Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-10

Pope the polack is the antichrist

Question 1:

FOR THE LAST MONTH, THE VATICAN HAS BEEN SUGGESTING TO THE ITALIAN CATHOLIC MEDIA TO KEEP SILENT ABOUT YOUR EXISTENCE. SUCH A THING HAS NOT EVEN HAPPENED REGARDING THE TERRORISTS. THIS SEEMS TO SHOW THAT THE POPE IS AFRAID OF YOU.

PLEASE COMMENT.

The pope and other religious leaders of the world are not afraid of terrorists, but they are afraid of me. The reason is that the terrorists cannot destroy their very roots, cannot destroy their very existence. They may kill a few people here and there, but they cannot take away the vested interests totally.

I can do that.

I am a bigger terror to them, although I am not a terrorist. I am absolutely nonviolent.

Their fear is basically because they are standing on fictitious ground. They have no argument for existing anymore; they cannot provide any reason why they are needed. And I can provide every reason why their very existence is a hindrance for human progress, for the coming of a superman.

They are keeping people in every way retarded just so that they can exploit them.

And they have been exploiting for centuries. They have repeated their lies so often that they almost appear as truths.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-09

Truth is a search, not a faith

Question 1:

WHY ARE YOU GOING TO ITALY?

I do not believe in nations. The whole of humanity is one. I am going to Italy because Italy is there.

Question 2:

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ITALY AND THE ITALIAN PEOPLE?

I know everything about the Italian people. My first Western sannyasins were Italians; they introduced me to the West.

I have thousands of sannyasins in Italy. They have a special quality to them; they are the most lively people on the earth, most earthly, most loving, most nonserious. To me, seriousness is sickness, and nonseriousness is a religious quality.

I don't know anything about Italy because I have never been there. But to know the people is to know their land, is to know the earth where they have been born, is to know the trees, is to know the rivers and the mountains - because they carry the taste of their atmosphere with them. Italy must be a very living, very alive, very young, youthful country.

One thing I know was that in the past Italy had one of the biggest empires in the world - the Roman empire. The Romans were the only people on the whole earth who were pagans - and I love pagans.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-08

The center of the cyclone

QUESTIONS FROM NEWSWEEK, USA.

SONNTAGS BLICK, SWITZERLAND TEMPO, GERMANY

Question 1:

DO YOU SOMETIMES FANTASIZE, AND IF SO, COULD YOU GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES?

It is impossible for me to fantasize. I have lost my mind and its stupid activities thirty-five years back.

Right now I am just utterly empty of words, dreams, fantasies. In their place I am full of love, silence, blissfulness.

Question 2:

YOU SAID LAST NIGHT YOU CANNOT LIVE TO BE A TRUE BUDDHA UNLESS YOU ARE AN AUTHENTIC ZORBA. WHAT BETTER PLACE TO ACHIEVE THIS THAN CRETE, THE LAND OF ZORBA.

DO YOU WANT TO STAY HERE FOR A LONG TIME, AMONG YOUR FRIENDS?

I never plan for the future.

Today is enough unto itself.

I love the people here. I see something of Zorba in everybody, but because I never make any plans for the future, I cannot say how long I am going to stay here.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-07

Zorba is my past: buddha is my present

QUESTIONS FROM AP, VPI AND REUTERS NEWS AGENCIES.

Question 1:

CAN YOU TELL US WHY, AS AN ADMIRER OF SOCRATES, YOU DON'T PRACTICE THE SOCRATIC METHOD OF DIALOGUE?

Dialogue is possible between two blind men; they can discuss ad infinitum about light without coming to any conclusion. Dialogue is impossible between two persons who can see light: the dialogue is unnecessary; light is the experience of both. The third possibility is that one man may be able to see light, and the other may be blind. What kind of dialogue do you think is possible between these two?

Socrates was not an enlightened person - a great philosopher, a great logician, but not an enlightened person, not a man with eyes. Gautam Buddha has no dialogue; he knows, there is no question of discussing it. You can sit silently with him. Even in his silence there will be a communication. Or you can ask him a question and he will respond spontaneously.

No enlightened person in the whole world has ever used Socrates' method of dialogue. That's the reason why I cannot use it. If you know, if you have experienced the truth, then we can sit in silence - there is no need to say anything.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-06

If you can get it, get it

QUESTIONS FROM NBC TELEVISION, AMERICA.

Question 1:

COULD YOU PORTRAY BRIEFLY: WHO ARE YOU? PEOPLE SAY YOU ARE A CROOK. ARE YOU A CROOK?

I am just a mirror. When a crook looks at me, he sees a crook in me. It all depends on you.

As far as I am concerned, it is impossible to portray me... just a clean, empty mirror. That is my whole effort, to teach meditation to people.

Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.

I call this rebirth. And after rebirth you are just a mirror. There are people who see a god in me, and there are people who see a crook in me, and there are people who see a monkey in me, and there are people who see a donkey in me, and there are people who see a yankee in me - it depends on them.

It is their own face.

I simply reflect.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-05

Existence does not like carbon copies

QUESTIONS FROM "TA NEA", GREECE.

Question 1:

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE GREEK PEOPLE?

My God! Can't you recognize me? I am the same person you have poisoned twenty-five centuries ago. You have forgotten me, but I have not forgotten you. And just being here for two days, I was thinking that in twenty-five centuries Greece would have evolved towards some better qualities, towards more humanity, towards more truth. But I am feeling sad, because in just two days there have been articles in the Greek newspapers telling absolute lies about me, making allegations which have no foundation in reality, absurdities.

For example, one newspaper was saying that I am hiding here from the American government, and the American government is after me to catch me and bring me back to America for crimes like manslaughter, sex orgies, drug dealing - you name it, and it is there. The reality is that America is afraid of my entering into America. Their court has given me their decision that for five years I cannot enter America.

From where did this newspaper get the idea that I am hiding here...? And is this a way of hiding?

Thousands of people will be coming here. Every day morning and evening news media will be here... is this a way of hiding? But that newspaper and others have convinced one bishop here, who is calling meetings of local people to protest against my stay here - and it is only two days that have passed. Last time they allowed me my whole life; only in the end they poisoned me. I don't think I can last here more than two months at the most.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-04

The art of not planning life

QUESTIONS FROM QUICK MAGAZINE, GERMANY

Question 1:

DO YOU THINK THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR IS AFRAID OF YOU?

Absolutely - otherwise there is no reason to make a law that I cannot enter Germany. I have never been in Germany; I have never committed any crime against German law. I have not even applied for any tourist visa, so from my side there has been no question of entering Germany. It must be his own phobia.

He is certainly afraid; that can be said categorically. And the reason for his fear is that the German youth is deeply in love with me. The German youth is finished with the politicians. The day Adolf Hitler died an ignominious death, German politicians died for the younger generation; all politics became ugly.

German priests are also afraid. They may be behind the chancellor in a joint conspiracy, because this is the first time in the whole of history that Christians are facing a man who is taking the youth, the very cream, the intelligent people, educated people, the talented people, out of their fold. Christians have been trying to do it for centuries around the world, but they have never been successful in changing the cultured, the educated, the intelligent, the talented. They have been successful only in changing the beggars, the starving, the orphans.