FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
religion is dead,religio is born
FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
religion is dead,religio is born
BELOVED MASTER,
GOD IS DEAD, RELIGION IS DEAD. THEN WHAT REMAINS?
It is an old story.
First, let me tell you the latest death. Last week in the Vatican a
Minorite monk, aged fifty-five, constructed a machine for masturbation. His
name was Guardiano Alfredo Germonari. Testing the machine, a short circuit
happened, and the poor monk died from an electric shock. He was doing a
great humanitarian work, particularly for monks -- to save them from the
disease AIDS. But it seems God is more favorable to homosexuality and AIDS
than to a mechanical device which is more clinical, less harmful -- unless a
short circuit happens, which is very rare.
Now, your question....
Reading the name, Guardiano Alfredo Germonari, I thought perhaps God died
because... pronouncing all these Italian names, it is better to die. Their
names are so clumsy, just like their spaghetti. At least one thing is
certain: God does not like spaghetti, because there is no mention in any
scripture; otherwise every kind of detail is given.
You are asking me, "God is dead...." He has never been there. This is just
another way of saying that God was our own projection, our own desire for a
father figure. As man matures, evolves, becomes more intelligent, the
projection is bound to disappear.
God has never existed, and his death is tremendously significant. His death
means man is not a machine. It means that man is not a creature, created by
someone; that man has an independence. He is not created, he has evolved
over millions of years. He is existential, he is not mechanical. The death
of God is tremendously significant. It is the declaration of man's freedom.
If God can create you, he can any moment uncreate you. You are just a
puppet. If God creates you, then whatever you are, you are not responsible
for it. That's why the whole humanity behaves irresponsibly. Every
responsibility is God's. If good happens, it is because of God, if bad
happens, it is because of God: man is simply a victim.
God is a fascist dictator, and very whimsical. He created the world,
according to Judaic and Christian tradition, only six thousand years ago.
Then what had he been doing before that -- for eternity? He has a gay
company with him, a very strange company -- and people are known by the
company they keep. The Holy Ghost -- now what kind of company is this? A
son, but there is no mother. This is the trinity.
How this son is born, no Christian theologian, no Jewish rabbi has been
able to answer. Has the Holy Ghost given birth to Jesus Christ? Is the Holy
Ghost a woman? Then he should be called the Holy Witch. Is he bisexual? As
far as names are concerned, all the three are male. This is sheer male
chauvinistic ideology, really macho.
The death of God declares freedom for man and equality for women. With God
in the heavens, the woman can never be equal with man. Man was created in a
special way, out of mud, humus -- that's why he is called "human." Why
couldn't he create a woman out of the same material? There is so much mud,
even in this small commune -- it is called the Big Muddy Ranch -- and God
owns the whole universe!
There is so much mud, but he could not find mud enough to create a woman.
No, just a macho -- the woman cannot be created exactly the way man is
created. He took out one of the ribs of man and created the woman out of the
rib. The woman is nothing but a bone. Now, a bone cannot be equal to man. A
bone is just a bone.
God alive, the woman will remain in bondage. God dead, the woman is
liberated, liberated from a male chauvinistic idea. Man himself is liberated
-- because to be created by someone is very humiliating. Then you are like a
painting, or a sculpture, dependent completely on the artist. You don't have
your own being.
A small child was saying to his friend, another small child, "My father is
such a great painter that he makes a painting and you can see the face in
the painting smiling. And just by a single stroke of his brush the smile
disappears, and you see a sad man."
The other boy laughed. He said, "That's nothing. You must see my mother. I
come home smiling, there is no need even for a single stroke of a brush:
just seeing her and I become sad, just a look is enough.... I was coming
dancing, running, happy, but she is such a 'mum' that to face her you cannot
be smiling. She is a great artist! What is your father compared to my mother?"
If man is created by God, then you are not responsible for your sexuality,
you are not responsible if you commit a murder, you are not responsible if
you commit suicide -- because all these potentials were created by God in
you... these ideas, these possibilities which will one day become actual.
All courts are really against God -- but they are punishing victims instead
of punishing the real criminal. All religions are really against God, but
they are telling you how to behave rather than telling God, "Why don't you
change your way of creating man? If celibacy is spiritual, create celibate
people."
