... Power, and what they call Life, or Race, or Dialectic, The Church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, and what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards In an age which advances progressively backwards? Yes, something has happened that has never happened before: for the first time in the evolution of human consciousness man stands alienated from God. Man stands...

... every way more power than any other society ever had before, and still no society has ever felt such meaninglessness, no society has ever felt such a great suicidal desire, longing. Secondly, we have cultivated reason too much and we have become lopsided. God is a fee]ing, God is not a thinking. You cannot think about God because God is not an object to think about. Science thinks, religion feels...

... understand power, and immensely powerful in a totally different sense - but we don't know that language at all. And the poet has died; that has been the greatest calamity. The poet is disappearing. And by poet I mean the painter, the sculptor. All that is creative in man is becoming reduced to producing more and more commodities. The creative is losing its grip and the productive is becoming the goal of...

... countries they may not actually be worshipping, but the worship is there unconsciously. And power has become a god. The politician has become the MOST important person in the world. The dirtiest politician is thought to be something superhuman. We have denied God, but how can we deny our emptiness? We have rejected God, and we had to stuff - something in the empty space, so we stuff it with political...

... power, with money, with reason, with race, with dialectics - if you cannot find anything else, then dialectical materialism, the philosophy of communism, fascism, nazism. Man cannot live without religion. Man cannot live without God. If the true God is not available man is bound to create home-made gods. "The Church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, and what have we to do but...

... are my Master. I am living in this world because this is what you want me to do; I am simply following your orders. I am living in this world because I am just a slave of your love, I am just a shadow to you. I have no interest in the world: I am not after money, I am not after power, I am not after prestige. But if you want me to be in the marketplace then it is perfectly okay. If you want me...

... wrong to say, "I breathe." Breathing is not within your ego's power. It happens on its own. Life breathes in you, and you have no control over it. Man has tried. In yoga, and in other methods in different religions, man has tried, but nobody has succeeded. You cannot succeed against life. The same is the question of celibacy, exactly the same. Just as breathing is needed for your life, sex...

..., even bringing messages from God. Give some idea which is impossible for humanity to do, so only hypocrites, cunning people will be able to pretend.... That's why there is a similarity in all the religions. Of one thing everybody was aware: life depends on reproduction. And life will not allow the power of reproduction to be given into the hands of individuals, because it is the most important thing...

.... Individuals come and go, the river of life should continue. Hence sex is not within human power. Once this was known -- and it was simple to know -- then all the religions exploited humanity with it. And it gave such good returns. Tell people that celibacy is spiritual, then these are the results that will follow: one, everybody becomes guilty. And the guilty person is gullible, the guilty person wants to...

... individuality, made him a member of the common mass. Then they took away the beautiful old czarist mansion and sent him into an ordinary quarter where other laborers live. Communism is anti-individual. It is basically state capitalism. Everything is owned by the state, but this is only theory, because the state does not exist. State means the clique, the gang, the mafia that is in power. And for sixty years...

... the same gang has remained in power. People have changed, but the gang has remained the same. If there are twenty people who are powerful in the Soviet Union, those twenty people have remained the same. One dies, and another is replaced by the other nineteen unanimously. That's why the circle remains the same. And anybody who comes to replace someone is chosen by the older group unanimously...

... so much against it? And why do the courts and the newspapers have so much power?" But Nixon happened. Perhaps every politician is doing it, Mao is right, but Nixon was caught. Others are not caught. So I don't want a system in which it is possible for a person like Nixon to reach to the highest post in the country. I do not want a system like in America where twenty percent of the presidents...

..., YOU ACT, YOU EVEN DRESS AS AN EMPEROR. YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP YOU, YOU HAVE MONEY, POWER. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS CONTRADICTION? A: I am an extraordinarily ordinary man. Q: A SMALL BOOK WAS SUFFICIENT TO SPREAD THE TEACHING OF JESUS OR OF MOHAMMED, AND MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER THEM GOOD AFTER HUNDREDS OF YEARS. BUT THERE ARE MANY TAPES OF YOUR SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS BY THE THOUSANDS. EVERY SINGLE...

... SAYS SO? A: Because the people who are around me.... It is not an established religion. I had started alone, and then people started coming and became fellow travelers; it became a big caravan. But their love gives me the authority. I don't have any power over them, but their love gives me the authority. I would not like them to become an organized religion because that is the death of the very...

