Ego creates confusion

August 13, 1982

You see American people think no end of themselves. This is the biggest problem. They think they are always right. They insisted on South Korean war, Vietnam war, this and that. And everywhere they thought they were the right people to do right things, they are very right and their sort of kingdom, this and that, and all that. They’ve always made mistakes, always made mistakes. That’s the problem.

They are so confused, so complicated, they are extremely complicated, in everything that they do there is a disgrace. Like they will help a country, they will try to show off, that the, they have got the grace of the tradition you see; a traditional country when it helps other country it understands that if it is helping other country it is helping themselves because they are, they can’t bear the poverty of the other country. That’s how they are. I think even the President Roosevelt said that “poverty anywhere is threat to prosperity everywhere”, you see, he could feel the collectivity, he said so, but Americans thinks, you see, no end of themselves and they think they are very great and they won’t make mistakes and always side with wrong people, because they are so confused and so complicated, always side with wrong people, they have compromises always with negativity. It is a very difficult country. I learnt it first time I went to America “I said nothing doing, I’ll not go back”, because they are so confused, you know. Now the confusion comes to them because they are at the Vishuddhi, see America is the Vishuddhi chakra and that is the place where the confusion starts, you see, ego and the super ego get stuck. So either they’ll be on the super ego trip if they come out of it they’ll be on the ego trip, and that’s why there are extremely confused people and they have so many compromises, you see. In Sanskrit language, for example, there is truth, and untruth, there is nothing like truth, semi truth, half-truth, as you have in your language, it is just satya or asatya, there is not two things.