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the resignation of such a well-known professor. He is our most prestigious person."
I said, "You are giving more credit to prestige than to truth. You can expel me, but you will regret it. It will remain like a wound, because you are accepting that I am right and still you are expelling me. Do you have any sense of dignity or not?"
And when it became well known .... The city I was studying in had twenty colleges, and so there were enough possibilities for me to move from one college to another college. But soon it became known in every college and they simply started refusing me: "We will not allow you in this college. What is the point? Within two months you will be expelled, not more than that because we know your whole history. You have not lasted in any college."
I had to take the support of a lie because the truth was not functioning. So rather than going to the office, early in the morning I inquired about the principal: what kind of life does he live? What are his beliefs? They said that he was a devotee of the Mother Goddess of Calcutta.
That temple of the Mother Goddess is the ugliest temple in the whole world, because the Mother Goddess of Calcutta is a black woman, standing on the chest of her husband -- every woman does it -- in one hand holding a freshly-cut head, blood dripping, and in the other hand a sword, very ferocious-looking.
And Calcutta, one of the greatest cities in the world -- at one time it was the greatest city in the world, the most educated city in India -- worships this Mother Goddess. Worship means killing goats: every day dozens of goats are killed, and then the meat and the blood are distributed among the devotees and they eat raw meat as a gift from the Mother Goddess. This is the most murderous, primitive hangover of religion.
So I inquired about the man, I looked at his photograph. He looked perfectly the right person to worship the Mother Goddess. He had been a wrestler in his youth, now he had a big belly; a black man, very fat, looking very dangerous.
I inquired what time he worshipped the Mother Goddess. He had a small replica and had made a small temple, so I went there early,
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