And nothing is impossible for God. If he can create the whole existence,
can't he manage to create a celibate man? Can't he create a man or a woman
who is a born monk, a born nun? He just has to do a little work in your
biology, in your chemistry, in your hormones.
It is strange -- God creates men, women, full of sex, and the priests of
God are against sex. God creates you the way you are, but you are not
accepted by the society the way you are. You have to mold yourself according
to the ideas of the society. God is secondary; the social norm is primary.
And, strangely, nobody sees this contradiction. All these societies, all
these religions, all these courts of law go on paying tribute to God.
Once I was in a court because I had inaugurated a church which was lying
closed for ten years, because the people who used to worship there had left
when the British empire in India disappeared. It was a special church for
English people, and it was locked; it was owned by the archbishop of England.
I told a few of my Christian friends, "This is strange -- such a beautiful
church is simply becoming a ruin, such a beautiful garden is simply not
taken care of. Why don't you start worshipping here? You have a church which
is very ordinary, and this church was made for the people who ruled India"
-- it was all marble. "So why do you continue to worship in a third-class
church, when this church is empty and Christ has been imprisoned for ten
years? Give him a little fresh air -- open the doors!"
It appealed to them. A few young Christians agreed, but they said, "You
will have to inaugurate it."
I said, "That I will certainly do."
So they broke the lock and I inaugurated the church. They started
worshipping in the church; they cleaned it, they tried to make the garden
better. But the archbishop of England informed the archbishop of India to
put a case against these people. And because I had inaugurated their church,
I was also involved in the case, so I had to go to the court. In fact, I had
provoked them to do whatsoever they had done. And the church was looking so
beautiful. The garden was coming back, and it was looking alive.
I was brought to the court, and the judge asked me, "In the name of God,
take the oath that you will speak only truth and nothing else."
I said, "In the name of God I cannot take the oath. Have you seen God? Has
anybody in this court seen God? I have not seen him, and I don't think he
exists at all! Why should I take the oath in the name of God? I can say on
my own responsibility that whatever I say will be the truth. But I cannot
start it with an ultimate lie. God is the ultimate lie!"
The death of God is the victory of truth. It is freedom for man. Now you
need not pray, now you need not ask a favor. Now you need not believe in a
messiah, in a savior, in a messenger -- they all died with the death of God.
Without God there is no savior, no prophet, no messiah. There is no pope, no
Ayatollah Khomeini, no shankaracharya. They are all living and exploiting
humanity in the name of God -- who does not exist at all.
The death of God is an immense freedom, multidimensional. It is not to be
mourned; it has to be celebrated. Yes, I have declared that religion too is
dead. If God is dead, how can religion survive? One lie leads you to another
lie, and God is the fundamental lie. Then you can make a whole palace of
playing cards -- just a small breeze of understanding, of intelligence, and
the whole palace collapses.
Religion is dead. It has really lived too long, it should have been dead
long ago. It has not done any good to humanity, it has done immense harm. It
has divided humanity. It has given different groups of people the idea that
"You are the real people of God," that "You are special; other human beings
are second class." It has fulfilled the egos of Jews, of Christians, of
Hindus, of Mohammedans -- of everybody. It has created so many wars. It has
killed millions of people, burned thousands of people alive, and all in the
name of God. For your own sake you are being burned alive!
Religion is one of the most criminal phenomena that have existed in the
world. It is time that we declare it dead.
But remember, every death is a beginning of something new; every death is
not an end. On the one side it looks as if something has ended, but on the
other side something fresh starts growing. The death of religion becomes the
beginning of religio.
The word "religion" comes from RELIGIO. "Religio" has a beauty of its own,
which is lost in "religion." Religio means an existential, an experiential
phenomenon. The very word means coming to a point where you are one -- one
with yourself, one with existence. The religion which comes from the same
root does not have that meaning. It, on the contrary, makes you split.
Making you one is not its work; its work is to make you schizophrenic, to
put you into a split state, to put you against your own body, to put you
against your own sex, to put you against yourself; to divide you into parts,
fragments, and create an inner conflict in you.