... the power are foreigners. I am going to fight up to the Supreme Court, and the fight is not going to be easy. I am going to say to the Supreme Court that, "If you have any sense of justice, then the first step should be tell Ronald Reagan to resign. Foreigners should rule this country. The country should go to the Red Indians. And then all foreigners either should move back to their country or...

... myself. That was my own individual phenomenon. It has nothing to do with the Commune. This gave her an opportunity. She removed all those people who have been close to me from power posts, and placed puppets of her own, made a small group of twenty people, who were doing everything. The Commune was not aware. For example, how the Commune can be aware that the house are bugged. The two persons, who were...

... virus? Perhaps the mind, thinking that if I am going to lose power, I may destroy the whole Commune. Mix virus in the food, and the person who was in charge of the food was one of those twenty. That's why she could manage for those three thousand street people to keep them drugged, through the in-charge of the food. It is inhuman; it is not simply criminal. And it is not one crime. It is crime and...

... can sell them any moment, do whatsoever they want. I have no power on any thing. NOTHING to belongs to me. Not a single cent. Everything is loaned by the Commune to me. And even if those cars are counted, they are not more than ninety million... nine million. Q: BHAGWAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ROLLS ROYCES YOU... A: Ninety I have got. Q: NINETY. BUT WHAT I WANT TO ASK YOU IS THIS: WHEN YOU STARTED...

... you have to choose it continuously, constantly, only then can you be in it. Remember, to be in the wrong you have to make great efforts - and you are making great efforts. Look at the politicians, how much effort they make to remain in power. Look at the rich people, how much effort they make to remain rich. And their richness brings only misery, and their power trips bring only misery. The more...

... power they have, the more greedy they are; the more riches they have, the more greedy they are. They become more and more obsessed with the same thing. They go on and on wasting their lives... and in the end they die with empty hands. You are feeding your wrong life. You go on watering the weeds and you go on hoping that one day roses are going to bloom. You go on hoping that "the spring will...

... learn how to open them. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY, THE ONLY WAY TO THE OPENING OF THE EYE. FOLLOW IT. OUTWIT DESIRE. The only way to open the inner eyes is to drop desiring. What is desire? Desire means: "I feel empty and I would like to be full." Emptiness hurts. "I need money, I need power, I need prestige, so that I can feel full" - although those who have much money and power and...

..., the only path... and desire disappears on its own accord. It is desire that keeps you in bondage, that is the cause of misery. And because of desire you have to do so many stupid things; you have to behave like a fool. Running after money is foolish, running after power is foolish. You are making a fool of yourself, but you never become aware of it because others are also doing the same. Because the...

... these. POWERFUL STREAMS! Buddha says. They are everywhere.... THEY FLOW EVERYWHERE. These streams are powerful, and your sleep is so deep. It seems very difficult to wake up - but you can wake up. My own observation is that these streams are powerful only in the proportion that you are asleep. If you become less sleepy they are less powerful. If you become fully awake, their power disappears totally...

...; said the Irishman. If you are intoxicated you will see the same world but in a different way. Your imagination will get mixed with it. You will not be able to make any distinction between what is fiction and what is fact. You will not have any power of discrimination. That's exactly what makes these streams so powerful. THEY FLOW EVERYWHERE. STRONG WINE! IF YOU SEE IT SPRING UP, TAKE CARE! PULL IT...

... running after power. Then he stops running after power and starts running after God or meditation or enlightenment. But he goes on running after something or other. He goes on substituting a new fiction for the old; the old functions no more. He has seen it is fictitious, but he has not yet got the point that one has to uproot ALL imagination in one's being. Lovebirds are supposed to be so devoted to...

... run? The real power is in the hands of your desire, imagination, in your unconsciousness. O SEEKER! GIVE UP DESIRE. SHAKE OFF YOUR CHAINS. One day Miss Tilly saw her big tomcat corner a cockroach in the kitchen. He was about to kill the bug when it addressed Miss Tilly: "Have your cat spare my life and I will grant you three wishes." "A million dollars?" asked the spinster. "...

...; Even if your desires are fulfilled, something or other will be missing. O SEEKER! GIVE UP DESIRE. SHAKE OFF YOUR CHAINS. The more you desire, the more you become imprisoned. People are imprisoned in things, people are imprisoned by wives and husbands, people are imprisoned by their power. People are creating so many prisons - prisons within prisons, boxes within boxes - and still they want to be...

