... continuously. If it can rejuvenate itself for seventy years, why not seven hundred years? Why not seven million years? Death will be only if somebody wants to die. This is possible. Your question is significant. Science can create the paradise, but the priests will be of no value anymore. The politician will not be able to exploit. The world has to be one, and it has to be governed by creative people, not by...

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... it - but there are two barriers. One is our religious beliefs; the second is our political divisions. Religions and nations: these are the two barriers. It has to be understood that politics gives direction to scientific research to be more destructive. The politician is in the service of death. He does not want this earth to become a paradise, for the simple reason that if people are utterly...

... you will remain ignorant of your own death that is growing within you. The doctor was not a friend. In fact, he was more dangerous than the cancer that you have. There is a cure for your cancer, but there is no cure for that doctor. Every child is born innocent and every child is being exploited. The parents do exactly the same to the child as was done to them by their parents. Your parents are not...

... the contrary, to make nuclear weapons. Strange world - millions of people are engaged around the earth in creating weapons to destroy humanity, life, everything. If all these people are allowed to serve life, not death.... If there is any heaven and if all your saints are there, they will start hankering to come back to the earth - because what can you get in heaven?. Not even the morning newspaper...

...! I don't think laughter is ever heard in heaven. Saints cannot laugh, of course. They have to keep their faces as British as possible. All saints are British - it does not matter where they are born - long faces with no smiles. And what are these saints doing there? - because they have to be there for eternity. They have to do something; otherwise it will be utter boredom. Even death is no solace...

... who is going to see it? The whole stadium will be empty. Olympics don't happen there, they are not mentioned in the Bible. What happens there? Nothing! So what is the difference between life and death? A dead saint and a living saint - how are you going to differentiate? No love affair, no sickness, no hospitals... no roads, because you are not supposed to go anywhere else, you have reached the full...

... leave. Before leaving, just out of gratitude to the old man, they said to Edison, "Forgive us. We cannot be so patient as you are in your old age, when death can happen any moment. You come every morning so excited: 'it is going to happen today!' Sometimes we think either we are mad, or you are mad." The answer Edison gave is worth remembering. He said, "For three years we have...

... eliminating." The night he discovered the first bulb, he was so enchanted.... It is understandable. An old man - his eyes becoming weak, death could take him before the experiment is over - ultimately found... at three o'clock in the morning, because he had been working the whole night. Now even the students had left, so there was no need to close the lab at a certain time. Now he was alone, and he was...

... that man can very easily live three hundred years without becoming old. Just a little work of changing the program in his cells is needed. And the basic principles are available, but scientists are engaged in destroying life rather than prolonging it. There are a few scientists who believe that death is an accident. It need not be, because man's body has a certain system of rejuvenating itself...

...From Death to Deathlessness...

..., in America thirty million people are on the streets without food, without clothes, without shelter. And it is a strange, ironical coincidence that exactly the same number of Americans, thirty million, are dying in hospitals, in nursing homes, because they have stuffed their bodies with too much food, and they cannot stop. They will die because of eating too much, and a similar number of people will...

... die because they don't have anything to eat. These thirty million people are eating the share of the other thirty million who are on the streets. They are ready to work, but there is no work. And when there is no work, nobody is interested in feeding the poor. The poor are fed only if they are needed for work. Down through the ages the majority has been poor, and their survival was dependent on...

... their utility as productive mechanisms. The moment they were not needed they were left to die in hunger and starvation. And they are the real owners of the whole wealth of the world, because they are the producers. But the cunning people have managed conspiracies with politicians, with priests, to keep the society divided into two different categories: those who are really human beings - the people...

... - the decision comes by itself - that what he was in his childhood he has to be again before death comes. I teach you let-go, because that's the only thing that can make you a sage. No church will help, no theology, no religion, because none of them teach you let-go. They all insist on work, on the dignity of labor. They use beautiful words to enslave you, to exploit you. They are in conspiracy with...

