... your life according to your own insight, you live your life according to your own intuition. And you will be able to die. A life of fulfillment always ends in a death of tremendous revolution. Death is no more there, you enter into eternity; death becomes a door, not an end. But it is a door only for the real; for the unreal it is an end. Before you go on the marathon race to find yourself, just for...

... your desires. And your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death. Life is a misery, a struggle, an anguish and it finally ends in death, which is simply darkness. Nobody knows what happens after death. Zen is not for those who are...

... serious. Zen is only for those who can take life as fun. This looks strange because religion has always been thought to be a serious phenomenon. Zen has taken a departure from that attitude. It takes life as fun, and not only life but death too. The moment you start seeing life as nonserious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything...

... elephant... even in death an elephant is worth thousands of rupees, just his bones. Man in his death is so useless and so disgusting that people are in a hurry to take him to the funeral pyre. His family are crying and the neighbors are preparing the stretcher on which the dead man is to be carried to the burning ghats. They are in a hurry; the sooner it is finished the better. Otherwise this crying and...

..., "It is up to you, but remember the day you die that I have told you life is very short and the world is very big. Most probably you will die before you have conquered the world." And Diogenes was right, Alexander died at the age of only thirty-three, and the last memory in his mind was of Diogenes: "That wise man told it right. Even his dog agreed by waving his tail, 'You are right. If...

... in the middle. To be exactly in the middle is to transcend the extremes, right and wrong, dark and light, day and night, life and death, good and bad. Just be in the middle, exactly in the middle and you have flown to the beyond. The beyond begins from the middle, never from the extreme. That's the point he is trying to make. He is saying, "Good, if you want to purchase me, DON'T MAKE ME DEAR...

... able also to make death a fiction. His life will be simply a dance of love , of gratitude, of peace, of silence. That is the whole work of Zen, a great point of departure from the old traditional religions. A Zen poet, Sekiso, wrote: WITH YOUR TALL, GOLDEN STAFF TINKLING, YOU HAVE COME ALL THE WAY DOWN. TALKING FOR DAYS ABOUT THINGS NOT OF THE WORLD, YOUR WORDS HAVE BEEN ALL WE NEEDED. SUMPTUOUS THE...

...;Unless you are born again, you will not enter into the kingdom of God." What does he mean when he says, "Unless you are born again"? He means, first you have to die, and after death is resurrection. As the ego dies it allows space for your authentic being to blossom. On the grave of your ego blossoms the lotus of your being. But remember, you have to change your statement because in this...

... attraction, very subtle. Things don't move toward him but souls move, consciousnesses move, life forces move. It is his presence that gives you the proof that not-being is not death, not-being is the ultimate in life. But remember, Milarepa, not-being is the first thing; that is your meditation, that is your death. Out of this meditation, out of this death, out of this nothingness will arise your original...

... used to cook food for him, wash his clothes, fetch vegetables from the market. The boy himself had become slowly, slowly old and for his whole life he had been listening to the old man, who had lived almost one hundred years, and without exception the denial: nobody is worthy! "I will die," he said, "without initiating anyone, but I will not initiate anyone who is nondeserving."...

... this evening as the sun sets I am going to die." His companion said, "But what about worthiness?... I don't know who is worthy and who is not worthy. Who have I to bring?" The old man said, "Don't worry at all. It was only a device, because I myself was not worthy to initiate anyone, but it was against my dignity to say so. So I chose the other way round. I was saying, 'Unless I...

...?" Somebody has gone bankrupt and was thinking to commit suicide; now he thinks that this is better than suicide. A few had come just out of curiosity. They had no other work; they were playing jazz and they thought, "We can play jazz tomorrow, but today there is no harm, let us see what this initiation is. Anyway, that man is going to die by the evening so we will be free to remain disciples...

... people, particularly strangers who didn't know that a dangerous man lived behind the hills. The guards told Gautam Buddha, "That is not the road to be used. You will have to take a little longer route, but it is better to go a little longer than to go into the mouth of death itself. This is the place where Angulimal lives. Even the king has not the guts to go on this road. That man is simply mad...

