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Part VII : Osho blesses Indira Gandhi
In January 1980, Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister
You ask me, Karanjia*: You appear to have made a point of attacking
the prime minister, Morarji Desai, and backing Indira Gandhi,
the former prime minister, with all the spiritual power at your
command. What is the background? Do you wish to replace Mr. Desai
with Mrs. Gandhi?
Yes. Absolutely yes. Again I would like to remind you that I
have no personal attachment to Indira Gandhi. But she represents
something far better than Morarji Desai represents. She has more
progressive policies, a better vision of the future, and more
understanding of the present. She is a contemporary woman, with
immense intelligence and grace. She is not a faddist, she is not
a dogmatist. She is flexible, open, vulnerable, ready to receive
anything new, ready to understand anything that is happening in
the modern world. Her doors and windows are open to the sun, to
the moon, to the wind, to the rain.
I have met both persons….
While Indira Gandhi was prime minister, thrice she wanted to come
to this commune. Thrice she informed us, "I am coming"—and
again and again it was postponed. And the reason was that the
people who were around her would not allow her. They said to her,
"It is dangerous to go to Acharya Rajneesh; it will affect
your political future."
Even to come to see me seems to be dangerous. And I can understand:
if she had come here, then all the shankaracharyas and all the
pundits and all the priests would have been against her. So her
advisers wouldn't allow her to come here. Again and again, she
wanted to come.
Even the desire to come, even the desire to be here and meditate
and sit silently with me, shows a great openness. She has been
reading almost all the books that are published, and she has been
listening to the tapes.
When I say it would be better if Indira comes back, I simply
mean that I would like an open mind, contemporary, modern, humble,
receptive to the new waves that are arising in the world so that
this country also becomes contemporary and modern—which
this country is not yet.
I have great appreciation for her courage in implementing new
programs even though those programs were against the traditional
mentality of this country. I would like her to be back. In fact,
anybody, any Tom, Harry and Dick, would be better than Morarji
Desai….
All politicians are evil. Then what should be done? Choose the
lesser evil.
Morarji Desai is a bigger evil than Indira Gandhi. Indira Gandhi
is a lesser evil; that's why I say it will be better if she comes
back. If I can find somebody else who is an even lesser evil than
Indira Gandhi, then I am going to support him. But my support
simply means a spiritual sympathy.
I am not going to the masses to tell them to vote for this or
that; I am not going into any activity. I have far better things
to do: my energy has to remain involved with my sannyasins. I
am here to create millions of mystics in the world. That's my
sole purpose, and that's my joy and my celebration.
On the margin I am going to comment on many things, but those
are all just marginal things. And I am a spiritual person, not
in the sense that I am against the world; I am a spiritual person
because I rejoice in the world. The world is the manifestation
of God.
My whole teaching is: Rejoice—never renounce. Rejoice
in the totality of life, the wholeness of it. Rejoice, and rejoice
again. It is natural. People have always thought that spiritual
persons have to remain far away from worldly affairs. To me, there
is no affair which is worldly; all affairs are the same, all affairs
belong to the one center. The ordinary life is also the extraordinary
life. It is only a question of seeing, right seeing; then even
pebbles on the street are transformed into diamonds.
I love life in its totality, as it is. Politics is also part
of it. It is not my concern—but because it is part of life,
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*Note: Karanjia is editor of the Blitz magazine
A great meditative energy has to be released first. If millions
of people become meditators then, slowly slowly, the structure
of the energy on this earth will change—will start moving
from the political mind to the religious mind. I am against the
political mind, but I know that this cannot happen right now.
It may take thousands of years. The beginning has to happen right
now, the seed has to be sown right now. But the fruits will come
only later on. You can become a non-political person right now,
and your life will have a flowering. But as far as the whole earth
is concerned, it is going to take time.
What are we going to do meanwhile?
I have blessed Indira Gandhi because to me she seems to be the
least political amongst the Indian politicians. It will again
look strange to you, because whatsoever has been said about her,
spread about her, rumored about her, is just the opposite. But
my own observation is this, that she has the least political mind.
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