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he sold two boats to the man! The owner was just standing there, seeing the whole scene. Those boats were absolutely useless -- for years they had been lying down there, rotten. They would drown the moment they were put into the water. He said to his dealer, "You are creating more trouble."
The salesman said, "You don't be worried. If I can manage that big a trouble, I can manage just two boats."
You have just to create a desire in people -- `lake palace'. He was thinking only of making a house. You have changed the desire and the ambition into a lake palace. The salesman said, "Just think, if you want to make a lake palace, first you will have to make a lake. And we are giving you a ready-made lake and not charging anything!"
For centuries man has been sold beliefs, dogmas, creeds which are absolutely untrue, which have no evidence except in your ambition, except in your laziness. You don't want to do anything, and you want to reach to heaven.
And there are people who are ready to give you maps, shortcuts -- as much a shortcut as you want. Just get up in the morning with the name of God, remembering it for two, three minutes while you are getting ready to get out of the bed -- and that's enough. Once in a while go to the Ganges, take a bath so all your sins are finished, you are purified. And all religions have created the same kinds of things -- go to Kaaba and everything is forgiven.
Mohammedans are poor people, and they are poor because of their belief. They are against taking money on interest or giving money with interest. Now, the whole business depends on interest; they are bound to remain poor. And it is told to them that at least once in life you should go to Kaaba, and that's enough -- going seven times around that stone of Kaaba, all sins are finished, all virtues shower on you. Such shortcuts.
One man reached Ramakrishna. He was going to Varanasi to take a holy dip -- but he was interested in Ramakrishna, so before going, he went to touch his feet. And Ramakrishna said, "But what is the need to go to Varanasi, because the Ganges is coming here" -- just behind his temple where they were sitting, the Ganges was
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