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CHAPTER 3. THE NUCLEAR FAMILY – THE IMMINENT MELTDOWN
He should change his name, it does not suit such a great personality... Senator Bob Smith? No,
Senator Don Quixote of Oregon, Soviet Union. That will be the right place for him to belong.
He has also said, ”Rajneeshees should not be allowed to remain here.” We have not committed any
crime. We have not been in any way harmful to anybody. We are minding our own business. But
why are these politicians so shaken, worried? And just one and a half years back the same man
had said, ”Rajneeshees are absolutely legal and I have nothing to say against them.” Now, within
one and a half years everything has changed.
We are the same people; but his political situation has changed, and now anybody who wants to
make his political status solid can cash in on us. All the politicians are doing that. We are doing such
a great favor for them; they should be obliged to us for it. Any politician wanting to win an election
has only to do one thing: he has to talk nonsense against us – that’s enough, and he is going to win.
And all the politicians are doing that.
Now his political situation is not so solid – shaky. We can help him, there is no problem in it. He
can condemn us, he can make the threat that we should be thrown out; he can do anything if it will
make his position solid. We will be happy. We supported one drowning man, we saved his drowning
status. He may not be thankful to us, but we don’t wait for anybody’s thankfulness, we simply do
anything that seems to be humanitarian.
Just now we have been collecting the street people. These senators can become street people any
day. Politicians are either in power or on the streets; there is no midway. Even a powerful politician
like Indira Gandhi sent me a message: ”I am persuading Rajiv to come to you because he is not
willing to leave, to resign from his service as a pilot in the Indian airlines.”
And Rajiv’s argument is solid. He says, ”The day you are not in power, then how are we going to
run the family? We don’t have our own house to live in. I am the only earning member – and in your
old age, have I to see you on the streets?” She could not persuade him to resign. And his argument
was absolutely clear, ”Where will you be?” In the three years when she was not in power and Morarji
became the prime minister, it was Rajiv who pulled her through. At least she did not have to beg.
Politics is a strange career. A few things are worth understanding about it, because they will throw
light on the human mind. First: only a certain type of man becomes attracted towards politics, just
as a certain kind of man becomes attracted towards science, poetry, painting, music, dance. You
cannot think of Winston Churchill dancing; that would be simply unimaginable. Nor can you think of
Nijinsky as a prime minister. Nijinsky was a dancer, and perhaps the best dancer the world has ever
known; his dance was almost magic. He was born to dance.
It was not some talent that he learned, it was some instinct in him, a born quality. The magic was
such that no other dancer has been able to imitate it. Once in a while, dancing, he would jump so
high that it was against gravitation. Physics cannot explain it. It is not possible with that weight to
jump that high. And the most miraculous thing was his coming down: he came so slowly, just like
a dry leaf falling in the fall, slowly, with no hurry to reach the ground. That is absolutely against
gravitation.
Gravitation is such a pull, it is a magnet. It simply pulls you forcibly; you are not able to manage, or
do anything about it. It is not in your hands to come down slowly or to come down fast. Everything
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