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is what is known as politics.
Ut us ab effort to rule others
It is ugly, violent.
The very idea of dominating someone is inhuman.
The very idea of possessing people
In your power, in your grip, is to destroy them.
It is to reduce them to things.
Hence there is nothing more ugly
Than power politics.
And all politics are power politics,
There is no other kind.
The other alternative is religion.
It is an effort to be a master of oneself
Not to be a slave of unconscious forces
Instincts, biological urges, emotions.
Man is a slave.
So many unknown, unconscious forces.
He goes on thinking that he is the master.
That is very ego-fulfilling.
But he is not.
When anger arises, are you the master? Con you turn it off.?
Can you say no, and it disappears?
Or when thoughts are moving in your mind
Can you turn the whole process off?
Is it in your power to turn it on or off?
Or are you just a victim?
You cannot even get rid of a dream
What to say of anything else?
If it persists, it persists.
One of the great Russian novelists, Turgenyev
Suffered for his whole life from a single dream.
And a man of the quality of Turgenyev is rare
He was very intelligent.
In fact, if you try to find
ten great names in literature in this century
You will have to find a place for Turgenyev.
One out of ten great names of this century
As far as literature is concerned
is bound to be his.
He has written a few of the greatest works
But he could not get rid of a single dream!
And he tried hard. It became a nightmare.
It was a simple dream, but very nightmarish.
Every night in his dream he would see
a vast desert, unending
As far as he could see, just desert
And nothing else
Not enen a single tree
No Shade, no shelter, no oasis.
And two feet, not the whole man just two feet
With no shoes on, walking, going towards the horizon
And this would go and
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