All over the world people are being tortured.
At the present time, especially
in third world countries,
Reports are surtacing every day of unbelievable
atrocities committed by man against man.
From where does this desire
to torture others arise?
Do such perverted acts stem
from a deep sense of frustration
and the need to take revenge against society?
Please comment.
Man's whole history
is a history of
torture,
murder,
rape.
But in the past
it was not possible to know
about the whole world,
what was happening;
people knew only about locaI things.
Now the earth has become so small
that within minutes,
wherever anything happens,
it spreads all over the world.
The media has made aware
of man's reality.
In the past it remained hidden.
Now it has surtaced.
There are reasons why
man is so inhuman.
The reasons are many,
but the few most important ones
should be understood. One,
all the religions of the world
have been teaching
unnaturaI things to humanity -
celibacy,
renouncing the pleasures, comforts of life,
living in poverty.
For centuries they have been
telling these things to people,
and they have kept the people
uneducated, illiterate.
But an explosion
of the contemporary
world
about education
has created a tremendous problem.
Now people know that what has been told to them
was not right -
it was not according
to the nature, it was against nature.
They are full of rage against the whole past.
The religions have corrupted their minds,
have led them to perverted sexuaI practices.
The religions have put one man against another.
There are three hundred religions on the earth,
and each claims that is the only
ultimate truth,
all others are false.
Now,
anybody who has a little intelligence
can see the point
that there can be only
one kind of religiousness,
unnamed -
just like science.
You don't call it
Jewish science, Mohammedan science,
Hindu science,
Christian science.
Just to call it science is enough;
its rules are universaI.
Religion is the science of the inner world.
Its rules also are universaI.
But these three hundred religions have been
teaching you just the opposite.
They have been teaching you rituals
which don't lead you inside.
They have been teaching you about a God
who lives above
the clouds;
nobody has seen him.
They have been teaching you commandments
three thousand years before written;
five thousand years before - written,
and you have to live according to them.
They have encaged you.
In every possible way you are chained -
not only your body, but your spirit.
Hence, everywhere atrocities are surtacing.
They have been surtacing down the ages,
but the media was missing
to inform you about the reality that
is happening all around the earth.
Education was missing.
Now you are educated, whether you are a
Jew or a Christian or a Hindu or a Buddhist,
in the same way,
the same science,
the same laws.
In every way science has
made whole humanity one.
But religions go on
carrying the hangover of the past,
of dividing man against man.
The violence that they have
repressed for centuries
has come to a climax.
The people want to take revenge,
because they have been mistreated,
they have been
deceited
by the people they have trusted -
by their prophets, their messiahs,
their incarnations of Gods.
These people have been
the greatest criminals.
They divided humanity.
They divided
you,
in a split
between body and souI:
and you have to torture your body
if you want to know the souI.
So for thousands of years people
have been torturing their bodies;
there was the only way to become saintly.
But now it is difficult to convince people
that torturing their bodies
they will become holy.
There seems to be no sense in it.
Man has been divided into man and woman.
Half of the humanity consists of women,
and they have lived
the life of slavery,
torture,
indignity.
They are rebelling.
Man is rebelling against the past
unconsciously.
He is enraged against the whole human history.
And he is so full of
anger, violence,
that any small thing brings it up,
and it starts spreading like a wildfire.
Secondly,
man is tremendously frustrated
because
the leaders of mankind in
the past have been giving him hope,
hope of a paradise beyond death.
Not a single person has returned
after death
and given his eyewitness
evidence that there is a paradise,
that there is a God,
that your acts will be judged -
you will be thrown into the eternaI hell
or into eternaI blissfulness of paradise.
Nobody has ever returned.
Nobody knows anything about
life after death,
and people have been sacrificing their present
for an unknown future.
Now they cannot do it anymore,
they have done enough.
They want paradise here and now.
The leaders
cannot supply the goods
that they have been promising them.
Beyond death, of course, they are ready
to give you anything you want,
but people want it now.
That creates a great hopelessness,
frustration,
meaninglessness.
People have not been taught
the art of living
beautifully,
the art of being
gracefuI,
the art of being silent,
meditative.
