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Part IX : World Tour - A few therapists betray Osho
In the commune I had hundreds of different therapeutic schools
working, but I was working to destroy every therapy. The therapists
were working to destroy your problems, and I was trying to destroy
therapies and the therapists!—because a therapy can be only
a temporary relief, and the therapist can be only a very superficial
help. spirit06
Teertha was hoping…. He was the first therapist to join
the ashram; naturally, because he was the first, he became the
chief therapist without any formalities. Nobody had told him that
he was the chief therapist. It was just by coincidence, because
he was here before anybody else—the other therapists came
later on—that he managed to become the chief. And there
was no harm in it; somebody had to take care of all the therapy
groups.
When the commune dispersed, Teertha saw clearly that I cannot
be in America—for fifteen years I cannot enter America.
And in India the American government is pressurizing the Indian
government that no foreign sannyasins should be allowed in.
Seeing the situation, he thought it was better to open an institute
of his own in Italy. There was no harm in opening the institute
in Italy. I had to tell my therapists that wherever they were
they should continue to create institutes, communes, because all
European countries have banned me. I cannot enter into Europe,
I cannot go to America, and foreign sannyasins cannot come into
India.
Now there was no need to accept me as his master; there was
a chance of becoming a master himself. So Teertha has become a
mini-guru. He knows nothing about enlightenment. He has never
meditated. Here he was involved with his groups, which have nothing
to do with meditation. And I have told these therapists, "You
should meditate," but it was against their egos, because
they were therapists. Thirty or forty people were joining their
groups, and they were the leaders. To meditate with the same people
was against their egos, so they never meditated.
People must have been asking him, "Is your institute Osho's
institute?"
He said, "I have not been Osho's disciple…. "
Then what was he doing here? What was he doing in America? And
the same has been done by Somendra, by Rajen, by a few other therapists—they
are all therapists. Finding an opportunity that they can become
mini-gurus…. But for that they have had to deny that they
had anything to do with Osho.
There were many reasons why I told you to drop the malas, to drop
the orange clothes: First, so that you can enter this country
(India); otherwise you cannot enter this country. Second, you
will not be known to the world as my disciples, so there will
not come any moment to deny it. I am simply trying to save you
from telling lies, and making you absolutely independent even
while you are here. You come here as friends—more than that
seems to be risky. I will continue to do whatever I can do for
you. I see not only your present—but possibilities in the
future.
All these people are lying, and I don't feel it right to contradict
their lies—they have been my disciples, I have loved them
and I still love them. It is below me to contradict their lies.
If their spiritual growth happens somehow, they may realize by
themselves. razor06
Just the other day I had the message from a sannyasin that Teertha
is saying to people that my state and his state are now the same—we
are friends. For this he was hanging around for fifteen years.
Rajen is saying to people, "Now I am no longer a disciple
but a friend, and I have the same status."
These were the people that I wanted to get rid of as peacefully,
as lovingly as possible….
Now in Rajen's groups even my name is not mentioned. What is
the need of mentioning the name of a friend? You have many friends—you
don't mention their names.
Teertha has made an academy. Devageet was there; he worked hard
to find the place, to arrange it, hoping that it was going to
be Osho's meditation academy. But when he saw the board being
put up it said simply "Meditation Academy."
He asked, "But no mention of Osho?"
And Teertha and Vedana and others who were involved in it simply
said, "We are all friends—why put Osho's name there?"
They printed a brochure, and Devageet was saying to me, "I
cried, and I had to fight almost physically because Your name
was not even mentioned in the brochure. It was not even mentioned
that the meditations they will be teaching have something to do
with You. They have all their pictures in the brochure, but Your
picture is not there." Because he fought so much, finally
they agreed to put in a picture of me, a strange picture, an old
picture that nobody would recognize—it must be a picture
taken by someone in '74—and that too a small picture, and
without mentioning my name or saying anything about who the person
is.
Devageet, simply out of disgust, left the place. And now these
same people are trying to have a world festival—in which
my name is not mentioned. There is no need, naturally, to mention
the name of a man who is your friend; you have many friends! But
they will be exploiting the sannyasins.
The strategy is very clear, because I have been seeing: when they
advertise their groups in our newspapers, newsletters, magazines,
then they are in orange clothes with the mala. None of them is
using red clothes or mala, and in the group not even my name is
mentioned. But in advertisements, to attract sannyasins to participate
in the groups, all of them are publishing their pictures with
malas, with orange dress—as if they are old sannyasins.
Just to make these people feel at ease, I withdrew myself from
their lives….
It was simply hilarious when I read Teertha's letter. In the
end he writes, "I am doing the same work as you are doing;
the only difference is that you are doing it on a bigger scale
and I am doing it on a personal scale, individual to individual.
