FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Strggling for the new man
FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Strggling for the new man
BELOVED MASTER,
JUDAS SOLD JESUS FOR THIRTY SILVER COINS, AND AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS WE
SANNYASINS ARE STILL BEHAVING THE SAME WAY WITH YOU. IS THIS THE LAST EFFORT
OF THE POLITICAL MIND ON ITS DEATHBED?
Man has not evolved as far as consciousness is concerned. Thousands of
years have passed; man's stupidity remains the same.
Jesus has promised to come back, but I assure you he will not come. One
experience with you was enough. Who wants to be tortured and crucified
again? Who wants to be sold by the same people he loved? -- the same people
for whom he was working his whole life, and he sacrificed himself. And that,
too, for thirty pieces of silver.
There is some flaw in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. I am not a
supporter of it. He thinks apes became men in a long process of evolution.
But we have known apes for ten thousand years -- not a single one has tried
to become man again. And if apes can become men, then men certainly can
become supermen, but there seems to be no sign at all. On the contrary, man
is continuously degrading himself.
America is one of the most cultured, and the latest country in the world,
with a small history of three hundred years. But in three hundred years,
twenty percent of America's presidents have been assassinated. Just that
fact shows that America is barbarious. And strange to say that the twenty
percent who have been assassinated include the best presidents America had
-- Abraham Lincoln and Kennedy. They do not assassinate phony characters
like Jimmy Carter, and they will not assassinate Ronald Reagan. They fit
with them. They are as much retarded as the common masses are. Abraham
Lincoln does not fit. He is far above the retarded people.
The average mental age of humanity is only thirteen years. This you call
evolution? A man is ninety years old, and he has the mind of a thirteen year
old. It is because of this retardedness that he believes all kinds of
idiotic beliefs, dogmas, religions. He never questions, never inquires,
never explores. He does not have consciousness enough to go on a quest for
truth.
And of course the politicians don't want him to evolve. The priests don't
want him to evolve, because man's evolution is their death. An evolved man,
a conscious man, has no need of political leaders to tell him what is right
and what is wrong. He does not require any pope, any Mother Teresa, any
Ayatollah Khomeini, any Shankaracharya. In fact, these people will seem to
him retarded.
So all the religions and all the political parties of the world are
conspiring against humanity. To keep man enslaved, the best way is that he
remains a helpless child, always in search of a father figure.
In politics he finds father figures.
In religion he finds father figures.
It is not a coincidence that Christian priests are called fathers.
I have heard: two small boys were playing, a Christian and a Jew. The
Jewish boy asked -- because a Christian minister had passed and the
Christian boy had saluted and asked the blessings of the father.... The
Jewish boy said, "It is very strange, your religion; your father has no
wife, has no children. How does he become a father?"
How do women, nuns, become mother superiors? They are not married; they
don't have children. The reason is psychological: people need father
figures.
Even Jesus behaves in a retarded way when he calls God the father. Many
things are implied in it. Calling God the father means he cannot remain
independent, on his own. He needs a great omnipotent, omnipresent,
omniscient father.
Jesus died on the cross in immense frustration, because all his hopes were
crushed. He shouted at the sky, "Father, have you forsaken me?" But nobody
bothers to think that the father has never promised anything. It was all
your imagination. You create a father, far above in the sky, then you start
praying to the father. And naturally your prayers are mostly not fulfilled.
You know -- because you are a sinner -- your prayer is not authentic. Deep
down you doubt, you are skeptical, and prayer is fulfilled only when there
is total surrender. And that is impossible.
Doubt is something essential, something you are born with. You can repress
it, but you cannot eliminate it. It is repressed, but it is within you and
will not allow your surrender and belief to be total. And naturally all the
religions are telling you that you are born in sin, and you are committing
sin in everything -- by getting married, by having children, by eating this,
by drinking that.
If you follow exactly what religions want you to do, suicide is the only
virtue. You cannot live, you cannot laugh, you cannot love. Naturally, you
know your prayers are not heard, not answered, because you are not worthy.
But you never look at the problem: is there anyone to listen to your
prayers, or is it only your projection? Out of helplessness and fear, you
create the father. And then out of misery and suffering, you pray.
Once in a while a prayer is fulfilled. That is simply coincidence. That
does not prove the reality of God or the reality of prayer.
