... of the abolition of slavery (over one hundred years ago) since this adjustment was effected gradually by the liberation of two per cent each year. Those slaves who satisfactorily passed mental, moral, and physical tests were granted citizenship; many of these superior slaves were war captives or children of such captives. Some fifty years ago they deported the last of their inferior slaves, and...

... value of any property in any one year, homesites, whether in city or country, being exempted. (815.7) 72:7.7 The federal government cannot go in debt, and a three-fourths referendum is required before any state can borrow except for purposes of war. Since the federal government cannot incur debt, in the event of war the National Council of Defense is empowered to assess the states for money, as well...

... charter of federal statehood, is turned into the national treasury. (816.5) 72:7.14 Federal appropriations, except war funds assessed by the National Council of Defense, are originated in the upper legislative house, concurred in by the lower house, approved by the chief executive, and finally validated by the federal budget commission of one hundred. The members of this commission are nominated by the...

... training camps distributed about the periphery of the continent. During periods of industrial slackness many thousands of unemployed are automatically utilized in upbuilding the military defenses of the continent on land and sea and in the air. (819.3) 72:11.4 Although these people maintain a powerful war establishment as a defense against invasion by the surrounding hostile peoples, it may be recorded...

... to their credit that they have not in over one hundred years employed these military resources in an offensive war. They have become civilized to that point where they can vigorously defend civilization without yielding to the temptation to utilize their war powers in aggression. There have been no civil wars since the establishment of the united continental state, but during the last two centuries...

... fully employed in trade, commerce, and recreation. When war is declared, the entire nation is mobilized. Throughout the period of hostilities military pay obtains in all industries, and the chiefs of all military departments become members of the chief executive’s cabinet. 12. The Other Nations (819.5) 72:12.1 Although the society and government of this unique people are in many respects superior to...

... observer, the witness. "I am innocence." In wonder Janak said, "I am peace" - because he has known only turmoil. Have you ever known peace? You will usually say yes. But if you look deeply you will find that what you call peace is only a short gap between two periods of turmoil. The English expression "cold war" is very good. Between two wars, a cold war goes on. Between two...

... hot wars a cold war, but war goes on. The first world war was over, the second world war began. Many years passed, some twenty years, but those twenty years were of cold war. The conflict continued, war preparations continued. Yes, the conflict is not manifest now, it is internal, it is underground, kept beneath the surface. There is cold war right now in the world, war preparations are going on...

.... Soldiers are in training. Bombs are being made. Rifles are being polished, swords are being sharpened. This is cold war. War continues. It will become ignited any day, any day war can break out. What you call peace is "cold turmoil." Whenever it warms up it will be "hot turmoil." Between two periods of turmoil a little time passes which you call peace. It is not peace, it is only cold...

...; hence all the priests of the world have been trying to destroy the possibility of love. They have invented very cunning devices to poison the love energy of man and woman, to condemn it, to make people feel guilty about love. War is okay, love is not okay. Everything else is accepted. Love is not accepted, because if people are allowed to love fear will disappear - that is the problem - and if fear...

... people are unafraid they will love to live their lives in totality. They will paint and sing and create music and they will make their lives a celebration. Why should they be interested in war? Why should they waste their lives in quarreling, fighting, murdering each other? But when love is denied these things are easy. Once love is denied a person becomes a victim of the priest and also of the...

... politician, and once he cannot love his whole energy turns into hatred. Then he wants to kill. He has nothing to celebrate. He wants to destroy because he cannot create. Wars will disappear only when love is given total freedom, not before it. Wars exist and will continue to exist. In spite of all pacifist propaganda and talks about peace and all that nonsense, war will continue because war is fulfilling...

... something: it is a release of the pent-up energy. The energy that should have gone into love and creativity has turned upside-down, has become destructive. So after each ten years a great war is needed, because people go on accumulating poison. And always remember: it is the same energy that was creativity that becomes destructivity; it is the same energy. If it is allowed natural movement then it has...

... grace and it creates. If it is prevented from its natural growth then it becomes a wound; the pus oozes out of the wound. That's what war is. The politician is very happy that the people are afraid, because when people are afraid they can be enslaved easily. The priest is happy because if people are afraid they have to come to the church, to the temple, to the mosque to find consolation, security. My...

.... Then another problem arises: because you want to get rid of it you can repress it; if you repress it, it will come again and again. It will become a life pattern: you will repress and it will come back, you will repress and it will come back. You will become a continuous civil war, fighting with yourself. That is very destructive. My suggestion is: you don't want it, that is very good, but don't...

... opposite? Because the opposite is only opposite seen from the surface. Seen from the deep core of reality it is not opposite but complementary. Just think of a world where no hate exists - do you think there will be love? That's what philosophy will say. There are philosophers of love, philosophers of peace, who say if there is no war in the world there will be peace. And it looks so logical, so...