Instead of teaching these authentic
realities which can be done right now,
their minds were taken away from the present
to some unknown future -
nobody knows whether it exists or not.
Now, because of people
becoming literate, educated,
they can see
the great deceit.
They have been cheated,
and a great anger is there.
Not only their life but millions
of lives for centuries
have been exploited by these cheaters.
Religious priests
have been parasites
sucking your blood.
Now it is
absolutely impossible
for those religions to exist anymore.
They should disappear gracefully,
and allow a new way of life
which is centered
in the present,
so that something can be done to the human
psychology.
Man has immense capacity to love.
If his love is given freedom,
he will never commit anything
that goes against love.
Man has immense capacity
of being
compassionate.
He will not commit violence
on any slight excuse.
But he has to be
awakened
The religions have been giving him opium,
and for thousands of years
they have made him completely
unconscious.
It was good for them -
they could exploit people easily.
All the vested interests were together:
the politician, the priest,
the pedagogue,
they all were together, because
if man becomes awake
then there is no need for politicians;
he will see them as criminals.
There is no need for priests;
he will see them as
the greatest cheats that have existed ever.
These priests
have been telling people,
"Blessed are the poor. "
They themselves are not poor -
pope the Polack is the richest man in the world.
But
nobody asks the question,
"Blessed are the poor -
so what the hell are you doing in Vatican?
Go to Calcutta and
start begging on the streets -
because if you remain the pope you will be
the last to enter into paradise,
and perhaps you be thrown into hell. "
And the pope goes on quoting Jesus Christ,
and for centuries you have listened,
"Blessed are the poor. "
The rich are cursed,
because even a cameI can
pass through the eye of a needle,
but the rich man cannot pass
through the gates of paradise.
And why people are poor?
Every religion
has given some explanation;
has to give.
The Christians are poor
because God is very
loving to you.
You are the blessed;
he is preparing you for paradise.
This is a test of your trust.
In India, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism,
they have been telling to people,
"That you are poor because in your past life
you committed some grave sins,
some eviI acts,
and this is the punishment.
Don't do anything wrong in this life.
Patiently suffer,
gracefully accept the punishment -
in the next life you will be rich. "
Now this is distracting people from the reality.
The reality is that they are being exploited
in this life, right now.
And the
explanation is really
far-fetched.
In the past life
you put your hand on a candle -
but you did not burn then;
now you are
having a burned hand
Nobody knows about the past life;
and cause and effect cannot be so distant.
You do something,
you hit your head
to the wall
and you will suffer now.
You put your hand in the fire and
you will be burned now.
There is no explanation why
the result
come into next life.
So either
past lives have been
taken as an explanation
to the poor,
to give them consolation
that this poverty they deserve;
or God has to be brought in,
that he is taking
a test of your trust.
Strangely enough... why he is not
taking the test of the rich people?
Why he is against the rich people?
And in Christianity, Mohammedanism,
Judaism, there is only one life.
So the rich person
is born
without any past life
in which he would have committed some
eviI acts;
that's why God has not given him the test
of trust
and taken the opportunity
of entering into paradise.
Strange God
He makes people rich, comfortable, luxurious,
because he is against them.
But why he is against them?
They have not done anything.
This is their only life
Why he has chosen few people to be rich,
and the many people to be poor?
All these explanations are bogus;
and the contemporary mind
is becoming clear about
all these explanations,
that they were strategies
to keep the poor, poor,
and to make the rich, richer.
In a country like India, no
revolution has ever happened,
although the whole country is poor.
Only in the hands of few families
all the riches of the country have
gathered.
The whole country
is starving, hungry,
but they have accepted it patiently up to now.
There is a limit to everything.
Now they are burning.
They know they have been cheated, badly cheated.
So there is going to be riots;
there are going to be killings.
And the responsibility goes
to your prophets, your messiahs,
your messengers of God. -
And finally if God exists anywhere,
he is the greatest criminaI.
To create a world
with so much
hatred,
anger, rage, violence...
This is something strange.
You make something wrong,
and if it behaves wrongly
then you punish.
Who has made you a sexuaI being?
If God wanted celibacy,
there was no problem for him.