All religious people are continuously fighting with themselves, because
their biology says to do something, and their holy scripture says to do just
the opposite. Their own being wants to grow in one way, but the priests
direct them into some other way.
Every religion has been trying to make you somebody else. No religion has
allowed you to be just yourself. They are all afraid of your being just
yourself; then their function is lost. Their function is to create conflict
in you, to make you miserable, suffering, in anguish. Then naturally you
have to seek help.
They create the disease, and then they start praying for you to be
forgiven. They are the criminals, and they are asking for you to be
forgiven. And whom are they asking? There is nobody.
So it is really a great exploitation by the priesthood of all the
religions. They have destroyed every individual. They have made you
Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, but they have not allowed you to become
just an individual, a human being. You were born not as a Christian, you
were born not as as Buddhist; you were born just as a human being. They have
destroyed your innocence, they have misdirected your life. They have molded
you into something which you cannot become; it is not your potential.
This is not religio. Religio is accepting you in your totality, making you
whole, healthy. And that opens the door to become one with existence. You
are part of it; every moment you are part of it. You are breathing existence
in and out every moment -- you are eating it, you are living it in every
possible way. No man is an island, we are all part of an infinite continent;
that's what I am calling existence.
Religio will relax you. Religio will give you, for the first time, the
dignity of being a human being, and the vastness of being part of the whole
existence.
Religion is dead, religio is born.
Religion is something like marriage: unnatural, arbitrary, artificial,
created by social convenience.
Religio is like love: natural, simple. No law is involved in it; no
society, no culture dominates it.
Love is a law unto itself, and love gives you something that is immensely
precious. You start feeling needed. You are not superficial, you are not
just accidental; you are needed, you are fulfilling some essential need.
Love gives you the first glimpse that existence wants you the way you are.
There is no need to become Jesus Christ or Gautam Buddha. Nature does not
like carbon copies. Existence likes originals. You, in your originality, are
acceptable.
But a Christian is a carbon copy; he is trying to become Jesus Christ, and
in two thousand years not a single Christian has succeeded. In twenty-five
centuries not a single Buddhist has succeeded in becoming Gautam Buddha. Is
it not proof enough? You can go even further backwards. In five thousand
years, no Hindu has succeeded in becoming a Krishna. It is simply
impossible. Nature never repeats.
They say history repeats itself -- because history is not nature. History
belongs to carbon copies, retarded people; naturally it repeats itself. They
don't know what else to do, so they go on doing the same thing again.
Nature is very inventive. It does not create even two persons equal, even
similar. There are four billion people on the earth today, but you cannot
find two persons who are exactly alike. Even twins are not exactly alike.
They may appear to be, but their mother knows who is who; their wives know
who is who. There are differences -- very subtle. Outsiders may be puzzled,
but those who know them closely can see the differences in their
individuality -- in their gestures, in their way of speaking, in their way
of thinking, in their way of walking -- in small things. But the differences
are bound to be there.
Religion has tried a very futile experiment, and almost destroyed humanity
for thousands of years. The death of religion releases you from becoming
somebody else. Now you can enjoy being yourself.
We can call our commune, religio -- a mystery school, a way of searching
for one's own spiritual being, a way of discovering one's original face.
Nobody has to become anybody else.
And you are asking me, "God is dead, religion is dead, then what is left
now?"
In fact, those were the hindrances, which are removed, and everything that
is essential is available now. Now you can be yourself without any guilt.
Now you can be simply a human being without belonging to any organized
religion. The moment truth becomes organized, it becomes untrue.
I am reminded of a beautiful ancient story. A newly-recruited devil came
running to the master devil, huffing and puffing, and said, "Something has
to be done immediately! One man on the earth has just found the truth! And
if he spreads it, what are we going to do? Our whole business is finished!
He has to be prevented."
The old man laughed. He said, "You are a new recruit; you don't know -- my
people are already there."
The young devil said, "Your people?"
He said, "Yes, my people. The priests are already around the man, and they
are organizing whatever he has found. That is my way of destroying truth,
and it has never failed; for centuries I have been doing that. The priests
-- all the priests -- are in my service! They don't know it, but the moment
truth is organized, it dies."
