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and Mother Teresa both fall from a one hundred story building, who will reach to the earth first?"
In the first place, who cares?
In the second place, just by the way, it is good news; the sooner it happens, the better.
The Republican Party of India and the Dalit organization -- both are organizations of the neo-Buddhists -- have made a similar resolution to the government of India, that action should be taken against me because I have been comparing myself with Buddha.
In the first place, I have never compared myself with Buddha. I have always said definitively that he is life-negative, and I am absolutely life-affirmative. There is no possibility of any comparison.
He is a bullock cart, and you want it to be compared with my Rolls Royce? Of course, the basic principle of a bullock cart is the same -- the four wheels -- but still you cannot compare it with a Rolls Royce.
These organizations have told the government that their religious feelings are very much hurt.
In the first place, if you understand religion... it is in the transcendence of thoughts and feelings. There are no religious feelings at all! Only idiots have religious feelings.
I have loved Buddha, just as I would have loved the inventor of a bullock cart; it was a great revolution. Buddha is the beginning of a great revolution, but only the beginning, not the end. Looking backwards, I can see he managed a little bit to go against the tradition, but not wholeheartedly.
I am absolutely against the past.
Although Buddha tried in every way... but he was at the beginning point; you could not expect him to create the whole science of transcendence. He has my respect, my love -- but I cannot tolerate to be compared with Gautam Buddha!
In fact, the government has to take action against these two organizations.
Gautam Buddha is an escapist, and it is Gautam Buddha who is responsible for the poverty of this country. If so many thousands of people renounce the world, they become parasites on the society.
I don't want you to renounce the world. My whole teaching is: Rejoice in the world. What comparison can there be between
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