...: either I will change him, and I cannot miss this challenge; or I will provide him with one finger so that his desire is fulfilled. Anyway I am going to die one day. Giving my head to Angulimal will be at least of some use; otherwise one day I will die and you will put me on the funeral pyre. I think that it is better to fulfill somebody's desire and give him peace of mind. Either he will kill me or I...

... immensely satisfied that at least my death fulfills somebody's desire; my life has been useful, my death has also been useful. But before you cut my head I have a small desire, and I think you will grant me a small desire before killing me." Before death even the hardest enemy is willing to fulfill any desire. Angulimal said, "What do you want?" Buddha said, "I want you just to cut...

... the tree." Angulimal said, "I was thinking from the very beginning that you are crazy. Now this is the craziest desire. How can I put this branch back?" Buddha said, "If you cannot create, you have no right to destroy. If you cannot give life, you don't have the right to give death to any living thing." A moment of silence and a moment of transformation... the sword fell...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [A sannyasin said that he would like to return to the West for a short period as his father had died two days ago and he felt he would be needed at home.] Help them, because they will need you. Death is a great experience. If you don't know how to use it you can be destroyed by it. If you know how to use it, it can transform your whole being. It can...

... become a mutation because it is tremendously important. There is nothing more important than death in life, except love. When death happens and some beloved one is gone, a great emptiness is left behind in the hearts of those who loved him. That space can be used... it can become a new direction of life. Or if you don't use it you will fill it with rubbish again. It is very difficult to find a gap in...

... your continuity. When death comes the gap is available. When somebody dies, it is not only he that is dying; if you loved him, something in you also dies simultaneously. When he disappears, suddenly you feel an emptiness inside. That emptiness can become a very sad thing if not used creatively. One can feel that the whole life has lost meaning, purpose, direction. One can start living in a dead way...

..., drifting and just waiting for death. Life can become a very very heavy affair. But that space can be used. It can become meditative... it can become an inward journey. You can find something opening within yourself. When death happens outside, you can close your eyes and meditation will be very easy in those moments because thinking stops. Death is such that you cannot think about it. There is nothing to...

... think about. It is shock, and such a great shock that all the old patterns of thinking simply disperse. For a few moments, for a few days - it depends on how much you loved the person - the shock continues to function within you. It shatters thinking. Those are the moments that you can go beyond thinking very easily. You can ride on the wave of no-thought that death has created within you. Ordinarily...

... force. So go - and go with this idea that your family needs not only you but something that you have learned here about meditation. They will be ready to listen because these moments are fragile. Tell them to weep and cry; not to prevent it. Tell them to be as sad as they can be and not to escape from it but to face it. Death is a reality - it has to be faced. No need to console them; let them pass...

... you will not be able to bear it. It will be too much - too much like death. Sometimes it has happened that a few people have gone mad because the gap opened too suddenly and they were not ready for it. It is a tremendous insight into the unknown. It will shatter all that you know. It will shatter all the society that you belong to. It will shatter all your relationships. It will uproot you...

... believed that this man is immortal. Stalin, man of steel, he cannot die! But men of steel, whatever your conception may be, have to follow nature: he died. For a few days they delayed informing the world. In fact they could not believe it, but finally they had to accept that Stalin was dead. The same happened with Mao Tse-tung. His death was not immediately reported to the world because he had become a...

... RESURRECTION. HE WAS RECENTLY QUOTED AS SAYING, "EITHER GOD DOES NOT EXIST OR ELSE HE MUST ESTABLISH HIS OWN EXISTENCE." IS THE RESURRECTION OF CHRISTIANITY ANY MORE LIKELY THAN THAT OF A JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF? The resurrection of Jesus Christ may be possible, but not the resurrection of Christianity. In fact Jesus never died on the cross. It takes at least forty-eight hours for a person to die on...

..., amongst the followers of Jesus, became significant. So I say a kind of resurrection certainly happened -- it was a conspiracy more than a resurrection. But certainly Jesus did not die on the cross, he did not die in the cave where he was put; he lived long enough. But Christianity cannot even conspire to revive itself, to resurrect itself. There is a great movement among Christian theologians, and they...

