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not his own experience -- he could not recognize him.
He went close to him and asked, "Who are you?"
And the young man said, "You can't recognize me? And daily you pray to me, `My Lord, Jesus Christ,' and now I have come and you have some nerve to ask me, `Who are you?' "
The cardinal got really afraid that perhaps he is the Lord, Jesus Christ -- he looks exactly like Jesus Christ. But what to do now? He had never been taught in the theological college where he studied and became a cardinal what you are supposed to do if Jesus Christ enters your church. There is no precedent!
He phoned the Vatican and asked the pope, "Just give me some hints about what to do? A man is here -- I thought that he looks like a hippie, but he also looks like Jesus Christ. And I asked him and he said, `I am your Lord, Jesus Christ.' Now what should I do?" And the pope said, "What? Such a case has never happened before! You do one thing: first, look busy! Second, phone the police!"
You are teaching your children things that you don't know yourself. You are just conditioning their minds, because your minds were conditioned by your parents. This way the disease goes on from one generation to another generation.
Psychological freedom will be possible when children are allowed to grow, helped to grow to more intellect, more intelligence, more consciousness, more alertness. No belief is given to them. They are not taught any kind of faith, but they are given as much incentive as possible to search for truth. And they have to be reminded from the very beginning: your own truth, your own finding, is going to liberate you; nothing else can do that for you.
Truth cannot be borrowed.
It cannot be studied in books.
Nobody can inform you about it. You have to sharpen your intelligence yourself, so that you can look into existence and find it.
If a child is left open, receptive, alert, and given the incentive for search, he will have psychological freedom. And with psychological freedom comes tremendous responsibility. You don't have to teach it to him; it comes like the shadow of psychological freedom. And he will be grateful to
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