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CHAPTER 5. THREE IN THE MORNING
Look what happened in Soviet Russia. In 1917 the greatest revolution happened on earth. The
arrangement was changed. I don’t think Lenin, Stalin or Trotsky ever heard the story of three in the
morning. They could have learned much from Chuang Tzu. But then there would have been no
revolution. What happened? The capitalists disappeared, now nobody was rich, nobody was poor.
The old classes were no more. But only names changed. New classes came into being. Before, it
was the rich man and the poor man, the capitalist and the proletariat – now it was the manager and
the managed. But the distinction, the gap, remains the same. Nothing has changed. Only now you
call the capitalist the manager!
Those who have studied the Russian revolution say that this is not a socialist revolution, it is a
managerial revolution. The same gap, the same distance, remains between the two classes, and a
classless society has not come into being.
Chuang Tzu would have laughed. He would have told this story. What have you done? The manager
has become powerful, the managed have remained powerless.
Hindus say that some people will always be managers and some people will always be managed.
There are SUDRAS and KSHATRIYAS; and these are not just labels, these are types of people.
Hindus have divided society into four classes and they say that society can never be classless. It is
not a question of social arrangement – four types of people exist. Unless you change the type, no
revolution is of much help.
They say there is a type which is a laborer, sudra, who will always be managed. If nobody manages
him, he will be at a loss, he will not be happy. He needs somebody to order him, he needs somebody
whom he can obey, he needs somebody who can take all the responsibility. He is not ready to take
the responsibility on his own. That is a type. If the manager is around only then will that type of
person work. If the manager is not there, he will simply sit.
The manager can be a subtle phenomenon, even invisible. For example, in a capitalist society the
profit motive manages. A sudra works not because he loves working, not because work is his hobby,
not because he is creative, but because he has to feed himself and his family. If he does not work,
who will feed him? It is the profit motive, hunger, body, the stomach, that manages.
In a communist country this motive is not the manager. There they have to put visible managers.
It is said that in Stalin’s Russia there was one policeman for each citizen; otherwise it is difficult to
manage because the profit motive is not there any longer. One has to force, one has to order, one
has to nag constantly, only then will the sudra work.
There is always a businessman type who enjoys money, wealth, accumulation. He will do that – it
makes no difference how he does it. If money is available, he will collect money; if money is not
available, then he will collect postage stamps. But he will do it, he will collect. If postage stamps are
not available he will collect followers – but he will collect! He has to do something with numbers. He
will have ten thousand, twenty thousand followers, one million followers. That is just the same as
saying that he has got one million rupees!
Go to your sadhus – the greater the number of followers, the greater they are. So followers are just
nothing but bank balances. If nobody follows you, you are nobody – then you are a poor guru. If
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