It happened, once a man used to meet me when I used to go for a morning
walk. He was the only other man up that early in the morning. We became sort
of friends. He told me, "I am a great believer in the monkey god Hanuman."
Indians have strange gods. It is good that Darwin never came to India;
otherwise he would have used this monkey god as one of the proofs that man
has come from the monkeys. Man is still worshipping his forefathers -- and
it looks logical.
But Indians worship trees; Indians worship rivers. Indians worship phallic
symbols -- absolutely pornographic. India is really a museum of all the
bizarre and berserk. It is one of the oldest countries; it has collected
really antique stupidities, and continues.
The man said to me, "I am a worshipper of Hanuman, the monkey god. Hanuman
is a true god."
I said, "You are the first man.... Just tell me a little more. How did you
manage to find out that he is a true god?"
He said, "My son was out of service, without employment. I prayed to
Hanuman and gave him an ultimatum, 'If within a month my son does not get
employment, I will stop worshipping you.' And my son got the employment
within the month. I have absolute proof that Hanuman is a real god."
I said, "You keep your proof and remain happy, but never try it again.
Coincidences do not happen every day."
He said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "Your wife is sick, suffering from cancer. Give it a try again.
Threaten your monkey god, 'If within one month the cancer does not
disappear, I am going to stop worshipping you.'"
He said, "That is a good idea, because I never thought about it." But
rather than the cancer disappearing, his wife died. He was very angry at
Hanuman.
I said, "It is all you. There is no monkey god; it is your projection.
Sometimes as a coincidence your prayer is fulfilled. Sometimes, most of the
times, it is not fulfilled."
But he said, "This is too much. I had asked him to remove the cancer, and
he has removed my wife!" Still he is thinking that the monkey god exists.
People need some protection from above, particularly retarded people. They
have created God. They have created mediators -- the popes, shankaracharyas,
Khomeinis. There are millions of these mediators around the world. They are
parasites, and their whole business depends on one thing: that God should
continue to exist. And I say to you, there is no God.
You are here. If you want to live a life enriched with love, music, poetry
-- if you want your life not to be something like a burden that you carry
from the cradle to the grave, but a dance -- then you have to evolve your
intelligence, your awareness, your consciousness. Nobody is going to help
you, and nobody is going to save you. All saviors are false -- exploiters.
All prophets are taking advantage of your stupidity.
The new man will not have any messiahs, prophets, saviors, god-men. There
is no need. These are the needs of those who have remained stuck in their
mental growth.
I want to emphasize the point that if a man can have ninety years of
physical age and thirteen years of mental age, the vice versa is also
possible, and should be made possible.
A thirteen-year-old boy can have the mind and mental age of a
ninety-year-old man. And that will be the day of rejoicing, when your mental
age is ahead of your physical age. That is the beginning of a superman, the
beginning of the new man, a new humanity.
Then no cowboy film actors can become your presidents. Then millions of
idiots cannot gather to see a football match. Then there will be a totally
different perceptivity about things.
A California university has been surveying for one year and has come to the
conclusion that every time there is a boxing match, violence in California
increases immediately -- thirteen percent more than the normal. The people
who enjoy seeing boxing are really satisfying their own violence, getting
excited.
Why does the violence rate all over the state increase? And they have been
studying only violence. They should study rape and other crimes too, and
they will find an increase in every crime. Knowing this, why is boxing not
made a crime?
It is a crime -- a thirteen percent increase in the rate of violence for
the following whole week. How many murders will happen? And who is
responsible for it? And what do your politicians go on doing?
It is a simple understanding, that boxing should be banned. Can't you find
something, some entertainment that helps to make you more human, rather than
making you more animal?
Boxing is dragging you backwards; but Muhammad Ali, and people like that,
are your heroes. If Muhammad Ali and people like him remain your heroes, you
are going to crucify Jesus. It does not matter whether two thousand years
have passed or not.
Evolution needs a certain structure. It needs a certain education. It needs
a certain sensitivity.
Entertainments should be a raising of your consciousness.
Mikhail Naimy's book, THE BOOK OF MIRDAD, should be filmed, should be shown
to people. Just seeing that film you will feel a great upliftment. The book
should be made available to every library, to every university, but most of
the people have not even heard the name of Mikhail Naimy. His book -- one of
the greatest masterpieces of art, beauty, meditation, consciousness --
remains unknown to the major part of humanity.