If he can create the whole world
within six days,
cannot he
could manage
that man is born without sex, without greed,
without jealousy,
without anger, without hate?
No, He has made a man
full of all these things.
And
anger, hate,
jealousy
you need not have to learn;
they are
instinctive,
they are God-given.
Meditation you will have to learn -
God has not given that to you.
This God must be nuts
He has not given you the most precious thing:
the art of knowing yourself.
In fact, he was against all knowledge.
He prevented Adam and Eve
not to eat from the tree of knowledge
and not to eat from the tree of eternaI life.
Can you think this God
as divine,
who is preventing his children
from wisdom
and from the taste of eternaI life?
These are the two things
that he should have insisted:
"That first taste these two trees,
and then the whole Garden of Eden is yours. "
But this God is the invention
of the vested interests.
The priests never wanted people to be educated,
they never wanted
the people to become
intelligent,
because there was danger.
In their education, in their intelligence
they will start asking questions.
And they don't have any authentic answers,
because all in the name of religion,
they have created is fiction -
and ugly fiction.
Now the new generation
is becoming aware, everywhere,
that this God
has to be dropped.
Nietzsche said, "God is dead
and man is free. "
But the younger generation wants God
not to be dead, they want to murder him.
Just a easy death
does not appeaI; they want to murder him.
And you will see your temples, your
synagogues, your churches on fire soon
Your Bibles, your holy Koran,
your holy Gita -
you will soon see in bonfire.
Man has come of age,
he is mature.
He can see how he has been deceived,
and he has to destroy
everything that has deceived him.
But the priests are very cunning;
cunningness is their profession.
They are professionaI
exploiters, parasites,
because for centuries they
have done nothing else;
they have become very skillfuI.
So rather than
allowing you to burn the Bible,
to burn the Vatican,
to kill the God,
they go on diverting you -
Christians
against Mohammedans,
Mohammedans against Hindus,
Hindus against Buddhists.
And you are so full of rage
that you have lost all reason,
you simply want to destroy.
And they are using this situation.
If they don't use, you will destroy them
So all over the worlds religions are fighting,
nations are fighting,
races are fighting.
Who is creating all this?
The people who have dominated you for centuries
know pertectly well that your anger,
your hatred has to be diverted;
otherwise, they will be the targets.
They are all against me for a single reason -
that I want your rage
to go into the right direction.
I don't want to divert it.
I want you to meditate
and in silence see what has been
done to man in the whole history.
And out of your silence and peace,
if you feeI that something has to be destroyed
because
it has been hindering
the growth of man,
his consciousness,
that destruction will be totally different.
It will not be of people.
If will be of your holy books,
it will be of your holy places,
it will be of your synagogues, churches,
mosques.
It will not be directed to other
human beings who belong to other groups.
It will not be between
Americans and Soviet people -
they both have been exploited
by different kind of priests.
Communism is the latest religion.
It has its own priests,
it has its own holy DAS KAPITAL.
It has its own
holy place of pilgrimage - Kremlin.
It has its own trinity -
Marx, Engels, Lenin.
It has replaced the whole religion.
There is no need for Americans to destroy
Russians, or Russians to destroy Americans.
If we are intelligent,
all the politicians - Russians and Americans -
should be imprisoned immediately.
And the masses can do it
Just they have to be awakened that
who is the reaI enemy.
Boundaries of the countries should be dissolved.
They don't exist on the earth,
but only on the map.
The whole humanity is one,
and the whole humanity should
pooI all its energies.
And we can make this earth a paradise...
You can see this small commune -
only five thousand people are living here,
and within four years we have changed
the desert into an oasis.
We are growing our food.
We are self-sufficient;
our vegetables,
our milk products.
And in four years not
a single crime has happened.
Nobody has been beaten,
nobody has been raped;
nobody
has committed suicide;
nobody has been murdered.
Five thousand people
living together
have pooled their energies.
One kitchen is enough for five thousand people.
Naturally,
it saves immensely
in money,
in human power.
Otherwise, there would have been
at least one thousand kitchens,
one thousand women would have
been just doing one thing.
Now only few women
can manage;
and far better food is provided to the commune
than you can get from a nagging wife.
We are living comfortably,
we are enjoying everything that is beautifuI.
