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And you are not supposed to ask questions of that old man, simply answer!'
And on the first question everything went wrong. That Mohammedan professor asked me, 'What is Indian philosophy? How do you define it?'
I said, 'There is no question of Indian philosophy or non-Indian philosophy. Philosophy is simply philosophy! First you tell me, why do you call it Indian philosophy? If physics is physics, chemistry is chemistry -- no Indian chemistry, no Indian physics -- then why should philosophy be Indian? Tell me first!'
And my professor kicked me. I said, 'Keep yourself out of it! You are not to interfere -- you are not supposed to interfere!'
I told the Mohammedan, 'My professor is kicking my feet and he is not supposed to do that! He is just here to supervise the whole thing -- what is going on. He has to leave it to me and you. Now we have to encounter each other. First you define it! And he told me beforehand that you are a Mohammedan and a fanatic and that I am not to annoy you, so I am not trying to annoy you at all.'
The old Mohammedan loved it so much that he said, 'Forget all about the examination!' He gave me ninety-nine out of a hundred.
I said, 'Why ninety-nine? Why not a hundred? Why be so miserly? I have not answered anything wrong -- I have not answered at all!'
So he made it a hundred. He said, 'Okay, be finished with it! I have never examined such a student before. It seems you are the examiner and I am the examinee!'
And he started perspiring. I gave him my handkerchief: 'You just...'
These so-called cultured, obedient, well-behaved students must be stupid people. Don't bring such stupid people here! First make them a little intelligent, help them to meditate a little, then you can bring them here. But otherwise this is bound to happen.
This is not an old, traditional place, it is revolution -- and not a dead revolution -- with a heartbeat, alive. Only those who are ready to be revolutionaries can become participants in what is happening here.
You brought those dumb, stupid students here -- well-behaved, highly-cultured... That simply means they have no intelligence, otherwise
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