Why does truth die when it is organized? It dies because it is an
individual experience. Can you organize love? Nobody has ever thought about
it; otherwise it would have died. You cannot organize love. Love is
something that transpires between two individuals. It does not need any
priest, it does not need any book of instructions.
When I was studying in the university I used to have a roommate -- he was a
little bit of an idiot, just the same as people are all over the world.
He asked me, "Everybody talks about the fact that he has fallen in love,
and some girl has fallen in love with him. It seems we are the only two
persons in this whole university.... About you there is no problem, because
you don't want anything to do with any love, any woman, because you think
they will be a distraction in your search. I don't know what you are
searching for, but I am at a loss: I want to fall in love. But how to fall
in love? I have been to the university library looking for a book, HOW TO
FALL IN LOVE; there is not a single book on the subject. And I cannot ask
anybody else, because they will simply laugh. If everybody knows how to
fall, then why don't I?"
I said, "You don't be worried, I will teach you. You just choose the girl
that you would like to fall in love with."
He said, "I chose her two years ago, but how to start? The moment she
enters, I become so nervous in the classroom, I forget all about love. I
forget even what the teacher is saying."
I said, "Don't be worried. I will write a love letter for you. You simply
post it to the girl and wait for the answer."
I knew the girl; she was one of the most beautiful girls in the university.
She had been interested in me, but I had told her, "Right now, I am involved
too much in my own work, in my meditations, and I don't think you have
patience enough to wait. But if you can wait, then I can promise you one
thing: the day I become enlightened I will be ready. But not before that."
She said, "Enlightened? My God! How long will I have to wait?"
I said, "Nobody knows. I may become enlightened in this life, I may become
enlightened in another life. Nothing can be said, it is unpredictable. So
the best is, for the time being you choose somebody else."
But she was persistent. So I approached her and said, "Just do me a favor."
She said, "Have you become enlightened?"
I said, "No, not yet. But one of my friends is in a difficulty. He wants to
fall in love, but he does not know how to fall in love. So you will receive
a letter from him. Don't discourage him -- write him a beautiful letter."
She said, "This is tricky. Then I will be stuck with that boy -- and I know
your roommate, I don't want anything to do with him."
I said, "You need not be worried."
And she said, "How can I write a very loving letter to that idiot? I
cannot!"
I said, "Then I will write it." So I was writing letters from both the
sides. And the boy was so ecstatic! He could not believe that just with his
writing a letter, love began.
But then the girl fell in love with somebody else. She told me that she
could not wait, her parents were forcing her: either she had to choose
someone, or they would. "You are my choice, but your enlightenment is a
strange thing," she said. "I have never heard of anybody making such a
condition, that when they become enlightened, then they will think about
other matters. I have to choose; otherwise they will choose. So I have
chosen, unwillingly. I will remember you, but I am getting married."
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I said, "You get married happily, and don't feel that you are doing it
unwillingly. I am responsible for making you sad, and for making you decide
in favor of someone else. I like you, but as far as love is concerned, that
involvement is possible only after my enlightenment, not before that!"
She said, "Then what about your friend that you have been unnecessarily
forcing upon me? He goes on writing every day. And you have made it such a
mess that you go on writing in my name, and I have to post those letters. I
read them and I say, 'My God! That idiot!' And you are praising him and
telling him, 'I will die without you, and I cannot live without you. You are
my heart.' What am I to say to that man?"
I said, "You have simply to say that your parents are forcing you to get
married." And in India it is common, an arranged marriage. A love marriage
is still not acceptable.
So she told the idiot, "What can I do? I love you so much, but my parents
have arranged my marriage. So now I will not be seeing you anymore, and you
stop writing the letters."
He almost came to a nervous breakdown, crying, in tears. I asked, "What is
the matter?" -- I knew what was the matter!
He said, "My love affair was going so smoothly. Every day a letter -- I was
writing, she was replying; everything was going so smoothly. And her father
has disturbed everything. I will shoot that man!"
I said, "That won't help. You find another girl -- there is no problem --
and start writing letters again."
He said, "But I don't know what to write."
So I said, "You do one thing. You go to the girl and ask for all the
letters you have written to her."
He said, "What!"
"You just tell her, 'I need those letters, because I have not been writing
them.' And return her letters to her."
