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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Osho’s
books; bad and good publicity
Just a few days ago one of my friends from Delhi informed me,
"There is talk going on in the inner circles of the government
that your books should first be censored, your tapes should first
be censored, by the government. Only then can they be allowed
to reach the masses."
I informed him, "Let them decide it, and they will have to
face me in the Supreme Court!"
Who is the man—I would like to see his face—who
is going to decide what is right in my book and what is wrong?
I know all those ministers, I know most of the parliament members.
They don't have the caliber or the intelligence. None of them
has ever meditated; how can they decide whether what I am saying
is right or wrong?
Tomorrow they may start telling scientists, "Before you
publish your papers, government bureaucrats will see whether they
are right or wrong." And the government bureaucrats have
no idea of science, no idea of philosophy, no idea of poetry,
no idea of music. If they had any idea of poetry and science and
literature and philosophy in the first place, they would not have
been bureaucrats! That is the ugliest thing in the world. To be
a government bureaucrat means you have become part of an ugly
machinery and you have lost your soul. You don't exist anymore
as an independent thinker. rebel31
The other day I received a letter from Australia. Just like other
lands and other continents, Australia also has a Rajneesh Foundation,
and we have thousands of sannyasins in Australia. The Theosophical
Society of Australia was selling my books up to now, and those
books were their best sellers. This time, when the representative
of the Australian Rajneesh Foundation went to the Theosophical
Society, they said, "We have been ordered by our world headquarters
that your books should not be sold."
The sannyasin saw that books that were written against me were
being sold, and he asked about it and the man said, "I love
Osho myself, and his books were our best sellers. I even wrote
a letter that this is not right, but they overruled my letter
and they said, `You have to do what you have been told. Books
against Osho can be sold, but literature of Osho or any literature
written in his favor is banned.'"
It was not a surprise to me—but it is very inconsistent
with the Theosophical Society's own philosophy. They pretend that
they are synthesizing all religions, all philosophies, all approaches—just
excluding my standpoint! They are exposing themselves, because
this letter banning my books must have gone not only to Australia;
it must have gone to Japan, it must have gone to America, it must
have gone to other countries in Europe.
What is their fear? Their fear is that they cannot make my approach
fit with all other religions' approaches. It stands aloof and
apart and alone in its own majesty. satyam19
Shiva used to be sitting by my side every evening in darshan.
He was a guard—not my bodyguard, just one of the guards—and
his function here was that when people in darshan sometimes fell
down, if they felt such an upsurge of energy that they could not
manage to sit, his function was to take them back to their seats
or take them and make them lie down by the side.
I had never seen anything that could be called intelligent in
him. He never wrote a single word, he never wrote any book about
his experiences here. Perhaps he was so insensitive that although
he was amidst tremendous experiences happening, his insensitivity
did not allow him to be aware of it.
The day I left for America he followed me. Certainly in America
there was a different arrangement; the whole commune was a different
kind of functioning organization, and he was not chosen to be
a guard….
Shiva was so much hurt because his power had been taken away that
he wrote a book, Rajneesh, the god that failed. If he had been
authentic and true he should have written, Shiva, the guard that
failed. But nobody looks at himself; people always project on
others. satyam27
Shiva has written a book against me, full of lies. I have told
the English sannyasins to sue him in court, because what he is
saying is utter nonsense. And you can see the cunningness. In
Poona, every evening I used to have a meeting for people who were
taking sannyas. It was an open meeting—almost sixty, seventy,
sometimes a hundred people would be present. One dozen people
or maybe more would be initiated. And ten sannyasins were dancing
as mediums to create a vibrant energy.
And Shiva has written in his book that every night I need ten
women, without making any reference to the fact that those ten
women are mediums and they dance in an open place with one hundred
people watching, a dozen people present to be initiated. He does
not mention that; he simply mentions every night I need ten women.
