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the only person who will be praying -- and I don't know Sanskrit at all! And God understands only Sanskrit! I was wrongly appointed to this university by the mistake of the Ministry of Education. They thought, looking at me, that I must know Sanskrit. I don't know Sanskrit at all. I am not interested in anything dead.'
So he went to his room and I went to my room, and everybody slept. And that morning the students came to me and they were so happy, they were so thankful.
And I said to the Vice-Chancellor, 'This is far more beautiful, this is far more prayerful -- their coming to me and thanking me.' I said to him, 'Stop all this nonsense!'
But rather than stopping the nonsense he made the government transfer me to another university, saying, 'This man is dangerous! He will destroy my students' morality, character, religion.'
Anil Bharti, you did wrong. You should have come, and if somebody had been interested he would have followed you. Make them interested first, only then bring them here, otherwise they will come with a negative mind and they will search for some negativity. And you can always find negativity -- particularly in my place you can find all kinds of negativities -- because this is not a dead ashram: people are alive, young, lively, dancing, singing, loving, laughing. They must have found many things which go against their prejudices.
And they, you say: ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE MOST CULTURED, WELL-BEHAVED AND INTELLIGENT IN THE WHOLE OF MY UNIVERSITY...
That's the trouble: if they are well-cultured, that means they are well-repressed! What is culture? -- a device of repression. If they had been a little less cultured they would have been more innocent. If they had been a little less cultured they would have seen things more clearly. The cultured person cannot see things as they are; he has his ideas of how things should be, and if they do not go according to his ideas then they are wrong.
And you say they are well-behaved. They must be being forced to be well-behaved. And my own experience is that the well-behaved children, the obedient children, are not really alive people.
The alive children are
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