... polarities of the same thing. One has taken the positive attitude, the other has taken the negative attitude, but the object of both is the same God - the greatest lie in the world. On one side is religion, which is death-oriented, and it has immense power of which you are not aware. Just in America, Christianity has more land than the five biggest corporations, which are almost empires in themselves. The...

... government goes on giving the Christian church one hundred billion dollars. And the constitution of America says that state and religion should be separate! The churches - not only the Christians, but all the churches of the world belonging to different religions - have more power than any government, more money, more people supporting them. But their work is absolutely underground, you don't see it on the...

... people, ten thousand people - as many as you want. Now these people are not allowing the government to set up computers because then they will lose their jobs. But missiles handled by human beings cannot compete with missiles handled by computers. America is already a second-rate power in comparison to the Soviet Union. And it goes on pretending that it will not only fight for itself, it will protect...

... will have to use old kinds of ships to get its missiles to Europe. It will take ten days. In ten days the whole of Europe will be gone. Those ships will search for Europe and Europe will not be found! But the military experts in America go on continually bringing bigger and bigger budgets. Their experts' idea is that to keep the world in peace, you have to go on increasing military power, making more...

... in colors or races, the whole earth is one .... I have sent him a telegram saying that whatever you are preaching, practice it. And I know he cannot practice it, because of the military. The military is not going to take his orders for dispersion. On the contrary, the military will take his power into their own hands rather than going to the fields, and to the orchards, and to work. The military is...

... completely spoiled. Without doing any work they are getting the best food, the best clothes, the best houses. Why should they leave all this? Rajiv Gandhi cannot do it. He will be thrown out of power by the military. The military cannot tolerate such things. You can talk about it, that's good - but don't try to do anything. Every nation is in the grip of the military and religion. Nor would religion like...

... scratch and out comes the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the ape. Your humanity is very thin. To understand the contradiction is to get beyond it. Rikoh must have been a very confused man. Intellectuals are bound to be: they live in the mind, and the mind has no power over the body. Just try this small experiment: move your earlobes. Try with your mind, however you want to, just to move your earlobes, and you...

.... It will create many things to distract you so the meditation is lost. You are thrown off balance and the body is again on the throne. Up to now, the body has remained the master and you have been a slave. Through meditation, you are changing the whole thing; it is a great revolution. And of course, no ruler wants to be thrown out of his power. The body plays politics - that's what is happening...

... is the powerful element - feminine means weak. And in a certain sense he is right, because Buddha is feminine, but he is not weak. Or, weakness has its own power which no power can ever have. A child is weak, but a child has power no old man can have. A stone is very strong, and just by the side of the rock is a flower - very weak. But a flower has a power which no rock can ever have. The flower is...

... certainly weak: in the morning it comes, by the evening it is gone. It is so transitory, it is so temporal, so momentary. But a flower has a power of a different dimension, of a different quality because it is so alive. In fact, it dies so soon because it lives so intensely. The very intensity of life in a flower exhausts it by the evening. The rock goes on living because it lives so lukewarm. The life is...

... not intense: very sluggish, lazy, sleepy. The rock sleeps, the flower lives. A Master is weak in a certain sense because his weakness is his own power. He is feminine in a certain sense because all aggression is gone, all violence disappeared. He is more like a mother than like a father. The thing is very complex and nobody is required to be a lover, but everybody is required to be in love. I CANNOT...

... man who seems you to be religious and is traveling without ticket." He had to touch his feet. The fakir entered the train and passengers had to rush into their compartments because the train started moving. That made him famous for thousands of people -- that this is divine power. And there was nothing! He has bribed the conductor and the driver -- just two persons, and a miracle is done and he...

.... Their names have changed. The poor is still poor; in fact, more poor than in America. And the communists who are in power are more powerful than any rich man has ever been in power. So there is a new class division: the powerful and the powerless. In America there is a possibility -- I say only a possibility -- because at least one is free to express -- in Russia there is no possibility for revolution...

.... Marx cannot be born in Russia. There is no way for anybody to say anything different from the government policy. Classes are there and there is no sign of their disappearing, they are becoming more consolidated. Marx thought that those who were in power soon will decentralize power, but they go on centralizing power. When Stalin died -- and perhaps no man had that much power for that long time, for...