So he went to the girl and asked for his letters. But she said, "What will
you do with those letters?"
He said, "What will I do? Have I to live or not? You are getting married --
I will have to write letters to somebody else. Now what is the point of
writing the same letters again? I can use these letters. And here are your
letters that you had written to me; perhaps you may need them sometime,
because who loves one's own husband? Who loves one's own wife? You may need
them."
The girl said, "You can have both the sets, because both are written by the
same man."
He was very angry with me, but I said to him, "That is the function of a
priest. I have not done anything unique; that is what the priests have been
doing all through man's history. They pray for you to God. They even bring
answers from God to you -- answers to your prayers. They make your prayer,
they make the answers for your prayer. I have been just functioning like a
priest -- only the area was different; it was love, it was not God."
The priests have no function if there is no God. Then there is no prayer,
then there is no holy book, then there is no ritual. The priest has nothing
left. He wants an organized religion. He turns religio into its opposite and
calls it religion.
Religio is a freedom. Religion is a slavery. Dropping God, dropping
religion, I have restored your freedom. Now you can be yourself without any
fear. You can grow without copying anybody. You can just grow into your own
unknown potential.
You are asking, "What is left?" Everything becomes available; only blocks
have been removed, hindrances have been removed. Now you can meditate. You
cannot pray; prayer needs a God. Meditation needs no God. Prayer has divided
humanity, because Christian prayer is different from Hindu prayer.
Mohammedan prayer is different from Christian prayer. But meditation is the
same.
Here, this very moment... if you are all silent, it is the same silence.
Silence cannot have any name, any label.
And meditation is the ultimate growth of silence.
Now you can be silent, you can grow deeper and deeper within yourself,
searching for the center from where your life arises. The moment you
discover that center, there is an explosion which is far more significant
than any atomic explosion, far more luminous. The atomic explosion is
destructive. The explosion that happens at your center gives you a
tremendous energy to be creative.
And it does not make you part of any organized cult, creed, dogma -- no. It
simply makes you a dignified individual, immensely blissful because you have
found the greatest treasure in the world. There is nothing more to be found.
In finding your center, you have found the very center of existence.
You have found eternity.
Now there is no death.
And out of this experience arises lovingness, compassion, creativity. Even
sitting silently, doing nothing, there will be a certain aura of bliss
around you, a certain fragrance around you.
You have come home.
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
SITUATIONS ARE CHANGING VERY FAST, AND YOU ARE STIRRING MY HEART. THERE ARE
CHAINS OF ACTIONS, REACTIONS AND INTERACTIONS. I AM CONTINUOUSLY IMAGINING
THE FUTURE. I DON'T FIND A WAY OUT OR A WAY IN.
PLEASE GUIDE.
There is no need to find a way out; there is no need to find a way in. Just
remain where you are. One has not to go anywhere.
Religio is not a going somewhere, but the dropping of all journeys and just
being wherever you are, whatever you are.
Religio is not a way in or out. It is a stoppage, a total stoppage of all
movement. And suddenly you are where you always wanted to be.
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER,
I HAVE HEARD, "WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY," AND I HAVE HEARD, "FLOW WITH
EXISTENCE." AT TIMES IT APPEARS LIKE ONE OR THE OTHER OR PO. HOW MUCH AM I
RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT I EXPERIENCE? WHAT KIND OF DANCE IS GOING ON?
You are responsible for everything, for every dance that is going on. When
you relax and let go, that too is your responsibility. When you don't relax
and don't allow the state of let-go, that too is your responsibility. So
there are not two different things. There is only one thing, and that is,
your responsibility.
Only one thing has to be remembered: whatever gives you a more loving
heart, whatever gives you a more clear intelligence, whatever gives you a
more integrated individuality, do it. Whatever goes against it, goes against
your own ultimate growth.
These are symbolic. Lovingness, friendliness, compassion, intelligence,
clarity of vision -- these are symbols that you are in the right dimension.
But whatever you do is your responsibility. You cannot dump your
responsibility on anybody else. There is nobody else. With God, the devil
has also died; they were two sides of the same coin.
Now you are left alone with your freedom. Make whatever you can make of it.
