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Part VII : The Ultimate Stage: Silence
On 10th April there is an announcement that Osho is entering the
ultimate stage of his work and that from this date he will speak
only through silence. He continues to meet with his secretary.
On 11th April, darshan is held with Teertha, and Satya Vedant
initiating sannyasins.
Later, a journalist asks: On April 11, 1981, it was announced
in Poona that beginning May 1, 1981 you would speak only through
silence and that a new phase of your work would begin. This is
correct?
Osho: This is correct. One month in Poona while I was there. I
was simply sitting and people were sitting by my side. Seven thousand
sannyasins were living with me there. This was only one hour every
day in the morning. Here also, once or twice, we have sat together.
Slowly slowly, it will come again, everything, every day…it
is kind of a prayer in silent communion.
This was your decision to go into this silent stage?
My decision.
Okay, how long will this silent stage continue?
It will continue.
Until when?
Until I feel again to speak. I have spoken so much that I felt
I was speaking to the walls. It is almost futile.
Then you would not be able to give me a specific date in the future
that you would resume speaking?
I cannot even say anything about tomorrow….
Was the silent phase of your work, so to speak, in any way connected
with your medical condition?
No, not at all. I had been telling it for years, that one day
I'm going to stop speaking and just communicate through silence.
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Why did You enter Your long stretch of silence?
I have never lived with any plan in my life. It has been something
spontaneous, moment to moment. As I feel, I do it. I felt to be
silent, I went into silence. I may have remained my whole life
silent. There is no way to say why I started speaking again. The
same spontaneity. Three and a half years silence and suddenly
one day I felt that much has remained to say. I have not yet said
that for which I am here. So better say it now, because who knows
about tomorrow?
But it is all spontaneous. There is no reason of going into
silence or coming out of silence. But those three and half years
created a beautiful gap.
I was speaking for thirty years continuously. I think I deserve
at least three years silence after thirty years continuously speaking….
These three and half years silence has given me another opportunity
that is just a byproduct. The silence was not meant for it.
There were many people who were just hanging around me because
of their intellects were convinced. My arguments were important
to them although I was insisting that truth cannot be found by
arguments. But they became addicted with my words, with my explanations.
These three and half years, by and by they left, seeing that now
I am not going to speak and silence they could not understand.
Only those remained for whom it did not matter at all whether
I speak or I am silent. Just my presence, and something transpires
between my being and their being. It is a wordless communion.
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