Can you see—can a person be more ugly? And he used to trust
in me so much that he used to say that he can give his life—and
this is what he is giving! And there are thousands of things which
are absolutely wrong, fabrication, fiction, from his own mind.
mystic25
The people who know me, who have come into deep inner communion
with me, who have experienced me, remain silent.
It is not new. It is part of a strange human psychology. The positive
person is humble; even to say something he feels embarrassed,
because he knows that whatever he is going to say is not going
to be up to the experience that he had. It is going to fall very
short; hence the embarrassment.
But the negative person has no fear, no embarrassment. He has
not experienced anything. And to deny or to lie, or to create
a fiction, is sensational. The people who have been writing against
me…all the publishers are eager to publish their books—without
knowing what they are writing, all kinds of rubbish.
And a few of my sannyasins who have been with me from the very
beginning have written books just to answer those lies and allegations,
with facts and figures, with solid arguments.
The publishers are not willing to publish them. They say there
is no sensation in it. Lies have sensation; the truth is non-sensational.
And the masses are interested in sensationalism, they are not
interested in knowing the truth. Truth is simple and plain.
But this situation has to be reversed; there is a limit to everything.
The positive people have to come out in the light, and tell with
emphasis their own experiences and what they understand about
me and my relationship to my people. Unless they come out and
do it, they are in an indirect way helping the negative people.
Because if those negative people are not contradicted, it becomes
an argument in their favor—why are they not contradicted?
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Maneesha is writing a book about her experiences with me. Just
the other day I heard that her mother from Melbourne, Australia,
has written a very angry letter, "First you made me condemned
by the Christian society here in Melbourne, and now you are trying
to write a book, I hear. That means you would expose it to the
whole world, and particularly in Melbourne where I will have to
suffer."
And it is not any exception. Devageet has received a letter from
his mother saying, "Stop writing the book," because
he is also writing a book. Now these poor mothers are in great
anxiety. What are these people going to write about them?—that
must be a deep fear. Secondly, they will expose that Christianity
is no longer relevant, that something new, something basically
discontinuous with the past is needed. And that's what sannyas
is. So they must be afraid of the crowd, of the church, of the
congregation, of the priest; what they will say: "Look what
your son has done," or "Look what your daughter has
done. You did not bring them up rightly; they have gone astray."
Everybody is concerned that everybody else should not go astray.
And what do they mean by astray? You should not go in a different
direction than they are going. And you know their whole life is
misery, you know their whole mind is full of anxiety and agony;
you have never seen them joyous. You have never felt a deep harmoniousness
with your own parents. And they have tried in every way—in
your helplessness, because every child is helpless—to force
you onto the way that they think is right.
But their whole life proves that they are not right. If their
life was a life of joy and songs and celebrations, the children
would have followed without any punishment, without any harassment,
without any torture. And now Maneesha and Devageet are not small
children; they have their lives, they have their lifestyle and
they want to share it with the whole world. Why should their mothers
be so concerned? What is the fear? invita12
Just the other day I received a letter from a sannyasin who was
present in a Jaina gathering, which also had one night invited
the great poets of the country. One of the greatest poets of contemporary
India, Neeraj, was there—he has been here, so you all are
acquainted with him—and he was hooted down, forced to leave
the stage, and the reason was that he mentioned my name. He introduced
himself before the recital saying, "All my poetry belongs
to Rajneesh. He is my source of inspiration."
Thousands of other writers and poets go on repeating what I am
saying, but don't have the courage to make it clear to people
from where their inspiration comes. Sheer fear of the crowd! But
Neeraj is a man of all the qualities of a lion. He said, "It
does not matter even if you shout. This hooliganism, this goonda-ism,
won't make any difference." He left the stage saying, "Long
live Rajneesh!" isan04
Just today I received a letter from one of my old sannyasins
in Holland, Amrito. He is a famous Dutch writer, with all possible
qualifications, degrees, honorary degrees. He has written many
books, including at least eight books on me. Today I received
a letter saying he is writing another book on me and is coming
for my blessings in just a few days. The title of the book is,
Ten Years of Preparation. Ten years ago he became a sannyasin,
and still he calls those ten years just a preparation.