I can only explain to you that these are symbols that you are in the right
dimension. If you are going in a wrong dimension your lovingness will
disappear, your compassion will disappear, your creativity will disappear,
your sharpness of intelligence will disappear. So you only have to be alert
and always watching that these symbols go on growing, not diminishing. Then
whatever you do is right.
Question 4
BELOVED MASTER,
COULD YOU PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE FEAR OF FREEDOM? THERE IS SUCH A
LONGING TO BE FREE, YET ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS I SEE SO MUCH FEAR
COMING UP AT THE SAME TIME. IS IT NOTHING ELSE BUT AVOIDING ALONENESS AND
RESPONSIBILITY?
It is natural, because from the very beginning of your childhood you have
been told to depend on others, their advice, their guidelines. You have
grown older, but you have not grown up. All animals grow older. It is only
man who has two possibilities: either he can grow old like every other
animal, or he can grow up. Growing up means getting rid of all dependence.
Naturally, in the beginning it will create fear.
You were surrounded by your own projections, and thinking that you were
protected. For example, you have been told from the very beginning that God
is protecting you. Even small children are told in the night, "Don't be
afraid. Go to sleep. God is protecting you."
That child is still within you -- and I say, "There is no God. You can
sleep in darkness in safety. Nobody is protecting you." But that means you
cannot sleep; you are afraid, somebody is needed to protect you. That God
was hocus-pocus, but it helped. It was like homeopathic medicine -- just
sugar pills.
But if your disease is just an idea -- and there are so many people around
who get ideas; just a slight thing and they will exaggerate it, almost
unconsciously. No real medicine is needed for their imaginary diseases, all
that they need is an imaginary medicine.
In the first place, darkness is beautiful. It has tremendous depth,
silence, infinity. Light comes and goes; darkness always remains, it is more
eternal than light. For light you need some fuel, for darkness no fuel is
needed -- it is simply there. And for relaxing, light is not the right
thing. Light creates tensions, keeps you awake. Darkness allows you to
relax, to let go.
There is no fear in darkness, so the whole idea of fear in darkness is a
projection. Then you need a God -- another projection -- who will protect
you in darkness. One lie needs another lie, and then there is no end; you
have to go on lying.
Certainly freedom will make you afraid of many things. Be alert. Look
deeply into anything that makes you afraid. And you will be surprised that
if you look deeply into anything that makes you afraid, it will disappear.
There is nothing to fear in the world. Then you can rejoice in freedom and
the responsibility it brings.
Responsibility makes you grow up. You become more and more responsible for
every action, for every thought, for every feeling. It makes you
crystallized. It takes away all the chains that have been binding you and
your psychology.
I was staying with a friend; we were going to a meeting which I was to
address, and the man was driving me. He was honking the horn for his wife to
come down, because we were getting late. And I don't like to be late,
because so many people are waiting, and you come late? It is disrespectful,
ungraceful.
Finally his wife looked out of the window and said, "A thousand times I
have told you I am coming in a minute!"
I said, "My God! How can she say it a thousand times -- and still she is
coming in a minute?" But she is not conscious of what she is saying.
You have exaggerated your fears. Just look at them, and just by your
looking at them they will start becoming smaller. You have never looked at
them, you have been escaping from them. You have been creating protections
against them, rather than looking directly into the eyes of your fear.
There is nothing to fear at all; all that is needed is a little more
awareness. So whatever your fear is, catch hold of it, look at it minutely,
the way a scientist looks at a thing. And you will be surprised, it starts
melting like an ice flake. By the time you have looked into its totality, it
is gone.
And when freedom is there without any fear, it brings such benediction that
there are no words to express it.
Question 5
BELOVED MASTER,
ARE YOU AGAINST TEMPORARY, WORKABLE ORGANIZATION?
No. A temporary workable organization is an absolute necessity; otherwise
there would be simply chaos.
But remember that it is a temporary workable organization. It has no power,
it is just functional -- just like the post office. Certainly we need a
certain kind of organization; otherwise the post office cannot work. But
nobody knows who the head of the whole organization is in America, who the
head postmaster general is. There is no need to know; it is a functional
organization.