What do the universities go on doing? They are not doing what they are
supposed to be doing. They are not creating the universal consciousness in
man.
Even universities go on teaching you, "You are American, you are Russian,
you are Indian." At least universities should stop this nonsense.
Universities should teach you that you are human. Color makes no difference,
and there are no boundaries on the earth. The whole earth is ours.
If all the universities of the world start teaching you to be human -- not
Christian, not Mohammedan, not Hindu, not Buddhist -- there will be a
possibility of evolution. But, on the contrary, there are Catholic
universities. How is it possible? It is a contradiction in terms. A
university has to be universal; it cannot be Catholic. There are Hindu
universities, there are Mohammedan universities. Even education is
contaminated, polluted.
Ronald Reagan was proposing that, in every educational institution, prayer
should become compulsory. In the first place, prayer can never be
compulsory. Anything compulsory is hated. Secondly, which prayer are you
going to make -- Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu? Who is going
to decide?
The proposal was absolutely absurd. And it is good that the Supreme Court
of America refused it. It is a pressuring of educational systems by the
government.
But I would like the Supreme Court to consider again -- not prayer, but
meditation.
Meditation does not belong to any religion. In fact, meditation makes you
capable of dropping your Christianity, your Judaism, your Hinduism, because
now you know the real truth of your being, which is not in your holy
scriptures, which cannot be in anything given to you from outside. It has to
be discovered by yourself. It is your freedom to discover it or not.
Meditation is not religious. Meditation is a scientific method. Atheists
can practice this; no God is needed. Prayer needs a God. For meditation no
belief is needed, no requisite. Meditation is simply a method to enter into
your innermost being and to become more conscious.
Right now, man's consciousness is very superficial. One-tenth of your being
is conscious. Your unconscious is nine times more than your consciousness.
It is as if just on your porch you have a little candle, and the whole house
which has many rooms is in utter darkness. Your whole house has to be
lighted. In that light is transformation.
If a man becomes fully conscious there is no corner of darkness in his
being which is unconscious. He cannot commit a crime. He cannot do anything
wrong -- not because you have told him, not because the BIBLE says so, not
because the ten commandments are there, no. Now he has his own insight.
Now he can see himself what is right and what is wrong. And seeing, nobody
falls in a well. In darkness it is possible to fall in a well. Seeing,
nobody can do anything wrong. But seeing is possible only when there is no
darkness within you.
A fully conscious human being is the new man. We are struggling for the new
man.
That's why I go on destroying your conditionings. My whole effort is to
deprogram you and make you clean -- as clean, as pure, as innocent as you
were when you were born.
You were not born a Christian, you were not born Jewish; you were born just
an innocent potentiality of growth which has been stopped by the vested
interests. And those vested interests are still in power. They are doing
their best to destroy any possibility for human evolution.
My people have to fight for their own sake and for the sake of humanity.
First, become enlightened, and then spread your light to anybody who is
interested.
Everybody is interested. Who would not like to become more conscious, more
alive, more loving, more compassionate? Just models are needed. People are
needed who can create a tremendous urge in others that they can also have
the same joy, the same dance, the same song and the same fragrance.
The politicians and the priests are still not on their deathbed. We will
have to put them on their deathbed. They will resist, but what to do? Either
they have to become part of an evolutionary process or they have to
disappear from the earth.
No more crucifixion can be allowed. We have done enough crime against the
potential growth of humanity. It is time that it should be stopped. But the
only way to stop is: begin with yourself. You should become an example --
that you are neither Hindu, nor Mohammedan, nor Christian, that you don't
believe in God, heaven and hell; that you don't believe that you are
American, Russian, Indian, that you claim the whole earth to be yours, that
you claim the universe to be yours.
It is our home. There is no need to divide it. Division brings war,
bloodshed. Politicians want it to remain divided.
In an undivided humanity, politicians will be out of employment. An
undivided humanity -- then what does the Polack pope have to do? Go to
Poland and become really what he is, just a Polack.
Humanity is the greatest flowering of existence. And existence has given
you a responsibility; it has trusted you that now you will carry evolution
further. But for ten thousand years or more there has not been any change at
all.
It is very shameful. It is ugly, disgusting.