... that she is afraid of receiving because existence is so huge, that she is afraid of giving because existence is so huge. What is the point of giving your small love, just like a dewdrop, to the ocean? The ocean will never know about it; hence there is no point in giving and there is no point in receiving either. Because the ocean is so huge, you will be drowned in it. Hence it looks like death. But...

... existence will give you courage to go a little deeper into the existence of others. If your own existence has made you so blissful... it is a natural longing to enter into other mysteries that surround you: human mysteries, mysteries of the animals, mysteries of the trees, mysteries of the stars. And once you have known your existence you are no longer afraid of death. Death is a fiction; it does not...

... happen, it only appears... It appears from the outside. Have you ever seen your own death? You have always seen somebody else dying. But have you seen yourself dying? Nobody has; otherwise even this minimum of life would become impossible. You see every day somebody dies, but it is always somebody else; it is never you. The poet who wrote, "Never ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...

... insight when he says, "Never ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." But in your actual life it never rings for thee. One day it will ring, but then you will no longer be here to hear it. You never think of yourself at the threshold of death - and everybody is standing on the threshold. You always see somebody else dying - hence the experience is objective, not subjective. The other...

... it. The moment the candle finishes the house will be in darkness. In fact it has always been in darkness; it was the candle who was the light. Your body is already dead. What gives you the impression that it is alive is your life force, your being, which radiates through the body, which fills the body with aliveness. All that you have seen when people die is that something has disappeared. You...

... don't know where it has gone - whether it has gone anywhere, or simply ceased to be. So from the outside the fiction of death has been created. Those who have known themselves know without any doubt that they are eternal beings. They have died many times, yet they are alive. Death and birth are only small episodes in the great pilgrimage of the soul. Your fear of death will disappear immediately the...

... moment you come in contact with yourself. And that opens a totally new sky to be explored. Once you know that there is no death, all fear disappears. The fear of the unknown, the fear of the dark... whatever the form, all fears disappear. You start for the first time being a real adventurer. You start moving into different mysteries that surround you. Existence becomes for the first time your home...

... we talk very much about the soul yet we are very afraid of death, limitlessly afraid. Perhaps we talk about the soul because we are afraid of death! By talking about the soul we get some consolation that we will not die, that the soul is immortal. Perhaps we talk because of the fear - the reality seems to be something like this. Fearlessness should develop. Immense fearlessness should develop. So...

... people who know, will say that something has gone wrong. If the child does not cry, it means that he will not be able to survive. That he has not felt that he has been separated from the life-energy can mean only one thing: he is almost close to his death, he will not survive. That is why every effort is made to make the child cry. His crying is absolutely necessary because if he is to live he should...

... at the navel remains active for six more minutes. If within those six minutes the heart can be started again, or if a new heart can be transplanted, the man can live again and there is no need for the man to die. But if life has gone from the navel center then nothing will happen by changing a heart. The deepest and most basic center within us is the navel. This morning I talked a little about this...

... which flower is hiding behind a wall so that it can reach it. The sun does not even know about the flowers. It is all an absolutely unconscious life process: the sun rises, the flowers blossom. If a flower is closed inside a wall, it will not blossom, it will wither away and die. Life-energy is flowing from all directions but those whose navel centers are not open will be deprived of that flow. They...

... who dares to enter a flooded river is developing his navel center. The navel center of a child who does not enter the river becomes weak and feeble. If children want to climb mountains then let them. If children want to climb trees, let them. Wherever they can experience adventure and fearlessness, let them go there. Even if a few thousand children of a race die each year while climbing a mountain...

... religion whatsoever because without courage the central element of life remains undeveloped. One needs courage - so much courage that one is able to stand and face death. Our race talks so much about religion but our fear of death has no limit! Actually, the contrary should be the case - people who know the soul, recognize the soul, should not be afraid of death at all because death does not exist. But...

... they cannot even die. Now nobody can kill them. Their graves are absolutely safe. An emperor built a palace. Because of security he made only one door to the palace. The neighboring emperor came to see it. He liked it very much. He said, "I would also like to build a similar palace. This is very secure. No enemy can enter it." There was only one door and there were great security...