We are rejoicing, dancing, singing -
you will not see long faces here.
And nobody is bothered about God - strange
Nobody is bothered about heaven and hell.
Those are stupid questions.
Why waste your intelligence on stupid questions?
People are concerned how to be
more creative,
how to produce more,
how to make the commune
absolutely self-sufficient,
that even if the whole
world suddenly disappears,
leaving this commune alone,
there will be no problem.
You say, "Everywhere
atrocities
are surtacing" -
please,
include my commune out
No atrocities.
People are so loving, so compassionate -
just need
to be made aware of their great potentiaI.
People are intelligent -
just have to be given chance
to sharpen their intelligence.
The whole world has been
fed
with the idea of belief.
All the religions want
you to believe, have faith.
That destroys your intelligence.
That's their way
of destroying your intelligence,
keeping you retarded.
In my commune, belief
is
non-existent.
We trust
in doubt,
because doubt sharpens intelligence,
it creates questions
for which you have to find answers.
This is the way your intelligence becomes sharp.
We teach doubt,
we teach skepticism,
we teach agnosticism.
Agnosticism means,
be sincere about one thing -
what you know and what you don't know.
And if you don't know something,
accept it, that "I don't know. "
This will be punished in the outside world.
The outside world respects hypocrites.
Whether you know or not,
you have to pretend that you know.
Just the American
guide
have just rejected and expelled one brilliant
young man -
just fourteen years of age.
And he was their best cadet,
he was always first in everything.
Why he has to be expelled? -
for a single reason, because
he was a intelligent boy...
They were filling the form for higher promotion,
in which it is asked, "Do you believe in God?"
He simply said, "I don't know.
I don't know God, how
can I believe or disbelieve?"
Do you see how people's intelligence is killed?
A boy is being agnostic,
and absolutely correct: he says, "I don't know.
And without knowing you ask me to believe?"
Rather than answering him, they expelled him.
Belief in God
is absolutely necessary
for every cadet.
Tricky ways
of keeping people retarded
In the first world war, for the first time,
recruiting soldier's psychologists
suggested that their mentaI age
should be checked.
And they were all shocked,
because the mentaI average
age of all their soldiers
was only thirteen years of age
Things have not changed.
You may be eighty year old
with a thirteen-year-old mind.
Naturally you will find anguish, tension,
worries.
You will find yourself
in a very
confused situation.
Your body is allowed to grow,
your mind is stopped.
From the very childhood
you have to believe in some religion,
in some absolutely
fictitious ideas,
ultimate lies.
And once a child starts
believing in ultimate lies,
he has stopped growing his intelligence.
In this commune and my
other communes in the world,
we don't have a belief system,
we don't have
any faith
in which you have to be indoctrinated.
We are allowing our people
to be as deeply agnostic as possible.
And why fear?
If God is there
and you enquire,
question,
you will find him.
The fear is that if you doubt
and inquire you will not find him.
That's why doubt has
to be from the very beginning
completely erased from your mind.
Doubt
is the method of science.
They are not afraid;
they go on doubting and questioning
every hypothesis, experimenting.
And unless they come
to some conclusion
which is supported by evidence,
supported by experiments,
supported by intelligence,
and you cannot doubt it,
then is it accepted.
And then too, it is accepted
only hypothetically,
because perhaps tomorrow
you may have better instruments,
better minds, better people,
and they may find some loopholes in it.
They may find that something else is more
accurate, more right.
So in science there is no belief, ever.
Doubt brings you to a hypothesis.
Hypothesis means, for the time being
you believe in it -
but only for the time being.
If tomorrow somebody goes ahead
and declares that we can move on,
the old hypothesis is dissolved;
the new hypothesis takes its place
unless you come
to something
which is indubitable.
But
it is a great surprise.
The moment you find the indubitable,
you don't believe in it, there is no need.
It is your own
experience.
Truth needs no belief.
Only lies need beliefs.
The whole young generation around the world
is certainly
in a great angry stage.
But we have to make the young people aware...
because if your leaders who have exploited you
are still your leaders,
they will exploit your anger too,
they will direct it
into wrong directions.
And that is what is happening.
