Dissolution of Political Organizations

Dissolution of  _____ political organization.

Truth  is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.

If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented.

Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it.

You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

So that is the first reason, why the political organization should be dissolved.

No organization can lead man to spirituality.

If an organization be created for this purpose,
it becomes a crutch,
a weakness,
a bondage, and
must cripple the individual, and
prevent him from growing,
from establishing his uniqueness,
which lies in the discovery for himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth.

So that is another reason why I have decided, as I happen to be the Head of the Organization, to dissolve it. No one has persuaded me to this decision.

“This is no magnificent deed,
because I do not want followers, and I mean this.
The moment you follow someone 
you cease to follow Truth

I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not.
I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration.

I am concerning myself with only one essential thing:
to set human free.
I desire to free him from all cages,
from all fears, and 
not to found religions,
new sects,
nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I have no disciples,
no apostles,
either on earth or in the realm of spirituality.

Nor is it the lure of money,
nor the desire to live a comfortable life, which attracts me.

If I wanted to lead a comfortable life I would not come to a Camp or live in a damp country!
I am speaking frankly because I want this settled once and for all.
I do not want these childish discussions year after year.

One newspaper reporter, who interviewed me, considered it a magnificent act to dissolve an organization in which there were thousands and thousands of members.

To him it was a great act because, he said: “What will you do afterwards, how will you live?
You will have no following, people will no longer listen to you.”

If there are only five people who will listen,
who will live,
who have their faces turned towards eternity, it will be sufficient.

Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand,
who are fully embalmed in prejudice,
who do not want the new,
but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves?

If I speak strongly, please do not misunderstand me, it is not through lack of compassion.
If you go to a surgeon for an operation, is it not kindness on his part to operate even if he cause you pain? So, in like manner, if I speak straightly, it is not through lack of real affection–on the contrary.

As I have said, I have only one purpose:
to make man free,
to urge him towards freedom,
to help him to break away from all limitations,
for that alone will give him eternal happiness,
will give him the unconditioned realization of the self.

Because I am free, unconditioned, whole–not the part, not the relative, but the whole Truth that is eternal–

I desire those, who seek to understand me to be free;
not to follow me,
not to make out of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect.

Rather should they be free from all fears–from the fear of religion,
from the fear of salvation,
from the fear of spirituality,
from the fear of love,
from the fear of death,
 from the fear of life itself.

As an artist paints a picture because he takes delight in that painting,
because it is his self-expression,
his glory, his well-being, so I do this and not because I want anything from anyone.

You are accustomed to authority, or to the atmosphere of authority, which you think will lead you to spirituality. You think and hope that another can, by his extraordinary powers--a miracle–transport you to this realm of eternal freedom which is Happiness. Your whole outlook on life is based on that authority.

You have listened to me for three years now,
without any change taking place except in the few.

Now analyze what I am saying, be critical,
so that you may understand thoroughly, fundamentally.

When you look for an authority to lead you to spirituality, you are bound automatically to build an organization around that authority. By the very creation of that organization, which, you think, will help this authority to lead you to spirituality, you are held in a cage.


If I talk frankly, please remember that I do so, not out of harshness, not out of cruelty, not out of the enthusiasm of my purpose, but because I want you to understand what I am saying.

That is the reason why you are here, and it would be a waste of time if I did not explain clearly, decisively, my point of view.

“For eighteen years you have been preparing for this event,
for the Coming of the World Teacher.
For eighteen years you have organized,
you have looked for someone who would give a new delight to your hearts and minds,
who would transform your whole life,
who would give you a new understanding;
for someone who would raise you to a new plane of life,
who would give you a new encouragement,
who would set you free–and now look what is happening!

Consider, reason with yourselves, and
discover in what way that belief has made you different–not with the superficial difference of the wearing of a badge, which is trivial, absurd.

In what manner has such a belief swept away all the unessential things of life?
That is the only way to judge:
in what way are you freer, greater, more dangerous to every Society which is based on the false and the unessential?

In what way have the members of this organization become different?

As I said, you have been preparing for eighteen years for me.
I do not care if you believe that I am the World–Teacher or not.
That is of very little importance.

Since you belong to the organization,
you have given your sympathy,
your energy.

So these are some of the reasons why, after careful consideration for two years, I have made this decision. It is not from a momentary impulse. I have not been persuaded to it by anyone. I am not persuaded in such things. For two years I have been thinking about this, slowly, carefully, patiently, and I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be its Head. You can form other organizations and expect someone else.

With that I am not concerned,
nor with creating new cages,
new decorations for those cages.

My only concern is to set human being  absolutely, unconditionally free.

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