... state of insecurity, where there was no support, no friends, no acquaintances, no one to be called one's own. Wherever there might be sickness, death, dangers, no money - he wanted to enter such a state of insecurity. So the one who chose insecurity was a sannyasin. But later on sannyasins created a good security, better than the people living in the society. A person living in the society has to earn...

... know whether they will get water or not, but today they have blossomed in their joy." Man alone makes arrangements today for tomorrow, and then he makes arrangements for the day after tomorrow. There are people who make arrangements for how their grave should be built. Those who think they are wise create the memorials for their dead bodies to be kept in before their death. We all make...

...; Somebody ran away and called the sister. She came, saying, "He is so mischievous. From the very beginning he has been doing mischievous things, but now he should die like a gentleman. He is making a mockery of death." She came and hit him, and he fell. And he started laughing. She said, "You behave! Death is an important occasion. Just go to your bed and die silently. I'm going. I will not...

..., YOUR MIND CAN BE DISTRACTED BY THE PROFUSION OF OBJECTS; YET IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES, YOU FALL INTO A STATE OF DARKNESS AND OBLIVION, AND YOUR MIND IS NOT CLEAR. WHEN YOUR EYES ARE HALF-OPEN, YOUR THOUGHTS DON'T RACE; MIND AND BODY ARE ONE THUSNESS. WHEN YOU EXAMINE CLEARLY, THE AFFLICTIONS OF BIRTH AND DEATH CANNOT BE APPROACHED. THIS IS CALLED FULFILLING BUDDHAHOOD RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE, THE MEANING...

... breathe. There is no other difference. Those who have learned the strategy of stopping their breath for long times - and there are many techniques for it - they can play the game.... I have told you about one Zen master who said to his disciples, "Today I'm going to die. Don't prevent me, enough is enough! I have been with you, I have tried my best and now the time has come, I have to leave. But I...

... don't want to leave in an unoriginal way. Find some original way for me to die." His disciples looked at each other, "Original way to die? People simply die!" There was silence. Finally, one man said, "Just lie down on your bed and die." The master said, "That is too common, too mediocre." Almost ninety-nine point nine percent of people do it that way. The bed is the...

... cannot even die standing. Somebody has done it already; it will be a repetition. Listening to you all I was wondering if you have ever heard of anybody dying standing on his head?" They all looked at each other and said, "We have never heard of anybody dying standing on his head." The master said, "That is perfectly original, so I'm going to do it. Look!" He stood on his head...

... on the bed too." He said, "Believe me, this time I'm really going to die." But they waited. They took their time, just making excuses - that they were making the funeral pyre, and watching him to see whether he gave any sign. And he did give - he opened one of his eyes and just looked at what was happening, and said, "Be quick, I'm dead," and he closed his eyes. Finally...

... ARE HALF-OPEN, YOUR THOUGHTS DON'T RACE; MIND AND BODY ARE ONE THUSNESS. WHEN YOU EXAMINE CLEARLY, THE AFFLICTIONS OF BIRTH AND DEATH CANNOT BE APPROACHED. THIS IS CALLED FULFILLING BUDDHAHOOD RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE, THE MEANING OF GREAT CAPACITY AND GREAT FUNCTION. What he is saying is basically right, but he is mixed up with the old traditional ways of meditation. Once in a while those old methods...

... ocean and becomes the ocean. In this moment is the whole eternity. Life and death are just games, waves in the eternal consciousness that you are. It is not yours individually, it is the vast ocean in which everybody is part. This life-energy expresses itself in millions of ways: in the roses, in the birds, in the trees, in the oceans. It is the same life-energy in different forms. Once you see the...

... relaxed. So there is no future in your mind - no future thoughts. You are here now; this moment is all. Everything is changing, and suddenly you become aware of a point within you which has never changed. "THROUGH CHANGE CONSUME CHANGE." This is what is meant by "THROUGH CHANGE CONSUME CHANGE." Don't fight. Through death become deathless; through death allow the death to die. Don't...

