Television, Internet and Computer

If you do not know what is happening in some remote part of the world, nothing will happen. But if you know how to kill this one and that one, then all kinds of destructive things can happen. If something is happening in some part of the world and I do not know about it, others may call me an idiot. But if I am watching destructive things, it is ruining all my divine qualities.

Then again, sometimes the newscast is all falsehood. Sometimes good news, real news comes.

Television as such is not bad. If you use a certain channel, you can watch Father Tom’s programme, where they discuss all spiritual things. For months I watched Father Tom’s interviews, often with Jewish teachers and others.

Television absolutely has to be very, very limited for children, more than for older people. The children are our future. Their minds must be fed with constructive content.

The negative forces on television and the internet need oversight by spiritual people – I do not want to say religious people – I mean by good people who love their country more than they love themselves. Now, the problem is that we love ourselves infinitely more than we love our country. Each individual says, “We love our country,” but do we really love our country? We only love ourselves.

Speed is not peace. That we have to remember. America is speed, speed, speed, but speed to what? Peace can be speed. Peace has to be valued, not simply speed as such. The more we give value to outer speed, the weaker we are becoming in our heart. We must be conscious of what we are speeding towards. If I think of my brother and do not use the telephone, thinking about his heart and about his soul, that is giving me much more joy. When I speak on the phone, asking “How are you?” – this and that – the speed of the telephone is doing me a favour. But the telephone is like a butcher. It is killing my heart. Outwardly, I make a phone call, and it is over. But I did not have the telephone for a few months when I first came to this country and started working at the Indian Consulate. When I used to think of my brothers and sisters in India, at that time I had so much intensity. Now I speak on the telephone, and then it is finished. Again, speed is needed, but not for everything, not for everything. There are many times when we have developed speed, when that speed is our downfall.

What I am saying will be proved in 100 years or 200 years or 300 years or 400 years.

If a ripe mango is about to fall, it is quite natural that it will fall at the foot of the tree. But if a storm takes place, then the mango will be blown away instead, or if some wild animals happen to be there, they will eat the mango that we were supposed to eat. They eat the mango, and they go away. They are wrong forces. But if it is a natural course, then the mango will drop at the foot of the tree, right under the tree.

The divine forces always fight, fight, fight the undivine forces. Who is going to win? The game is not over. The ultimate victory will always go to the divine. But that ultimate victory can take centuries. At that time, we will not be here. We will be some-where else. The divine forces slept, overslept. Now they are getting up. They want to put up a brave fight. Let us see.

The mind is infinitely stronger than the heart. Peace is the only divine quality that can change the face and fate of the world.

I shall forever and forever cherish the vision that I had and still have in the inner world. We see the outer world much more than the inner world. But then in the inner world also, you have to work very, very hard.