In India, my experience was
it was so easy
to create a riot.
For example, Mohammedans
believe that music is something
eviI,
so before their mosque
you cannot go on playing music -
a flute,
or a band.
You have to stop
playing it, move silently before the mosque,
and then you can start again.
Even in marriages...
In India,
the marriage procession
is something beautifuI to see -
music,
dance...
But if the marriage party
comes in front of a mosque
and continues its music and dance,
immediately
there will be a riot.
Soon Hindus will be killing Mohammedans,
Mohammedans will be killing Hindus.
If you want,
then just
hang
a dead cow
in front of a Hindu temple -
the cow may have died by herself,
that does not matter -
and immediately
you have put the whole city on fire.
Anybody can do it
Politicians are continuously doing it.
Religious leaders are continuously doing it.
Whenever they see that
the anger is turning towards them,
they immediately do some small thing:
the anger has moved,
and people have destroyed themselves.
The other thing to understand
very
deeply is,
scientists have discovered
that every animaI has a
territoriaI
interrogative.
He has a certain territory;
for example,
around him for thirty yards
nobody should enter.
If you remain out of his territory,
he will not
in any way be upset by you,
you can remain there.
But the moment you trespass the boundary line,
immediately the animaI becomes
dangerous.
Every animaI has
a territoriaI interrogative.
Man comes from animals.
You all feeI once in a while to be left alone.
Always in the crowd...
what happened to your territory?
Why you feeI at ease in your home?
Why you feeI
beautifuI
in a vast forest
or sitting on the beach
seeing the immense ocean?
They give you
a vast area around you,
which is something very essentiaI.
But the world is overcrowded.
Wherever you are, you are in a crowd.
And the world goes on becoming
more and more overcrowded.
This overcrowding is one
of the psychologicaI reasons
why people are so
on the edge. Any moment, anything,
and they are ready to fight -
in three thousand years man
has fought five thousand wars.
And everybody is
encroached upon;
and the pope,
the Hindu shankaracharya,
the Mohammedan, Ayatollah Khomeini -
they all go on preaching
against birth controI,
against abortion,
against the pill.
They want
the world to be so crowded -
and it will be so crowded -
that there is not going to be any elbow room.
There will not be any need to go any meeting;
wherever you are, you are in a meeting.
These idiots are telling around the world...
India is fifty percent ready
to become another Ethiopia.
In Ethiopia one thousand people
have been dying every day
for the whole year.
Now it is no more news at all, nobody bothers.
It has been accepted that Ethiopians
die, one thousand every day.
The soon will be the case in India.
The soon will be the case in other
Third World countries,
because they are all growing so fast.
And nobody is ready
to tell these people
that you are teaching simple nonsense.
Pope is in South Africa,
where the birthrate is the highest in the world.
People are utterly poor,
and he is teaching them that
they should not use any birth controI methods;
it is against God
But there is not much difference
between Ethiopia and America,
because here also
Reverend Falwell is
teaching
against abortion,
against birth controI.
And what is their reason? -
because God is sending
people
children
and you prevent him.
This is against God.
But I cannot understand that a small pill -
God cannot remove?
Who managed
to depart the ocean
for Moses to pass; and his whole company.
He went against the law of nature,
he managed
to give birth to Jesus Christ
without his father.
He seems to be a skillfuI man.
He can remove the pill
He can change the nature of the pill so
that the woman who takes the pill gives
birth to two children instead of one.
Naturally, people will stop
taking the pill, because this is dangerous
You cannot go against God.
If God wants people,
he can create.
There are so many millions of
planets around,
so many solar systems,
only this earth is
evolved to the point of human consciousness,
only on this earth have there been few people
who have reached to the ultimate
in consciousness -
enlightenment.
Why destroy this earth?
This has enriched the whole existence,
and the rest of existence is empty.
God can manage any other
planet, any other place.
But no,
Reverend Falwell wants God to go on sending
more people here.
Mother Teresa wants more people here.
Pope wants more people here,
because these poor people
are
vulnerable,
to become Christians, Catholics.
These poor people and their children
will be orphans on the streets,
and Mother Teresa
can gather the orphans
and make them Catholics.
And these people go on
distracting you from the reaI problems.