But the work is the same." And then came this second news
that he told somebody on the phone, who informed me, "I am
of the same state."
It is good that they are feeling good. psycho24
This weekend there is a big sannyasin festival in Florence with
dance and meditation and music. Is your heart with all these thousands
of sannyasins?
In the first place, there are not going to be thousands of sannyasins
there, for the simple reason that the people who are organizing
it are no longer with me. They are trying to cheat the sannyasins.
Only three hundred sannyasins have booked for it, and the organizers
are declaring it to be the first world festival since the last
one in the commune in Oregon, America.
But my name is not mentioned in it. It is not my festival. It
is those few people, those few therapists, who want to exploit
the sannyasins. But they are in trouble, because three hundred
sannyasins coming will only cover the expenses—they were
hoping thousands would come. And also, the three hundred are coming
because they are not aware that these people have started working
against me.
My heart will be with my people wherever they are. I will be
with my sannyasins—and I have to be, particularly to show
to them that this is not my festival, that they have been deceived,
that the people on the stage have ugly ideas. They are all pretending
to be masters, that they have become enlightened.
But the festival is going to be a fiasco….
And you have to write to all your friends in Italy: "Make
it clear to these people that you cannot exploit sannyasins. If
you are no longer sannyasins, then simply get out from here. This
is a festival of sannyasins—we will manage it. Leave the
stage! The empty stage is far better than a stage full of those
who have betrayed." psycho32
I have told you about a world festival that Teertha, Rajen, Poonam
and others were arranging in Italy. Just yesterday the news came
that very few people reached there; they have made a great loss
of fifteen thousand dollars, and the whole thing was absolutely
dead and flat. All these great therapists were on stage, but there
was no celebration, there was no feeling that you are in the presence
of someone who is enlightened. People left disappointed, disgusted
with the whole thing….
It is unfortunate, but I will have to make my people aware of
the dangers of these therapists, because they will exaggerate
their claims, saying that they have been with me for fifteen years.
But they have not been with me for fifteen seconds. They were
playing their own small role of being a guru to a small group
of people. They had come for themselves, but they forgot completely.
This is what happens to accidental people: they come for one thing
and buy something else. psycho40
We had a property of the commune in Laguna Beach in America,
and our sannyasins were running it; we had made a board of directors.
It was a three million dollar property. What Santosh did was,
he took three hundred sannyasins from the ranch to Laguna Beach,
and all the sannyasins became members of the Laguna Beach commune—and
of course they changed the whole board of directors. Santosh brought
his own directors, his own board, and he opened a dehypnotherapy
institute in Laguna Beach. My name is not mentioned. He has appropriated
the property without thinking of its legal implications….
Santosh has done a great service to us. Now he is the head priest.
He knows nothing as far as experience is concerned, and he will
destroy many people. So I have informed our people that something
has to be done and Santosh has to be removed from there; or he
has to pay three million dollars, and then he can do whatever
he wants to do in the property. And our sannyasins have to be
informed that his hypnotherapy is not going to help them. psycho40
Santosh has started publishing a small newspaper. Even my name
is not mentioned anywhere in the institute for dehypnotherapy
that he has created there. And in this newspaper, just two days
ago I saw: he has an announcement that all the European countries
have prohibited the entry of Osho into their countries, so those
who are waiting, hoping that sooner or later Osho will be coming
to Europe, should drop the hope. "And we are already doing
the same work." Now, their whole fear is, if I come back
to Europe then they cannot go on being mini-gurus—just like
mini-skirts, nothing much material.
And Santosh is happy that I cannot enter America for at least
five years. But they are wrong. It makes no difference whether
I am in Europe or in America, Australia, or in India.
Those who have loved me and those who have drunk out of my well,
will not find another who will be satisfying. At least right now,
there is nobody else. There used to be one—J. Krishnamurti.
Unfortunately, he is dead.
These people, at least ninety percent of them, will come back.
The ten percent, the very hard-core egoists, may find it difficult
to come back—although they need not find it difficult, because
I never even asked you why you left. That is your business. Why
have you come? That too is your decision, and you have all the
freedom to join or not to join.
I am not at all disturbed or annoyed by anybody. Because here,
with me, you are not supposed to give anything in return for whatever
you feel I have done for you. And in fact, I don't need anything
to be returned by you because it is not a bargain, a deal, a business.
It is simply my love.
I love the truth—I have found it.
I have loved you—I have found you also.
Now my only remaining work is somehow to turn your eyes towards
the truth. Once that happens, then there is no need for me to
be here.
But I am not a serious man, I can still be here. So you don't
be worried; most probably I will be here. sermon21
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