... mathematical, so appealing - that if there is no war there will certainly be peace; when war disappears there will be all peace and peace and peace. That is not true. Listen to Buddha. Buddha says: War and peace are together. If war disappears, peace will disappear automatically - there will be neither war nor peace. How will you know that this is peace? You will forget all about peace. Just think, if death...

... disappears from the world will you be able to know that you are alive? Impossible. How will you know that you are alive? Death is needed to define life. War is needed to define peace, enmity is needed to define friendship, and hate is needed to define love. So they are not separate. They define each other, they depend on each other - if one disappears, the other is bound to disappear. Philosophy chooses...

.... There are pacifist philosophies who think there should be no war, only peace - that then there will be only peace. That's what Bertrand Russell was saying. It is not possible. Krishna is far closer to truth when he says that sometimes there is peace and sometimes there is war. Both exist together. Our minds choose logically; logic never allows the opposite. Existence DEPENDS on the opposite. Hence...

... you always choose something wrong. only choicelessness is right. DON'T choose, let things be as they are. When it is war, let it be. When it is peace, let it be. When it is love, let it be; when it is not love, let it be. You remain aloof, watching, a witness. Just see that understanding: you are just a witness, and things turn into their opposites on their own. Peaks are followed by valleys, highs...

... done to prepare more efficiently for war, to kill more, to destroy more. It seems man is insane. Everywhere you can see his insanity, and if it were only a few people who were insane, it would be easy to do something for them, but if the whole humanity is functioning in an insane way, then a tremendous effort is needed to stop this idiotic behavior. The people who are responsible for the basic...

..., without proper care; no need for millions of people to remain uneducated, never knowing great literature, great paintings, great music. Up to now man has simply been fighting. Except for fighting he has not done anything else. One war after another war. What we call times of peace are nothing to do with peace, they are really preparations for the next war. There are only two periods in history: war and...

... the preparation period for another war; we have not known peace at all. Our problems are so simple. Seeing our developed technology, it is absurd that in Ethiopia one thousand people continue to die every day and nobody bothers. Every day one thousand people... from hunger. And death from hunger is not easy, it is the worst death, because it takes almost ninety days for a person to die. Ninety days...

... weapons have made war itself out of date. It is meaningless. There cannot be a third world war, and the whole credit goes to nuclear weapons - because now there is no point having a war. Nobody is going to be victorious, nobody is going to be defeated, all are going to be destroyed. The third world war will be a global suicide, and life is not ready to commit suicide. Life wants more life. Love wants...

... more love. All that is beautiful and real in existence has an inner urge to expand. So I can say it with absolute certainty that the third world war is never going to happen. But it has created a great opportunity, a pressure on the consciousness of man, that if you remain as sleepy as you are it is dangerous. Something has to be done to bring more consciousness, to bring more love, to bring more...

... light. The nuclear weapons are serving in two ways. First, they have stopped the possibility of the third world war, and secondly they have awakened man towards growing into a better consciousness, into a more harmonious existence. As far as I can see, everything is just going fine. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, FROM WHAT YOU HAVE SAID ABOUT MASTERS WHO PRECEDED YOU, IT SEEMS THAT NONE, OR VERY FEW OF...

... is the resistance of the old establishment to the new world which creates rebelliousness. Fourthly, we have created atomic weapons for the first time. Now there are two alternatives: either we will have to learn to live together or we will die together - universal suicide or a universal society. Because of the possibility of total atomic war, the young are restless, the future is blurred. There...

... seems to be no future - an atomic war can happen at any moment, there may be no time to live - so this very moment becomes very meaningful. There is a deep correlation between time-consciousness and restlessness: the more time-conscious a society is, the more restless it becomes. But a society is always contented if it has no time- consciousness. In the East, we have lived very contented lives for...

... centuries only because of the theory of reincarnation: "Time is infinite. If this life is lost, nothing is lost." But for Christianity there is only life: "Time is very short and man has much living to do." Time is so short that one becomes restless. With atomic war threatening, there is no more time left for the future. It seems that any day the whole planet may be destroyed. For the...

... first time, youth is more concerned with the present moment - to live it, to enjoy it - because there seems to be no future. So these are the causes. But to me they are all good signs because through them we can create a new world and a new human mind can be born. The hippie slogan is good: "Make love not war." It is good! After 1984 either there is going to be no world, or an absolutely...

... anybody who teaches against birth control is a criminal. It certainly is a great crime in a country like India. Just in thirty years' time, India has doubled its population. By the end of this century it will have defeated China in population; because China is strictly controlling its population, but India is not doing anything. Birth control has to be done on a war scale; use your whole army to...

... have become great nuclear powers are burdened by their own accumulation of nuclear weapons, and worried about what to do - war seems to be impossible, for the simple reason that it can destroy the whole world. And the whole joy of war is to be victorious - but nobody will be victorious in the war, it will be sheer destruction of the whole planet. So a third world war is out of the question...

.... Politicians will go on talking about it, because they want their people to remain frightened, they want their people so frightened that they think they need their leadership to keep control of the situation. In fact, the third world war is not possible anymore. War itself has come to a point where it has become total, and that makes it meaningless. So I would like to say to Rajiv, "Don't be stupid, and...