Now, pope in South Africa...
And the reaI problem in South Africa is
that fifteen percent white people -
who are all foreigners -
are dominating the country.
Eighty-five percent people are slaves,
and the country belongs to them
They don't have even voting right.
Naturally,
the fifteen percent, white people,
cannot stay
a single moment more if those eighty-five
percent people have voting power.
Fifteen percent white people
have all the riches of the country.
South Africa is one of the richest places,
with gold minds, silver mines, diamond mines.
But all those mines are
under the controI of the white people.
And the people to whom the country belongs
are so poor,
and pope is preaching to those poor
to become more poor,
because
from there he recruits his Catholics.
The poor people are needed
because the religions cannot
convert rich people.
The uneducated are needed,
the orphans are needed
because
Christians cannot get
hold of the educated people.
Their own educated young
people are getting out of hand.
Their churches are
empty,
the young generation does not go there anymore.
They need to
fill their churches, their
congregations, and their numbers
from poor countries.
And the poor people
cannot argue against what
they are saying, that God sends people.
It has been accepted for centuries
that God sends people.
Nobody knows about God,
and if he is omnipotent,
all-powertuI,
then whatever you do - any birth controI method,
anything, abortion,
he is all-powertuI -
can't he do something
so that you cannot prevent
him from sending people?
He cannot do anything because he does not exist
These reverends and popes and bishops,
these are the people
who want the world to become
as poor as possible -
because the poor is
ready to pray,
the poor is ready to go to the church.
The poor is
always ready
for paradise, heaven, hell.
He has no guts, no intelligence
to deny anything.
Already he is so much in suffering,
how he can deny the existence of paradise?
That is his only hope,
that after death...
It is only a question of few
years more of suffering,
and then there is eternity of pleasures -
all the pleasures
that religions deny here,
renounce here
Strange argument...
strange logic.
Mohammedans are not allowed to drink
alcoholic beverages here on the earth,
but in their heaven
there are rivers of wine,
champagne,
and all kinds of
alcoholic beverages
you can choose.
Rivers flowing,
not bottles
You can drink, you can jump,
you can swim,
you can drown - you can do anything
Here,
alcohoI
is a sin.
Can't you see
the stupidity of the logic?
Here it is sin.
Those who don't drink
will become virtuous,
they will enter paradise.
And there,
these saints will be rewarded
with beautifuI women
who always remain young,
who do not perspire,
who do not need any deodorant;
they are always fresh
and always virgin.
Their virginity
is unspoilable;
all the saints can make love to them,
they are still virgin.
For your saints who renounced
here on the earth the woman,
the home, the family
and all comforts,
and lived
in poverty -
you reward with these things?
As far as I can see,
these saints will be simply shocked
when they enter paradise,
that other popes are making
love under the trees.
They will not be able to believe it.
I have heard about one thing...
An old saint died.
His whole teaching was celibacy.
And after few days one of his
chief disciples died.
The disciple was very excited
that he would be meeting his master again.
He enquired about him.
People showed him that: "You will find him
under that tree near the river.
Perhaps he may recognize you, or may
not recognize you because he is so drunk.
Somehow we have pulled him out of the river. "
One thing is good: you cannot
die in heaven, there is no death;
so you can drown but you will live.
There is no way to commit suicide in heaven.
"We have just pulled him out.
He is Iying there under the tree. "
The disciple rushed there -
he could not believe his eyes.
He closed his eyes,
because his old master,
naked,
was having beautifuI woman
in his lap,
holding her and playing with her,
swaying with her.
He could not believe.
But then he thought, "Perhaps
this is the reward
for my master's great celibacy,
renunciation,
living in poverty,
torture.
This must be... "
because that type of beautifuI woman
he had never seen.
He just fell down in the feet of the master,
and said, "Master,
you are well rewarded. "
Before the master could speak,
the woman said,
"You idiot,
you don't understand anything
He is not being rewarded, I am being punished "
But the poor people have
always hoped for heaven.
That hope keeps them suffer
patiently;
otherwise, there is no
reason for them to suffer.
Just a little understanding...
The
population has to go down;
and immediately with the population going down,
all these atrocities will stop.