... Lazarus. A man who has died, a man who has gone through the process of death to the beyond, who comes back, cannot be the same. Lazarus would have become a great master, but he remained the same person -- no change at all. In a similar situation Gautam Buddha behaves differently, and I think that is the way any wise man will behave. A woman, Krishagautami, had only one son. Her husband had died, her...

... other children had died; she had seen death in its brutal ugliness. Only one son remained, and she was living only for him; otherwise there was nothing for her to live for. She wanted to kill herself; she had lost everything -- all those people she had loved and lived for. But her neighbors suggested, "One son is alive -- without you he will also be dead. Take care of him. We understand your...

...;Royal or not royal, death makes no difference. My father has died, my son has died, and an unaccountable number of people must have died in my family before I was born. You have to forgive me; I can give you anything you want, but that condition cannot be fulfilled." The whole day going round the city, the woman became alert of a fact... death is inevitable, today or tomorrow. After seeing the...

... Lazarus becomes alive he remains Lazarus, and one day he will die again, so what is the point? But Christianity has depended on these miracles in proving its superiority over other religions; in fact those religions are far superior, because they don't depend on such stupid, childish ideas. So there are theologians who are ready to drop all miracles. But if you drop all miracles then Jesus is left naked...

... only skeletons, stinking of death, not the fragrance of immortality. But the believer is such that he goes on believing, because his belief is basically for a reason: he is afraid that perhaps they are dead, and then what about him? And that stops him -- the idea that they are dead. Do you see the point? He cannot accept that Sri Aurobindo and the mother are dead because that means he will have to...

... die -- and he does not want to die. That's why he has come and lived there for years, waiting for the secret to be revealed. He will wait: "They are asleep and working." Desperate efforts... and they happen only when something is really gone and you don't have it. Then you get into a frenzy of creating some way that you can continue to believe in it. For example, THE BIBLE believes that...

... when I will not be here to answer. So find out all the possible angles and questions, so that anybody, even in the future when I am not here, who has a question can find an answer in my words. To us it is a play. To somebody it may become really a question of life and death. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, QUESTIONS SEEM TO BE THE OFFSPRING OF THE CAPACITY TO DOUBT; AND DOUBT, THE SPARK OF AN ALIVE AND...

... goes on opening new doors to new mysteries. Each moment becomes a moment of discovery - and it is an unending process. You have attempted so many times to commit suicide. This time you commit suicide my style. And anyway, you have failed so much that you must have become very much of an expert in failing. And deep down you don't want to die because you are afraid of death - which is natural. Why...

... DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU AT ALL. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME? Much is the matter with you. There are half a million sannyasins around the world. Everybody wants the same thing you are asking, that he should possess me totally, that there should be nobody else who shares me. But please, think of me too. Just you and me.... Are you bent upon boring me to death? And remember, this is the desire of every...

..., you get it as an experience. And with that mystery you also become a mystery. This is not ignorance, this is innocence. You become the child. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE A NUMBER OF TIMES, AND I FEEL REALLY ATTRACTED TO DEATH. THIS DISTURBS ME, BUT AT THE SAME TIME GIVES ME JOY. WILL YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT? This is great! One can commit suicide only once, and you have...

... that there is fear about death and there is also a certain joy. This is not only your situation. It is a very common human phenomenon. Life is a torture, a burden; it is anguish. One wants to get rid of it. To get rid of it means getting rid of all the anguish, the despair, the hopelessness, the meaninglessness - this wife, this husband, these kids, this job. Hence there is an attraction towards...

... death, because death will put an end to all your misery. But it will also put an end to you - that creates fear. You really want to live, and live forever, but you want to live in paradise. And you are living in a hell! You want to get rid of the hell, you don't want to get rid of yourself. And I want to emphasize that you are your own hell. So suicide is attractive from one side in that it will put...

