MONEY CAN'T BUY U LOVE PART-II

So in old age, when he had all the money in the world a man can have, he established the Nobel prize. It is given as a peace award-by a man who earned the money by war! Whoever is working for peace receives a Nobel prize. It is given for great scientific inventions, great artistic, creative inventions. 

And with the Nobel prize comes big money- right now it is near about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars with it; and it goes on increasing because money goes on becoming less and less valuable. And such a fortune that man must have create that all these Nobel prizes that are distributed every year are given only out of the interest. The basic money remains intact, will remain intact forever. Every year so much interest accumulates that you can give twenty Nobel prizes. 

All charitable work is really an effort to wash your guilt literally. When Pontius Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus, the first thing he did was to wash his hand dirty, why should you wash your hands? It is something significant : he is feeling guilty. It look two thousand years for a man to understand this, because for two thousand years nobody even mentioned or bothered to comment on why Pontius Pilate washed his hands. It was Sigmund Freud who found out that the people who are feeling guilty start washing their hands. It is symbolic...as if their hands are full of blood.

So if you have money. it creates guilt. One way is to wash your hands by helping charitable institutions, and this is exploited by the religions. They are exploiting your guilt, but they go on buttressing your ego, saying you are doing great spiritual work. It is nothing to do with spirituality; it is just that they are trying to console the criminals. 

The first way is what religions have been doing. The other is that the man feels so guilty that either he goes ad or commits suicide. His own existence become just anguish. Each breath becomes heavy. And the strange things is that he has worked his whole life to attain all this money, because the society provokes the desirre, the ambition to be rich, to be powerful. And money does bring power, it can purchase everything excepts those few things which cannot be purchased by it. But nobody bothers about those things. 

OSHO