... language is the best, but if it is difficult, then two languages at the most. Simple things have to be done. All efforts that go into war, and all money that goes into war have to be put into technological and scientific development. In this world where there are such big nuclear powers, you should not bother about war. And India should be... she has the opportunity to declare, "We dissolve our...

... armies, we dissolve our war efforts; they have already become meaningless. We can be invaded by nuclear powers without any difficulty, so why give them even a little difficulty? If they want to invade us, let them!" Welcome them. There is no need to fight; welcome them and tell them, "You also can be part of the country. You be here. We are poor, you will have to be poor with us; we can share...

... missing. This is a poor man's hut; the space of course is very limited, but the heart is unlimited." India can stop all its war efforts, and put all its army - which is one of the biggest in the world - to work in the fields, to work in the factories, to work in other fields of creativity. The whole army simply exists and waits for a war. It can be declared that India is not going to war with...

... ANYONE. "If anybody wants to come here, we will be his host and we will share whatsoever we have. He can come. There is no need to come with weapons, he can simply come and say, 'I also want to be here.'" Some country has to pioneer the greatest revolution in the world: a declaration of no war, no defense. Rajiv, being a non-politician, can understand what I am saying. I had said the same to...

... parts of bicycles. The whole world rejoiced - because nobody could have foreseen that airplanes would be used to destroy cities, millions of people, in the first world war. But the same airplanes are carrying millions of people around the world. They have made the world small, they have made it possible to call the world just a global village. They have made bridges between peoples, they have brought...

... the whole of life and existence. According to me, nuclear weapons have made a great war impossible. Gautam Buddha could not do it, Jesus Christ could not do it. All the saints of the world together have been talking about nonviolence, no war; they could not succeed. But nuclear weapons have done their job. Seeing that the danger is so big, all the politicians are trembling deep down, that if a third...

... world war begins the whole of life will be destroyed - and they will be included in it. They cannot save themselves. Nothing can be saved. This is a great chance for all those who love creation. This is the moment when we can turn the whole trend of science towards creativity. Remember one thing: that science is neutral. It simply gives you power. Now, how to use it depends on you, depends on the...

... be destroyed. That would mean the movement of man is curtailed, he falls back into the Dark Ages. Mahatma Gandhi was not in favor even of innocent things like telegrams, telegraphs, the post office, because they were all used in India, in the beginning, to control the country. Slowly, slowly they were changed into public services. Every invention has been used first by the military, by the war...

... should not be in the hands of war-mongers. War can now be stopped and war-mongers can disappear. This is possible for the first time in the history of man. Hence, don't be afraid of totalitarian people. It is true that genetic scientists cannot say anything definitely; perhaps in the future they will be more definite. It is a very new discovery, to read the future possibilities in human sperm. It is...

... that you have to, it simply means it is optional to live together with the woman you love - or not to live together - to love a woman for your whole life or to go on changing in the American way. Nothing is wrong in it. Anything that makes you happy is perfectly good. Amrito, you are worried... it is certainly something to be concerned about. In the second world war, Germany and Japan and Italy were...

... their spaghetti that by the time they came out, they saw that the whole scene had changed. Back they went into their spaghetti. Only Italy remained the same before the war as after the war - but they are very loving people. That is the only country which is fighting for me continuously for two years. And now, the Radical Party has asked me for blessings, "Should we start a movement that the...

... Italians; they will fight, but their fight is going to be lousy. They will make much noise - radical noise, but if nobody is listening why bother? The piesta is being prepared - the revolution can happen later on... But Japan and Germany proved to be a miracle. They are both more powerful than they were before the world war. Their defeat has not destroyed them, but strengthened them. Now Germany is more...

... don't ask individuality, they ask integrity. They want to lose themselves in the name of religion or in the name of nation. There have been so many hilarious cases... One man was found just thirteen years after the second world war, alone in the jungles of Burma, fighting, killing people. Whoever would come he would kill - the second world war was still on. He had not heard that thirteen years had...

... forest, he would kill - the war was on. This was not an isolated case. Three other cases were found also in other places. They wouldn't believe... and once they believed they committed hara-kiri. Now this is a different culture and a different society. These people's integrity, even being defeated... Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroyed completely... Yesterday I was just asking one Japanese scientist who...

... thousands other people's life a blessing, a joy. And I have not divided humanity and I have not created any hatred. I have not created any fight, cruelty, war, violence. I don't represent any religion. I have a religious experience. I am my own authority. The Bible is not my authority, neither the Koran nor the Gita. Those who depend on those authorities simply show that they themselves are just without...

... let it blossom. And see how much joy and how much benediction it brings to you - not only to you, it brings blessings to the whole existence. When even a single individual becomes enlightened, the level of consciousness of the whole universe rises a little. That's why I say if only two hundred people are able to become enlightened, the consciousness level will be that high that the third world war...

... promise but they cannot deliver the goods. And we have believed too long. Now nobody is willing even to believe. It simply gives frustration. Thirdly, the most important thing is the nuclear war hanging over the horizon. That makes the issue of transforming human consciousness absolutely urgent. Either you change or you die. And when there is such a choice... In ordinary conditions nobody wants to...

