"He cannot conceive that these people are going to destroy him. And these people are also not aware that they are destroying their own children.

"It is a society of blind people, sleepwalkers.

"They go on walking without knowing why, where.

"They go on stumbling, hurting themselves and others without even recognizing that this whole pilgrimage is absolutely absurd. Life is here and now, it is not a pilgrimage. It is not a goal somewhere far away that you have to reach. But this is part of the corruption, perhaps the most important part.

"Every child is being taught that he is not what he should be.

"This is the beginning of the tragedy.

"Let me repeat: every child is being taught that he is not what he should be. You have started creating a split between 'is' and 'should': 'is' is condemned and 'should' is praised. 'Is' is the truth and 'should,' your imagined idea.

"You have made the child sick, schizophrenic. Now he will never be at ease, he will never know what it is to be relaxed. You have made him tense for his whole life, for the simple reason that he can never be anything other than he is. He cannot go against nature, nobody can. Nature is your life, your existence, there is nothing beyond nature. There is no way to cross the boundaries of nature, so you are going to remain what you are. But that is condemned.

"You cannot become what is being told to you to become.

"You are a being.

"And all the cultures and all the societies are trying to make you into a becoming.

"Between these two words is the whole world of corruption.

"When I say you are a being, I mean you need not become anything.

"You have simply to blossom, unfold.

"Whatever is within you, let it become manifested.

"In the child it is a potentiality; if he grows naturally it will become a reality. But no child is allowed to grow naturally. Every child is being forced to become something which he can never become, which is beyond him. It is not his fault. He tries hard; and the harder he tries, the greater is the failure."