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CHAPTER 20. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN
to cut the crop. Then somebody else’s are ready and the whole village helps him. Singlehandedly,
he will be in immense trouble.
Nobody will talk to him. People should not recognize him on the street, should not say hello. You will
kill the man – and he cannot go anywhere else because in India people are tethered to their land.
Nobody is going to purchase his land, his house. If he wants to leave he can leave, but where is he
going to go and what he is going to do?
It’s a very easy, very non-violent, but really cruel method; far more cruel than killing the man. His
children will not be playing with other children, his wife will not be meeting with any other woman.
He’s boycotted.
So Sanjay Vilethiputta said, ”If I initiate you an organization will be necessary. I will not give you
initiation, then it cannot be known to others that you are my followers. You just go on living,
experiencing, doing what I have told to you. And if you feel to convey it to somebody, you can convey
it, but there is no question of initiation. So nobody knows that you belong to Sanjay Vilethiputta.”
But what happened? Sanjay Vilethiputta’s scriptures we don’t have. The man must have been of
immense intelligence because Buddha criticizes him, Mahavira criticizes him. Otherwise, Mahavira
and Buddha would not criticize a man who had no status. He must have had a status exactly the
same as Buddha and Mahavira. Mahavira does not criticize Buddha, he was too young. Mahavira
was too old; it was below him to criticize Buddha.
It happened to me.... It was Gandhi’s one-hundred-year celebration year, a century was complete;
if he had been alive he would have been one hundred years old. So one year, a whole year of
celebrations was made in India. And I made it a point that for the whole year I would criticize him
because that was the right time. So I spoke all over India, criticizing him everywhere.
The oldest Gandhian was Kaka Kalelkar. He was one of the very early disciples and by then was
the most authoritative person. When he was asked in New Delhi what he thought about me, he
said, ”He’s too young, and youth is bound to be rebellious. When he is my age he will not criticize
Gandhi.” I was in Ahmedabad when I received the message. Someone from Delhi brought me a
newspaper and showed me that this is what he had said.
I said, ”My comment is that Kaka Kalelkar has gone senile. If youth is rebellious and if it is to be
decided by age.... He has not said anything against my arguments. He’s indicating my age, that I
am saying these things because I’m too young; he’s not saying anything against what I have said.
Then naturally the simple answer is that he is senile. He’s too old to understand; he’s lost his brains
and he should be in his grave.
”As far as I am concerned, one thing is certain: even in my grave I will criticize Gandhi because my
arguments have nothing to do with my age, no relevance to my age. Gandhi was against everything
that has been invented after the spinning wheel. I cannot conceive that even if I am three hundred
years old I will support this idea that the spinning wheel should be the last invention of man, and
after that everything is evil!”
Now almost twenty years have passed and I am still of the same opinion. Gandhi, about certain
things, was absolutely fanatic. He wanted the world to remain at least three thousand years back,
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