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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Russian Sannyasins,
and Osho#146;s prediction on Gorbachov
In May 1987, Osho predicts that the Soviet Union will open up,
and dedicates a book to Gorbachev
You say: After six years of sannyas and a long struggle with
authorities, I succeeded in leaving my home country—the
Soviet Union. Sitting in darshan just a few meters from you, I
remembered all my sannyasin friends who are not able to travel
to you, and my joy was mixed with deep sadness. Do you see the
Soviet Union under Gorbachev becoming a more open society, so
that your message of love and meditation will spread more easily
there?
I can understand your sadness for those friends in the Soviet
Union who cannot reach me. But the night in Soviet Union seems
to be coming to an end. The man, Gorbachev, is, perhaps for the
first time in the whole history of the Russian Revolution, a man
who has an insight into human. I can understand your sadness for
those friends in the Soviet Union who cannot reach me. But the
night in Soviet Union seems to be coming to an end. The man, Gorbachev,
is, perhaps for the first time in the whole history of the Russian
Revolution, a man who has an insight into human values and is
trying his best to make the Soviet Union a really communist democracy,
an open society….
Gorbachev's coming into power is a great hope, because the man
does not seem to be a politician. He is a man in politics, but
he is not a politician. His vision is for a better humanity—it
is not confined to the Soviet Union alone. And he is slowly relaxing
the dictatorial bureaucracy that has grown up like a monster in
the past sixty years.
He is taking one of the most risky steps. If he succeeds…and
I hope that he will succeed For sixty years half of humanity has
lived under such tremendous slavery that it can be expected that
a second revolution will come. And a second revolution will be
bigger than the first, greater than the first. The first revolution
in the Soviet Union destroyed feudalism; the second revolution
will destroy the dictatorship and the slavery of millions of people.
Gorbachev to me is almost a reincarnation of Lenin. In the world
of politics, he is the only man I have any respect for.
It will not be a long time until the Soviet Union becomes an
open society, and it will be possible for my sannyasins to come
to me. It will be possible for them to be sannyasins openly.
I have dedicated my book on human rights to Gorbachev and Sakharov—I
have never dedicated any of my books to anybody before—because
I can see a ray of light in this man, and a courage to create
a second revolution which will be bigger than the first. The sannyasins
in the Soviet Union should help this second revolution to the
utmost of their capacity. Gorbachev needs every support of all
those who believe in freedom, who believe in individuality, and
who respect differences in people; who are not of a fascist mind
to impose themselves on others, but of a democratic spirit to
help everybody to be himself.
Gorbachev has a task which not only can make the Soviet Union
an open society, but will prove that all condemnation by the American
politicians of the Soviet Union is utterly false and baseless.
The Soviet Union becoming an open society will take away all the
power that America has accumulated by creating fear in the world
against it. If that fear disappears, the power of America will
disappear with it. America does not want the Soviet Union to become
an open society….
The question of a nuclear victory is simply not possible. And
Gorbachev is the first man who has seen the fact that with the
invention of nuclear weapons, the third world war has become an
impossibility—because nobody can win, nobody can be victorious.
If a third world war happens, everybody will be destroyed. There
will not be somebody left even to write the history of what happened
in the third world war….
Give the message to my sannyasins in the Soviet Union: "Your
day has come." Just as the first revolution had come unexpectedly
to the Soviet Union, even more unexpectedly the second revolution
is coming—it has already begun. They should rejoice and
make every effort to help Gorbachev in making the Soviet Union
the land of freedom, love, friendship, respect to human life.
It is going to happen—you can take it from me, almost as
a prediction….
I predict that Gorbachev is going to succeed in bringing the second
and greater revolution to Russia, and his revolution in the Soviet
Union is going to affect everything in the whole world.
I would like my sannyasins to meet him—they have to meet
him to present my book that I have dedicated to him. Invite him
to come to my people here whenever he needs a little encouragement
and hope, whenever he needs a spiritual support, a nourishment.
And tell him that his meetings with Ronald Reagan are not going
to fulfill anything, but if he dances with my sannyasins he will
gather a new spirit, a new joy to accept the great challenge that
is his destiny.
And it will not be long before sannyasins from the Soviet Union
will be allowed to come here, and my sannyasins from other countries
will be entering into the Soviet Union.