My people have to free themselves from all conditions. Meditate deeply.
Move beyond your thoughts, emotions, and search for the center of the
cyclone. There is a center in each of you -- the very source of your life.
It has to be found.
It should be the goal of your life to find it. Once you are there,
everything will go through a revolution.
All the revolutions that have happened before -- French revolution, Russian
revolution, Chinese revolution -- are not revolutions, just changes of power
gangs, changes from one mafia to another mafia.
The real revolution is only one, and that happens within you, within each
individual. And it has to be done really fast, because the idiotic
politicians of the world are preparing for a global suicide by nuclear
weapons.
Now there are two dangers for the destruction of humanity. One comes from
politicians -- the nuclear weapons. The other comes from religions -- the
disease called AIDS.
Religions have contributed nothing except this great thing, AIDS. AIDS is
born out of homosexuality. Religions -- all the religions of the world --
have been teaching celibacy, which is unnatural, unscientific. And I am
amazed, not a single scientist, not a single medical expert will say the
truth: that celibacy is impossible.
It is programmed in your biology. Just as a woman has to go through her
monthly period -- she cannot do anything about it, it is part of her biology
-- in the same way, man, by his food, by his exercise, by his work, goes on
creating male sperms.
And he has only a small space for them. When the space is full, they want
to get out. And it seems to be logical, because they are alive and they want
to get out into the world and grow and become beings. If you don't give them
a natural outlet, then they will find some unnatural outlet.
If monasteries keep only men, and nunneries keep only women, then naturally
men will become homosexuals. Homosexuality is a by-product of the religious
stupidity of insisting on celibacy. Unless you prevent celibacy being
preached from all the platforms in churches, in temples, in mosques, you
cannot get rid of homosexuality. And homosexuality has come to a climax in
the disease AIDS, which has no cure. AIDS is simply slow suicide.
So politicians have created death for you, and your religious leaders have
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Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
IS MATURATION AN ONGOING PROCESS? HOW IS MATURATION RELATED TO AWARENESS?
PLEASE EXPLAIN.
Yes, maturation is an ongoing process. There is no limit to it -- not even
the sky is the limit. Your consciousness is far bigger than the whole
universe. It is infinitely infinite. You cannot come to a point where you
can say, "Enough." There is always more and more. There is always a
possibility to go on growing. And growing, maturing is such a beautiful
experience, that who wants to stop it?
We are stopped in every way. Even a great scientist like Albert Einstein
has used only fifteen percent of his intelligence. What to say about
ordinary people? -- they never use more than five percent.
Just think, if Einstein was capable of using one hundred percent of his
intelligence he would have given the world unimaginable richness.
And if everybody is using his consciousness one hundred percent, then who
would like to go to heaven and live with those dead saints, dodos,
masochists, whose only qualification was self-torture? -- which is simply a
psychological disease.
If everybody uses one hundred percent intelligence, we can create paradise
here. There is no need to go anywhere. We can give man as long a life as he
wants, as healthy a life as he wants. We can create so much wealth that it
becomes just like air -- nobody needs to hoard it.
Using your intelligence totally, means the beginning of maturity.
Awareness is only a methodology. First, become aware of how much
intelligence you are using, or are you using it at all? Belief, faith, are
not intelligent. It is taking a decision against your intelligence.
Awareness is a methodology to watch how much intelligence you are using. And
just in that watching you will see that you are not using much. There are
many ways awareness will make you alert. You can use it.
Awareness will bring you to your one hundred percent intelligence, will
make you almost divine. And awareness does not stop there. Awareness helps
you to use your intelligence fully.
Intelligence is your outgoing road, connecting you to the world, to the
objects. Intelligence will give you more science, more technology. In fact,
there is no need for man to work anymore, if we can use our intelligence.
Machines can do almost everything. And you need not go on carrying,
according to Jesus, the cross on your shoulders. That is stupid.
Machines can do everything, and you are freed for the first time from
slavery; otherwise, it is only in name that you feel you are free. But you
have to earn the bread, you have to earn some money to make a shelter, a
house, money for medicine, money for other things.
So it seems you are independent, but you are not. The old slavery is no
more there; now you are not chained, but there are invisible chains -- your
children, your old parents, your sick wife, your job.
