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Christians have borrowed, Mohammedans have borrowed... It seems there is some need in man that says to him that unless somebody else guides you, you will be lost. So he is always seeking guidance, without knowing the simple fact that in this world advice is the only thing which is given and never taken. You cannot become wise by asking wise people. The only way is to hear very closely the heartbeat of existence.
The poor Polack pope goes on kissing airports everywhere around the world. I would suggest to him that rather than kiss, please listen. Put your ears to the airport; that way perhaps you may hear something, but why taste it? Of course everywhere the taste is different. In India he tasted Hinduism for the first time when he tasted the cow dung. Stupid behavior! But it is thought he is very humble.
It is not true. Just a few days ago my secretary told me that he was in Brazil. The country is eighty percent Catholic, but that is all a formality.
In Greece I asked my sannyasins, "How many people are Greek Orthodox?"
They said, "Almost everybody is, ninety-two percent."
I asked, "How many people go to the church?"
They said, "Only four percent."
I said, "Are those four percent living or dead? Who are these four percent?"
They said, "Mostly old women, who have nothing else to do and the world wants to get rid of them."
It is only the priest who pays attention to them, because for that he gets his salary, that is his audience. He does not bother whether they hear or can hear; that is not important. He delivers the sermon; it is a profession.
But in these professions you will not find the truth. You will have to come closer to nature, not by touching airports, kissing airports. I have never read in any scripture that kissing airports is a religious duty. And this Polack pope thinks that this way he shows his humbleness.
Anando, my secretary, has brought the news that the Polack was very interested in Brazil, but very few people came to receive him at the airport. Where eighty percent of the people are Catholics, very few came to receive him. He was very angry. He asked the prime minister
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