... idea is in the mind, just imagining may kill the man. That is why there is so much insistence on being pure first. Pythagoras was told to go through fasting, through particular breathing - this breathing - because here one is traveling in a very dangerous land. Because wherever there is power there is danger, and if the mind is impure, whenever you get power your impure thoughts will take hold of it...

... gives you everything anew. Death ceases to be... with cessation of dreaming, death ceases to be. There is another meaning to gaining power over death, direction over death. If you can come to feel that death is just a sleep, you will be able to direct it. If you can direct your dreams, you can direct your death also. You can choose where you are to be born again, to whom, when, in what form; you will...

... only do you gain power from your dreams, you gain power from others' dreams also. So Buddha, as an example, said, "Certain dreams will be there. When I will be in the womb, my mother will have certain dreams. So whenever any woman has these dreams in this sequence, know well I am going to be born to her." And it happened. Buddha's mother dreamed the same sequence. The sequence was known all...

... he felt a sudden choking, and he knew that now the heart was going to stop. He could not even cry and say to another, "I am going to die." Sometimes it happens in some nightmare - you cannot cry, you cannot move. Even when you become awake for a few moments you cannot do anything. That happened. He had absolute power over his consciousness, but no power over his body. He knew he was there...

... thoughts? What other power makes one more alive than the power of thinking? But also nothing makes one more lifeless and rigid than learning others' thoughts. Accumulation of others' thoughts brings idiocy. By accumulation of thoughts, thinking and intelligence are not born. Too much emphasis on mechanical memory in the birth of thinking and intelligence, is fatal. Enough opportunities for thinking and...

... is war and violence. There are many such other diseases, viruses which are spread by the teachers among innocent children. This is one of the most ugly crimes committed against man. If the teacher is very alert, only then can he prevent himself from participating in this crime. Those who are powerful in society do not want any change in the social structure, because their power, interest and...

.... Ambition is politics. It is due to ambition that politics has acquired a seat on a high pedestal. Where there is position, there is respect. Where there is power, there is position. Where there is a ruler, there is power. Because of this race violence is born in life. The ambitious mind is a violent mind. Lessons of nonviolence are given, and at the same time, ambition is also taught. What greater...

.... And money gives more power than anything else, because even the politicians are commodities in the market - you can purchase them. In fact, every politician is sold into the hands of the super-rich. But the super-rich is the poorest person on the earth. He has succeeded in being important, in being powerful, but he has lost his soul. Inside, there is just emptiness and darkness. Why does it happen...

... political power in his hands. Mohammedans had divided into two parts: the majority was following Muhammadali Jinnah and asking for a separate land, Pakistan. Maulana Azad remained with the Nationalist Congress, and because of his religious scholarship - a maulana is the highest degree as far as Mohammedans are concerned - and because of him, a great number of Mohammedans were not following Muhammadali...

... people understand, the power of the priest is gone. If you listen to a Hindu priest reciting from the VEDAS, you will be impressed, but look into the translations and you will feel as if you have awakened from a sleep. Perhaps two percent of the sentences in all the four VEDAS are significant. Ninety-eight percent are simply crap. And the same is the situation with Buddhism, Jainism and other religions...

.... Maulana was highly respected, and because of him, India is still the largest Mohammedan country in the world, even after the partition of Pakistan. No other country has as great a number of Mohammedans as India has. Certainly, his power over Mohammedans was great. But he himself was as stupid as every priest needs to be. He was put second, and he was very much annoyed; he wanted to be the prime minister...

...; his legal advisor, Tathagat, is present. If there is anything, it can be settled. Don't disturb him. And you don't have any search warrant, you cannot enter a private bedroom." But power is blind. They forced their way violently into my room. Hearing the noise, I could not believe - since when have ghosts started dressing like policemen? I had to rub my eyes to see exactly what was going on...

... the mind, the East developed a totally different approach, and their approach was disidentifying with the mind: "I am not the mind." Once this awareness becomes crystallized in you, the mind becomes impotent. The whole power of the mind is in your identification with it. So it was found to be useless to go unnecessarily digging for roots, finding causes behind causes, working out through...