This patience is needed. In a hurry, you can get only seasonal
flowers. They come and go. The deeper your patience, the greater
will be your growth. chit04
Deva Amrito wants it to be his whole pilgrimage, the seeking
and the search, and he wants to end it by finding me. He has already
written eight books on me and he thinks this book is going to
be very comprehensive—answering everything, destroying all
lies that have been spread by governments, by politicians, by
journalists, by all kinds of criminal people who are around. mani14
Just a few days ago, I was seeing one of the most significant
books to be published in this century, Millennium. It is a deep
research into Nostradamus and his predictions. Eighty thousand
copies were published—which is very rare—and they
were sold within weeks. Now a second publication, a second edition,
is happening in America, another is happening in England, and
the book is being translated into many other languages—Dutch,
German….
Nostradamus was a great mystic with an insight into the future.
And you will be surprised to know that in his predictions, I am
included. Describing the teacher of the last days of the twentieth
century, he gives eight indications. Krishnamurti fulfills five,
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi fulfills three, Da Free John fulfills four—and
I was amazed that I fulfill all eight.
In this book Millennium, they have made a chart of the teacher
about whom Nostradamus is predicting—that his people will
wear red clothes, that he will come from the East, that he will
be arrested, that his commune will be destroyed, that flying birds
will be his symbol, that his name will mean moon…. Three
hundred years ago that man was seeing something that fits perfectly
with me—my name means "the moon." And in their
chart they have declared me the teacher of the last part of the
twentieth century. golden17
Just a few days ago I received a message that one of my books,
The Supreme Understanding, is the biggest selling book of one
publisher in Japan. Sixty thousand copies…and it is still
in demand; more editions are needed. It has gone through twelve
editions already.
Somebody has sent a list of the books: my books are the top sellers,
next to me is Friedrich Nietzsche, and then third comes somebody
Japanese. Although I have not been in Japan, almost two dozen
of my books have been translated into Japanese and have been received
with great love and understanding. Almost every university in
Japan is teaching Zen through my books. It is their tradition,
they have developed it, but my interpretations have appealed to
them more than their own commentaries and their own interpretations.
dawn33
My people in Europe have been thinking to make a book with a
cassette. The book will give all the background of the meditation
and the cassette will give all the instructions, so you need not
go anywhere. Just sitting in your room with your tape recorder
and you have a master! Gautam Buddha is no longer needed….
pilgr13
One of the most important novelists of America (Tom Robbins)
has asked me a question: "Osho, what do you think about the
Jewish and Arab conflict in the Middle East? What is the solution,
and what are the implications for the future?"…
So I have given my answer to Tom Robbins, because he is going
to write a book and he wants my opinion. I know he must be surprised,
because nobody has ever said this, that Israel is a strategy of
Christian politics to destroy Jews—not directly, but by
creating a situation so that Mohammedans can do the job and Christians
can keep their mask that they have been so helpful, even to the
enemies. They have followed Jesus' philosophy: Love your enemies.
They have been pouring money and help in the form of outdated
arms—armaments which are of no use, which have to be thrown
out, either into the ocean, or in Israel.
And at the same time American Jews go on helping American politicians
because they are helping Israel. So the American politicians exploit
their money, they exploit their support.
Just by chance, yesterday when I dictated my letter to Tom Robbins,
I received the message: the Supreme Court has specifically made
it clear that the government has been absolutely illegal in restricting
the use of the commune's land, its other properties. So now it
is again in our hands.
I have said to Tom Robbins that my suggestion is that if you want
to help the Jews, Oregon should be given to them as a new Israel.
