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you are mathematical you are usable, you are a commodity. And machines never rebel, they never say no, they are always obedient -- and that's what the society has always wanted. And the educational system is an agency of the past to manipulate the present.
I am against this educational system. A totally new kind of education is needed -- an education which helps a man to be an individual; which helps a man not only to be more informed but more transformed.
And this whole miracle can happen through love. Love is the most logical and the most magical thing, simultaneously. It is a paradox. Because it is logical and magical both, it contains contradictions within itself, but those contradictions give it beauty, they give it grandeur, they make it something of a splendour. They give it some poetic sensitivity, some aesthetic understanding.
My effort here is to help you to be more loving. I am not much concerned about god and not much concerned about what happens after death. My whole concern is what happens before death. And if love can happen then god is bound to happen to you.
Jesus says god of love. I have changed it a little bit; I say love is god. In a say it is a very small change, just the words have been arranged differently, but in another say it is a great change. When you say god is love that simply means love is an attribute of god and there may be other attributes too -- love is only one of the attribute. But when you say love is god, then god himself is nothing but an attribute of love, then god is not a person, then god is only the fragrance of love, a quality. You cannot worship fragrance, you cannot worship a quality.
The old idea of god being love has only created worshippers, not true religious people. When you think of love as god then it is not a question of worshipping or going into a church or into a temple, praying, falling down before a statue, talking to the sky -- which is all simply idiotic, there is nobody to hear you. All your prayers are monologues, they are not dialogues at all; you are talking to the walls. It is childish, but in the name of religion that's what people have been doing for thousands
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