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to enforce, no need even for the priest to go on teaching morality and religion. Just from the capital place the orders can be given: that you are all happy -- and you will all feel happy; that you are all contented -- and you will feel contented. You may be on your deathbed, suffering, but if the order comes that you are happy and there is no death, you will believe you are happy and there is no death. And this will be coming from within you.
That's what Delgado proposes to do someday, and he says, `Then man will be happy. Nobody will be unhappy.' But this happiness will not be true happiness.
Then there are mechanisms by which alpha-waves can be created in your mind, just by electrical stimulation. That is dangerous, because that will not allow you to know the reality. And those alpha-waves will be created from the outside; they will not be true, they will not be real. And God will disappear. Then there is no need for God. You are not unhappy, so why seek happiness? And you will believe in dogma -- whatsoever dogma happens to be there, followed by your politicians and your priests -- you will believe in the dogma, you will ABSOLUTELY believe in the dogma, and there will be no doubt. Skepticism will disappear. This is a dangerous step.
Meditation should not be reduced into technology, and enlightenment CANNOT be reduced.
Enlightenment means awareness, witnessing. Enlightenment is neither of the body nor of the mind. It is of the beyond. The body can be manipulated by mechanisms, the mind can be manipulated by mechanisms, but your soul is beyond and cannot be manipulated by any mechanism whatsoever.
You ask, `Many people in the west are engaged in the creation of a science or technology of enlightenment.' Those people are criminals. They are dangerous people; avoid them. Just these same people were engaged in creating technology two hundred years ago. They have destroyed nature, now they are turning towards consciousness. They will destroy that too.
Now there is a movement all over the world to protect the ecology of nature, the `naturality' of nature. But it is too late really. Now nothing can be done, nothing much can
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