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Part VII : Ashram Security Increases
In response to the assassination attempt and violence, ashram
security is increased with extra guards, metal detectors and frisking
before discourse
The guards on the gate are for outsiders so that they cannot enter
inside unless they are ready; the guards are not for the insiders
to prevent them from leaving. That is the difference. In a jail
the guards are for the insiders so that they cannot get out.
Here there are guards, but they are not for the insiders. If
somebody wants to get out he gets out with all my blessings. It
was his decision to be in; it is his decision to drop out of it.
He is a free soul. It is nobody else's business to impose anything
upon him. dh0813
If someone makes a noise during discourse, they are gently escorted
outside where they can listen without disturbing others.
You say: During lecture recently, I sometimes get this almost
irresistable urge to jump up and down, wave my arms and sing or
make noises. I am scared that one day I won't be able to contain
it and I will cause a disturbance. What should I do?
You need not worry. That is the responsibility of the guards!
That is for them to think what to do. What can you do? If it becomes
irresistible, if you cannot contain it anymore, what can you do?
What can I do? That's why we have the guards, just to divide responsibility—that
is their responsibility….
What makes you so excited? So leave it to the Medical Center
and to the guards, and don't bother me about such problems. Once
in a while I expect such things to happen! theolo15
One Indian friend has asked: When you say that not a single
blade of grass moves but by God's will, why is there a metal detector
and so many security arrangements here?
It is because of his will! If not a single blade of grass moves,
how can the metal detector move? It is so simple! If not a single
blade of grass moves, how can so many guards move? But he thinks
he is asking a very wise question. He must be thinking he is asking
something which is unanswerable.
You know nothing of God nor of his will, but you go on repeating
cliches. You have heard these things and you start repeating them
like gramophone records. You don't see the absurdity of it. If
it is your understanding, the question cannot arise. The question
is absolutely meaningless if it is your understanding. But it
is not your understanding; somebody else has planted it in you.
And all parents are doing it. and I am not saying that they are
doing it knowingly; they are as unconscious as you are. These
ideas have been planted in them by others, their parents, and
so on and so forth. But you have to jump out of this vicious circle.
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