... their brother was desperately sick, and though they hardly dared hope that Jesus would leave his work of teaching and preaching to come to their assistance, they had such confidence in his power to heal disease that they thought he would just speak the curative words, and Lazarus would immediately be made whole. And when Lazarus died a few hours after the messenger left Bethany for Philadelphia, they...

... knew Lazarus would have to endure as a result of being the subject of the greatest of all demonstrations of the divine power of the Son of Man. (1844.5) 168:1.6 And now we may relate an interesting and instructive fact: Although this narrative unfolds as an apparently natural and normal event in human affairs, it has some very interesting side lights. While the messenger went to Jesus on Sunday...

... loves?” And in many other ways they mocked and made light of the teachings and works of Jesus. (1844.8) 168:1.9 And so, on this Thursday afternoon at about half past two o’clock, was the stage all set in this little hamlet of Bethany for the enactment of the greatest of all works connected with the earth ministry of Michael of Nebadon, the greatest manifestation of divine power during his incarnation...

... Lazarus and his sisters were summoned to appear before the Sanhedrin. When their testimony had been heard, no doubt could be entertained that Lazarus had been raised from the dead. Though the transactions of the Sanhedrin virtually admitted the resurrection of Lazarus, the record carried a resolution attributing this and all other wonders worked by Jesus to the power of the prince of devils, with whom...

... Jesus was declared to be in league. (1847.5) 168:3.5 No matter what the source of his wonder-working power, these Jewish leaders were persuaded that, if he were not immediately stopped, very soon all the common people would believe in him; and further, that serious complications with the Roman authorities would arise since so many of his believers regarded him as the Messiah, Israel’s deliverer...

... TO EXPLAIN? One of the most fundamental things to be always remembered is that we are living in a hypocrite society. Once, a great philosopher was asked: "What do you think of civilization?" The philosopher said, "It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality. Civilization has not happened yet. It is a dream of the future." But the people who are in power...

... - politically, religiously, socially - are in power because civilization has not happened. A civilized world, a mature man, needs no nations - all those boundaries are false - needs no religions, because all those theologies are simple fictions. The people who have been for thousands of years in power - the priests, the politicians, the super- rich, they have all the powers to prevent human evolution. But the...

... don't care about the world court." And what can the world court do? It has no armies, it has no power. It has all the power that has been given to the politicians; but if those politicans themselves go against the law that they have made, what can the court do? And the UN is silent. Its Court has been insulted. If the people in the UN have any dignity they will dissolve the UN and dissolve the...

... had received the message: "Hiroshima and Nagasaki are in smoke, they are no longer on the map of the earth." Then he went to bed; otherwise he waited for the news to reach him. He said, "Yes, I slept more peacefully than ever, because our experiment has succeeded. Now we are the greatest power in the world." And you are talking about conscience? More than two hundred thousand...

... what do you have to do? Things that are not within you, work hard to get them - money, power, respectability - because nobody says, "Every child is born with money, every child is born with political power, every child is born with respectability." Nobody will say that. These things have to be earned. Freedom, consciousness, God, whatever you call it, has to be discovered. It is hidden...

... WITH OTHERS AND IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, TO MANIFEST HIS RELIGION OR BELIEF IN TEACHING, PRACTICE, WORSHIP AND OBSERVANCE." "Freedom of thought and expression" - I have never done anything except to express my thoughts. If that is a human right, then no government has anything against me. I am not active in any politics; I am not interested in any power. I am simply saying whatsoever I...

... will become more and more of an introvert. Your priorities will change, your values will be different. You may not care much about money, you may not care much about power, you may not remain ambitious, you may not be possessive anymore, your interest in property may disappear. You will start searching for inner riches, the inner kingdom of God. But then you will become less and less efficient for...

... play and absolute autonomous power, it feels as if it is the ultimate truth. It is not. It has nothing to do with truth. Truth is available only to those who are completely undrugged - not only chemically, but religiously too - who are COMPLETELY undrugged. Only they have the capacity to know the truth. I have heard... Under the influence of nitrous oxide, the great psychologist, William James, came...

... the reflection but the reflection is looking at you - and you will be in a very strange space. Just try it for a few minutes and you will be very alive, and something of immense power will start entering you. You may even become frightened because you have never known it; you have never seen the complete circle of energy. And although it is not mentioned in Taoist scriptures this seems to me the...

... much more alive you feel the whole day.Just a few minutes standing before the mirror and letting the energy come back to you so the circle is complete... And whenever the circle is complete there is a great silence. The incomplete circle creates restlessness. When the circle is complete it creates rest, it makes you centred. And to be centred is to be powerful - the power is yours. And this is just...