Man is not yet free. He is working eight hours, and still carrying files
home. Working late in the night at home, working on Sundays. Still the files
go on growing on his table, and there seems to be no end to it. Enter any
office and you will see these people, see these people's tables. Can you
call them free? Just think about yourself: are you really free?
There is only one possibility: supertechnology, which can do all the work
and man will be completely free to be creative. You can play your guitar,
sing your song. You can paint, you can make sculptures. You can do thousands
of things to beautify this earth. You can make beautiful gardens, ponds.
There is so much to be done to make this earth beautiful. Even if there is
a God he may start feeling jealous, thinking that it was wrong to drive Adam
and Eve out of heaven; those people are doing far better. And there will be
no surprise -- if there is a God, one day he will knock on your doors and
will say, "May I come in?"
Awareness will release your intelligence, will make you mature. And then
maturity goes on growing.
Ordinarily you simply grow old, you don't grow up. Growing old is one
thing, growing up is totally different. All animals grow old: no animal,
except man, can grow up. Growing old simply means you are coming closer to
your death -- not much of an achievement. Growing up means you are coming to
realize the deathless, the eternal which has no beginning and no end. All
fear disappears. All paranoia disappears. You are not mortals.
Growing old, you are mortals. Growing up, you become immortals. You know
you will be changing many houses. You will be changing many forms, but each
form will be better than the past one, because you are growing, you are
maturing. You deserve better forms, better bodies. And, finally, there comes
a moment when you don't need any body. You can remain just pure
consciousness spread all over existence. It is not a loss, it is a gain.
A dewdrop slipping from the lotus leaf into the ocean.... You can think the
poor drop is lost, has lost its identity. But just look from a different
dimension: the drop has become the ocean. He has not lost anything, he has
become vast. He has become oceanic.
Awareness is the method to first wake up your intelligence, then to wake up
your being, then to help you become mature, give you the realization of
immortality, and ultimately to make you one with the whole.
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER,
YOU HAVE OFTEN REFERRED TO THE QUOTE, "POWER CORRUPTS, AND ABSOLUTE POWER
CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY." HOW CAN THIS BE PREVENTED FROM HAPPENING AGAIN?
IS A HORIZONTAL HIERARCHY REALLY POSSIBLE?
ALLELUIA FOR THIS NEW DAY.
That sentence is not mine. I have quoted Lord Acton, so a few things have
to be clarified.
I agree with him to a certain extent, but basically I disagree with him.
His quotation is, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
This is a factual experience of the whole history of man. Whoever comes to
power, goes through a great change. A man you have never thought would do
such criminal acts starts doing them on a large scale.
When Adolf Hitler was chosen by Germany to be the chancellor -- and
remember, Germany is one of the most intelligent countries in the world,
seriously intelligent. They are so serious that they cannot understand any
jokes. But there are no two opinions about their intellectuality. They have
given to the world the best philosophers like Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Freud,
Marx, Albert Einstein. In every field they have contributed. In music, in
poetry, in literature. Just one problem with them: they don't have a sense
of humor.
I have heard that if you tell a joke to an Englishman he laughs two times:
first, just to be polite to you -- it is expected, you are telling a joke;
not to laugh is ungentlemanly. He does not understand what is the matter,
but just to look nice he follows etiquette. He is a gentleman, he laughs.
And the second time, he laughs in the middle of the night when he gets the
joke.
The German laughs only once -- that too, when he sees that others are
laughing, so there must be something in it. Next time never comes.
But if you tell a joke to a Jew he does not laugh at all. On the contrary,
he says, "Stop all this nonsense. The joke is very old, stale. Secondly, you
are telling it all wrong!"
Such a serious country, and they fell into the hands of an idiot. Even
Charlie Chaplin would have been better. If they wanted the same type of
mustache, Charlie Chaplin was capable of doing it.
What happened? Adolf Hitler was not a bad man in the beginning. In fact,
the whole country felt that he was capable of bringing the chaos in the
country to an end, he could make the country strong.
And he did that, but once he was in power then his own personality started
going into a change. Now it was not a question of making Germany strong,
financially rich. Now it became a question of conquering the whole world.
What happened? -- and this has been happening always.
So, factually, Lord Acton is right, that power corrupts and absolute power
corrupts absolutely. But Lord Acton himself was a politician. He cannot go
very deep into the psychology of the matter.
