seraphim. (336.35) 30:2.88 6. Cherubim and Sanobim. (336.36) 30:2.89 7. Midwayers. (336.37) 30:2.90 VI. THE UNIVERSE POWER DIRECTORS. (336.38) 30:2.91 A. The Seven Supreme Power Directors. (336.39) 30:2.92 B. Supreme Power Centers. (336.40) 30:2.93 1. Supreme Center Supervisors. (336.41) 30:2.94 2. Havona Centers. (336.42) 30:2.95...

... 3. Superuniverse Centers. (336.43) 30:2.96 4. Local Universe Centers. (336.44) 30:2.97 5. Constellation Centers. (336.45) 30:2.98 6. System Centers. (336.46) 30:2.99 7. Unclassified Centers. (337.1) 30:2.100 C. Master Physical Controllers. (337.2) 30:2.101 1. Associate Power Directors. (337.3) 30:2.102 2. Mechanical Controllers. (337.4) 30:2.103 3. Energy Transformers. (337.5) 30:2.104 4. Energy...

... Transmitters. (337.6) 30:2.105 5. Primary Associators. (337.7) 30:2.106 6. Secondary Dissociators. (337.8) 30:2.107 7. Frandalanks and Chronoldeks. (337.9) 30:2.108 D. Morontia Power Supervisors. (337.10) 30:2.109 1. Circuit Regulators. (337.11) 30:2.110 2. System Co-ordinators. (337.12) 30:2.111 3. Planetary Custodians. (337.13) 30:2.112 4. Combined Controllers. (337.14) 30:2.113 5. Liaison Stabilizers...

... power for the accomplishment of higher tasks. (901.5) 81:2.2 You who now live amid latter-day scenes of budding culture and beginning progress in social affairs, who actually have some little spare time in which to think about society and civilization, must not overlook the fact that your early ancestors had little or no leisure which could be devoted to thoughtful reflection and social thinking...

... progression. Adam and Eve introduced no art of civilization foreign to the progress of human society, but the Adamic blood did augment the inherent ability of the races and did accelerate the pace of economic development and industrial progression. Adam’s bestowal improved the brain power of the races, thereby greatly hastening the processes of natural evolution. (905.7) 81:5.2 Through agriculture, animal...

... long time after the discovery of the bow and arrow and the utilization of animals for power purposes before man learned how to harness wind and water, to be followed by the employment of steam and electricity. But slowly the tools of civilization improved. Weaving, pottery, the domestication of animals, and metalworking were followed by an age of writing and printing. (907.6) 81:6.9 Knowledge is...

... power. Invention always precedes the acceleration of cultural development on a world-wide scale. Science and invention benefited most of all from the printing press, and the interaction of all these cultural and inventive activities has enormously accelerated the rate of cultural advancement. (907.7) 81:6.10 Science teaches man to speak the new language of mathematics and trains his thoughts along...

... lines of exacting precision. And science also stabilizes philosophy through the elimination of error, while it purifies religion by the destruction of superstition. (907.8) 81:6.11 4. Human resources. Man power is indispensable to the spread of civilization. All things equal, a numerous people will dominate the civilization of a smaller race. Hence failure to increase in numbers up to a certain point...

... of contending groups in the arena of advancing civilization. (909.2) 81:6.21 In the early days the only energy applied to land cultivation was man power. It was a long struggle to substitute oxen for men since this threw men out of employment. Latterly, machines have begun to displace men, and every such advance is directly contributory to the progress of society because it liberates man power for...

... life comes next, with the school last but equally indispensable in a complex and highly organized society. (909.5) 81:6.24 Insects are born fully educated and equipped for life — indeed, a very narrow and purely instinctive existence. The human baby is born without an education; therefore man possesses the power, by controlling the educational training of the younger generation, greatly to modify the...

... pressure or directional control may be employed. The driving power of even the most material aspects of a cultural civilization is resident in the least material of society’s achievements. Intelligence may control the mechanism of civilization, wisdom may direct it, but spiritual idealism is the energy which really uplifts and advances human culture from one level of attainment to another. (910.1) 81...

... God, may be promulgated only by the power of the spirit. This distinction of procedure refers to the relations of the kingdom of believers to the kingdoms of secular government and does not nullify the right of social groups of believers to maintain order in their ranks and administer discipline upon unruly and unworthy members. (1929.4) 178:1.3 There is nothing incompatible between sonship in the...