...-called thoughts, by 'thought' they mean thought-energy purified of desire. If it is purified of desire and all desire has disappeared, then there is no need to go out, because you go out only because you are desirous of something. You desire a house, you desire money, you desire power, you desire a man, a woman, this and that, then you go out. If there is no desire, thought need not go out; it starts...

... energy is lost; it goes into the world and comes back, like a bird flying in the morning out into the sky, and by the evening it comes back to the nest. Let your energy come back to the nest again and again. Don't let it go forever without turning it back to you. And you will become a reservoir, and you will become tremendously powerful inwardly. Only in that power does intuition start functioning. In...

... that power spirit-fire is born. In that power the true light-pole arises. In that power suddenly there develops the seed-pearl. IT IS AS IF A MAN AND WOMAN EMBRACED AND A CONCEPTION TOOK PLACE. THEN ONE MUST BE QUITE STILL AND WAIT. Meditation is complete and prayer begins. To bring meditation to prayer is the whole work of Tao. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... earth so that the grass shoots withered. And the king complained that the sun burned his face and that it excelled him in power and he was not content. He sighed and cried, 'I wish to be the sun.' And the angel came and he said, 'You are what you have said.' And he was the sun and he directed his rays upward and down, to the right and to the left - everywhere - and he scorched the grass shoots on...

... earth, and the countenances of kings who were on earth. And a cloud placed itself between him and the earth, and the rays of the sun bounced back from it and he grew wrathful that his power was resisted. He complained that the cloud excelled him in power and he was not content. He wished to be the cloud, which was so powerful, and the angel came and he said, 'You are what you have said.' And he became...

... was not yielding to his power, and the power of his streams was in vain and he was not content. He cried, 'That rock has been given power which excells mine. I wish to be the rock.' And the angel came and he was the rock, he did become the rock, and did not move when the sun shone nor when it rained. And then there was a man with a pick and with a chisel and with a heavy hammer, and he hewed stones...

... out of the rock and the rock said, 'How can it be that this man has power that excells mine and hews stones out of my lap?' and he was not content. He cried, 'I am weaker than he. I wish to be that man.' And the angel came from heaven, saying, 'You are what you have said.' And he was a stone-cutter again. And he hewed stones from the rock with hard labour, and he laboured very hard for small wages...

... was empty. I said, 'You can see; it is just empty. Just the idea that you have the power has helped. Now I would not like you to carry this locket forever, because now this will become a disease. If someday it is lost, you will start trembling, and those ghosts which have gone will come back because the locket is lost.' All your illusions are just illusions. They are illusions. You are not really...

... man, you know what you are searching. You are searching money, better sex objects, power, prestige - things are clear. You have been trained for them, you have been educated for them, you have been conditioned for them. Your mind knows what you are seeking. Your mind computer has been fed goals. When you become a sannyasin, you are really in a chaos for a few days - because the old goals become...

... WILL GROWS FROM THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION: WHEN BOTH ARE CALMED, THERE IS NEITHER SENSUALISM NOR TRANSMIGRATION." THE WILL MEANS THE EGO. The will means to fight against existence. Whenever you see somebody fighting upstream, you say, "He is the man of will- power." What do you mean by will-power? All will is against God. You fight with it. You try to do something which is not in the...

... nature of things. You try to force something. If you are violent with nature, then you have will. Many people come to me and they say, "Osho, somehow help us to have more will-power." Why? Am I your enemy? Should I help you to become more mad? Will-power? But in the West, will-power is very important; because the whole West thinks that to have a strong ego is a must, you should have will...

...-power, you should develop will-power. Thousands of books exist in the market on how to develop will-power. And they are sold, because people want to be more and more refined in their egos. Buddha says: "PASSIONS GROW FROM THE WILL... desires grow from the will." The I, the ego, is the root of your mind. Your whole mind is centred around the I. "THE WILL GROWS FROM THOUGHT AND...

... person is always after something, trying to achieve - money, power, prestige. The sensitive person is simply alive herenow, enjoying the beauty that is available. When tomorrow comes then tomorrow will take care of itself. That's what Jesus means when he says, "Think not of the morrow." That's what Jesus says when he shows to his disciples the lilies in the field and says, "Look, how...

... to happen. When you have done everything that you can do, then relax, then nothing more is left to be done. In that relaxing, in that let-go, the truth happens. Truth is not something that we can bring. It comes, it descends, it happens; it is nothing of your doing. The ninth, BALA, is power. After surrender is power. Now, see the difference. At the fourth Buddha said VIDYA, energy. It was not...