... BECOMES THE TRUTH AND KNOWS THE BURDEN RELIGION BEARS THERE ARE MANY WORLDS AND MANY MORE BEYOND THEM; WHAT POWER ASSUMES THEIR WEIGHT? CREATURES OF ALL FORMS AND COLORS ARE CREATED BY HIS WRIT, BUT ONLY FEW KNOW THE RULE TO TELL IT. CAN ANYONE WRITE THE ACCOUNT OF THIS MYSTERY? IF IT WERE WRITTEN HOW GREAT IT WOULD BE. WHAT STRENGTH AND POWER! HOW BEAUTIFUL HIS APPEARANCE! HOW GREAT HIS CHARITY; WHO...

... impostors who masquerade as gurus. It is no longer possible to convince them that there is someone like a genuine master. They also refuse to believe that there is a power that is God. When the gurus are fakes, how can God be true? This God, and these methods and practices, are merely devices to exploit gullible people - such is the experience of seekers, good people who have been so badly misled. Thus...

... wrong kind; while infinite wealth was raining around, you were counting shells. THERE ARE MANY WORLDS AND MANY MORE BEYOND THEM; WHAT POWER ASSUMES THEIR WEIGHT? CREATURES OF ALL FORMS AND COLORS ARE CREATED BY HIS WRIT, BUT ONLY FEW KNOW THE RULE TO TELL IT. CAN ANYONE WRITE THE ACCOUNT OF THIS MYSTERY? IF IT WERE WRITTEN HOW GREAT IT WOULD BE. WHAT STRENGTH AND POWER! HOW BEAUTIFUL HIS APPEARANCE...

..., so trivial as to be unworthy of any consideration, but you have wasted all your life in them. And Nanak says: When the mind is set aside, when you are in the no-mind state and the sound of Omkar begins to vibrate within you, you begin to witness the glory of existence, its vastness; you see the infinite life, the overflowing boundless nectar, the limitless beauty and the unaccountable power that...

... Immortal Study Circle Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. CHAPTER 5: SUTRA 2 MAY NOT THE SPACE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH BE COMPARED TO A BELLOWS? IT IS EMPTIED, YET IT LOSES NOT ITS POWER; IT IS MOVED AGAIN, AND SENDS FORTH AIR THE MORE. MUCH SPEECH TO SWIFT EXHAUSTION LEAD WE SEE; YOUR INNER BEING GUARD, AND KEEP IT FREE. Life is constructed on...

... lie in its emptiness only. There is no strength in filled bellows. The blacksmith empties the bellows, in order to fill it with strength. it is the power of emptiness within the bellows, that sucks the air in. Bellows that are already full have no power left to suck in air. It is already so full that no more can be filled into it. It is at the last point of fulness. Now it is powerless but when it...

... about his downfall. Lao Tzu says: "Opposing breaths are forever at work in Existence like the pair of bellows in the blacksmith's shop." One thing he stresses very often and that is, that when the bellows are empty, then too its power remains unbroken. Do not think it to be powerless when empty. The power in the bellows is a complete force - unbroken. The Void has the power of Perfection...

... the power to command himself; his body and senses command him. If his stomach says it is hungry, he is hungry. If his body says it is sick, he becomes sick. If his sex center says he needs sex, the sexual desire arises. If his body says it has become old, he becomes old. The body commands and he obeys. But as soon as this center of willpower becomes active, the body stops giving orders and instead...

... woman's agya chakra. This is only because it was felt that unless the agya chakra is activated, the woman will not be able to make any progress in spiritual life; she cannot make any progress in meditative practices without will power - that has to be made stable and strong. But it is necessary to make her agya chakra strong in a different way, because if it is done in the usual way, the same way as for...

... your power? So, power and status and money are in a roundabout way only meant for the satisfaction of that fundamental sex drive. As long as your energies are flowing downwards towards the sex center it is possible that you will be spiritually undisciplined. If you want to direct the energy to higher levels, then the direction of sex energy will have to be reversed. The complete direction of the flow...

... you achieve higher powers at such a cost, how then can you misuse them? There is no question of misuse because the person capable of misusing any power will be finished before he reaches the goal. It is because of this that in Tibet black magic was born - because of those external operations. There was very little spiritual growth, but evil practices could thrive. Among Sufis there is a story about...

... Jesus.... In Christianity there is no mention of this anywhere - there are many such stories about Jesus with the Sufis, stories which Christianity does not have. Even Moslems have accounts of some important events in the life of Jesus which are not found in Christianity. This story is recorded by the Sufis.... Jesus had three disciples who said to him that they had heard about his power to revive the...