..., You are not just a total of parts, you are more than that. When you divide and cut and analyze, life disappears; only dead parts are left. That is why science will never be capable of knowing what life is, and whatsoever is known through science will be about death - matter - it will never be about life. Science may become capable of manipulating life, of knowing the parts, the dead parts. It may be...

... there - I call it "he" - he also takes up space, he also exists in time. The sun also rises for him - as it rises for you. One day he was not, as you were not, and one day you will die and he will also die. The stone will disappear. In existence we meet. The meeting is the friendship. In personality we differ, in manifestation we differ; in essence we are one. In manifestations we are...

.... They can call you a sinner one day and a saint another. They can call you a saint today, and the next day they may go against you, stone you to death. What is happening? They come in contact with your periphery, they never come in contact with you. Remember this, that whatsoever they are saying, it is not about you. You remain beyond; you remain outside. Their condemnations, their appreciations...

... it. So never say that "I am hungry." Always say within, "I know that my body is hungry." Give emphasis to your knowing. Then the discrimination is there. You are becoming old: never say, "I am becoming old." Just say, "My body is becoming old." Then in the moment of death also you will know, "I am not dying; my body is dying. I am changing bodies, just...

... beautiful this moment and it may be ugly the next, how can you feel any attachment? It is impossible. Look at a body: it is alive; the next moment it will be dead. All is futile, if you feel the change. Buddha left his palace, his family - his beautiful wife, his child - and when someone asked him, "Why?" he said, "Where there is nothing permanent, what is the use? The child will die."...

... hours old, and I must have a look." But then he said, "What is the use? Everything is changing. This day the child is born, and the next day the child will die. And one day before he was not here. Now he is here, and one day again he will not be here. So what is the use? Everything is changing." He left - turned back and left. When someone asked, "Why have you left all that?"...

... and becomes obsessed with the world. The state has to be changed, the government has to be changed, the society, the structure, the economics, everything has to be changed, and he will die, and he will never have a moment of ecstasy in which he could know what he was, and the world will continue and the wheel will go on moving. It has seen many revolutionaries, and it goes on moving. Neither can you...

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... to happen. Within months it would be there, or even within weeks. He was really physically, literally, trembling, and he said, 'Just give me one thing: how can I get rid of this fear of death? Give me some mantra, or something which can protect me and give me courage to face death. I don't want to die trembling in fear.' The man said, 'I have been to many saints. Many things they have given. They...

... need. Death is there. It is natural. Be afraid totally.' He said, 'What are you saying? You have not given me anything. Rather, on the contrary, you say to accept.' I said, 'Yes, you accept. You just go and die peacefully with total acceptance.' After three or four days he came again, and said, 'It works. I couldn't sleep for so many days, but for these four days I slept deeply, because it is right...

...; nowhere there comes a bondage, a boundary. You are not separate. You cannot be defeated, because there is no one to be defeated. You cannot die, because there is no one to die. You cannot be in misery, because there is no one to be in misery. The moment you surrender the ego, the whole nonsense is surrendered - misery, bondage, dukkha, hell - everything is surrendered. You become one with existence...

... tantra makes no distinction and no categorization of higher and lower: THIS means the lower, and THAT means the higher; THIS means that which you can see and touch and know, and THAT means the invisible that you cannot see and cannot touch, you can only infer. For tantra there is no distinction of higher and lower, of visible and invisible, of matter and mind, of life and death, of world and Brahma...

... it. If you ask what that ultimate is, they will say, 'That ultimate is not this, not that. It is neither life nor death. It is neither light nor darkness. It is neither near nor far. It is neither I nor you.' They will say in this way, but this makes no sense. Drop craving and you come to know it face to face. And the experience is so deep and individual, non-verbal, non-linguistic, that even when...

... of it, you will be divided and you will become fragmentary, disintegrated. Accept it and use it. And the moment you know that you have accepted it, it disappears. Just try to think: if you accept your fear, where is it? One man came to me and he said, 'I am very much afraid of death.' He had cancer, and death was very near; any day it could happen. And he could not postpone it. He knew it was going...

