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Part VII : Death of Vimalkirti and his Mahaparanirvana
By 1981 there are over 240 books of Osho's discourses, and 46
darshan diaries, plus over 100 titles by foreign publishers, with
translations into 13 languages.
You may love to read a book which the Vatican has put on the
black list…. My books are on the black list. Even the books
in which I have spoken on Jesus, and spoken very considerately
so that nobody is offended—even those books!
By mistake, one Christian press in England, Sheldon, which is
owned by a Christian association, published my books. First they
published The Mustard Seed, then they became interested in me.
Then they published other books, and the Sheldon Press people
became involved with me. They forgot they are part of the Christian
association, they are owned by the Christians, and they are publishing
the books which the Vatican has put on the black list! Eight books
they published. Then it was made clear to them that there had
been some mistake. Now they have dropped all the eight books,
they have returned all the copyrights.
Every year, the Vatican goes on putting together the black list,
which books you should read, which books you should not read.
Right now they cannot do what they used to do in the past: in
the past they used to burn the books. In the basement of the Vatican,
just in the basement of St. Peter's church, there is an immense
library of all the books that they have burned in the past. One
copy they have saved, but thousands…that means they have
burned thousands of books, completely removed them from the whole
earth. Wherever those books were found, they were burned. And
whosoever resisted was killed or he was also burned with the books.
In the library of the Vatican they don't allow anybody. That
library should be taken over by UNO, immediately. It is not the
property of the Vatican. And that library may reveal thousands
of truths, inventions, discoveries which the popes down the ages
have prevented from happening by burning the books. Now they cannot
do that, but at least they can do one thing: they can publish,
secretly, a black list. And they can put any book on that black
list; then no Catholic is allowed to read it. If you read it you
are committing a sin, a great sin—disobeying the pope, who
is infallible. unconc26
Just the other day a friend from Rome sent me a letter saying
that the new Pope has released a five-page epistle, very stern,
very hard, cruel. And the friend writes, "It seems that the
epistle has been written keeping you in mind." Of course
the name is not mentioned, but whatsoever is said seems to show
that the Pope must have some idea of me in his mind. He must be
reading The Mustard Seed, Come Follow Me… because he says,
"There are people now on the earth who are claiming that
their interpretation of Jesus is more right than the Vatican's
interpretation. Beware of these people! Don't even listen to them
and don't read them. If you read and listen to them you are bound
for eternal hell."
Now these people create a certain mind—but not a soul.
Catholics have a certain mind, Mohammedans have a certain mind,
Hindus have a certain mind. People who have no individuality start
having a certain mind—the mob mind. bestil08
The Protestant Church of Germany has circulated an order to
all Protestant churches in Germany that my name should not be
mentioned in any church. No books, no quotations should be quoted.
That simply shows that they must be being used, people must be
quoting me, otherwise why should they get worried? A committee
was appointed to investigate and just the other day the West German
government published a pamphlet to make people aware of the danger,
particularly young people. The pamphlet says: "Although this
man says that you need not leave the marketplace, that you need
not renounce your home, your job, still people become so magnetized
that they leave their jobs. And so many people are missing from
Germany that it is not a small problem; it is taking on epidemic
proportions."
When a government becomes worried—and a faraway government….
Seminars are being arranged all over the world, for and against
me. I don't even go outside my room, but they cannot even ignore
a man who just lives in his room, who never goes outside. I have
even stopped walking in the garden—it may be objectionable
to somebody! But this is, in a way, a good sign. inzen07
I receive many letters from Russia. My books are being smuggled
into Russia. People are reading, the books are moving from hand
to hand, but underground. guest11
There are nearabout fifty sannyasins in Russia, but they cannot
wear orange, they cannot wear the mala—they cannot show
that they are sannyasins. They meditate but they have to meditate
underground in some friend's basement; they cannot make it public.
They cannot publish a book of mine—and they want to publish
books there. They have translated at least five books into Russian—handwritten,
typed, cyclostyled. They are mixing with thousands of people,
but underground. If even a single copy is seized they will be
in trouble.
Now, in such a society, how can you think of tackling the problems
to change them? There is no freedom to think at all. And the same
is true about Mao Zedong's China. come09
I have spoken on many things in Hindi which I have not spoken
on in English out of necessity, because it was not possible. And
vice versa too. I have spoken in English about many things which
were not possible to speak on in Hindi. My work has been a little
strange. When all my books are translated from Hindi to English,
and from English to Hindi, you will be even more bewildered than
you are, more puzzled than you are—and I will have a good
laugh. Whether I am in the body or not, it does not matter; I
will have a good laugh, I promise it, wherever I am. I am bound
to be somewhere in the cosmos. Seeing you puzzled, bewildered,
shaking your heads not being able to believe, because I have spoken
in both these languages in different dimensions… I only
chose to speak in English because there is a dimension which cannot
be expressed in Hindi. books05
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