... structure, another kind of society, another economic structure, this politics or that politics. It is not such a small affair. The question is: if you want to survive you have to change. If you don't want to survive, then it is perfectly good. Let the nuclear war happen and let the whole life be finished. But nobody in the whole world is ready for the whole life to be finished. That's why I say this is...

... to be almost intolerable, but they go on living because life is such a treasure. Just to be able to breathe, just to be able to see, is such a priceless gift, you cannot purchase it. Politicians go on consoling people that some way will be found: "We are negotiating." They have been negotiating for thousands of years, and all their negotiations have ended into wars. But this war is no...

... ordinary war. It is total war in which the victor and the defeated both are going to be finished. And not only that it will destroy humanity, it will destroy trees, birds, animals - anything that is living on the earth. It will destroy every possibility for life to continue in any form. This darkness of death has to be made very clear to the people. Then they can be ready for any change. And the change...

... meditative state of non- striving, non-ambition, non-desiring; if many, many people live in this kind of rest, they will create a vibe around themselves. And the society will naturally cool down. The society goes to war because people are tense, because people are continuously warring within themselves, because people are angry, because people are in a rage, because people are very, very complaining - they...

... and millions of people are miserable - their misery collects like clouds. Have you sometimes seen smoke arising from every roof in an Indian village? That smoke goes on gathering, becomes a cloud, hangs over the village. Everybody has contributed to it. That's what a war is. Rage, violence, ambition, aggression is rising from everybody's roof, from everybody's head, like smoke. Then it collects...

... together, it becomes a great cloud - that's what war is. Then one day you are all surrounded in darkness, in murder, in killing each other, in rape. After every ten years a great war is needed, because in ten years we accumulate so much anger that only war can release it. We accumulate so much pus that after each ten years the world has to become mad, neurotic, so we can release our pus and poison. But I...

... am not directly concerned because that is not the direct thing. Nothing can be done about it directly. That's what politicians go on doing: talking about peace, releasing peace doves. All nonsense! And they go on creating bombs. They talk about peace and they prepare for war. They even say that ridiculous thing: that they are preparing for war so that there can be peace in the world. I am not...

... individual. And if many, many individuals are in the kind of space I call meditation, then by and by there will be no more wars. It is not that we will have to arrange peace protests and we will have to arrange peace marches - all that is nonsense. Have you ever watched people protesting against war? They look so angry. They are ready to fight with anybody. Every protest of that kind ends in a fight with...

... the police. They start throwing stones, they start burning buses. Every peace march ends in war. And you see the people shouting - how angry they are! This is another way to throw off your anger, that's all. They are against war. The angry person needs to be against something - anything will do - but he wants to be against something so that he can show his anger and not feel guilty. I am not in...

... individual has the capacity to turn back upon himself. If many more individuals change, it will be a different kind of society. There will be no war. And you ask: HOW CAN THIS SOLVE LIFE PROBLEMS? I am not saying it will solve life problems, I am simply saying that if you are in a meditative state, problems will disappear - they will not be solved; There is no need to solve a problem. The problem is...

..., and now that science has given us so much energy that if we can avoid a third world war, which is in our hands, which is absolutely meaningless; a war is meaningful if somebody wins, somebody is defeated. In a third world war, nobody will be the winner and nobody will be defeated. All will be destroyed, equally destroyed. It has lost meaning, it is no more a game. So if we can simply make them...

... understand that the third world war is the end of wars, now there is no possibility of war. If you have a little bit of intelligence, and they all have gathered so much nuclear energy that they can destroy humanity seven hundred times, all that energy can be used for creative purposes. If all that energy is released for creative purposes there will be nobody poor. There is no need for anybody to be poor...

..., uncomfortable, sick, without medicine, without hospital. So much energy is ready, but it is kept ready for war, to kill; not to help people to live longer, to live better, to live more comfortably. Scientists have come to a conclusion that every human being can live at least three hundred years. The body has the potentiality to renew itself for three hundred years. And we have been dying so early just because...

... atmosphere, full of anger, hatred, destructions, violence, war. The right to life means there should be no wars anymore. It also means that nobody should be forced into armies, forced to go to war; it is everybody's right to refuse. But this is not the case. Thousands of people are in prisons - particularly young people, sensitive and intelligent - because they refused to go to war. Their denial has become...

... needed. Even to increase the population, Mohammed said that every Mohammedan can marry four women or even more. He himself married nine women. And the reason is war, destruction of life. It is not out of love for nine women that he has married them, it is simple arithmetic. If a man marries nine women, he can produce nine children in one year. If nine women marry one man, this is okay but vice-versa...

... against governments. I am for one government for the whole world. That means no war will be possible; that means there will be no need to keep millions of people in armies unnecessarily. They can be productive, they can be helpful, and if they are merged into humanity, all poverty will disappear. Right now seventy percent of the national income of every country goes to the army and the rest of the...