... an end to all your miseries, but on the other hand there is a great fear: it will finish you too. Isn't there some way that the miseries can be finished and you can live more intensely? I also teach you that a certain suicide can help you - the suicide of the ego, not of you. Let the ego die, and then see that with it all problems disappear. You are left full of joy, blessedness, and each moment...

...;that you could not conceive yourself walking uphill to the department. And to the peon who jumped and took hold of you, you said, 'I am grateful to you. I was just going to fail, to collapse.' Now this is a simple idea," I told him, "that has been implanted in you." Now do you see the point? This man can even die, you just have to keep on going. I was only proving a point on which he...

... was not agreeing, so this was only an argument - I did not want him to die. Otherwise, I would have talked to the doctor and had him say to him, "Your days are finished, so whatever you want to do - write your will or anything - do it quickly. It is not something that I can help with, your heart is simply finished; any moment it is going to stop." I could have killed that man just by an...

... push me towards death?" He was very angry with his wife. He said, "I can think that he persuaded other people - he has everybody impressed by him - but I cannot believe that my own wife deceived me, listened to him. We were in an argument; it was a question of my prestige, and you destroyed it!" But the wife said, "You should be grateful to him. He has given proof that man can be...

... that have made you almost dull, stupid, even attracted towards suicide, towards death. My religion is unique in this way: all the religions of the past have programmed people; I deprogram you, and then I leave you alone, to yourself. People have been asking me, "What is your religion? What is your philosophy? Can't you give us something like a Christian catechism so we can understand that these...

... energy that you can make the whole earth live in luxury. Or you can create Hiroshima and Nagasaki - thousands of people dead within seconds. But because atomic energy, after its invention, went into the hands of the politicians, it became a servant of death. Now there are even more advanced nuclear weapons which can destroy the whole earth. The already existing weapons are enough to destroy this earth...

... strong. This is simple; there is nothing in it against nature. But with politicians and the power in their hands, of course every advance has gone against nature. Everything that human genius has discovered, invented, finally is in the service of death. So are the priests. Now science is no longer a child, that it has to depend on others. Science is now grown-up enough, it is adult. Just a little...

..., they were also waiting for her death. They had said that there was no cure, but she could go on prolonging. She was very old. And it often happens that young people can die quickly, because death also needs a certain energy. Old people, very old people who should have died long before, don't even have the energy to die. They simply go on pulling. They have become so habituated to life, they have...

... forgotten to die. In fact, what had to happen long before has not happened - they have missed their date. And perhaps, in the bureaucracy of death, everybody has forgotten their file, too. You know that as you go on longer in life, you will find that fewer people die. For example, at ninety, less people die than at seventy-five. At one hundred, even fewer people die. At one hundred and ten, rarely does...

... the purpose of showing mourning about your uncle's sister's death, because I don't feel like crying or weeping. I had no feeling for that woman. In fact, she was an unnecessary burden, she was of no use to anybody. Everybody feels relieved but nobody can say that. We have to cry and weep when relatives come to show mourning." This continues in India for almost a month. So she said, "I...

... prayer has been heard. Everybody wanted her to die, because everybody was tired and she was going on and on. One day, I did not ring the bell and one of the relatives entered into the house. She was watching television and laughing and enjoying. She was alone in the room and this man entered from the back. He was very much shocked. He said, "I had never thought that I would have to see this."...

... out and he lit another cigarette - he did not think that I belonged to the family. I lived in the house but he was not aware of the fact. And he started singing a film song and went away. I said to her, "Stop all this nonsense! Just simply say that you are relieved." That woman had been suffering unnecessarily, there was no cure. Everybody was waiting for her death; the doctors were tired...

... somebody ever die. At one hundred and twenty, nobody dies - the file is forgotten, the man has forgotten to die. So here everybody was relieved and still just kept showing a face which was not authentic. This whole society has been created around a certain idea that is basically hypocritical. Here you have to be what others expect you to be, not what you are. That's why everything has become false, phony...

... into it, and then you are absolutely relaxed. Then you can move into it and out of it just like you move in and out of your house: you never wonder whether to go out or not, whether to go in or not. Your inner being is your greater life. Death can happen outside, but not inside. Even when people die, they die only on the outside; the inside is immortality. And madness happens through thinking...

