Inward Revolution Bringing About Radical Change in the World

life. Why? I’ll show you why. Don’t accept what I am saying or disagree with it.
Observe it.
Intellectually you have no energy because you repeat what others have said.
You are prisoners to theories, speculations, and therefore you have no capacity to
reason, observe with logical, healthy minds. You have mechanical minds. You go
to schools where you cram in facts and repeat the facts, and that’s all.
Intellectually you are not aware; your minds are not sharp, clear. Therefore your
intellectual energy is almost nil because intellectually you are mechanical
machines. Aren’t you? Face it; look at it. A man who asks what is wrong with
reading the Mahabharata or the Gita shows what kind of minds you have—
mechanical, repeating what others have said. And your life going to the office
day after day for forty years is a mechanical life. Whether it is of a prime
minister or a politician or a guru or yourself, it is a mechanical life. Isn’t that so?
And your behavior, all your habits, have become so mechanically repetitive
that there is no intellectual freedom. Freedom means energy, vitality, intensity.
When you can see the whole structure of thought and go beyond it, it gives you
tremendous energy. And you deny that totally because you accept authority, not
only the authority of the professors, but of your spiritual leaders. They are not
spiritual when they become your leaders. So you are not free intellectually. And
emotionally you are sentimental, tremendously devoted to some god, to some
person. That is not energizing; that doesn’t give you energy, because in that there
is fear. Energy comes only when you completely lose yourself, when there is
total absence of yourself.
And that takes place when you have sex. For a second everything ends, and
you have the pleasure of it. Then thought picks it up, forms images, wants it
more and more and more. Repetition. Therefore that becomes the most
extraordinarily important factor of your life because you have nothing else. You
have no brain capacity; you are confused, miserable, unhappy human beings.
You are not intense; you have no passion intellectually to stand alone, to see
clearly and stand by it. You are frightened. And what have you left? Sex. And all
your religions said, “Don’t have sex.” So you battle. Some poor, neurotic person
says that to find God you must not have sex; and you are full of sex and try not to
be sexual, and so you have a battle with yourself. The more you battle the more
important it becomes.
So you see your life for what it is. You have no love but only pleasure. And
when you have pleasure you are frightened of losing it. Therefore you are never
free, though you may write volumes about freedom. So when you understand all
this, not intellectually but in your daily life, you see what you have reduced
mankind to through your religion, through your Mahabharatas, Gitas, and gurus;
you see that you have reduced yourselves to mechanical, unhappy, shoddy little
entities, tortured and in agony. And with this little mind you want to capture the
vast, timeless space of truth.