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CHAPTER 5. THREE IN THE MORNING
many people follow you then you are a rich guru. Whatsoever happens, the businessman will collect.
He will count. The material is immaterial.
There is a warrior who will fight – any excuse will do. He will fight, fighting is in his blood, in his
bones. Because of his type the world cannot live in peace. It is impossible. Once every ten years
there is bound to be a big war. And if you want to avoid big wars, then have many small wars, but
the total will remain the same. Because of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, now a great war has
become almost impossible. That is why there are so many small wars all over the world: in Vietnam,
Kashmir, Bangladesh, Israel, many small wars, but the total will be the same. In five thousand years
man has fought fifteen thousand wars, three wars per year.
A type exists who has to fight. You can change this type, but the change will be superficial. If this
warrior is not allowed to fight in war, he will fight in other ways. He will fight an election, or he may
be-come a sportsman – he may fight in cricket or football. But he will fight, he will compete, he
needs somebody to challenge. Somewhere or other fighting has to be done to satisfy him. That is
why, as civilization develops, people have to be supplied with more and more games. If games are
not given to the warrior type, what will he do?
Go and watch when a cricket, football, or hockey match is on – people go mad, as if something very
serious is going on, as if a real war is happening! The players are serious, and the fans around them
go mad. Fights break out, riots happen. The playing field is always dangerous, because the type
that gathers there is the warrior type. Any moment anything can go wrong.
There is a brahmin type, who always lives in words, in scriptures. In the West there is no such type
as the brahmin; the name is not important, but the brahmin exists everywhere. Your scientists, your
professors, the universities are filled with them. They keep on working with words, symbols, creating
theories, defending, arguing. They keep on doing it sometimes in the name of science, sometimes
in the name of religion, sometimes in the name of literature. The names change, but the brahmin
goes on.
There are these four types. You cannot create a classless society. These four will persist and the
total arrangement will be the same. Fragments can change. In the morning you can do one thing, in
the evening something different, but the total day will remain the same.
I have heard about a young scientist whose father was against his scientific research. The father
always thought it useless. He told his son, ”Don’t waste your time. It is better to become a doctor,
that will be more practical and helpful to people. Just theories, abstract theories of physics, are of
no help.” Finally he persuaded his son and he became a doctor.
The first man who came to him was suffering from severe pneumonia. The doctor consulted his
books – because he was an abstract thinker, a brahmin. He tried and tried. The patient became
more impatient, he said, ”How long do I have to wait?”
The scientist who was now a doctor said, ”I don’t think that there is any hope. You will have to die.
There is no treatment for this illness, it has gone beyond cure.” The patient was a tailor, he went
home.
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