Informal Talk Perth (Australia), 28 March 1994. Yesterday I was really enamored there are so many people you see and all very deep and sensible people.  First time I see such a group, all of them, and none of them was making any fun or funny remarks, nothing.  Except for all those who came on the stage most of them had agnya.  I was quite surprised because when I asked them they said we are Christians and I said how can you have agnya, I said to have agnya for Christians? But maybe after thinking I feel that when we do against the teachings of Christ and claim to be Christians then Christ himself gets angry with us, thats very important to understand for him character was the biggest “Shila”(*). “Shila” as they call it in Buddhas philosophy it was called as “Shila” and also we have Mahavira on the same level who talked about it, so at this level what is the level of tapasia, the level where you have to go through penance, this area important thing is “Shila” is your character how you build it, your moral sense how you develop it.  This is very important to understand that Christ stood for moral sense much more than all the prophets.  They talked about dharma, they said you must have, you shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that, all those things, but Christ made it subtler, and he said you must have innately built in “Shila” is character, Read More …