Who knows what he was doing?
The indian government was trying to impose prohibition on the whole of the country -- and eighty percent of the cabinet ministers were drunkards! And the Prime Minister himself, Morarji Desai, was worse than all of them -- he was drinking his own urine! I would rather drink wine. If one has to choose between wine and urine, wine seems to be far more aesthetic -- and it is far more vegetarian, too! Urine seems to be an animal food. And just think of the whole passage it comes along, the long journey it takes... now the second step after that is not very far away!
When Indira became Prime Minister, she was not moving into the Prime Minister's house, she took two months to move in. She was changing all the tiles in the bathrooms because... who knows what he was doing inside the bathroom? And the whole house was being almost renovated. Everything had to be cleaned, all the utensils had to be removed. Who knows what he was doing? And in his bathrooms all that was found were different kinds of enemas. Two months it took to change the whole house -- it must have been stinking!
I am not against drinking. Once in a while it is really beautiful to drink. There is no need to be so superhuman -- be human!
That's what I love more in Jesus than I love in Mahavira or Buddha. Buddha and Mahavira are too abstract, almost inhuman; Jesus is very human. He drinks and he eats and he loves feasting. And late in the night they eat and drink and they gossip.
When Indira became Prime Minister, she was not moving into the Prime Minister's house, she took two months to move in. She was changing all the tiles in the bathrooms because... who knows what he was doing inside the bathroom? And the whole house was being almost renovated. Everything had to be cleaned, all the utensils had to be removed. Who knows what he was doing? And in his bathrooms all that was found were different kinds of enemas. Two months it took to change the whole house -- it must have been stinking!
I am not against drinking. Once in a while it is really beautiful to drink. There is no need to be so superhuman -- be human!
That's what I love more in Jesus than I love in Mahavira or Buddha. Buddha and Mahavira are too abstract, almost inhuman; Jesus is very human. He drinks and he eats and he loves feasting. And late in the night they eat and drink and they gossip.
