"And in the same situation Gautama the Buddha would not even have cared to look back; that is his uniqueness, he never looked back; the past did not exist at all. Mahavira would have looked back but would have neither wept nor laughed.

"This fact has to be remembered: never compare two buddhas, otherwise you will create great confusion for yourself. Although their experience is the same, their expressions are different, are bound to be different. They have different individualities; they have different forms of expressing their experience.

"Jesus remains human, very human. If you ask a Buddhist, he will say, 'If he wept, then he is not a buddha.' Just when he is going to be crucified and he is raised on the cross, he looks at the sky and says, 'Have you forsaken me?' There is great complaint, the complaint of the human heart, complaining to God as a child would complain to his mother or father: 'Have you forsaken me? What are you trying to do to me?' He is angry too, there is a little anger, which is part of being human: a little anger, a little love, a little joy.

"When he enters into the great temple of Jerusalem he feels so offended by the presence of the money-changers in the temple that he takes a whip in his hand and, alone, he drives all the money-changers out of the temple, turns their money-changing boards upside-down, creates chaos. That too is very human. That is Jesus' specialty.

"In the same situation you can't think of Buddha looking at the sky because for Buddha there is no God outside. God is within, you are looking at an empty sky, there is no one to respond. God is in the crucified person, there is no way to pray to God. Prayer is absolutely meaningless for a Buddha; he would have accepted the crucifixion without any grudge, without any complaint, without any anger. He is suprahuman, his expression is absolutely suprahuman; not for a single moment will he allow human weakness to enter in.

"When he was dying, he stopped his disciples from weeping and crying; he said, 'You can do it when I am gone, you will have enough time then, but right now, at least while I am still alive, don't do such a stupid thing."