People need space.
Everybody needs a certain space;
that space gives him
a certain spirituaI freedom.
Everybody wants
to live comfortably, luxuriously -
that is naturaI.
But this small earth
cannot support so many people.
Popes, Ayatollah Khomeini,
shankaracharyas,
Reverend Falwell - all these people
should be behind the bars,
sentenced for their whole life.
These people are wild animals
left open into the world
They should be first tamed,
and if they are tamed
they can enter into a circus - but
not into the world again.
The world's population has
to be one fourth of what it is.
Then everybody will have
space, everybody will have
enough -
more than enough;
everybody would be satisfied, contented,
nourished.
And the world needs
only one thing -
not great scriptures,
a simple method of becoming silent,
of becoming
yourself,
of coming to your innermost center.
That center is the temple,
the synagogue, the church.
There is no other church, no other synagogue.
Don't go anywhere. Go
inside, inward.
And there is your paradise, your wisdom,
your eternaI life.
A man who knows his wisdom and his eternaI life
cannot behave the way
people are behaving all around the world.
Every politician should be forced
to participate
in some schooI of meditation,
and unless he graduates from there
he cannot stand for any politicaI post.
All politicians, unless they are meditative,
are disqualified.
If they have any sense of dignity
they should renounce,
they should immediately resign from their posts.
They don't know themselves,
what they are doing there?
They don't know themselves and they are
controlling millions of people
and their life.
My religion consists only of one word:
meditativeness.
It has no prayer,
because there is nobody
to whom you can pray.
You are here, a reality.
Why not go in and find out
from where comes your life,
the source of your life?
the source of your intelligence?
the source of your love?
Go deep inside,
and you will be surprised that hate,
anger,
jealousy
they all exist only on the periphery.
In the innermost center of your being
there is only love
and love
and love.
And it blossoms
the moment you reach there,
and spreads all over your periphery.
And just as when you bring light in a dark room,
darkness disappears,
the moment you bring your silence,
your peace, your love
on your periphery,
all the darkness
that consisted of jealousy,
violence, hatred,
anger,
competitiveness,
disappears.
You have not to do anything about it,
you have not to controI it:
it is not there at all.
You cannot controI darkness.
Either it is there,
or you bring a candle in,
or light a candle which is already there.
And after the light you never ask,
"What to do about the darkness now?"
It simply is not found.
Humanity has only one saving
device available,
and that is
meditation.
Everything else has failed:
Give a try to meditation.
I told you, in four years' time
there has been not any illegaI act.
The reason is, people are meditating.
There is no competition,
no stealing,
no hurting anybody.
Nobody feels himself higher than the other.
And we are not teaching equality,
we are not communists.
Communism is outdated.
We are teaching meditativeness,
and the feeling
of equality arises of its own accord.
You need not have
a dictatorship of the proletariat
to enforce equality on people.
Any enforced thing
is not going to last longer,
because deep down
whatever you have repressed
is there.
And it is gathering more and more energy,
it is becoming a cancer.
Equality
cannot be imposed.
But a loving person does not feeI himself
superior to anybody
or inferior to anybody.
These two complexes,
inferiority complex and the superiority complex,
simply disappear from his being.
He is
just like a tree or a cloud or a mountain,
enjoying his being.
And the moment you start enjoying your being,
rejoicing into your being,
you cannot hurt anybody.
It is impossible.
You can hurt somebody
only if you are yourself hurting,
if you are carrying wounds within you.
When you are healed and whole,
your vision about everybody else simply changes.
You cannot condemn,
you cannot
humiliate anybody.
Your love will not allow
to do that.
Through meditation we have
to create communes around the world -
we have already many.
We have to create in every country.
In countries like Soviet Union, Yugoslavia,
East Germany,
China,
where creating a commune
will be almost impossible,
we are creating underground communes.
There are sannyasins in every communist country.
They meditate in basements,
they read books, they listen to the tapes -
and they are immensely excited
because for sixty years
they have been repressed.
Communist Russia is the only country
where revolution is almost impossible.
Strange fate
of a revolutionary country
where the greatest revolution happened in 1917
But after that,
they say "Revolution has happened,
now there is
no need for any complaint. "
And the moment they suspect anybody,
that he can sabotage the society,
the man simply disappears.