But why should you know about President Ronald Reagan? That should also be
another postal organization, not more than that. There are railways
functioning, airplanes functioning. They have their functional
organizations; nobody bothers about who is the president. Then what special
status has the government got?
And these people go on saying that democracy is for the people, of the
people, by the people -- but nobody knows those people. People come to know
only the presidents, the governors, the attorney generals. There is no need.
The press and other media should be more intelligent, and should start
talking about creative people: musicians who have contributed to music,
painters, poets. Politicians should belong to the very last category. They
have not contributed anything to existence. It is good -- they have a
functional organization, but they should be put into their place.
I am not against temporary workable organizations. I am against
organizations which become more important than the people they are supposed
to serve. People should always remain more important. Nobody is more
important than the people. The government is only a servant to the people.
And what is there to brag about, that you are the president of servants?
Enjoy it, but keep quiet. And, in fact, it would be very protective of these
people's lives. If Ronald Reagan is just the head of the servants of the
people, who is going to assassinate him? For what? Nobody assassinates
servants.
Organizations are for the people, and they should be liquid, flexible. If
something has to change it is the organization, not the people.
For example, a decade ago they made in Oregon some land-use laws. The
people who had made those laws I don't think were farmers. They may have
been legal experts, but what have legal experts to do with land?
We have changed this desert into an oasis. We have made it sufficiently
cultivable so that we are growing our own food for five thousand people, we
are growing our own vegetables in greenhouses. And the attorney general is
saying that whatever we are doing is against land-use laws!
For fifty years nothing was done on this land. For fifty years nobody was
ready to purchase it. Who will purchase a desert? For what? Then it was
according to the land-use laws. For fifty years there was no question;
nothing was cultivated, the land was simply lying dead -- it was according
to the land-use laws. We have put two hundred million dollars into the land,
we have changed its character -- and we have committed something illegal! It
goes against their land-use laws.
I have invited them, said that they should come here, and they can see in
what way we have used the land. And then change your laws, because if a
commune can transform a desert into an oasis, it has proved its point. No
argument is needed; we have existentially proved our point. You come and
see, and then change your laws, because laws are for men, and men are not
for laws.
This is the difference between a functional organization and the
organizations that exist in the world today. All organizations should be
only temporary and functional. And man should be the criterion, not the
laws. Why are those laws made? -- to serve man.
But these servants become great leaders, and their laws become something...
as if they are ultimate laws and they cannot be changed, like gravitation.
Your laws are made by people -- and by people who know nothing about land
use. The attorney general of Oregon -- what does he know about land use? And
finally he got defeated in the court. We have been victorious in the case.
Now he has another case in the court: he says the city is illegal because
state and religion are mixed here. Again, I would like to know how much
religion he knows, how much he has meditated. To what stage of meditation
has he reached? I give him an open challenge. I want to discuss openly with
him what religion should mean.
Now we have buried the religion, burned it completely. Now there is no
religion here. Nobody can say that religion is being mixed with the state:
religion does not exist here anymore. But he has not even the guts to
withdraw his case.
But he will be defeated again, because we have withdrawn the whole
functional temporary organization of religion.
That does not mean that you become enemies of religion. That does not mean
that you become irreligious. It simply means we have left religion far
behind. Now we declare ourselves religio, a school of mystics, a commune of
meditators. And there is no law against religio, meditation, spirituality.
Now we have to see him in the court.
We are not a religion like Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism. We have left
them all behind, far behind.
We are individuals, seekers living together because our search is one. Our
paths are individual.
I am not against temporary organizations, workable -- they will be needed.
Whenever there is more than one person, some kind of organization is needed.
Even with just two persons -- wife and husband -- some kind of organization
is needed. Who is going to wake up first and bring a cup of tea? Naturally,
it is the husband! But some functional organization is needed.
Question 6
BELOVED MASTER,
THE STORIES AND ACCUSATIONS BEING PUT OUT BY YOU LATELY AGAINST SHEELA AND
HER GROUP ARE GETTING SO OUTRAGEOUS THAT I DO HAVE A HARD TIME BELIEVING
THEM ANYMORE. AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE MAFIA WAS BAD.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FORMERLY "ONLY CRIME-FREE CITY" OF THE WORLD?
It is again free of crime!
Okay?
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