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Part IV : Osho bluffs his way into D.N. Jain College
It became a constant trouble. Colleges, universities would not
accept me, would not give me admission, and they would not give
the reasons. Somehow I had to convince a principal.
I still remember the scene....
This principal was a little crazy. He was a devotee of the mother
goddess Kali of Calcutta, and every morning from four o'clock
he would start.... He was a very big man. He was a wrestler
in his youth, and the rumor was that in the early days the famous
wrestler Gama was defeated by him - but by that time Gama
was no longer famous. And this principal had the body of a great
wrestler; he was black, looked dangerous. And from four o'clock
the whole neighborhood was tortured by him - "Jai Kali."
And he had a real loud voice, no loudspeakers needed.
When I was refused from a few places, I thought perhaps this
crazy person could be persuaded. So I went early in the morning,
five o'clock. He was in his temple - in his beautiful bungalow,
he had a small temple, and the whole area was sounding, resounding,
"Jai Kali" - victory to Kali.
I went into the temple. He was alone. I also started shouting,
"Victory to Kali."
He looked at me. He said, "You are a believer in Kali?"
I said, "Anybody who has any intelligence has to be a believer
in Kali. And you are the greatest man I have come across."
He said, "Everybody thinks I am crazy."
I said, "They are all crazy."
He invited me for breakfast. And he said, "What are you doing?"
I said I was studying in a certain college, although I had been
expelled from that college.
He said, "You leave all those colleges and come to my college.
I will give you all the scholarships, every kind of help, because
you are the first person who has recognized me."
In that way I got entry into his college. But once I was in, he
was in trouble - professors started coming to him....
He called me, and he said, "This is not good. It seems you
bluffed me."
I said, "This is true, I bluffed you - because there
was no other way."
He said, "Then you will have to do one thing: you should
not come to the college at all; just come to take your examinations."
I said, "What about my percentage for being present in the
lectures?"
He said, "I will take care of it. You will get ninety percent
for attendance, but don't come to the college! Because every professor
is complaining - it is not a question of one professor; you
are torturing everybody. They all say, `Now we cannot compete
with this young man. He has read the latest - and we can see
that we are twenty years behind, but we cannot manage to read
all that has happened in twenty years. We have to take care of
the children and the wife and the whole family. And he makes us
so embarrassed. He brings facts and we know that he is right,
but we cannot tolerate this constant embarrassment. And because
of him, other students are losing respect. They are all thinking
that we know nothing. He has created the atmosphere in the college
that all the professors are idiots.'"
I said, "It is true, you have got first-class idiots."
He said, "Listen, I am giving you all the facilities for
not coming to the college."
I said, "That's a perfectly good arrangement, but once in
a while can I come to your temple just to participate in the worship?"
He said, "Now there is no need to bluff me. I was also surprised
that nobody in my whole life had said that I was a great man.
Only this young man has recognized my spirituality. You bluffed
me once, that's enough."
For two years I did not go to the college, but I was going to
the university library, getting ready for my post graduation so
I could torture the post-graduate professors. sermon03
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