... only when you are not. It is hoping against hope - but I still hope that the danger of global death will be the shock which awakens humanity. If man survives after this century, it will be a new man and a new humanity. One thing is certain: Either man has to die or man has to change. I cannot think that man will choose to die. The longing for life is so great... just to think that the earth has...

... people go on searching in the scriptures of ancient days, in philosophies... and what they find is mere words. Those words don't bring you a dance; those words bring you a kind of death. Those words don't bring you fragrance, but only the stink of the old scriptures - rotten. They can give you beautiful systems, but all without any foundation. I call it an open secret because it has always been known...

... mountain in his hands. I was surprised: they would repeat the HANUMAN CHALISA and they would gather courage and rush violently - and just on the brink they will stop, as if an invisible wall is there. I would say, "What happened?" They said, "This is too deep... and unnecessarily one may get fractures or one may even die." But I said, "You have seen me jumping...." They said...

... extraordinary; not that they were extraordinary - hence they could jump. The reality is just vice-versa. And slowly, slowly I persuaded those people.... A few of them jumped, and they said, "Really there is no problem. But it looked so fearsome... almost like death. But you are so persistent that we started feeling that we must be very cowardly, afraid, that we don't have any life in us. So we thought...

... that at the most, death can happen - and who bothers once death has happened? There is no problem... we will not be here." But once they jumped... then they started jumping from even higher peaks. The railway bridge was the highest on the bank, and a policeman used to stand there twenty-four hours a day with his machine gun, because that place was used for committing suicide. After examinations...

.... And he said, "This is strange, nobody died. And I have seen people dying...." I said, "... because they wanted to die. To us, it is a challenge of life; to them it was not." The open secret is a subtle boundary. Everybody comes close to it and feels that if he goes one step further, madness is going to happen. I have seen Kavisho getting almost to the brink... and then holding...

... sometimes starts crying.... But I don't care at all; I go on doing my thing! Just to avoid me, sometimes she sits on this side; when she gathers courage, she sits on that side. Yes, Kavisho, this is the open secret. Today, try to go into it. I am here; don't be worried. I have gone more deeply into it than anyone else: no madness happens, no insanity happens, no death happens. Just once you have to go...

... to die at your hands, joyfully." He had asked his master, "Don't you judge me, that I am doing something sinful?" The master said, "Those who judge don't understand life. Somebody has to be a butcher; somebody has to chop the wood; somebody has to be a thief - because people go on gathering money." The thief is nothing but a practical socialist. A deep understanding will...

..., "This man looks strange. Shaven head, orange clothes, with a begging bowl in his hand. I have never seen such a type. What is his profession?" The charioteer said, "He has renounced all professions. He is a sannyasin. He is a seeker of truth. Realizing that life one day becomes death, he wants to know, 'Is there something within us which does not die? Or does everything die?' He is on a...

... he died. But ambition is such a thing that this old man tried to commit suicide, because with the death of the son all his ambitions had failed again. I told him, "You have another son. Give him a try. You have all the best connections in the country, from the lowest to the highest. It is just very easy for you." And suddenly I could see his eyes shine again, as if life returned to him...

.... He said "Yes, I had never thought about it. I was thinking simply to die, because what is the point of living? I missed, my son has died." So he managed that his second son enter into the same post; he became the deputy minister. But neither of his sons had the ability to be politicians. They were his sons, just as stupid as he was, perhaps a little more. And you will be surprised that...

...; He was sitting with a pile of telegrams from all the ministers and governors -- India has thirty states and chief ministers -- and he was showing them to everybody who was coming. I told him, "You don't seem to be interested in the death of the son. You are more interested in these telegrams." Just one man had not sent him a telegram, and about that he was feeling very much hurt. He was...

.... But it was not true that he had made the man. That man was capable to reach the post, any post, on his own. He was a very ambitious, very cunning, very clever man. He used him, he used all his friendships with all the great politicians. And I said, "You are so much interested in telegrams, and you are not interested in the death of your son. Can you understand that you have lived your whole...