... power, it was simply energy, human energy. Now after surrender there is BALA: power, divine power. When you have surrendered and your ego is dropped, suddenly you are full of unknown power. You have become a receptacle. And the tenth, GHYANA, IS seeing into the nature of things, or awareness. Buddha uses the word 'GHYANA' in a very specific way: seeing into the nature of things. When you have...

... surrendered and the power of the divine or the power of the whole has descended on you, then there is that encounter, that vision, that realization - NIRVANA. These ten are the PARMITAS. They have to be practised. Now, the sutra. The sutra is to remind you of how you have to work for these ten PARMITAS. THE BUDDHA SAID. THOSE WHO STUDY THE DOCTRINE OF THE BUDDHAS WILL DO WELL TO BELIEVE AND OBSERVE ALL THAT...

... three religions in India. Hinduism is of the first type, Jainism is of the second type, Buddhism is of the third type. Hinduism believes it will happen by God's grace; that whenever He wills, it will happen: Nothing can happen without His will. Not that what they say is wrong, but they don't earn it. Jainism says: It will happen by our will, our power. There is no grace, no help coming from the...

... THE PLEASURES EXPERIENCED IN DREAMS. THEY CALL THE PERISHABLE BODY-MIND ETERNAL BLISS SUPREME. BY THE SYMBOL EVAM (THEY THINK) SELF-CLEARNESS IS ACHIEVED, BY THE DIFFERENT SITUATIONS THAT DEMAND FOUR SEALS THEY CALL WHAT THEY HAVE FANCIED SPONTANEITY, BUT THIS IS LOOKING AT REFLECTIONS IN A MIRROR. AS UNDER DELUSION'S POWER A HERD OF DEER WILL RUSH FOR THE WATER IN A MIRAGE WHICH IS NOT RECOGNISED...

.... He must have been dreaming about it, thinking about it, fantasizing about it. The stark-naked woman had no attraction for him, but the pork pie... Remember, whatsoever you repress will become your attraction, will have a magnetic pull on you. The repressed becomes powerful; it gains power out of all proportion. Listen to this anecdote. Deep in a beautiful woodland park stood two lovely bronze...

... statues: a boy and a girl, posed in attitudes of love and longing. They had stood thus for three hundred years, their arms held out yearningly to each other, yet never touching. One day a magician passed by and with compassion said 'I have enough power to give them life for one hour, so I am going to do this. For one hour they will be able to kiss, to touch, to embrace, to make love to each other.' So...

... deeply in sleep that you cannot remember. So the saint thinks he has not dreamt about sex, he has not dreamt about money, he has not dreamt about power, prestige, respectability. If he sleeps for two hours, the sleep is so deep, it is such a necessity for the body, that it is almost like a coma, so he cannot remember. You remember dreams only when you are half awake and half asleep. Then the dream can...

... desire these spiritual experiences. First you were desiring power, now you will desire SIDDHIS, spiritual powers - but the desire remains there, and the desire is the fetter. Only in non-desire is there liberation. A GLASS TRINKET COLOURED GREEN, TO THEM IS A (PRICELESS) EMERALD; DELUDED, THEY KNOW NOT A GEM FROM WHAT THEY THINK IT SHOULD BE If you don't know, if you are not alert and aware, you can be...

... deceived. A GLASS TRINKET COLOURED GREEN... and you may think this is an emerald. Yes, the colour is the same, the shape may be the same, even the weight may be the same, but still the value is different, and the value is the thing. Yes, people have powers in the outside world. A president, a premier has some power, and then a yogi, a MAHATMA has some other powers - of the inner world - but nothing to be...

.... All things are promised - even your salary will increase. You will be getting promotions, and the whole world will cooperate with you in your ambitions. This is given indirectly. And then you are not interested in the mantra. You are interested in these things: health, wealth, power, prestige, silence, joy - you are interested in these things. Because of this interest you repeat the mantra. But each...

..., then time, then space. AS UNDER DELUSION'S POWER A HERD OF DEER WILL RUSH FOR THE WATER IN A MIRAGE WHICH IS NOT RECOGNISED, SO ALSO THE DELUDED QUENCH NOT THEIR THIRST, ARE BOUND BY CHAINS AND FIND PLEASURE IN THEM, SAYING THAT ALL IS ULTIMATELY REAL. This is the last sutra. Saraha says: Looking into the mirror you are looking into a mirage. You are dreaming. You are helping an illusion to be...