... Alfred Adler, the man who founded another school of psychology - analytical psychology ... He is obsessed with another idea: will to power. So whatever you dream will be interpreted according to that idea - it is will to power. Go to Carl Gustav Jung, he interprets every dream as a faraway echo from your past lives. His interpretation is mythological. And there are many other schools. There has been a...

... anything significant. And all these schools have been working hard. But the East simply bypassed the mind. Rather than finding out the causes and roots and reasons, they found out one thing: from where does the mind get its power? from where does the energy come to feed it? The energy to feed the mind comes from your identification that "I am it." They broke that bridge. That"s what...

... and they succeeded immensely. They simply pulled their awareness out of the mind. They stood outside the mind as a witness and they found a miracle happening: as they became a witness, the mind became impotent, it lost all power over them. And there was no need to understand anything. Awareness goes on growing higher and the mind goes on growing smaller - in the same proportion. If awareness is...

...: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: BELOVED MASTER, MANY PEOPLE, WHEN THEY TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE ORIGIN OF CREATION, ARE PUZZLED: WHY DOES THE ULTIMATE, WHICH WAS ONE, HAVE TO BE IMMEDIATELY TWO AFTER CREATION? IN OTHER WORDS, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE, MALE AND FEMALE, AND SO ON. THE ULTIMATE IN ALL ITS POWER, EXISTENCE, FULLNESS, COULD HAVE HELPED CREATION ON A MALE-MALE BASIS, ON A FEMALE-FEMALE BASIS, OR...

... A JOINED TOGETHER BASIS, AS A THEOSOPHIST ONCE EXPLAINED. HE WROTE THAT AT THE TIME OF CREATION THE HUMAN CREATURES, MALE AND FEMALE, WERE BORN JOINED TOGETHER AT BIRTH AND THEY WALKED ON FOUR LEGS. OF COURSE, THE ULTIMATE IN ALL ITS POWER COULD HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF PROGENY IN A DIFFERENT WAY FROM THAT WHICH WE KNOW NOW. IS THIS A QUESTION WHICH IS SOLVABLE, OR WILL IT BE BETTER TO HAVE IT...

... all incarnations of Vishnu. Most of the temples are of Vishnu because he has the power, and power has to be worshipped. Right now he is everything, he can do everything, he can change everything - he is all powerful. Shiva also has millions of statues, but not many temples. That too is very significant. Vishnu's temples are immensely rich, with great art, sculpture, beauty. Shiva is the poorest god...

..., omniscient god - now stop worshipping!' He has lost power over rats, what can he do for you?" He said, "Don't do any such thing. If you don't want to worship, keep quiet." I said, "You have to keep quiet. This was just an instance for you so you don't continue harassing me that I have to worship." This is man's creation - beautiful. It should be kept in a museum, but it is not to...

... all power, and power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. For three and a half years she had all the power; she was the only person to see me, I was not meeting sannyasins. I was not talking to anybody else. When I decided to speak again she was against it. Her excuse was that it will... my health is now good and again if I start speaking, my health will be ruined. I said to her, that...

... government in the power, I can enter any moment in America and they will catch me and I will enter in Carolina so I will end up in your jail, you don't be worried about it. That is very simple to manage." But that was the only jail, in Carolina, which was human. After that I had in four other jails - which much have been pressurized by the politicians; that sheriff was a man not to be pressurized. He...

...-life. Only unhappy people think of, create, paradises in their imagination. Only unhappy people can be persuaded to sacrifice their lives for foolish goals. So the basic secret of the priests' power over man is to make man unhappy. And this is the only way to make man unhappy - to create a division between the body and the man; then he will never be happy. You have broken him into two, you have...

... don't move, because then the nagging will be pointless. And they enjoy nagging - it gives them power. If they also move they cannot make the man feel guilty. And to make the man feel guilty gives immense power. But this is wrong. Never make anybody feel guilty. If you love the person, why make him feel guilty? If he likes it this way, let it be this way! You also have a few small love affairs. That...