When I say, ‘I am a Hindu and a Brahmin,’ this and that, I have created a wall around myself, identified myself, which breeds division. When you say you are a Catholic, it is finished – you have already separated yourself from the non-Catholics. All division, outwardly as well as inwardly, breeds antagonism. Can I own anything without creating antagonism, without creating this definite contradiction which breeds conflict? Or is there a different dimension altogether where this sense of non-ownership exists, and therefore freedom? One has to go into this a great deal. From Students Talk 1, Brandeis University, 18 October 1968 Read more |