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says "religion" we have to translate that as "communism"!' (laughter)
So when his talk was translated and people were clapping, then he knew later on (with a chuckle) why they were clapping! -- because he was praising religion and they were hearing communism being praised. He was saying that man cannot live without religion and the translator was saying that man cannot live without communism, and people were clapping!
But the translator said, 'Only one word I have changed -- nothing else! (laughter) And that much you have to allow, because communism is our religion,' he said. 'So we are not doing anything wrong; commun-ism is our religion and marx is our prophet.'
This is how things go when you translate -- and your mind continuously translates everything. It immediately turns into a desire; that is the basic trick of the mind. Talk about desirelessness and the mind says, 'Okay, now we will have to create this desirelessness, so I will desire desirelessness.' Tell somebody, 'Don't think and in a state of no-thinking meditation will happen,' and he will say, 'Okay, I will try not to think. ' And now he continuously thinks not to think, that's all! It is a very vicious circle.
So just watch it, mm? Good!
[A sannyasin says: I have been alone or on my own now for ten days or so... I felt so incomplete or I saw myself as incomplete, and always needing somebody else to comfort me. I just saw that.]
But what is wrong in being incomplete? And what is wrong in being in relationship just to be completed by somebody else? That's how things are. As far as the body is concerned we are incomplete. As far as the mind is concerned we are incomplete -- not as much as the body, but we are still incomplete. The mind can exist alone more easily than the body. As far as the innermost being is concerned, the self is concerned, we are not as incomplete as the mind -- very little, just a little incomplete... ninety-nine percent complete, only one percent missing.
The deeper you go, the more complete and more independent you will become. As the body, one is incomplete -- a man is a man, the woman is a woman; the woman needs the man, the man
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