...? Nothing will help. I cannot give you anything, otherwise, as others have proved failures, I will also prove a failure. And they gave you something because they don't know what they are doing. I can say only one thing to you. Accept it. Tremble if trembling is there - what to do? Death is there, and you feel a trembling, so tremble. Don't reject it, don't suppress it. Don't try to be brave. There is no...

..., you are right.' He said to me, 'You are right. Fear is there, death is there, nothing can be done. All the mantras are just hocus-pocus; nothing can be done.' No doctor can help, no saint can help. Death is there, a fact, and you are trembling. It is just natural. A storm comes and the whole tree trembles. It never goes to any saint to ask how not to tremble when a storm is passing by. It never goes...

... the last day, the emperor came to meet him. When the emperor came, he saw the prime minister weeping, and tears were rolling down from his eyes. He couldn't imagine that death could be the cause, because he was a brave man, so he asked, 'It is impossible to imagine that you are weeping because you are going to die this evening. It is impossible to conceive. You are a brave man, and I have known your...

... bravery so many times, so it must be something else. What is it? If I can do something I will do it.' The prime minister said, 'Now nothing can be done and it is of no use to say to you, but if you insist, then I am still your servant - I will obey you and tell you.' The emperor insisted, so the prime minister said, 'It is not my death, because that is not of much importance - man has to die one day...

... become a wound. It is forgotten and forgiven. It goes into the past; it never becomes a part of the future. When pain becomes a constant thing, a wound, not an accident but a reality, essential, as if you cannot exist without it, then it becomes a problem - and that problem has arisen only for the human mind. Trees are not in suffering. There seems to be no anguish. Not that death doesn't occur to them...

...; death occurs, but it is not a problem. Not that painful experiences are not there; they are there, but they don't become life itself. Just on the periphery they happen and disappear. Deep down in the inner core, life remains celebrating. A tree goes on celebrating. Death will happen, but it happens only once. It is not carried over constantly. Except for man, everything is in a festive mood. Only man...

... that hope you go on carrying. I have heard, once it happened one Chinese emperor sentenced his prime minister to death. The day the prime minister was to be hanged, the emperor came to see him to say a good-bye. He had been his devoted servant for many many years, but he had done something which irritated the emperor so much that he had sentenced him to death. But remembering that this was going be...

...; any day death will be - but I am weeping because I have seen your horse standing outside.' The emperor asked, 'Because of the horse? Why?' The prime minister said, 'I was looking for my whole life for this type of horse, because I have learned one ancient secret - that I can teach horses to fly - but only of a particular type. This is the type, and this is my last day. I am not worried about my...

... death, but just that one ancient art will be lost with me. That's why I am weeping.' The emperor was thrilled, excited - if the horse could fly, this would be something - so he said, 'How many days will it take?' The prime minister said, 'At least one year - and then this horse will start flying.' So the emperor said, 'Okay, for one year I will make you free, but remember, if in one year the horse is...

... a trick. But don't weep.' But the wife said, 'It makes me still more sad that now I will be living with you and after one year you will be hanged. This one year is going to be a suffering.' The prime minister said, 'Now I will tell you one ancient secret you don't know. In this one year the king can die, the horse can die, I can die. Or, who knows? - the horse can learn to fly! One year!' Just...

... you analyze a dream rightly, the miracle is, once the dream is analyzed completely - that means you become aware of its reason, why it happens, why it is, of what it is constituted - once you become aware of a dream, its total structure, root and all, it disappears. To summarize: to be aware of a dream is the death of the dream. And after a few years of psychoanalysis when all your dreams slowly...

... connection with the collective unconscious is of immense importance. But he stopped there because he was afraid, and obsessed with death, just as Sigmund Freud was himself obsessed with sex. Anything you brought to him - I say anything, and I mean anything - he would immediately manage to make it sexual. Whatever it was, it did not matter; he was capable of making it sexual. Freud's whole mind was focused...