... dead. They did not want any salvation or the kingdom of God, but they wanted him to tell them the secret of raising the dead so that they could have that power. Jesus told them that they would never be able to use the mantra for themselves, because once they were dead, how could they use it? How would they benefit in making others come to life? He told them that instead he would show them how not to...

...-obsessed is more closed than the person who is power-obsessed -- at least he moves to others. In his life he will have a certain type of relationship -- not very good, because the relationship of domination cannot be very good, it is violent to begin with, aggressive, ugly -- but still some sort of relationship. The politicians live in this second center. The gluttons live in the first, the politicians...

... -- only for a moment, maybe not even for a moment, for a split second... just a passing glimpse... but God passes by. The food addict is very far away -- not even a glimpse. The power addict is very ugly, very aggressive, very much in turmoil -- the glimpse is not possible. With a deep sexual love affair, God can have the first penetration in you. The first ray of samadhi enters into sexual orgasm. In...

... orgasm when you feel satisfied with food -- a deep contentment. There is a subtle orgasm when you dominate: politicians look very happy and healthy -- while they are succeeding. When they are in power, they look very radiant. Their energy seems to be overflowing; they look inexhaustible -- never tired, rushing from one place to another, doing one thing and a thousand things -- never tired, very radiant...

.... Hitler had that magnetic force, that charisma. From where comes this radiance? -- it is power orgasm. Have you watched it sometimes? When a politician stands, and millions of people surround him and look at him, there is a subtle orgasm happening. He feels very happy: so many people giving attention to him, so much vitality overflowing towards him, so much vibration flowing towards him, meets his vibe...

... found; it exists only in darkness. It is a phoney thing: it only appears -- it is not. So the egoist always finds himself empty, and he wants to fill it -- with money, with power, with love, attention, this and that -- and always he finds that everything goes on disappearing, and nothing fulfills. You go on throwing ANYTHING into your ego -- the whole world will disappear -- and you will remain as...

... vehicle. HIS WORK AND HIS REST ARE FILLED WITH MUSIC: HE SHEDS ABROAD THE RADIANCE OF LOVE. And all love before it was just a reflection. You love food -- that is the first reflection. You love power -- that is the second reflection. You love a woman or a man -- that is the third reflection. You love -- that is the fourth reflection... and so on, so forth. At the seventh you don't love: you become love...

... world, then don't think of money, then don't think of power, and then don't think of respectability. Then only think of the Beloved, and go mad.... SADH SANGAT PITAM: find out the company of someone who is so simple that God has chosen him to be his vehicle. SET NOT THY HEART ON THE WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS... And when you have found a master, then there is no need to worship any other god: you have...

... for almost twenty years, and my every meeting is an international conference. But I don't have the power; I am not a politician. I would like Mr. Rajiv Gandhi to understand the implications of what he is saying. I support him with my whole heart, but the question is: Who is going to begin it? If I had the power, India would have been the first nation in the world to dissolve its armies, to drown all...

... its armaments, to dissolve all distinctions of caste and religion and race. I would like to know from Mr. Rajiv Gandhi: Can you practice what you are preaching? And if you cannot practice it, please don't preach nonsense. You have the power, you have the idea - now go ahead! Somebody has to begin it. Don't wait for somebody else to begin. And the idea is yours - take the risk! You are young enough...

... - pure white, and of the greatest speed, and tremendous power. India has been defeated again and again for almost two thousand years. You will not believe me, but the reason was that the enemies were very small countries but they were coming on horses, and India was vast but India's emperors had armies of elephants. That was the reason for its continual defeat. Because elephants are royal people, they...

... power of the principal. "And whatever you need - accommodation in the hostel, free food ..." I said, "Everything." But just the second day the difficulty arose. The professor of philosophy went to him and he said, "You have created trouble for me. That young man is difficult and impossible, and he creates such arguments that the whole class laughs and I feel very embarrassed...

... commune in which there would be no need for anybody to make him a successor, he would be the founder. But he could not gather people; he had no light in his eyes, no grace in his hands, no ecstasy in his heart. He was just hungry for prestige, power. Slowly slowly, those who had come with him also deserted him. Most of them went back to Buddha with apologies. Being alone he became furious, almost mad...

...;You see, my mom pays me a dollar a day not to play those drums you have given me during the day, and Grandpa pays me ten dollars a week not to play them at night!" George Bush's appointment as the president of America goes to his head completely. He becomes even more power-mad and rude and throws his weight around a lot. One day, Bush is invited to a big gathering of the Intellectuals of...