Power does not corrupt; it simply gives you an opportunity to bring all
your unconscious into the conscious. You always wanted to do these things,
but there was no opportunity. So you had repressed all those desires,
because they were making you miserable. But any desire repressed remains
alive and, whenever there is an opportunity, the desire rises to the
conscious mind.
Power does not corrupt you; you are already corrupted. Power gives you an
opportunity to realize whatever your desires are. In fact, the people who
have been in power are themselves amazed. They had never consciously thought
about it. It was all in the dark corners of their minds, hiding. But now
there is opportunity; there is no need to keep those desires repressed. They
start surfacing.
So to me, basically, psychologically, power simply gives you an opportunity
to show your real face; otherwise, you are wearing a mask, a nice, smiling
Jimmy Carter smile.
Power gives you the chance not to wear the mask. You can show your real
intentions and nobody can prevent you. And if it is absolute power, then
certainly you are going to do every animal act that is part of your
collective unconscious.
I have to remind you there are three layers of your consciousness: the
conscious -- the first, very thin layer. You can scratch just a little bit
and the unconscious will erupt. Then there is this unconscious -- nine times
bigger than your conscious.
And the latest, and the greatest contribution of Carl Gustav Jung, is that
beyond the unconscious there is still a tremendous darkness which is the
collective unconscious. You have been carrying all that you have been for
millions of years. You have changed your forms, but your unconscious goes on
carrying all those memories.
Scientists say man was born in the ocean, so the first form must have been
a fish. And the child in the mother's womb in nine months passes through the
whole evolution of man. And it is strange: if you take a picture every day
for nine months you will discover the whole long history of each human
being.
First the child is a fish, and at the last, before he becomes a human
child, he is a monkey -- even with a tail! And before he completes the
circle in nine months and becomes a human child, the tail drops. But the
place where the tail was connected to you, the bones which were holding the
tail, remain with you all your life.
That was the greatest argument of Charles Darwin, that man has come from
monkeys. He has just lost his tail and has stood on two feet. And because he
has stood on two feet, he has grown a certain intelligence.
And he is right about it, because all animals are horizontal to the earth,
so the blood circulates to the head, to the tail, in the same proportion.
Their heads cannot grow the very subtle nervous system which is needed for
intelligence.
In your small skull you have millions of small nerves. They are so thin you
cannot see them with your eyes. They are so thin that if you put one nerve
cell on top of another, then one hundred nerve cells will be as thick as
your hair. They are really delicate. Because man stood on two feet, blood
could not reach to the head in the same proportion -- it was against
gravitation. Small quantities reach. That allowed the whole structure of the
mind to develop.
You may not have observed that you feel so relaxed after sleep; all
worries, all tensions are gone. In the morning you feel so fresh. The reason
is you fall down from humanity into a horizontal position; you become an
animal. And an animal has no tensions, no worries. The blood circulation
becomes equal to your mind and feet: that's why in the morning you feel so
fresh.
Seeing this freshness, this morning aliveness, yoga got into a trap. They
thought that if horizontal blood flow can give you so much mental
relaxation, then standing on your head will be really great, because all the
blood will be flowing like a flood, because now it will be in tune with the
gravitation. Your feet will not be getting enough blood, and your head will
be flooded. But their logic was not right. That much of a flood destroys
your mind tissues; they are too delicate for that much blood.
In India, I have never seen a single intelligent Hindu sannyasin who has
been practicing the headstand. They are just super-idiots, for the simple
reason that they have destroyed....
Yes, you will see them very calm and quiet -- just like buffalos munching
grass, so calm and quiet. Have you seen any buffalo bored? any buffalo
worried? in anxiety? in tension? asking about the meaning of life? thinking,
"What is anguish?"
No, for a buffalo all these problems don't exist. She does not have that
delicacy. And the people who have been standing on their head for hours
become buffalos. Yes, you will see them very calm and quiet, but don't be
deceived by their calmness and quietness. They have paid for it; they have
lost their intelligence.
The human child passes through all the stages humanity has passed, and your
collective unconscious has all the memories. You may have been a lion, you
may have been a tiger, you may have been a fox. In your past lives you may
have taken all these forms. That means, if you get absolute power, all these
forms will start arising.
