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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Policemen serve an Order to Leave
4 January 1987, Osho arrives back in Poona after an absence
of five and a half years since 1981.
Around 8:00am policemen serve an Order to leave on Osho, while
he is in bed.
Osho says:
"I reached here at four o’clock in the night, and within
three hours the police were here. I was asleep. As I opened my
eyes, I saw two policemen in my bedroom. I said, I never see dreams,
particularly nightmares. How have these dodos managed to come
inside? I asked. Do you have any search warrant? They didn’t
have—”Then how have you entered my private bedroom?”
They said, “We have to serve a notice on you.” Sometimes
one wonders whether we use words in our sleep. Is this the way
to serve a notice? Is this the way to be a servant of the people?
All these are servants of the people; we pay them. They should
behave like servants…but they behave like masters.
I said, “I have not committed any crime. I have just slept
for three hours, is it a crime?”
One of them said, “You are a controversial person and the
police commissioner feels your presence may provoke violence in
the city.”
Now these people are not even aware that I was here for seven
years, and no violence was provoked by me in the city—what
more evidence do you want? On the contrary, a man from this city
(Vilas Tupe) has tried to kill me, to assassinate me—in
front of ten thousand sannyasins and twenty police officers, he
threw a dagger at me in a morning discourse. It was almost impossible
to lose the case even if we wanted to lose. Ten thousand eye-witnesses
you cannot find for any such case—and twenty police officers!
Still the case was dismissed, that it never happened. These
are our magistrates, this is our police. These are our police
commissioners. If they wanted to keep the silence of the city,
they should have thrown out that man who tried to assassinate
me.
But the next day when my attorney went to see the commissioner,
he was surprised. On his calendar of appointments was the name
of the same man; it seemed he was behind the whole thing. And
I have been here for two days, and still violence has not happened
in the city….
Sitting in my room, how could I have created violence in the city?
And on the notice…I said “Read it. What is my crime?”
My crime is that I am controversial. But can you tell me—has
there ever been a man of any intelligence who was not controversial?
To be controversial is not a crime. In fact, the whole evolution
of human consciousness depends on controversial people: Socrates,
Jesus, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Bodhidharma, Zarathustra. They
were fortunate that none of them entered Poona.
This city is condemned, because this city murdered Mahatma Gandhi,
this city tried to murder me…and they are trying to tell
me that I am controversial and dangerous. They are not even ashamed.
Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by the same group of people who have
tried to assassinate me. For centuries to come, Poona will be
remembered as a city of murderers.
Because he had no reasonable cause…otherwise you would
have seen me again handcuffed and in jail because I have done
something which is unprecedented. That police officer misbehaved.
I was lying down on my bed and he throws the notice over my face!
I cannot tolerate such subhuman behavior. I immediately tore up
the notice and threw it away, and I told those police officers,
“Go and tell your commissioner.”
I know that a notice from the government should not be thrown
away, but there are limits! First, the law has to show humanity
and respect for human beings. Only then can it expect respect
from others. And these are our servants; we pay the tax. And they
have become masters."
from The Messiah, volume one.
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