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the second part is even vaster than the physiological. If you get into it you can have many psychic powers, you can read people's thoughts -- but what is the point? Your rubbish is so much (laughter), what is the point of reading somebody else's rubbish? He is tortured by his rubbish and you are reading his thoughts -- and you think you are doing something great!
The real thing is to get rid of thoughts, not to read them. One even has to get rid of one's own thoughts; what is the point of reading other people's thoughts? And what is there? You can stand by the side of the road and you can see a man is walking along and thinking of his dog -- so what? (laughter)
Just this morning I was telling a story. A postmaster was being tortured by his wife. It was a usual phenomenon -- the poor postmaster. And his wife was a real amazon! (laughter) Once she started it was impossible to stop her unless some accident, some calamity happened -- earthquake or something like that -- otherwise she would go on and on.... And the poor postmaster was sitting there, listening. After half an hour the wife said "What is the matter with you? I have been talking and talking and you have not said even a single word -- can't you hear me? Are you deaf or dumb? What is the matter with you?"
And the poor postmaster said "I am hearing every single word -- not only hearing, in fact I am counting how much it would have cost if you had sent a telegram (much laughter): eighty-four rupees and thirty paise. I have been counting!" (much laughter)
If you listen to people's thoughts, what will you find? The postmaster is counting how much it will cost, somebody is thinking of his cow, somebody is thinking of his buffalo, somebody is thinking of his wife, somebody is thinking of somebody else's wife! (much laughter) And you are thinking what they are thinking! Maybe the other person is also a yogi and is reading somebody else's thoughts (laughter)... then things become very complicated!
The physiological part is ordinary, the psychological part is ordinary. Both can give power, but power is not the goal of meditation. Power is politics, all kinds of power is politics.
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