... particular idea. And then they try to fit everything into that idea. That's where they go wrong. If they were a little more alert they would see that life is vast. Their idea is meaningful, but meaningful only from a certain aspect. Jung was very much afraid of death; he was death-obsessed. Just as Sigmund Freud was sex- obsessed, jung was death-obsessed. And both obsessions are not very different. Sex is...

... the beginning of life and death is the end of life. Sex is the A and death is the Z; it is one alphabet, connected. It is not different but distant, so distant that neither Freud nor Jung could see that they were both concerned with one thing; but the poles were so far apart that they were unable to join them. Jung was very much afraid of death, and as he came closer to another layer behind the...

... collective unconscious he backed out. He tried many times to approach the idea of death. He went to India because in India people have been thinking about every possible aspect of life for thousands of years. Of course, about death India has thought much more than anybody else - but he avoided the man who could have been of some help. He was asking people who were educated in the West - professors in the...

... thing he was certain of: eastern methods were not to be used. So he avoided the only man alive in India, Raman Maharishi, who could have taken him to the lowest level which Buddha called the cosmic unconscious. But that is almost a death. It is a death, because you are no more there. The cosmos is, but you are no more there. The seeker disappears; he has found what he was seeking, but he is no more...

... unconscious, you cannot enter into the superconscious, the first level above conscious. What actually happens: as you enter the cosmic unconscious, your subconscious, your unconscious, your collective unconscious all disappear, just like small rivers falling in the ocean - a vast ocean of cosmic darkness. It is a death. And unless you are born again you will not enter the kingdom of God. Jesus must have...

.... The famous Zen story is: a very great Master who was also a master thief was getting old. His son asked him, "Before you die, please teach me your art of stealing." He said, "I was just waiting for you to ask because we never impose; art is something that you should have a feel for. If you are ready, I am ready. Today is the beginning of your teaching. Tonight you come with me."...

... all light reflected: different colors, different faces, different flowers, but it is all the world of light. You have not known the silence, the depth, the unboundedness of darkness. It also has its own beauty, totally different. It is the beauty of death. And once you have allowed it to happen, once you relax in it, you say, "Okay. If it is death then let it be death, but I am not going back...

... were lost, but the fear, the trembling, the death surrounding you kept something of you still there: a very subtle ego which you cannot catch hold of You feel you are lost but there you are still, because you are afraid. If you are not there, who is afraid? The darkness is so much that you are focused on darkness, and you are not in your focus at all. In the cosmic consciousness you are really lost...

... exhalation you die. So death is not something in the end, and birth is not something in the beginning; every moment there is birth and death, every moment you die and are born again. And if you die beautifully you are born again more beautifully, if you die totally you are born totally. So exhale as totally as possible; that will give you a death moment. That's beautiful, because a death moment is the most...

... opening, it closes you. It makes you knowl-edgeable without knowing it; it gives you a feeling of knowledge without any intimate experience of it. Remember, untruth is not such a great hindrance as the belief in the truth. If you believe you stop seeking; if you believe you have already taken it for granted. It cannot be so. You will have to pass through a mutation; really you will have to die and be...

..., that stopping is just like death. When you have inhaled totally and then stopped, that stopping is the climax of life. Remember, inhalation is equivalent to life, exhalation equivalent to death. That's why the first thing a child does when born is to inhale, and the last thing the same child will do when old, dying, will be to exhale. On this earth, the first thing you did while entering life was...

... inhalation, and the last thing you will do will be exhalation. No one can die inhaling. When you die you have to exhale, you die with exhalation. And no one can be born with exhalation, you have to start by inhalation. Those who know, and those who have watched their inner life process deeply, they say - and you will come to feel it yourself - that with every inhalation you are born again and with every...

... silent, the most peaceful - that is nirvana. Then let the body inhale to the full, and then stop. That moment is a life moment: the climax of energy, power, bioenergy at its peak. Feel it, and feel both. That's why I say stop twice: when you have exhaled, then; and when you have inhaled, then - so you can feel both life and death, so you can watch both life and death. Once you know this is life, this...

