"The moment you disappear, the moment you see yourself as an absolute emptiness, who can make a slave of you? How can emptiness be reduced to slavery? When you are not, how can you be imprisoned? When you are not, freedom is total. Freedom from the self is real freedom.

"These sutras are of immense value. Remember, when Buddha talks about freedom he does not mean the ordinary freedom talked about by the politicians, by the priests, and others. The social and the political freedom is: you are completely free as long as you think, act, dress, earn, speak and buy like everybody else. You are free, as long as you meet the conditions, and the conditions are so many that the freedom remains bogus.

"You can't be free unless absolutely whatsoever happens spontaneously in you is allowed and accepted. Man has been programmed, given blueprints of what to be, how to be, what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. And those programs have been put so deep down in your being that you have become unconscious of them. It appears as if you are acting out of freedom; you have been tremendously deceived.

"Even when you think you are acting out of freedom, even when you think you are acting out of your own conscience, you are not. The society is controlling you in a very subtle way. The moment a child is born, the society starts programming the child. The society treats you like a computer; it goes on feeding and programming you. By the time you become a little alert, you are already programmed: you are already a Christian or a Hindu or a Jaina. You are already fixed; you are no longer liquid, flowing. And you will function out of this fixity, out of this obsession, that the society has put inside you.

"It is like an electrode put inside your brain. You will not know anything about it, but it will control you. That's what conscience is.

"Buddha is absolutely against conscience. He is all for consciousness, but never for conscience. That's his revolution. His religion is the most revolutionary religion that has happened in the world up to now."