If you have power -- not absolute power -- then only your unconsciousness
will affect your actions. But if you have absolute power, then your
collective unconscious will start affecting your actions.
So it is not power that corrupts; it is that power simply reveals your
reality.
You are asking me, what can be done to prevent it? The only way to prevent
it is that you should enter as a witness, first of your conscious mind,
thoughts, imaginations, etcetera -- just be a witness to them without any
judgment.
And you will be surprised. As your witnessing becomes more and more
crystallized, thoughts start disappearing. When you are one hundred percent
crystallized, all thoughts disappear. Consciousness becomes just a pure
silence.
Now you can move deeper. Now you can turn your witness and enter into the
darkness of the unconscious, where you will find all that you have been told
to repress.
Telling to a fourteen or fifteen-year-young boy that celibacy is a virtue,
that he has to remain celibate until he has come from the university and he
gets married, you are simply asking the impossible.
At the age of eighteen man has the most sexual power. After eighteen he
starts declining. It is at the age of eighteen that he comes to the peak of
his sexual energy, and he can have tremendously significant orgasms. And he
is capable of having three, four, five orgasms in one night. When he was
able to have orgasms, he was told to remain celibate. He repressed his
energy, or he became a pervert. He became a homosexual or he started
masturbating.
But in all the countries even doctors go on telling people that
masturbation will make you crazy, will make you mad. This is sheer nonsense.
In fact, to get rid of sexual energy which is too much, masturbation is the
most hygienic method. And at the age of eighteen, if you can be taught
masturbation with meditation, your whole life will be a totally different
life. Not a life of misery, suffering, sadness, frustration, but a life of
sheer dance and song.
That's what I will teach people. When they are at the peak of their sexual
energy, that is the moment when they can have orgasm very easily. And now
the Pill is available, so there is no problem. Boys and girls should be
living in the same hostels. They should be making love. The fear of getting
pregnant is no more there. Now love is, for the first time, pure fun. And
joined with meditation it becomes sacred fun.
No prayer, no church-going can help you to understand what I am saying. No
HOLY BIBLE can give you the insight.
But if the girl is not available, then help people with masturbation. Teach
them how you have to be meditative. And when you come to a peak and you
explode into an orgasmic joy, watch. Be alert. This is absolutely medical,
scientific, and to me, spiritual. But this is not being done. They are being
told lies: that you will go crazy if you masturbate. Then you are driving
them towards homosexuality.
Girls you keep in separate hostels. Boys you keep in separate hostels.
Masturbation will lead them to madness -- nobody wants to be mad. So what
alternative have you left for them? All these imbeciles who have been
teaching these things drive people towards homosexuality. And a man becoming
homosexual is in a great danger. Now we know that he can have AIDS, which
will not have any cure.
Between the age of fourteen and twenty-five, while he will be in the
university, he is in every way repressed. In the unconscious he will find
all these repressions. But if he remains just a witness, those repressions
will surface to the conscious and disappear. That is the miracle of
witnessing.
When the whole unconscious is empty, then ordinary power cannot corrupt
you.
The third step has to be taken now: to enter into the collective
unconscious. And you are capable of it. The same method: witness. You may
witness yourself as a tiger, as a fox, as a dog, as a wolf -- all are the
possibilities. Different people will come to realize different forms,
because different people have come from different sources.
Just witness. Those forms will start surfacing; they will move into the
conscious and disappear.
Anything that you can bring to the consciousness with witnessing,
disappears. And if you can clean, give a spring-cleaning to your whole
consciousness, to the very bottom, then no power can corrupt you -- not even
absolute power can corrupt you. In fact, on the contrary, power will make
you more humble, more creative. Absolute power will make you a great servant
of humanity, a great blessing to existence.
This is the only way. You cannot prevent others, but you can transform
yourself.
And the new humanity will choose such people to be the presidents, to be
the prime ministers, to be vice-chancellors, chancellors -- people who have
a completely pure consciousness.
I call it enlightenment. All darkness has disappeared and everything has
become light.
The enlightened person will have power, but his power will be used for
sharing love, for creating more opportunities for love. His absolute power
will make him absolutely humble.
Sannyasins have to cleanse themselves. We have one million sannyasins
around the world at least. If we can cleanse just a few thousand sannyasins,
then those will be the people who will be holding power in the coming days.
And they will transform the whole humanity and its course.
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