I have gone around the world—except to the Soviet Union.
It will be an immense help for Gorbachev to make the Soviet Union
an open society if he invites me and my people…. Nobody
else can destroy the people who are full of lust for power, and
nobody else can revive the spirit of the people which has been
repressed for sixty years.
If my people just go and sing and dance and move around in the
Soviet Union, they will create an atmosphere in which Gorbachev
can work more easily for the second great revolution. This is
my message for my sannyasins, and for Gorbachev, and for Sakharov.
So when you go back, meet Sakharov and tell him from me that he
should make arrangements for my sannyasins in the Soviet Union
to meet with Gorbachev. He is the right person, in the right place,
in the right moment. golden17
You are asking me, do I have a special message for this great
man, Gorbachev, who is bringing a second revolution in the Soviet
Union? Yes, I have a message for him. And my message is not special,
but the same as it is for every human being, wherever he exists.
But the situation is certainly special….
My message to Gorbachev is: Introduce meditations in the schools,
in the colleges, in the universities; open the doors for Zen,
for Tao, for Hassidism, and let people see that the essential
religion is not a bondage, but the ultimate freedom. All other
freedoms are small—political, economical, social. The only
freedom that cannot be destroyed by anybody, and cannot be taken
away by anybody, is of the spirit. He is trying to introduce political
freedom, freedom of expression. These are good, but they are not
enough; they are all superficial.
The Soviet Union is in a very special state. For sixty years
they have been denied…. There is a deep longing for truth,
for freedom, for love—it is almost like a land that has
been lying unused for sixty years, waiting for its spring, waiting
for someone to sow seeds. It has gathered so much potential and
power that if you sow the seeds this land can produce the most
beautiful flowers, the richest crops.
Gorbachev himself has to be introduced to the art of meditation,
and he has to open the doors and the windows to all the dimensions
that have been closed for sixty years, so people can choose the
method to find themselves. A spiritual realization has to be made
available to the people of the Soviet land. That will be the greatest
contribution Gorbachev can make. golden21
Just now there is an exhibition going on in the Soviet Union.
I have sannyasins in the Soviet Union; of course, they have to
remain underground—they cannot declare that they are sannyasins—but
there are a large number of sannyasins. Our stall of books is
overcrowded; it is the most successful stall even in Russia. But
the people don't have money, so they are stealing books. I have
informed my people, "Don't pay any attention—let them
steal. At least those books will reach to millions of people,
and if you catch somebody red-handed, just tell him, `I'm not
against stealing; what can you do if you don't have any money?
Just keep one thing in mind: when you have read it, pass it on.
That is the price.'"
They confiscated first all our videos, all our audios—because
they were worried, one never knows what is in them…. Now
they have released the audios and videos. They must have seen
them first, the KGB must have watched everything!
The president of the exhibition was so surprised that an unknown
man, who has never come to Russia…and you cannot send any
book into Russia, you cannot send any newspaper, you cannot even
correspond with people; everything is censored or confiscated.
They could not believe that such a crowd would be there on our
bookstall the whole day. All the other bookstalls were empty.
The president came to Lani, who went from here, saying, "What
is the matter?" Looking at my beard in one of the pictures
he said, "Is this man something like Leo Tolstoy?"—because
Leo Tolstoy had a big beautiful beard. "Why are so many people
around here the whole day?" They don't know that most of
them are my sannyasins! I am the only underground movement in
Russia…and there was trouble. The KGB thinks that I am an
American agent, and America thinks I am a Russian agent—and
the Indian government thinks it is unfortunate that I was born
here, because they cannot deport me. That is their trouble!
Success brings so many troubles. If I had known…
There is a beautiful song of Meera which says, "If I had
known before that love brings so many agonies, I would have informed
the whole world that nobody should fall in love." I can say
to the world that success is not a bed of roses—not even
mixed with thorns; it is completely thorns. pilgr12
In America, nearabout one million dollars' worth of my books
were being sold every year. But suddenly no bookseller, no chain
stores—who were continually saying that "your supply
is not enough for our demand"—are ready to put my books
in their showcases. Who is a fascist country today? America has
turned into a far more fascist country than the Soviet Union or
Germany has ever been. mess114
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