... don't try to imitate. That is not going to be of any help - your small nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union or America! Put your whole energy...." It is a great relief that the world is not going to have a third world war, for the simple reason that it is totally destructive. Nobody will be there to be a victor or to be a defeated person. Nobody will be there even to write, "Ronald...

... Reagan was a great president." Nobody will be there to write a history. Not only man but trees and birds and animals - all will have disappeared. In my opinion, a third world war is absolutely out of the question. There is no need for a poor country like India to bother about these sophisticated weapons. If seventy-five percent of India's income goes back to the poor, and the population grows no...

..., no old man would like to live like that; it is better to die completely. Death should be total, not only of the body but of the soul too. That will be a great relaxation, because if you are not, who is going to worry? Just think back: when you were not born, do you remember that you were very much concerned about things - nuclear weapons, world war, Ethiopia? And do you think that before your birth...

... wonder of wonders is that it was not needed at all. Germany had already surrendered; the Japanese forces were almost finished. Perhaps without the dropping of the atom bombs the war may have continued one week more. That would not have been a great calamity - people had been fighting for five years; for seven days more.... But that was the reason for dropping the atom bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima...

..., because if the war ended then you would never be able to drop the atomic weapons that you had. It was the time to make the world feel how much power and strength you had. America wanted it to be remembered that if Nagasaki and Hiroshima can disappear in smoke, then there is no problem: Moscow, New Delhi, London, Paris - any place can be evaporated within seconds. American was trying to prove itself the...

... greatest power in the world. It had nothing to do with the war, they were winning. Now, dropping atom bombs on people who are already losing every day - there cannot be any other reason. President Truman - and what a name he has got. Certainly he was a true-man. We should change his name to President True-monkey; that's where he belongs. Even his military experts were not willing. They told him, "It...

... is absolutely unnecessary, the war has really ended. It is only just a week's work and Japan will surrender. Now that Germany has surrendered, Japan cannot survive; the basic power was Germany. And we are winning every day, so just wait seven days more. And if after seven days the war is not finished, you can drop atom bombs." But he did not listen, because there was some other motivation in...

... military experts, "See? The war is finished immediately. We don't have to wait." Hiroshima and Nagasaki are wounds which have not healed yet. And rather than healing those wounds, America is piling up nuclear weapons. Naturally, afraid of America, Russia is doing the same; they are piling up nuclear weapons. In fact, it is now difficult to say who is more powerful, because about American things...

.... And because these two biggest powers in the world are continuing to create more and more destructive weapons, even small countries - just out of fear, the whole humanity is living in fear - countries which are starving, cannot manage even to survive, which perhaps will not be there to see the third world war at all, they are also trying to make atomic plants, nuclear plants. Their people are already...

... of India is starving, and the wheat is being exported, because only by exporting wheat and other things which their own people need, can India arrange finances enough to make nuclear plants. These politicians should be forced: "Either stop all efforts for war, or get down from your seats. We will find other presidents, other prime ministers." The sixth of August should be a day of...

.... If India becomes independent, what will happen to the biggest army in the world?" - which was in India. "What will happen to your air force, your navy and all your war weapons?" - a relevant question. Gandhi said, "I will dissolve all armies, send them to the farms to work there, and I will drown all the weapons in the ocean. My country is going to be absolutely nonviolent."...

...; India became independent. The army was not dissolved; the question was not even raised. On the contrary, India and Pakistan started a war. The three war planes - the first to go over the Pakistan borders to bomb citizens - were blessed by Gandhi. This is a strange kind of nonviolence. When India was under British rule, nonviolence was a good policy because India could not have managed any armed...

... National Socialist Party, there were only nineteen members - all unemployed, because in the first world war Germany was defeated, and many army people were retired before the usual age. Hitler was also retired, and he was young. These nineteen people were all army people who had been thrown into unemployment; they made this party. And it is a miracle of history that nineteen men managed to come into...

.... This man would not have been the head of the government. There would not have been a second world war. What I want to say to you is: never reject a man. Even if you have to for certain reasons, make it as polite and nice as possible. Rather than making him feel unworthy of you, it is better to let him feel that you are unworthy of him. Then we can stop Adolf Hitlers in the world; otherwise it is...

... - with no grudge, no complaint against the world - then the third world war is just on the horizon. Any stupid politician, to prove himself the biggest one, the one who started the third world war, is going to do it. The trouble is increasing more. If nuclear weapons were only confined to the hands of America and the Soviet Union, there would not be much danger, because both powers are equally balanced...

... prevent them? They can start a nuclear war. And once it is started it will pull all the nuclear powers into it, because a nuclear weapon can be faced only by another nuclear weapon. Now poor countries like India are trying to make nuclear weapons. Half the country is dying, without food, and India is exporting wheat to other countries because it needs money for the nuclear plant. It is becoming more and...