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Part VII : Local Violence against Sannyasins
Just the other day a young woman sannyasin was attacked by four
Indians. Of course she screamed, and some sannyasins reached in
time; otherwise they were going to rape her—they had torn
her dress apart. And this is not just one accident, it has been
happening every once in a while for almost six years.
The Indian mind is so sexually repressed that it cannot love,
it can only lust. And once the lust is there you start looking
at everybody else in the same way; that is your language.
When two Western sannyasins are hugging each other and the Indian—any
Indian—sees them, the only idea in his mind is that of sex
and lust; he cannot understand love. Not a single sannyasin from
the West in these six years—and thousands have come, at
least fifty thousand people come every year—has raped any
Indian woman. But hundreds of attempts have been made by the Indians
on Western women, and not only by ordinary people but even by
police officers. Even to go to the police station is dangerous!
Everywhere there are wolves—and these are very spiritual
wolves, very religious! theolo15
A sannyasin woman has her arm in a sling after being knocked
down in the street by some hostile Indians. She says she is tired
of violence around her and how to get rid of it.
And violence is there. It is not around you; it is around everybody.
Man has lived very violently; he has not lost his inner animality.
Man is still wild inside; only on the surface does he look civilized.
So violence is everywhere, the whole of life is full of violence.
And where you don't see violence that is just a facade. If you
go deep into it you will find violence there too. Even behind
the name of love there is violence, so what to say about other
things? But this is how life is!
And you have to learn to live without violence in such a violent
world. It is difficult to live sanely in an insane world but that
is the only life there is and one has to find one's way to live
through it. All that we can do is to never become violent against
violence, because that is not going to help. Have deep compassion.
If one has to suffer, one should suffer through compassion. And
people who are violent are completely unaware; they don't know
what they are doing. That's what Jesus has to say to the people;
it is his last message to the world. He asks God to forgive these
people because they don't know what they are doing.
So one can pray, one can love and one can have compassion, but
the violence is there. And you cannot change it because the world
is so big; how can you change it? One has to accept it. With tears,
but one has to accept it. And one can go on doing whatsoever one
can do on one's own—a little bit, whatsoever one can spread.
Spread your love. The world is like a desert but even if you can
sow a single seed and only two flowers come to it, even that is
something. In this vast desert land if two flowers or even a single
flower comes up, that too is good.
So don't be too concerned about it. Just be concerned about
one thing: how you can love people who are violent and how to
live in a world which is not sane at all. Find ways. And this
is the whole effort here—through meditation, prayer, groups.
These are ways to seek and search for some secrets so that you
can go unscratched, uncontaminated by people's violence. But it
is possible. The world will remain violent, you can become non-violent…and
that is all that can be done. So don't be worried about it. opense10
Just a few days ago a sannyasin, Meeten, was murdered. But he
died beautifully, he died as a sannyasin. When he was murdered
his last words were, "I can understand you—why you
are killing me. I know that nobody has loved you in your life."
He said these words to the murderer! "I know that nobody
has loved you in your life and you are angry with society. You
are not killing me, you are taking revenge on society. But remember,
these are my last words," he said, "that I am dying
with immense love for you. I love you!"
These were his last words when he closed his eyes and died:
'I love you!' This is compassion! This is love!
And the next day the huts of six sannyasins were burnt down. The
sannyasins had come to the ashram and then somebody set fire to
their huts. Now, nobody was caught red-handed and the police suspect
that because there is a great antagonism among the Catholic Christians
in Poona against me because I have spoken against the Pope and
against Mother Teresa…the suspicion is that some Catholic
hand is behind it. They cannot do harm to me, but they can do
harm to my sannyasins; that is an indirect way of harming me.
And these people talk about public service, serving the poor—all
these murderers!
If you look at the history of religion you will be surprised:
all the religions have proved murderous. The whole history of
man is full of blood because of these so-called religions and
these so-called saints and these so-called enlightened people.
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