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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Controversy
with: Buddhists
Friends, The supreme commanding body of Indian Buddhists, Mahabodhi
Sabha, has come with a very angry statement in the press against
me. I used to think that Mahabodhi Sabha consists of wise people.
I was absolutely wrong—it consists of otherwise guys!…
The Mahabodhi Society is saying that I am making statements
as if I am the reincarnation of Gautam the Buddha. I have never
said a single word about reincarnation. I have simply said that
he wanted to use my body—unfortunately I allowed him, but
fortunately I was able to persuade him and to say goodbye to him.
Now as far as I am concerned the story is closed. If the Mahabodhi
Society wants, it can file a court case against Gautam Buddha!
Why did he knock on my doors?
It is not my fault. To be angry at me simply shows your stupidity.
If you were really lovers of Gautam Buddha, you would have come
here and investigated the case. No one entered these gates to
inquire! You could have phoned and inquired, "What is the
situation?" But no inquiry has been made at all.
And you are not even up-to-date about the event. That guy you
think so much of is no longer here! Next time, if he comes here
he will be kicked out, I promise you—to your heart's content!…
But I am not claiming to be a reincarnation. I am not claiming
anything except that the wandering soul of Gautam Buddha has visited
me for four days.
Tathagat, who is the in-charge of this commune—please write
underneath "Gautam the Buddha Auditorium," in brackets:
"In the memory of his visitation for four days to this commune."
Before it and after it, it is none of my concern. nomind10
Ishida phoned from Japan to say that I should not take any notice
of these people; it is the fate of the giants and the geniuses
to be condemned by the little man. She must have been feeling
wounded that Buddhists can behave in such a way. She has issued
to the Japanese newspapers and magazines a statement, that "It
is I who have prophesied. If Indian Buddhists are angry, they
should be angry at me." And she has informed that she will
be coming here soon to encounter the press, and to encounter the
so-called Buddhists. A woman of tremendous courage…. nomind11
The Republican Party of India and the Dalit organization—both
are organizations of the neo-Buddhists—have made a similar
resolution to the government of India, that action should be taken
against me because I have been comparing myself with Buddha.
In the first place, I have never compared myself with Buddha.
I have always said definitively that he is life-negative, and
I am absolutely life-affirmative. There is no possibility of any
comparison.
He is a bullock cart, and you want it to be compared with my Rolls
Royce? Of course, the basic principle of a bullock cart is the
same—the four wheels—but still you cannot compare
it with a Rolls Royce.
These organizations have told the government that their religious
feelings are very much hurt. poetry02
Friends, I have never laughed in my life as much as I have laughed
this last week. Every day something hilarious happens.
Today I have received a message from the Dalit Elevation Republic
Party, that I have to prove my sanity by a certificate from a
psychologist. Only then are they ready to discuss matters with
me.
Under my guidance, almost one hundred psychologists are working,
and hundreds more come and go to learn meditation here. Whom should
I ask for the certificate?…
There are hundreds of psychoanalysts, psychologists, therapists,
believers in other different schools of psychology, who have been
here under me to learn meditation—because psychology itself
has come to understand that it is incomplete. Without attaining
a silent mind, all that you can do is analyze dreams. And analyzing
dreams is not going to give you the essential being of the person.
Right now there are dozens of psychoanalysts, therapists present
in this meeting—they have come from far away, well educated,
trained, certified to practice psychoanalysis. But psychoanalysis
itself is dying, because it has not cured a single person in the
whole world. Twenty years of psychoanalysis…
It is strange, because the East has been working on the inner
world of man, and they did not develop a psychology. They did
not bother about analyzing dreams, because they knew this is just
treating the symptoms, and treating the symptoms does not cure
the disease.
The disease is deeper than the mind, and unless you give man
a clear perception of his being, of his eternal soul, nothing
can help humanity. Only an experience of the eternity, the immortality
of consciousness gives man wholeness—and I call this the
only holiness also.
If these people whom I have been trying to help all my life…
I have been in support of the oppressed, the suppressed, but they
don't understand. Neither have they read any book of mine, nor
have they ever come to listen to me.
I have six hundred and fifty books—perhaps nobody in the
whole world has written six hundred and fifty books—translated
into thirty-four languages of the world. And this uneducated,
uncultured Dalit organization has some nerve to ask me that I
should produce a certificate from a psychologist concerning my
sanity.
England's greatest psychoanalyst, Ronnie Laing, has written
just a few days ago. He has been sending his own patients, whom
he could not cure in fourteen or sixteen years of work, to learn
meditation. He wanted to come to be here for a few days. He wants
to learn meditation—because mind is not enough; one needs
something more of the eternity of existence….
And if these people want to know, they can come to the ashram
office. There are at least one thousand letters that were written
to the American government when I was arrested there, from all
kinds of prominent people around the world, condemning the criminal
step of Ronald Reagan: arresting a man without any reason, without
any arrest warrant. They had no evidence at all against me.
I never go out of my room. I am not concerned with anybody's
morality and religion and civilization.
According to me, all these things have not yet happened. Man
has yet to wait. Man is still living in the darkness of the barbarious
past. 1seed04
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