... thought about my son-in- law." He had only one daughter and two sons. And because he was so rich the daughter was living with him, and the son-in-law also. I said, "He lives with you. He is just like a son to you. Make arrangements, make him deputy minister in the cabinet somewhere and see whether he dies or not. Then we will think.... Why did these two sons die? It seems they were not capable...

... of withstanding the political pressures, challenges, worries. They were both young and there was no need to die so soon. There was no reason except that politics proved poisonous to them. Let us try this one." And he tried. And this time things went well. The man became deputy minister and Seth Govinddas died! And the moment he died, his son-in-law was thrown out of the ministry, because he...

... parents are ambitious. The whole educational system is ambitious. All the religions are ambitious. They are all promising and giving hope to people that their ambitions will be fulfilled after death. That's why people are missing something which is very simple, which needs no ambition, which needs no ego, which needs no effort; which needs a simple, very simple understanding; just a little clarity, a...

... or things die. For twenty-nine years he lived almost a prisoner in utter luxury. The rebellion came because he was going to open the annual ceremony of the entire kingdom, some kind of Olympic games for youth. On the way in his golden chariot, he saw an old man for the first time in his life. He asked the charioteer, "What has happened to this man?" The charioteer said, "I cannot...

..., it cannot be prevented." And then came a dead man's body being carried to the crematorium. And Buddha said, "What is happening?" The charioteer said, "This happens after old age. This is the last stage. After this nothing happens. This man is dead." Buddha had not even heard the word death. And then he saw a sannyasin who was just following the dead man's body. And he said...

... one is doing, a despair that one does not know even who one is, a deep anguish that "Life is slipping out of my hands. Death can happen any moment and I have not even started the journey yet." These are the first circle of the necessary milieu that makes one seek and search for someone who may have a different quality of life, who may have found some meaning, who may have reached the oasis...

... on this earth. But we are taking the challenge, and I don't think that death is more powerful than life, that hate is more powerful than love, that nuclear weapons are more powerful than mystic experiences. We have to prove it. And I am certain that we are capable of proving it. Q: NO MORE QUESTIONS. A: Good. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... of hunger. And just think, if fifty percent of the people die, what will be the situation of the living ones? There will be nobody even to carry their corpses to the graveyard; they will be rotting in your streets, in your neighborhood, even in your own house. The whole world will have become a vast graveyard, stinking of death. No effort is being made by the politicians to prevent the population...

... concerned with creating more children because more children means more power - power in two ways: more votes, and more fodder for your cannons in war. For twenty to thirty years absolute birth control should be practiced. It is not a question of democracy, because it is a choice between life and death. If the whole world is going to die, what are you going to do with your democracy? Democracy will be the...

... underwater carrying nuclear weapons - just one submarine is equal to hundreds of second world wars. So the first problem is nuclear weapons. The second problem is the immense rate of population growth. By the end of this century we will have seven billion people on the earth. And the earth is so heavily exploited that it cannot support that much population. Fifty percent of the population has to die simply...

... growth. On the contrary, a few rich countries of the West, for example Germany - where people are intelligent and can see that more population means more death, more population means more poverty, more population means more disease - have stopped producing children. And the politicians of those countries are giving incentives to produce more children because their population is decreasing. They are not...

... book, CELIBACY IS LIFE. Now somebody has to write a book, CELIBACY IS DEATH. And every country is trying to hide the facts: how many homosexuals they have, how many people are suffering from AIDS - because no one, no country, wants to be exposed to the world as homosexual. But you can see that every day people are dying from AIDS, all over the world. And AIDS takes time to ripen - it can take years...

... - and then for death, at least two more years. If so many people are dying, millions around the world must be practicing homosexuality. But it seems nobody has the guts to say that celibacy should be made a crime, and that those who are homosexuals should not be punished, but trained again to become heterosexuals. Every college, every school, every hospital, every institution that is concerned with...

