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lectures in those old days when they did not exactly understand my meaning.
He used to come to my meditation camps -- there are here witnesses for it -- and he wanted me to do some yoga exercises, because I was traveling continually, and that would have an adverse effect on my body.
I said, "I would rather have that adverse effect than learn some stupid distortions of the body. And moreover, I remember perfectly how you exploit people."
He was teaching J. Krishnamurti a few yoga postures to help him overcome his forty years' migraines. Now, a yoga teacher is a professional; all that he teaches you is certain exercises of the body. But when he wrote his book on yoga, on the flap paper he wrote, "I am the guru of J. Krishnamurti."
I told him, "I don't want such exploitation. `Guru of J. Krishnamurti' -- just because you have taught him a few exercises? Then any idiot who can teach a few exercises, then any doctor who treats you with medicine, then any psychiatrist, any psychoanalyst, can claim to be your guru.
"I don't want to be included in your disciples. I am nobody's disciple. Hence, I have to refuse your offer for teaching me some exercises. I don't need them."
Instead of talking about me -- he was asked to talk about me -- he said, "Everybody is a part of God, but nobody can claim to be God himself." In his mind he thinks that I think myself God.
Just look around the world: if I were God there would not be such a mess. This mess is enough to prove that I am not God. But his statement is so stupid, that everybody is a part of God -- which part? You are dissecting God into parts, and if the whole of God is dissected nothing remains behind, no God, because everybody has got a part and run away.
Such illogical, irrational statements people go on making, and nobody even objects. I am simply ashamed of the retarded minds that surround us.
You will be surprised to know that the University of Oregon has made a survey: how much intelligence the average Oregonian has, and how much intelligence my people in the commune had. And they were surprised, they were utterly disappointed. The average Oregonian has only
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