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days those were the names of the moralists, the pundits, the scholars -- 'the scribes and the Pharisees'. The Pharisees were the people who were very respectable. On their surfaces very moral, pretentious, with great egos. 'We are moral and everybody else is immoral' -- and always searching and looking into people's faults. Their whole life is concerned with that: how to exaggerate their own qualities and how to reduce others' qualities to nil.
The puritans, the moralists
... BROUGHT UNTO HIM A WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY,
Now when you come to a man like Jesus, you have to come there in humbleness, you have to come there imbibe something from Jesus; it is a rare opportunity. And now here come these fools and they bring a woman. They bring their ordinary mind, their mediocre mind, their stupidities with them.
AND THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BROUGHT UNTO HIM A WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY...
They have not learnt even this simple lesson that when you go to a man like Jesus or Buddha, you go to partake, to participate in his consciousness: you go to become intimate with him. You don't bring the ordinary problems of life there; they are irrelevant. That will be wasting a great opportunity, that will be wasting Jesus' time. And he had not much time, as I told you before -- only three years of ministry. And these fools were wasting like this... But they had a certain strategy in it: it was a trap.
They were not really concerned with the woman. They were creating a trap for Jesus. It was a very diplomatic act.
AND THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BROUGHT UNTO HIM A WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY; AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER IN THE MIDST, THEY SAID UNTO HIM, MASTER, THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN IN ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT.
Now what is adultery?
A conscious mind will say if you don't love a man -- maybe the man is your own husband -- if you don't love the man and you sleep with the man, it is adultery. If you don't love the woman -- and she may be your own wife -- if you don't love her and you sleep with her, you are exploiting her, you are deceiving her. It is adultery.
But that is not the definition of the Pharisees and the puritans and
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