"They are not cheating people consciously.

"You cannot cheat anybody consciously. Consciousness will prevent you from doing anything as ugly as cheating, deceiving, pretending, being a hypocrite, condemning people as sinners and fulfilling your own egos as great saints. No, it is not done consciously.

"I never suspect for a single moment their good intentions. Whatever these people are doing, they are doing with good intentions; but the questions is not of good intentions, the question is: What is the result?

"You may murder me with good intentions, but your good intentions cannot justify my murder.

"I have come in contact with almost all kinds of religious scholars, and on one point they are the same, whether Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Jew. That point is that they are perfectly at ease, feeling very good in whatever they are doing – they are doing 'God's work,' and they are spreading 'wisdom.' They don't even know the meaning of wisdom. They have never tasted anything like that; they have heard about it, they have read about it, they have crammed hundreds of scriptures.

"I am reminded of a historical event:

"When Alexander the Great invaded India, his master was no one other than Aristotle, the father of logic in the western hemisphere. He had asked him, 'When you come back, bring the four Vedas of the Hindus. The rumors have been, for hundreds of years, that those four books contain all the knowledge that is in the world; if you know those four Vedas, you know all. So bring those four Vedas for me.'

"Alexander said, 'That is very simple.' But in those days the Vedas were not printed. Hindus resisted printing them for hundreds of years after the printing press was invented; they never wanted their sources of wisdom to be printed and sold in the market. Knowledge cannot be sold, and you cannot purchase wisdom. And purchasing the four Vedas from a bookstall, you will be deceiving yourself – those words are dead.

"Alexander inquired because he was thinking he could get them easily, but it was difficult. Very few prominent brahmin families had copies of the Vedas, and that was their whole treasure. But finally he found one old brahminpeople said, 'He has one of the most authentic copies of the Vedas."