action of writing it down, the mind agrees and
accepts these things...

"A large part of our program has to do with self-giving. Self-giving is
totally important in my estimation. Everything we do is predicated
upon it. You can only meditate a few hours a day, but you can give of
yourself constantly. You should feel your whole life is nothing but
self-giving... there is a great deal of self-giving you can do around
the Centre, which will help you. Naturally, whenever you give to a
spiritual organization, you enter into that circle of light, and you
gain much more for it than if you had just gone out and helped one of
your neighbors, from a karmic point of view. The way that you can give
of yourself at the Centre, well, there are a few ways. Naturally, the
most important is economically. Money is necessary in this world to
run a spiritual organization. The more money we have, the more people
we help. It's a very simple equation... "

Appendix C: Excerpts from Rama's Tape "Sophisticated Sexuality" (1983)

"As the years went on, I found that my relationships got better. They
changed, though, as I changed... The love became very pure and then it
was no longer painful. As I went on, relationships got better and
better. And they meant less...

"I found that love and sexuality continued to be one of many doorways
that seemed to continue to help me in evolution. It just seemed to be
there. I had no choice in the matter. As I have no choice in anything
that happens anymore...

"I no longer could love one person. I just found that I loved
everyone. Equally...

"It's no more special to sleep with one person than another. What's
the difference? It's all a dream anyway...

"So I decided the best thing to do was to avoid the Watergate
mentality. And to be in full disclosure. Without the sense that
anyone would understand. Most people and most of you are threatened
completely by your own sexuality. You don't know how to deal with it.
You're terribly afraid of it. And it's a terrible threat to see
someone who is at ease with it...

"So I knew it wouldn't be easy. But at the same time I... had to be
myself... I was never particularly interested in impressing others.
Otherwise I would not have been part of the Woodstock nation. I
rejected society ages ago, and came back to it because it seemed like
an interesting thing to do...

"I began to hear rumors that well, I was--I don't know what I wa