Move the Jews from Israel and give Israel to the Mohammedans;
it belongs to them, it is ugly to keep their land.
And as for me and my people, we offer our commune land as a beginning.
It is enough for at least one hundred thousand people. We give
all our assets—all our houses, hotels, roads, dams, fields—everything
that we have in Rancho Rajneesh we give them as a friendly gesture,
without taking any money for it, with the condition that Rancho
Rajneesh should be the capital of the new Israel.
And let America show its real face. If they want to help them…half
of the state of Oregon is already owned by the federal government,
and it is very sparsely populated so there is no problem. Half
the land already belongs to the federal government; give that
land to the Jews. pilgr15
You will be happy to know that the University of Oregon did a
survey about the commune: how much intelligence the commune people
have and how much intelligence the average Oregonian has. They
were surprised, shocked.
They did not publish the survey until after I had left and was
deported from America. But now the survey is published and it
says that the average Oregonian has only seven percent intelligence,
and the average commune member had fourteen percent intelligence—double
that of any Oregonian.
And the research is being done by the Oregonians. You might think
that people who have seven percent intelligence cannot judge about
people who have fourteen percent. They must have tried to bring
their intelligence as high as possible. My understanding is that
it cannot be more than three or four percent; seven is make-believe.
And the commune people must have nearabout twenty; they were reduced
to fourteen.
But still, it is so obvious that the lower intelligence destroys
the higher intelligence.
Stones are very much against the flowers.
Belief is of the ignorant people who do not want to explore the
truth themselves. But a man of sincerity never believes in anything—any
God, any scripture, any religion. He searches. turnin08
Just the other day an Italian sannyasin has told me that he wants
to put on record—he is collecting my statements—what
I think about illegitimate children. I said to him, "There
are no illegitimate children, there are only illegitimate parents."
How can a child be illegitimate? And who are the illegitimate
parents?—not necessarily those who are not married. Any
child who is not born of love makes the parents illegitimate.
Whether they are married or not is irrelevant—but the child
certainly is never illegitimate. tahui33
An invitation has come from the Italian Radical party that they
would like me to be their president. I have informed them: I cannot
be a member of your party, but I can be a friend—and if
you need guidance in bringing more rebellion to your country I
can be immensely helpful.
I am particularly interested in Italy because of this pope: until
the Vatican is destroyed completely, humanity will not know what
freedom is. The pope is not the representative of God, he is the
representative of the whole idea of how to enslave people. spirit11
You are going to be my ambassadors.
They can prevent me from entering their countries, but they cannot
prevent my ambassadors. So I am going to declare soon, in all
the countries, my ambassadors—propagating the birth of a
new man and a new world. mani10
In fact, every sannyasin is my ambassador. To make a certain
man responsible is not making him a dictator for you. It is making
him a help, a contact center, because the fight is going to be
all over the world. Twenty-five countries have prevented me from
entering them. Now I have to find my own ways to enter. And in
each country I am going to have my embassy.
For the first time, a single individual is going to have embassies
around the world.
And those embassies will be your meeting places, because the fight
is going to become more and more intense. Because I cannot enter,
in every country sannyasins have to fight their own governments
and their stupidity.
And the fight is so total that I disagree with the past on every
point. It is not a question of choice—it is a question of
breaking away with the past completely and creating a new man.
I can see the new man arising in you on the horizon. And with
this new man will be born a new humanity, a new vision, and a
new way of life.
I am not interested in creating a religion, which is a very
simple affair. I am interested to create as many religious people
as possible—an atmosphere of religiousness, with no organized
church but every individual having his own individuality as his
religion.
Man has never been given that freedom. I want every individual
to have his own religion—in other words his own lifestyle,
his own philosophy—and to live according to his own deepening
insight.
You have to be alert of a tremendous responsibility that I am
handing over to you:
You have to be the harbingers, you have to be the dawn of a new,
totally new humanity, completely discontinuous with the past.
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