Then it cannot have any quality of sacredness. Then life can never have any kind of religiousness in it. We have hypnotized him with the idea that he has to fight with others, that life is a survival of the fittest. By the time he will be coming out of the university he will be completely poisoned. From the very beginning we start poisoning every child with this poison of competitiveness. The world cannot be friendly unless we drop this idea of competitiveness.īut we bring every child…. People who love things become like things dead, closed. If you allow someone to come close you, you also have to allow some sharing. He has to be very clever, very cunning, very political only then can he succeed in this cut-throat competition that exists all around. A man who possesses money, or tries to possess money, is miserly and will always be afraid of people because if they are allowed to come close to him, they may start sharing. But the pleasure-seeker cannot be as innocent as a child. Jesus says: be like a small child, only then can you enter into my kingdom of God. Seek pleasure and you will lose your innocence and to lose your innocence is to lose all. Wealth is as significant as beautiful music, as great literature, as masterpieces of art.Osho – Money, power, prestige - they all make you cunning. Everybody is asleep, nobody will figure out that he is just cheating them. And the priest finds it more comfortable that everybody is asleep, so he need not prepare a new sermon. Most of them are fast asleep, tired after six days of work. Neither the priest understands what he is talking about, nor the audience. They cannot understand The Brothers Karamazov, they can only listen to some stupid priest in a church. They are exhausted just in earning bread and butter. Intelligence comes only when you have superfluous energy in you. And these people who are suffering from hunger don’t have enough energy to make them intelligent. A beggar will not even look at the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. A hungry man cannot understand Michelangelo. Perhaps I am the first person who is respectful of money, of wealth, because it can make you multi-dimensionally rich.Ī poor man cannot understand Mozart. This whole world has been turned against itself. They want to find some way, some yoga, some exercises, as a compensation. And Americans are going around the world to find some spiritual guidance – naturally, because they don’t want to be defeated by camels they want to enter into the gates of heaven. I have seen the poorest people in India with no dissatisfaction at all. You will be surprised to know that in poor countries people are more contented than in rich countries. The poor man is already living in hell, but he lives with a consolation. He knows this life is short, and after that is just darkness and hellfire. Now can this man make love? He may be eating the best food possible, but he cannot enjoy it. He is thinking of paradise where camels are entering, and he is standing outside and there is no way to go in. He may be making love to a beautiful woman, but it is only the body that is making love. Even if he enjoys, or tries to enjoy things, his guilt poisons it. They will be thrown into hell.īecause of this situation, the rich man lives in a very fearful state. Riches are creating guilt in them – they will not be consoled because they are not mourning: they will not be allowed in paradise because they are having so many things on the earth. And they are deep down afraid: perhaps they may not be allowed to enter into paradise. They cannot enjoy their richness because of the guilt. Ninety-eight percent of the people live in poverty, but with a great consolation, that where rich people will not be able to enter, they will be received with angels playing on their harps, “Alleluia… Welcome!” And the two percent who are rich are living with tremendous guilt that they are rich.
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