... created around yourself. You are cooperating in a dream. AS UNDER DELUSION'S POWER A HERD OF DEER WILL RUSH FOR THE WATER IN A MIRAGE WHICH IS NOT RECOGNISED, SO ALSO THE DELUDED QUENCH NOT THEIR THIRST, ARE BOUND BY CHAINS... We are deluded by the reflections that are happening in our mind. I have heard a beautiful story: A man wishing to walk in the Welsh mountains, made his headquarters at a pub in a...

... YOU PERSONALLY? WHY DO YOU THINK THIS WAS DONE? A: I was expecting that it would be done. I have been born in this beautiful country but I have never been in tune with the vested interests, the people who hold power. My whole life I have criticized them and they have not been able to answer a single criticism. I knew it perfectly when I came that I think India is my home but the people who are in...

... power they don't agree about it. They would not like me to be in India. They cannot say directly that I should leave India because they have no right to say but they can create situations in which I am compelled to leave. And that's what they are doing. The people who have taken care of me for almost fifteen years they forced them to leave the country. It seems that their whole effort is that I should...

..., and you are selling wheat so that you can create a nuclear power station. This is ugly, you don't need a nuclear plant. And if this continues that you go on selling people's food for nuclear weapons and India becomes poorer and poorer then you will be responsible for its poverty and all the deaths that will happen out of starvation. And what do you need nuclear weapons for? Even if you put your...

... whole economy at the service of creating nuclear weapons, it will take three hundred years for you to become as great a nuclear power as Soviet Union or America. In three hundred years your country will die. For whom those nuclear weapons you are going to use? "Secondly, remember in three hundred years America and Soviet Union will not be standing still waiting for you to pick up speed. In three...

... hundred years they will be three thousand years ahead of you. There is no possibility for you to become a big nuclear power. So drop that stupid idea. Better go to the reality that the population does not increase, that is decreases. For the first time we are coming close. By the end of this century, to be the first nation with the biggest population. "Up to now, China has the privilege. Now we...

... the end of the century you will see a nightmare... on every street you will find corpses and nobody there even to arrange a funeral for them. Fifty percent of India is going to die by the end of this century if nothing is done and I don't think that anything is possible with these people who are in power. They don't have eyes, they don't have any perspective. And they are not ready to listen to any...

... these people, there will be no harm from that sword. If an atom bomb is given to them, there will be no harm done through it. Then even the greatest of power in the hands of love becomes creative. Science has discovered the greatest power for man, but education has not been able to give him a loving heart. Great power is dangerous in the hands of those who have no love. Nadirshah was coming towards...

... beheaded. But he had said a very true thing. It has remained an old custom to behead truth-sayers. He had said the right thing: it is good if the bad man sleeps, and it is good if the good man is awake. Similarly, I say, a loving man being powerful is good; a loveless man being impotent, powerless, is good. If power is in the hands of loving persons, then life grows; and if power is in the hands of a...

... become the right education. I have not lost hope. If I had lost hope I would not say these things to you. I say these things to the teachers in the hope that they will think. There is a great power in their hands. Today or tomorrow the world will hold them responsible if something goes wrong. It is appropriate to reflect before that happens. If I come back again among you, I will be able to talk to you...

... not be so easy. I will be making every effort that I remain available to you, but those politicians are not aware that even if they can prevent my physical presence, they cannot prevent the experience of my presence in my people. That is beyond their power. In China, Lao Tzu - a great master - has been dead for twenty-five centuries now, but a small stream of followers has remained. They don't refer...

... start feeling my presence all around the world, then no country can prevent my presence entering into their lands. No country, no power can prevent me from coming into your heart. Their power is very limited. It may be very big, but it is very limited: it is material. And your capacity is far bigger, tremendously big: it is spiritual. What is needed is just to be aware of it and to use it. Once you...

... was appointed. Now no records exist. The other party thinks the son was appointed as the successor, but they don't have any record either. My feeling is that Mohammed died without making anybody a successor. And these two persons, the son-in-law and the son, became ambitious to have the same power, and Mohammedanism got split into two. And they are still fighting over who was the real authentic...

... power. This was simply a transfer period of fifteen days. What could he do in fifteen days? It was just a transitory period. Britain was leaving, Mountbatten had to turn over his duties to somebody, and the Congress Party had not decided yet who was going to be the prime minister, who was going to be the deputy prime minister. The post of governor-general was going to be finished! - because the...

... governor- general for fifteen days means nothing. He was ready to become the chief minister of a province in the south, Madras. He became the chief minister of Madras, and he agreed to it after being the governor-general of all of India. Such is the lust for power. Now that there was no chance of being the president or the prime minister - and he was very old - he was ready to become the chief minister...