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October 16, 2011
from
SpeakingTree Website
Politicians
will be part of museums
Politics is against expansion of consciousness, because if people
really become conscious they will not follow stupid leaders.
They will not need any leadership at
all; they will be a light unto themselves.
Why should a religious person be in politics? Politics is a
power-trip. The religious person is simply dissolving himself. The
religious person is going in the opposite direction, where the ego
has to be dissolved utterly. It is not a power-trip, it is just the
opposite. Yes, when the religious person has disappeared, then great
power descends, but it is not your power, it is God’s power.
The politician is for his own power; he wants to be powerful. He
wants to command armies, nations. Deep down, he is suffering from an
inferiority complex. Deep down, he knows his worthlessness. He wants
to prove to himself and to others that he is not worthless, that he
is great.
Politics is a kind of disease.
Politics Is
Neurosis
Some day in the future, when people have become a little more alert
and aware, politics will be thought of as neurosis, just as now you
think many things are incomprehensible.
For example, 5,000 years ago, magic
ruled the whole world, the magician was the most important person in
any community. Now, where is the magician? Who bothers about the
magician?
Maybe, once in a while, he can give an entertainment to a party or
in a club or hotel - just entertainment. Otherwise, what is his
power? Once, he was very powerful; he still is, in primitive
societies. In some remote communes he is still very powerful -
people believe that he has power. Now we know that he has no power;
he has power only because people believe he has power. His power is
not in him but in people’s beliefs. Now the magician is gone.
Then the priest became very powerful; even kings were not so
powerful as the priest. Now where is the priest? What is his power
now? - no power at all!
He has become part of the past.
We’ll Outgrow
Politics
Let me tell you, sooner or later, the politician will go the same
way - downhill - as the magician has gone, as the priest has gone,
as the kings have gone.
So, it is going to be the case with the
politician. As human consciousness grows bigger and bigger, brighter
and brighter, all these illnesses that are hanging around us -
hangovers of the past - will disappear.
The new man will not know much about politics. The new man will not
be nationalistic. The new man will not believe in states, the new
man will believe in universal brotherhood.
Yes, there will be a kind of government, international government,
but its use will be functional just like the post office.
You don’t
think much about the postmaster... or do you? Even the
postmaster-general, who cares? He is just a functionary. So should
the case be with the prime minister and the president.
Yes, a certain kind of order is needed in society because there are
so many people.
A certain kind of government will be
needed and a few people will have to do the work, but it is nothing
to brag about.
No More
Nations
Politics is finished. It is only a past relic, an antique relic,
soon to be preserved in the museums.
The future does not belong to
politics.
The future belongs to a totally different kind of man,
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a man who will know how to love,
not how to possess
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a man who will know how not to
be powerful
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a man who will know egoless-ness
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a man who will be capable of
dropping all games and living an authentic life of deep
meditation, of great love, of poetry
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