... the president of your airlines, what power does he have? It is functional. If there is only one government, it will automatically become functional. Right now it cannot be, because the fear of other governments keeps you afraid: "Make your leaders strong, give all support to the leaders." But if there is no war there is no need of anybody having power - war is the cause of power. And...

... unless war disappears from the world, power cannot disappear; they are together. A functional world government - like the post office, the railways, the airlines - will be efficient but without power. It will be a beautiful world where you don't know who the president is, who the prime minister is - they are your servants. Right now they have become your masters, and to keep their power they have to...

... can, because he will be safer. You want him to be smarter, more cunning than the Soviet premier. The same is the situation in every country. The wise people remain out of politics. It is so dirty, stinkingly dirty. And it will remain dirty till nations dissolve and we have one world where there is no question of any war, no question of preparing for war. You can divide history in two parts: one...

..., when people are really fighting, killing, burning people - innocent people who have not done anything wrong to you. In fact, you don't know whom you are killing. Or the second part of history, when you are preparing for the next war. Of course, a little time is needed between two wars, and if the wars are going to be world wars, then at least ten or fifteen years' gap is needed. Now we are on the...

... verge of a third world war. Albert Einstein was asked once, "Can you say something about the third world war?" He said, "No, but I can say something about the fourth world war." The questioner was simply surprised. He said, "If you cannot say anything about the third, what can you say about the fourth?" He said, "The fourth is not going to happen." The third...

... world war is going to finish all living beings: men, birds, animals, trees - anything that is alive it is going to be destroyed completely. And your politicians are preparing for it. The world needs to be free from politicians, only then can it be free from pollution. What is the need for nations? Why can't we have the right to move freely around the earth? This is our earth! Now I have been here for...

... remove all the lines from the map, you burn all your identity cards, your passports, your visas, and you start moving around the world absolutely freely - it is our world - what will happen to these idiots who are sitting on your head? They will create every difficulty. But the time has come to face the fact; otherwise, you are on the very verge of a total global war which will destroy everybody...

... the father, and deep inside there will be a civil war, continuously. They will always be confused. When you come to me and say, "I am confused".... Just a few days before, one sannyasin came and he said, "I want to surrender, but I don't want to surrender also." Now what to do with this man? And he says, "Help me." He wants to surrender. He does not want to surrender...

...; half of his body cells belong to the mother. Now they are in conflict. He will be constantly in civil war; he will never be at ease, relaxed. Whatsoever he will do, one part will go on saying, "Nonsense. Don't do it." If the mother part says, "Do," the father part will say, "No." May not say very loudly, fathers never say very loudly, but the father part will nod no. If...

... equal: a hundred girls to a hundred boys. Nature somehow manages. When there is a war: after the war more boys are born, less girls, because in war more men die. It seems really a tremendous phenomenon, unbelievable. How does it happen? In war -- the Second World War, the First World War -- both the wars have been watched, analyzed: more men are born after the war, the number increases, and less girls...

... are born. Because in war more men have died and the number has to be replaced. The same is in the spiritual enlightenment also: the same number of women become enlightened as men. There is a balance, but women are not known so much because they never become Masters; or if sometimes they become, then only rarely it happens. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... know that Jainas don't call Krishna a saint. They call him the greatest sinner ever because he persuaded Arjuna for the war. Arjuna was going to become a Jaina monk; he was saying, "I don't want all this war, all this violence. I want to renounce this world. This is not worth it," and Krishna persuaded him, "Do your duty. If God has willed so, let it be so. You simply say 'amen,' and...

... go into it. You just become a vehicle, instrumental." Arjuna argued and argued, but finally Krishna persuaded him. So Jainas say the whole responsibility of the Mahabharat War, the great Indian war, goes to Krishna. He is responsible for the whole violence. What have they done to Krishna, do you know? They have thrown him into the seventh hell. Of course, you are free to do so because you...

... your feel. We have been told that human nature is somehow basically evil. This is stupid, this is foolish and poisonous. Human nature is not evil. Human nature is divine. And if the evil has arisen, it has arisen because of restrictions. Now let me explain it to you. You never see animals going to war. Of course there are fights sometimes, but they are individual fights - not world wars with all the...

... crows of the east fighting with all the crows of the west or all the dogs of India fighting all the dogs of Pakistan. It is not. Dogs are not so foolish, neither are crows. Yes, sometimes they fight, and there is nothing wrong in it. If their freedom is violated, they fight, but the fight is individual. It is not a world war. Now what have you done? You have repressed humanity and you have not allowed...

... individuals to be angry sometimes - which is natural. The ultimate total result is that everybody goes on gathering his anger, goes on repressing the anger; then one day everybody is so full of poison that it explodes in a world war. Every ten years a world war is needed. And who is responsible for these wars? Your so-called saints and moralists, do-gooders, the people who have never allowed you to be...

... flaring too, but nothing is wrong in it. It is human and it is beautiful. But there will be no war. Psychologists say all your weapons are phallic. Because you could not penetrate a woman's body, you penetrate somebody's body with a sword. The sword is a phallic symbol. It is beautiful to love a woman, but to penetrate somebody's body with a sword is ugly. But this is how things have been. You ask me...