.... (1930.3) 178:1.6 You may not worship your temporal rulers, and you should not employ temporal power in the furtherance of the spiritual kingdom; but you should manifest the righteous ministry of loving service to believers and unbelievers alike. In the gospel of the kingdom there resides the mighty Spirit of Truth, and presently I will pour out this same spirit upon all flesh. The fruits of the spirit...

..., your sincere and loving service, are the mighty social lever to uplift the races of darkness, and this Spirit of Truth will become your power-multiplying fulcrum. (1930.4) 178:1.7 Display wisdom and exhibit sagacity in your dealings with unbelieving civil rulers. By discretion show yourselves to be expert in ironing out minor disagreements and in adjusting trifling misunderstandings. In every...

... the assurance of living fellowship with the eternal God. (1931.3) 178:1.12 You must not seek to promulgate truth nor to establish righteousness by the power of civil governments or by the enaction of secular laws. You may always labor to persuade men’s minds, but you must never dare to compel them. You must not forget the great law of human fairness which I have taught you in positive form...

... shall bear appropriate fruits in each individual and in each generation in accordance with the laws of spiritual growth, increase, and adaptative development. From generation to generation this gospel must show increasing vitality and exhibit greater depth of spiritual power. It must not be permitted to become merely a sacred memory, a mere tradition about me and the times in which we now live...

... witness to this gospel when I have gone, even as I directed that Lazarus flee from the wrath of man that he might live to make known the glory of God. If it is the Father’s will that I depart, nothing you may do can frustrate the divine plan. Take heed to yourselves lest they kill you also. Let your souls be valiant in defense of the gospel by spirit power but be not misled into any foolish attempt to...

... waitress in a hotel. But because I went into silence, into isolation and she was my only communication with the commune, she got the opportunity of becoming a power. And power corrupts. Q: BHAGWAN, WHY WERE YOU SILENT FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS? A: Really I wanted to be silent forever. I had spoken for 30 years. There are at least 400 books of my discourses. It is enough for a man, and I was tired of...

... having attacks. But I said that does not matter. If my whole commune is being destroyed, then I want to be in the commune and stop everything that is wrong. And it was good that in time I was alerted. I would not have been alerted if Sheela has not tried to kill my own physician. She was trying to kill anybody who was a danger to her power; either he should leave or she will kill. Many left; the...

... or phones going out; all were tapped. Q: WOMEN HOLD APPROXIMATELY 80% OF THE SUPERVISORY ROLES HERE IN THE COMMUNE. I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW WHY. A: For the simple reason because my feeling is that women have been deprived for thousands of years by men. You don't ask this question when 100% power is in the hands of men. You take it for granted. But you cannot take it for granted if 80% power is in the...

... have simply to pay back the money that they have taken from them. So antelope will be Antelope again; we are withdrawing our police forces from there. Why we should bother about anybody? And as they start possessing their land and houses back we will vacate, we don't want. It was Sheela's mind, which became power-oriented, to overtake Antelope and when she succeeded in overtaking Antelope then came...

... the most important is that the politicians are out of the government and non-politicians have come into power. The politician is always interested in himself and how to get higher and higher, how to reach to the highest point in the bureaucracy. He sacrifices all the interests of the people. Unfortunately for forty years we have been under political minds. Hence forty years have been just a wastage...

.... We have not used freedom to create, to become rich, to become more cultured, civilized, educated. But it is good that now a new generation has come into power. This generation as yet is not polluted and there is a possibility that it will do some good for the country, it will not think only of its own power and its own position. And they are taking small steps in the direction, they are opening the...

... world. These forty years we were creating barriers for other nations to bring their wealth into our country, for one single reason: to protect the Vila's(*), Tata's, Dalmears(*), because these were the people who were giving support, finances to the politicians in their elections. So it was a conspiracy. These people were giving financial support to the politicians to remain in power and the...

... Ambassador has remained the same. There was no reason, only the price has gone higher and higher. So it was a conspiracy between the capitalists of this country and the politician to protect each other. Now that can be broken because the new people are not politicians and they have not come by support of any finances from these Tarta's and Vila's(*), and others. They have come into power on their own merit...

... people who have come into power are unaware of many currents of ideologies which are against the growth of the nation. For example, anybody teaching against birth control. He may be a Christian priest, he may be Hindu Shankaracharya, or he may be a Mohammedan Iman. It does not matter who he is, but anybody who is teaching against birth control and telling to people that using birth control methods is...