BELOVED BHAGWAN,WHY WAS YOUR SECRETARY ARRESTED IN GERMANY?
I was for three and half years in silence and isolation. I was not meeting
people, my secretary was the only communication between me and my people.
If there was any spiritual need, any spiritual guidance for somebody then she
would bring the question to me. Otherwise she was having all the power... and
power corrupts.
And particularly because she was a woman, it corrupted more. Because women
have been repressed for centuries and have not been given any power, so it is
there in their unconscious hungry... there is great lust for power in women.
They try in their own small way nagging the husband, crying and throwing
things, and tantrums... these are simply feminine power tricks.
But my secretary was a woman. When I had chosen her she was an innocent
woman as any woman, but you cannot say what is hidden in people's
unconscious mind.
When she got the power and the power was big -- three hundred million dollars
we were using to create the commune, and she came from a poor family, she was
only a waitress in a hotel when she came to me. She may have never dreamt of
three hundred million dollars. Naturally, lust for money arose in her. She stole
fifty-five million dollars and opened a bank account in Switzerland in her own
name.
Then there was this great power because my people love me and she was my
representative so whatsoever she said, they accepted it, they thought it was
coming from me. She always managed to say that it is coming from Bhagwan.
Whatever she wanted them to do was coming from me. And whatever she was
afraid to say to them, even if I had told her, she remained silent. And it was
impossible for me to figure out whether she is telling to the people the things I
am saying or not. And there was no reason to suspect.
She bugged my own room just out of fear that perhaps somebody, the cleaner,
my personal physician, my dentist -- somebody may say to me, inform me... she
was afraid because she was doing something wrong. Not only she bugged my
own room, she bugged almost two hundred other sannyasin's houses. All the
intelligent people in the commune: the chancellor of the university, the vicechancellor
of the university, the professors, the psychologists, the therapists -- all
the intelligentsia she bugged everybody's house because she was afraid these
were the people who could be competitors to her.
Now bugging is a crime. Just for one house bugging you can go for jail for five
years and she bugged two hundred houses. One thousand years' jail just for
bugging.
She was taping all the phones going out of the commune or coming in the
commune, just out of fear because she has stolen the money, she has made a
small gang and then this is how crime leads to more crime. Now she was afraid
of her own husband because he knew that she has stolen fifty-five million
dollars. She tried to kill him, to poison him in a cup of coffee. She tried to kill my
personal physician -- four times she poisoned him. She wanted her own person
to be my personal physician. She was asking me continuously, that "We have
better doctors."
I said, "It is not a question of better doctor -- he has been looking after me for ten
years and I am perfectly happy. And he has taken absolute care about my health
and I am perfectly healthy. So there is no need to change."
Then she started thinking of killing the person so she can put her own person as
my physician, in case she wants to kill me. Then that man will be able to poison
me.
So she has committed many crimes. She has tried to kill one of the judges of the
Wasco County because he was voting against some of the proposals that she was
making, she wanted to finish him. She tried to kill the attorney of another county
-- Jefferson county, because our commune was a big land -- one hundred twentysix
square miles. Half was in Wasco county, half was in Jefferson county. That
Jefferson county attorney was creating trouble. Rather than fighting legally she
started fighting in a criminal way -- finish the person.
She burnt the planning office of the Wasco county because it has some papers
against her, she burnt the whole office completely, with all their records of
hundreds of years.
When I started speaking then people started coming to me to inform me that,
"Strange things have been happening here." The moment she became aware that
I am being informed about things, she escaped with her clique and she was
hiding in Black Forest in Germany where she has been arrested.
Because I asked law enforcement authorities, the state police, the federal police,
F.B.I.; I invited them to the commune, I gave a press conference -- an open
invitation to the government that they should come and look into everything that
my people want to inform and testify. And we gave them... they remained for
one month our guest and we supplied every testimony for all the crimes that she
has committed. And the most insane(*) is that they tried.... I was the person to
invite them, I was the person who was their host for one month. We took every
care of them, we... otherwise there was no way for them to know of anything that
has happened unless we were going to testify. And in the court they started
throwing all those crimes on me. I had simply to laugh.
My attorney told them that "This is sheer nonsense because I have been bringing
sannyasins on Bhagwan's suggestion to the F.B.I. to report all these crimes and
you are throwing all those crimes, dumping on the same person who has invited
you and made all those crimes available to you."
Now they have caught Sheela and two, three other persons, but few more
persons are missing. I feel sorry for her because when I had chosen her my
secretary she was an innocent person, very capable of doing things but this is the
tragedy that we are all carrying an unconscious of which we are not even aware.
That what kind of animality, criminality will come up from the unconscious
when the opportunity is there.
And this is my whole work, I call it meditation.
That the unconscious should be changed into consciousness so that nothing
remains inside you that you don't know. That is the only possibility that you may
not fall into darkness and you may not do things which are inhuman, that you
will not go in the ways of evil. The only possibility is that your whole mind is
simply consciousness -- there is no unconscious part at all.
And this is one of the greatest contribution of the East to the world. Sigmund
Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Alfred Adler and other psychologists in the West, only
in this century have been able to find that there is something like unconscious.
In the East for five thousand years we have been aware of the unconscious. Not
only that, we have been aware how to transform it into consciousness. The West
has accepted now that there is a unconscious but it has not yet been able to find
how to transform it into consciousness. The East has the methods but the ego of
the Western psychology prevents it to accept the methods which are already
available.
Thousands of people have been meditating with me and have come to the same
experience of illumination that the darkness disappears, that one becomes full of
light. And after that it is impossible to fall.
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