... world war, it is going to be a push-button war. Nobody will be seen fighting in the field. Just from the White House, or from the Kremlin, the prime minister or the president simply pushes a button, and the whole world goes into the mouth of death. Nobody is going to win and nobody is going to defeat... it is such a stupid concept of war. Wars were fought for victory, but now the war is going to end...

... begotten son of God - God created only one son in the whole of eternity. He must be practicing birth control; otherwise why only one son? - at least one daughter as well. But the religions are against birth control, they are against abortion, without any feeling for the danger of overpopulation - that the world will kill itself. That death will be very cruel because it does not come immediately; when a...

... person dies because of hunger, it takes months of torture and suffering. A healthy man can live without food for three months; then he will die, because the healthy man has a reservoir of energy in his body, which is for emergency purposes. But even the poorest man, the sickest man, will take a few days, a few weeks to die. Those few weeks of hunger are going to be absolute hell. But religions are...

... rule then - for the graves, of the graves, by the graves - because people will have disappeared. Religions carry superstitions of all kinds which are hindering your intelligence, your vision, your possibility of creating a new man in the world. One thing is certain - the old humanity is going to die. If we can make the people of the world understand, then a new kind of man can survive. He will be a...

... priority is life, not your experiments. The new man will not send rockets to create holes from which death-rays can enter into our atmosphere; there is no need at all. And if the need arises, then you should also be prepared to close those holes - the moment the rocket goes out, the hole is closed; the moment the rocket comes in, the hole is closed. That is the only way to avoid the seas bringing the old...

... in Varanasi. It is a strange city - people go there only to die. When it becomes certain that life has slipped out of their hands, and now there is not much time, people start going to Varanasi. It is the deadliest city in the world. Everybody is waiting to die. But death is something that you cannot be certain about, so even when people die somewhere else their relatives carry their bodies to...

... to die - everybody's mother is going to die one day or the other - but the dance has to continue.' "So I can say that this man is the type; he can do anything. Perhaps he has killed that man." But, howsoever insane that man may look, he has some truth. The mother has died; now whenever you will dance it will be after your mother's death. And how can you make a demarcation that after...

... referred to in the ancientmost scriptures. The idea has been spread by the priests that a person who dies in Varanasi - it does not matter who he was, a sinner or a saint - just if he dies in Varanasi, his heaven will be guaranteed. So Varanasi is full of many old people, men and women, who are waiting to die there. They have done nothing in their lives - but at least one thing they can do: they can die...

... balance and Maghar was the closest to Varanasi, so anybody who dies in Maghar is bound to go to hell - if he is a sinner. But if he is a saint, some concessions can be given; he will be born as a donkey! Before his death, as he was becoming old, Kabir told his disciples - he had lived his whole life in Varanasi - "Now I want to live in Maghar." They said, "Are you mad? People LEAVE Maghar...

... want it to be clear to you that this is going to be my approach in everything about life. When I say yes, I mean yes. And when I say no, I mean no. Never try to change my no into yes, you will never succeed. I would rather die than do anything as obedience, under compulsion because you are my father." But all over the world people are doing things which they hate. And they say that they hate it...

... have I killed that man? Why have I been given birth? Is there any answer to it? Did anybody ask me, 'Do you want to be born or not?' And millions of people die every day. Do you ask them, 'Why are you dying? What is the purpose?'" The judge said, "Strange... but you killed him!" He said, "I have said it myself: I was feeling to do something; and I am not talented in anything. I...

... has died.' And his response was so strange that I was shocked. He said, 'I always knew she would die on Sunday just to spoil my holiday. That old woman was real nasty. Now, there are seven days in the week, she could have died any other day. What is the purpose of choosing Sunday? Just to spoil it! And I have purchased tickets to go to the movies. But I knew it. She has always been spoiling things...

... twelve hours it will be right, or after twenty-four hours it will be right? What is your criterion? But this man is in fact giving evidence of one thing that perhaps he is not aware of, and neither is the judge aware of. He is saying that this man has no guilt. Mothers die, why make much fuss about it? The only complaint he had was, that there were seven days and she could have chosen some other day...