He is killed, imprisoned,
poisoned,
sent
to a madhouse where they go on injecting
chemicals into him
which make him mad;
or he is sent to Siberia
where there are eternaI
snows and he cannot escape,
there is no need even to chain him.
But the youth...
Wherever there is youth
there is always
a romance with revolution,
with change.
Russian youth for seventy years
has not tasted youthfulness.
It has been missing one of the most
beautifuI experience -
of being in love
with a revolutionary idea.
You will be surprised to know that meditation
is for them the revolutionary idea.
In other communist countries
the same is the case.
In other countries which are not communist,
we are creating our communes.
And we want our communes to be models
for others to see that
people can live without crime,
without murder, without suicide,
without frustration.
People can be creative, people
can be loving and friendly.
And people can rejoice
for no reason at all -
just for the sake of rejoicing.
If we can make these existentiaI
experiments available to whole humanity,
there is a hope
that we can free them
from the
long, long bondage of politicians and priests.
In the future, if humanity is to exist,
then politicians and priests are not to exist.
We have to make a clear choice.
On one side is the whole
humanity of innocent people,
and on the other side is
the company of all the criminals
and conspirators against humanity:
the politicians, the priests.
And the time has come.
We have come
to an ultimate crisis
where decision is possible.
Politicians gone, nations are gone.
Priests gone,
only there is one humanity.
And then every university can become a place,
not only to teach you
geography - which is stupid -
history - which is
just rubbish;
but to teach you something very essentiaI:
meditation,
love,
the art of living,
the art of being human.
Each university
should become
a temple of wisdom;
it is not yet.
It is called university
but it is not university,
because it is not universaI -
just a name.
Inside...
I cannot believe it: there are
Catholic universities,
Mohammedan universities,
Hindu universities
It seems man has gone mad.
The universe is not Mohammedan,
not Hindu nor Catholic.
The universities should be completely
free of all politics,
all religion,
but they should teach you
the basic arts of being human -
which has not been done up to now.
That's why there are so many atrocities,
so many inhuman acts against human beings.
What man has done to man
is inconceivable.
Just Adolf Hitler alone
is responsible for killing
at least ten million people.
Joseph Stalin is not far behind.
In twentieth century,
are you going to allow all this
to go on?
No, we are not going to allow it anymore.
Our ways of changing this
world are certainly different.
We are not going to create nuclear
weapons to conquer the world and change it,
no.
We have already
the greatest weapon
in our hands: the meditation.
Spread it
far and wide
to everyone you love,
to everyone you know.
Don't tell anybody that it is
something to be believed in.
Just tell,
"I experimented,
and it is something not to be missed.
You experiment.
There is nothing to lose.
If you don't get anything out of it,
you have not lost anything.
And it is such a simple thing
that everybody, even a small
child, can start doing it.
And it can be done even by the dying
man in the last moment of his life. "
And if a dying man can do;
reach his center,
he will know that death is happening only
to the house in which he used to live,
but he is not going to die.
He will know his eternity, his immortality.
And that knowledge,
that wisdom
is the greatest
richness that one can achieve.
I have been a sannyasin for eleven years.
Never in my life have i been as happy as now.
But when i listen to you lately,
I feeI that i have never really gone inside.
Is this possible?
Not only possible, it is absolutely certain.
Just being happy
is nothing.
It is dangerous too,
because somebody who is unhappy
tries to find some way to get out of it.
You have been a sannyasin for eleven years.
Naturally -
my people are immensely happy people,
and happiness is catching -
you are caught by the happiness of everybody.
And there is no reason to be sad here,
there is no reason to be frustrated here,
there is no reason to be disappointed here.
But this happiness is not
what I call blissfulness.
This happiness is good,
but just good is not enough.
You will have to enter into yourself.
And remember,
entering into yourself you are
not going to lose your happiness.
You are fortunate,
because the person who starts from
unhappiness will have to lose unhappiness.
You are not going to lose anything.
You will find more and more happiness.
And you will find the happiness turning,
changing into blissfulness,
and finally into enlightenment.
You are on the right track,
but you are not moving