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With meditation

If you are constantly fueled by fear or greed, chemical changes will happen in you. You will feel your body is filled with poison and you will vomit that poison on everybody and everything. You will carry that irritation with you.

I am teaching meditation to prisoners. I tell you: there are really good people I have seen there; many people who are good by nature. It is just that at some point they lost their control - that's all. And it is not that we are in some way different from them. We have not got a chance or we have not got those kinds of incidents, that's all.

These people - somehow their intellect or their fear consciousness was not able to handle or balance the chemical changes which went on in their head at those moments. In those particular moments, the chemical changes which went on inside their body, they were not able to handle. The chemical changes crossed their limits - beyond their fear of law! That is the only thing that happened. Nothing else.

They might have done something bad. But we need to be more compassionate, sympathetic, loving and caring by teaching them how to handle the hormonal changes, the chemical changes which happen in their body and neurological system. That is why I feel meditation is the best way to rehabilitate them.

Meditation is the only way to get the attitude or criminal attitude out of a person. Otherwise in many Indian prisons, a guy goes inside by doing a small mistake of stealing and stays there for 2 months and comes out as a hardcore criminal. In the 2 months, he gets such a lot of confidence seeing so many criminals around him. I always tell people: whenever too many people do the same thing in a space, you get confidence to do the same thing. That is what we call a satsang in a positive way. Satsang means many people meditating. You feel confident. You feel encouraged. You feel like doing it. You also start doing.

I always tell people: unless you bring meditation into the life of prisoners, you cannot expect them to be good human beings when they come out of prison.