... is death, you have transcended both. The witness is neither death nor life. The witness is never born and never dies; only the body, the mechanism. You become the third. These two moments are very significant. This very night you have to do this meditation, for twenty minutes you go on doing this and then fall down and go to sleep. In the morning when you feel the sleep has left you, don't open...

... thought about what it is to be alive!" There are many people who only realize the value of life at the point of death. But then it is too late. Life keeps them engaged. The capitalist has too many things to remain engaged and involved in. The communist has nothing; hence the great possibility that the communist may be ahead of the capitalist as far as consciousness-raising is concerned. The...

... move towards becoming a corpse. I don't think anybody wants to die, particularly when all life is at risk. This third world war cannot happen. We are going to prevent it! Our ways are very different... that's why I love your expression for me, a "spiritual terrorist." I don't have any weapons, I don't have any nuclear missiles, but I have something greater and something far more effective...

... ecstasy, your meditation, will create a tremendous force which will be far higher because it is life-affirmative. Your religions are life-negative. Your politicians are life-negative. Your religions prepare you for beyond life, not to live here joyously. And your politicians create weapons to kill you. Politicians kill you and priests console you: "Don't be worried. After your death you will be...

... entering paradise -- beautiful women and rivers of wine." No prohibition, no marriage... have you ever heard that in paradise there are marriages? I am creating a paradise herenow. I don't wait for death -- why should one wait for death? And if there is going to be a paradise after death, please prepare for it! Be ready for it! Enjoy here, so that you can enjoy there. Only those who are capable of...

... -- throw all those saints towards hell." They deserve it. They have been disciplining themselves for it. We have been disciplining ourselves for paradise. Our whole expertise, our whole specialization is to possess the kingdom of God. Question 3: The third question is from a sannyasin. A sannyasin has asked: I CANNOT HELP FEELING SHOCKED AT THE IDEA THAT SINCE PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE ANYWAY, THERE IS NO...

... to sow the seeds. When the land is miles long, airplanes can be used to sow seeds. Tractors can be used to prepare the land. On a small piece of land this is not possible. Whatever communism was saying to them was absolutely correct, but just their prejudices.... And when I said that it does not matter, everybody has to die anyway, I meant it. Unless you are a buddha, it does not matter. Only the...

... death of a buddha matters. What are you going to contribute? What are you going to do tomorrow, except repeat today? You can live for thirty years repeating the same circle, morning to evening, evening to morning, what is the point? Where are you going? Round and round, reaching nowhere. To these people the experiment of communism was not at all important. Their own prejudice was important, that "...

... million phonies, who were obstructing a revolution which was going to be one of the greatest experiments in human history. It was worth it. And when I said anyway you have to die, I could immediately feel that you became very shocked. But still I repeat: Anyway you have to die. Don't die against revolution. If you have to die, die for revolution. Don't die for the status quo; if you have to die, die for...

... rebellion. Everyone has to die, and as far as I am concerned, whether Stalin kills them or Adolf Hitler or Mussolini or Hirohito, it doesn't matter; he only kills the body. The soul immediately gets into another woman's womb. Nothing is killed, only houses are changed. Do you think those one million people are finished? Many of them may be here! If not now, soon. To me, these people seem to be absolutely...

... absurd, who are against violence and still talk about eternal life. They don't see their contradiction. If life is eternal, then death does not matter: life will continue in new forms somewhere else. If not in the Soviet Union, then in China, and if you are killing China then India is always available. From where do you think all these Indians go on growing? Hitler kills, Stalin kills, Hirohito kills...

... five hundred million people will die by the end of this century? Problems are very connected. Whenever you look at a problem, look from all sides and you will be able to understand what I am saying. And drop your preconceived ideology. My effort here is to bring you to a space of no-mind. And from no-mind, function -- then you function directly, looking at the situation. Whatever is right immediately...

... anybody 'not in your lifetime'. That means you are already thinking about my death!" I said, "I am not thinking about your death, I am thinking about your city. It is still one thousand years behind! Even in New Delhi the television has not come. In your city it will take at least a century, and I don't think you will be able to make it." But he was very angry, and he said, "I have...