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Part VI : BOMBAY 1970-1974 : Osho moves to CCI Chambers, Bombay
On 27 June 1970, a send-off celebration is held for Osho in
Jabalpur. On 1 July, Osho moves to Bombay, and stays in the residential
part of CCI Chambers, a centre for businessmen. Osho gives regular
evening discourses to about 50 people, on spiritual and esoteric
matters, sometimes concluding with a meditation or kirtan and
shaktipat. He gives interviews, including to Western seekers and
press reporters. Osho travels only to fulfill outstanding speaking
engagements, and by December these are completed.
I will slowly confine myself to a room: I will stop coming and
going. Now I will work on those who are in my mind. I will prepare
them and send them out. The moving from place to place, which
I cannot do myself, I will be able to do by sending out ten thousand
people.
For me, religion is also a scientific process, so I have in my
mind a complete scientific technique for it. As people become
ready, the scientific technique will be passed on to them. With
the help of that technique, they will work upon thousands of people.
My presence is not needed for that. I was required only to find
such people who could carry out that purpose. Now I shall be able
to give work to them.
It was necessary to evolve certain principles; that has been
done by me. The work of the scientist is over. Now the work is
for the technicians. A scientist completes the work, like Edison
discovering electricity and inventing an electric lamp. Thereafter,
it is the work of the electrician to fix the bulb. There is no
difficulty in that.
Now I have an almost complete picture of the work to be done.
Now, after giving people the concept and getting them to do the
technique, I will send them out as soon as they become ready.
All this is in my mind, but the potentialities are not seen by
all. Most people see only the actualities. Seeing the potentialities
is a different task, but I can see them.
The conditions that were existing in one small area of Bihar
during the time of Mahavira and Buddha can come about very smoothly
within the next few years on a global scale. But an absolutely
new type of religious person will have to be prepared, a new type
of sannyasin will have to be born, a new type of yoga and meditation
system will have to be devised. All this is ready in my mind.
As I come across people they will be given these things, and
they will further pass along the same to others. There is a grave
risk, however, because if the opportunity is lost it will cause
great harm. The opportunity must be utilized because such a valuable
time as exists today can hardly come again. From every angle,
the era is at its climax or peak….
I have a complete plan and a blueprint in my mind for this. In
one sense, my work of finding the people I wanted is nearabout
complete. Also, they do not know that I have found them. Now I
have to give work to them by preparing them and sending them out
to spread the message.
As long as it was my work, I knew what I had to do and I was
doing it with comparative ease. But now I have to give work to
others; now I cannot remain in that ease. I have to hurry up.
This is another reason for my hurry. I therefore want to make
it clear to all friends that I am in a hurry, so they should also
hurry up. If they keep on at the speed with which they are walking,
they will not reach anywhere. If they see me in a hurry, then
perhaps they will also pick up speed; otherwise not….
People become transformed only during emergencies. If one knows
that one can transform tomorrow or even the day after, he will
not do anything today; he will postpone it for tomorrow or the
day after. But if he knows that there is no tomorrow, then that
capacity for transformation comes into being.
In a way, when civilizations are on the verge of disintegration
tomorrow becomes uncertain. One is not sure of the next day. Then
the today has to be so compact that it can complete all that has
to be done. If one has to enjoy, he has to do it today. If he
has to surrender and renounce, that too he has to do today. Even
if one has to destroy the ego or transform, that also must be
done today.
So in Europe and America, a positive, decisive mentality has
come into being that whatever one wants to do must be done today:
"Forget the worries of tomorrow. If you want to drink, drink;
if you want to enjoy, enjoy; if you want to steal, steal. Whatever
you want to do, do it today." On the material plane, this
has happened.
I want this to happen also on the spiritual plane. This can run
parallel to what is happening on the material plane. I am in a
great hurry for this idea to dawn. It is definite that this idea
will come from the East. Only Eastern winds could carry it to
the West, and the West will jump into it with full vigor….
With religion also, America can outshine and surpass the East.
Once the seed of religion reaches there, America will outdo the
East in its growth. But all the same, this will be imitation.
The initiative, the first step in this matter, lies in the hands
of the East.
That is why I am in a great hurry in planning to prepare people
in the East who could be sent to the West. The spark will catch
like wildfire in the West, but it has to come from the East. known04
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