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I Am Not a Worshiper of Poverty
Since this
program will be for sure seen
by the pope,
if you want to tell him something
this is your chance.
For the poor?
For the pope.
In the Vatican.
Hmmm.
If he has
any guts,
then he should come here
and see what
religiousness means,
feel the love of the people,
experience with them their meditation.
And if he can come with an open mind
he may be immensely enriched,
because as a pope
he is meeting
the cardinals and the bishops
and all kinds of clergymen.
None of them
has any meditative experience.
He is going around the world,
talking to
Catholics
without knowing anything
of religiousness himself.
Talking to the poor,
but whatever he is saying
will make them more poor.
So the best way
will be for him
to come here
and be here for a few days
just like a human being,
not like a pope.
Because here we
don't recognize anybody
as a pope,
shankaracharya,
imam.
We recognize
the ordinary human being
as the highest
possibility
of growth.
All these positions are political,
they have nothing to do with religion.
So tell him
that
he will find
a mystery school here.
Even Jesus himself
had to be initiated
into a mystery school.
He lived in a mystery school
called "Essenes"
for almost
seventeen years,
from his thirteenth
up to his thirtieth.
And whatever he says
he has gathered from the
Essenes.
So tell him that
here is a school
far more
developed
than the Essenes.
That was a bullock cart school.
So it will be
truly following in the
steps of Jesus Christ,
coming to Rajneeshpuram.
When
people speak about you, there is this
"richness" coming out...
about the Rolls Royce
and whatsoever is connected with it.
What do you want to prove
with this,
so many cars and so much
richness around you?
Why are people concerned?
They are...
Then certainly
they need it.
Then more Rolls Royces will be here.
Until they stop asking me,
the Rolls Royces are going
to be here, more and more.
Now it has to be seen.
It is a challenge.
The day nobody asks me
about Rolls Royces,
they will not be coming.
People's interest in Rolls Royces
shows
their mind.
They are not interested in what is
happening here.
They don't ask about meditation.
They don't ask about sannyas.
They don't ask about
people's
life, love,
the laughter that
happens in this desert.
They only ask about Rolls Royce.
That means I have touched
some painful nerve.
And I will go on pressing it
till they stop asking.
I am not a worshiper of poverty.
That's what
those Rolls Royces prove.
I respect wealth.
Nobody before me had
the guts to say it.
The pope cannot say that
he respects wealth,
although he is the wealthiest
man on the earth.
I am not a hypocrite.
I am the poorest man on the earth.
I don't have a single cent with me.
But I want to prove to these people
what attracts their mind.
If there were no Rolls Royces here,
perhaps there would be nothing
for the whole world
to ask about me,
about you,
about meditation,
about initiation into sannyas,
about love, about
anything.
It is for those idiots
that I am keeping all
those Rolls Royces,
because they cannot
move their eyes away
from those Rolls Royces.
And meanwhile
I will go on
pouring other things in their minds.
Without those Rolls Royces
they would not have asked a
single question.
Those Rolls Royces are
doing their work.
Every idiot around the world
is interested in them.
And I want them to be
somehow interested...
in anything in Rajneeshpuram.
Then we will manage
about other things.
So tell those people --
anybody who asks --
tell them that,
"These Rolls Royces are for you idiots.
Otherwise you are not
interested in anything.
Once you stop
asking about Rolls Royces,
then I will have to think
of something else:
whether to have rockets
which are going to the moon!
Something else I will have to
think about."
Source: 'The Last Testament, Vol.4, #3'
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