Q: BELOVED,BHAGWAN, YOU HAVE MORE CRITICS THAN ANYBODY ELSE IN THIS
JOB (INAUDIBLE) MANKIND. WHY IS IT SO?
Because I have more truths to say to the world than anybody else has ever
said before.
Socrates had critics but his truth was simple and one dimensional. My truth is
multi-dimensional and it attacks all the conditionings with which everybody has
become so much attached. Although they are the causes of your misery, they are
like cancer which needs to be operated. And operation is going to be painful but
it is going to save your life.
Buddha, Mahavir, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Nanak -- they all have said some truths, but
those truths were not against your whole conditioning. They were simply talking
about your spirituality.
If I was also talking only about spirituality there would have been no criticism --
all praise.
But that would not have helped anybody.
I am not talking only of the flowers, which are beautiful. I am also talking of the
roots, which are ugly. And unless you understand the roots you cannot
understand the flowers. I am talking about the whole man. Nobody has talked
about the whole man. They never talked about your body, they never talked
about your mind, they never talked about your psychology, biology... they
simply talked about devotion to God, faith in the VEDAS -- which was not
hurting anybody. In fact they were supporting your conditionings.
I cannot do that because in the VEDAS I see most of it is rubbish, not even
literature. I cannot say that it is a word of God. I cannot say that Manu is an
enlightened man because it is Manu who has tortured this country for five
thousand years and he is still torturing.
I would like Manu Smriti to be burned and utterly destroyed so no trace is left
behind. That hurts.
Nobody has talked about your marriage. They all supported it. I am against it
because I see what marriage has done to man. It has made him as miserable as
possible. It is a artificial institution, it is not natural. It is good if you love a
person to live with the person as long as you love. You may love the person your
whole life. But it is possible, today you feel tremendous love, tomorrow it may
not be the same. Then you are stuck -- what you are going to do tomorrow? You
are going to pretend that you still love your wife? You are going still to make
love to your wife whom you don't love -- this is ugly, inhuman.
These people have never talked to real human problems, they have never talked
about how many children you should produce, they have never bothered about
thousand and one things what kind of education should be given to you. Their
whole idea was simply to remain a slave to a certain priesthood -- Hindu,
Mohammedan, Jaina, Buddhist, and never to doubt anything. I emphasize it: that
was their basic teaching, never to doubt anything.
And for thousands of years you have not doubted things which are really ugly.
For example, Krishna married sixteen thousand wives. And they were not virgin
girls, they were somebody else' wives; they had their children, they had their
husbands and he simply took those wives away because he was powerful.
This man destroyed sixteen thousand families and you never doubted.
Mohammed had nine wives -- now this is ugly because men and women are of
equal number. If a man has nine wives then what about the eight men who will
remain without wives? They will become homosexuals, they will become
perverted, they will go to the prostitutes. And Mohammed allowed
Mohammedans to have four wives. Now this is absolutely absurd. There are not
that proportion. Women are not four times more than men.
Just before freedom came to India, Nizam(*) of Hyderabad has five hundred
wives, in this century. And nobody doubts.
Naturally they were not criticized because you never doubted. My whole
teaching is doubt everything unless you find something which is indubitable,
which can be accepted as truth, which cannot be doubted even if you want to
doubt there is no way to doubt it.
Naturally I am vulnerable to thousands of criticisms but those criticisms are
impotent. Not a single head of any religion... I have challenged everybody, all the
Shankaracharyas, the pope, the Imams, Ayatollah Khomeini, for a public
exchange of views.
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And I am not saying that it should be amongst my disciples, I am ready to come
to Vatican, amongst the Christians. I want to raise questions because I trust that
my questions are so clear that even Christians cannot deny it.
But nobody seems to have guts. They go on criticizing but nobody is ready to
confront me. That shows the impotency of their criticism.
And I am available. If I have told to the pope publicly that "If you can convince
me, I am ready to become a Catholic. But if I convince you then you have to
become a sannyasin. With this condition I am ready to enter into any
controversy."
But these people I know that they don't have anything of their own. All
borrowed knowledge which can be criticized very easily. So it is true. Nobody
has been criticized so much in the whole history of man as I am being criticized --
I take it as a compliment. That means nobody has said so many truths and so
penetrating and so shattering to all human ignorance as I have done and I am
going to do it my whole life to my last breath.
But there are people of intelligence, there are one million sannyasins around the
world and at least five million people who love me and there may be more who
are sympathizers but are not courageous enough to declare even that they are
sympathizers. So it is not only that I have enemies, nature has a certain way of
balancing things. If I have so many enemies I must be having so many friends,
whether they are known or not known does not matter.
And if I can divide the whole world into two parts, my enemies and my friends, I
will be tremendously happy. My work is done. Because even to change half of
the humanity it has never happened.
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