Mad people need methods of meditation so that they can come out of their madness.
The criminals need psychological help, spiritual support.
They are really deep-down sick, and you are punishing sick people. It is not their fault. If somebody
murders, that means he has carried a tendency to murder in him for a long time. It is not that
somewhere, out of nowhere, suddenly you murder somebody.
In one of the existential novels there is a story: a man is caught – in fact it is not right to say ”caught”
because he never tried to escape. He killed a stranger who was sitting on the beach. He came from
behind and killed him with a dagger; the man died on the spot. The man was absolutely a stranger;
the murderer had never seen his face even, because he killed him from the back. Even after the
murder he had not seen his face; he had no idea whom he had murdered.
It was a very strange case – existentialism has been of great help in bringing strange cases to light.
The court asked the man, ”We cannot understand why you murdered the man.”
He said, ”It is not a question of ‘why’ – I simply wanted to. There are people who try to find excuses
to do something that they want to do. I am a simple person: why bother about an excuse? – just do
it if you want to do it.”
Now he is saying a truth of tremendous importance. People try to find an excuse: for example, they
are angry with you – they think they are angry with you; that is not true.
They were carrying that anger – it was boiling within them, they were sitting on a volcano. They
were just waiting for somebody to give them an excuse: you gave the excuse, and they exploded.
It seems you are responsible for the explosion. No, you are only an accidental excuse, you are
not responsible. Somebody else would have done if you had not. It is just coincidence that you
happened to pass by; otherwise, somebody else ....
This murderer says to the court, ”I am a simple man; I don’t bother about rationalizations and
excuses – I simply wanted to kill. And it was really an exciting experience. When I forced the dagger
into the back of that man whom I don’t know, who has not done any wrong to me, when the blood
dashed out from his back I had the greatest, the most exciting experience in my life.
”I am perfectly happy: you can give me any punishment that you want. I am not going to say that I
have not done it, I have done it. I wanted to do it for a long time, and it is good that I did it.”
Now, what do you want to do with this man? Is he a murderer, or a psychiatric case who has been
prevented from having any excitement in his life? Perhaps he has never known love, because if you
ask Sigmund Freud, he will say that the dagger is nothing but a symbol of the male’s sexual organ,
and dashing it into the back of the man is just an effort – perverted, but an effort – to have some
entry into another body. That’s what people are doing all over the world. Making love is entering
another’s body.
This man is certainly not in the right shape, things are upside down, but what he is doing is simply a
sexual act; it has nothing to do with murder. The murder happened; that is just a by-product.
And why does a man want to enter the body of a woman? – because every implication has its own
implications. It is because the man is born out of woman’s body. He has come out of the woman’s
body, and he has never been so comfortable again, and he wants to be back in the womb of the
mother.
Every man is searching for his mother’s womb. These murderers are also searching for the mother’s
womb – of course in a wrong way, unnatural, but they are not responsible for it: your society is
responsible for it. If a murder happens then the society should be punished, then the whole society
should have to pay the penalty.
Why did it happen in this society? What have you done with the man that he had to commit a murder?
Why did he become destructive? – because nature gives everybody energy which is creative. It
becomes destructive only when it is obstructed, when no natural flow is allowed. Whenever energy
goes towards the natural it is prevented by society, it is crippled; it is directed into some other
direction.
Soon the man is in a confusion. He does not know what is what. He does not know what he is
doing, why he is doing it. The original reasons are left far behind. He has taken so many turns that
he has become a jigsaw puzzle.
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