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CONQUEST OF NATURE. The same fear of the mind -- we have to conquer. This idea has to be changed. The idea should be that now we have to rejoice in nature, we have to find the mysteries and secrets of nature, and we have to go beyond mind. This artifact is not our nature.
That's what we are doing in meditation.
Meditation is finding something in you that is superior to the mind. Only then can the mind be prevented from destroying humanity and this beautiful planet. It was perfectly okay to be destructive up to now, but now the situation and the context is totally different.
Somebody asked Albert Einstein, "What do you think about the Third World War?"
He said, "I cannot say anything about the Third World War, but I can say something about the Fourth World War."
The questioner was puzzled. He said, "If you don't know about the third, how can you know about the fourth?"
Albert Einstein said, "The fourth will never happen; that much can be said. If we just let the third happen... finished."
Look at the past of the mind: Genghis Khan killed thirty million people, alone. His successor, Tamerlane, killed forty million people. We don't know the exact numbers for Nadir Shah, but we know about Adolf Hitler; he killed thirty million. And now we are ready to kill five billion human beings, not to say anything about millions of birds, millions of animals, millions of trees -- because the Third World War will be an end to all life on this planet. It is not just human beings who will be killed, it is going to be a loss to the whole universe.
Scientists say that there are perhaps five hundred planets where some kind of life exists, but it is all guesswork. No certainty, no communication has been possible up to now. All we know is that in this vast infinity we are the only people alive with a potentiality of becoming eternal, of becoming immortal. In every possible way this earth should be saved -- from our minds.
The only way I can see is meditation.
Up to now, mind has been our survival. From now onwards only meditation can be our survival because meditation means going beyond mind, searching for something
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