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Part IX : World Tour - Osho's Interaction with sannyasins
As Osho's discourses are in a private house and only one hundred
people are able to attend each evening, he addresses sannyasins
in a more intimate way.
*Note: Osho gives new names to some of his attendants: Vivek
becomes Nirvano, Devaraj: Amrito, Chetana: Shunyo
In my work, neither the master does anything nor the disciple—but
things happen. There is no doing on either side, but things happen.
The master goes on creating devices without interfering with the
individuals.
For example, I am talking to you. It is possible that you may
start at first by just hearing my words, and then hearing my silences—first
the visible, and second, feeling the invisible presence.
This is only a device. I am not doing anything to you in particular.
I am just available here and if by chance, by coincidence, you
open your eyes, you wake up, you see something, you hear something,
you feel something and it starts working on you…. I am not
doing anything, you are not doing anything, but something starts
happening….
The master is there with his immense presence, and the disciple—although
he is asleep, he is not unconscious. He has somehow stumbled and
found the place where the master is, perhaps from a faraway country.
Already there are three hundred sannyasins here from faraway
countries, and we are preventing them because we don't have any
space, we don't have any arrangement for them. So every center
around the world is trying to prevent people: "Don't go,
because right now there is no arrangement for you, and you will
not be able to see Osho more than once or twice a week."
But still, three hundred sannyasins have arrived. We are preventing
them, the Indian government is preventing, the American government
is preventing, other governments are preventing—still, they
have come. And soon you will find Bombay full of my sannyasins.
You are not seeing them because I have allowed them not to use
red clothes, not to use the mala.
For a few years, the sannyas movement has to go underground.
There must be some part of them which is awake, some part of them
which is not only awake but is capable of finding the way, and
they have reached here. Now, being with me, that small part that
has brought them here will become bigger, stronger, nourished,
and things will start happening….
My whole approach is of relaxing and allowing the existence to
do whatever is right.
Trust the existence.
And existence has never betrayed anyone. upan42
Swami Niskriya has been video-recording Osho's meetings during
his world tour. With his expertise and latest technology, the
quality of the videos is greatly improved. He asks:
I feel contented and thankful, but one question disturbs me: how
can I know that this is not the contentment of a donkey?
Niskriya—it is really the work of a donkey, but you are
not an ordinary donkey. You are a German donkey!
What do you call a donkey in German—esel. You are an esel….
So Niskriya, when I say you are a donkey, don't feel bad about
it. Sitting in your room, just think of yourself as esel, and
enjoy it. It is far better than insane human beings, far better
than all kinds of sick souls. Have you ever heard of any donkey
going mad, or any donkey going to a psychiatrist, or any donkey
committing suicide, or any donkey committing a murder, or any
donkey committing a rape? Such innocent people…I support
them perfectly. So remember, even if the world condemns them,
I am here in total support. Relax, however difficult it is.
But if a German decides to relax, he will relax. An Indian decides
many times to relax, but he never relaxes….
You are fortunate, Niskriya, that you are German. If you decide
to relax, it can be depended upon, reliable—and it will
not disturb your work, I know.
He is a master of his work, he is a great filmmaker in Germany
but he decided to close the whole business and just follow me.
You might not understand that he has closed a big flourishing
business; he was earning immense money, and now he simply takes
my pictures and nothing else. This decisiveness is of tremendous
JUSTIFY">He is a master of his work, he is a great filmmaker
in Germany but he decided to close the whole business and just
follow me. You might not understand that he has closed a big flourishing
business; he was earning immense money, and now he simply takes
my pictures and nothing else. This decisiveness is of tremendous
value. This decisiveness gives you a spine.
And you must see his work, with what concentration he looks
after every minute detail. It takes him four hours every day to
set up his camera here, and he must be thinking continually about
how to improve—because I go on seeing new improvements…these
new umbrellas have appeared!
So many people have been making the films, and they all have been
harming my eyes. He is the first man who has thought about my
eyes first. That's why these umbrellas…my eyes are not affected
at all.
But such minute concern, and a decisiveness to do something
to its perfection—the same thing can be turned into any
dimension. If it becomes spirituality, it will be the same—the
same quality, the same determination, the same devotion.
So if you are feeling relaxed, it is not against action. One
has to understand that relaxation is the very source of energy;
it can be converted into action. In the night you go to sleep
so that in the morning you are rejuvenated. The night has not
been a wastage, the night has helped you to recover the energy
that you have used before. Again you are young, again fresh.
In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in
creativity. What you are doing is a creative act, and for your
creative act you have renounced everything. For your love you
have renounced everything. It will be appreciated by people when
they come to know of it. upan23
Before and after discourses Osho is greeted with music
Wherever You are, there is a festivity and celebration. What
is this wonderful phenomenon?
Narendra, festivity and celebration are our natural states; you
have just forgotten them.
When you come to me, you suddenly remember that there is no need
to be sad, no need to be miserable, that life wants you to sing
and dance, that life is not serious, but playfulness.
The ancient seers used to call it leela; that word can only be
translated as 'playfulness'.
It is God's playfulness.
You just have to be reminded.
Anybody who knows it…being close to him, you see your face
in his mirror. And suddenly there is a remembrance, and your misery
disappears—because your misery is false, your sadness is
false. Celebration is your truth. It has nothing to do with me;
it is just that in my presence you forget for a moment your false
mask of misery. Suddenly you-feel-a joy, a cheerfulness, a fragrance
arising in you. It is not mine.
I am just a reminder, just a mirror.
Seeing your face, there is celebration.
You cannot see your face without a mirror, that is a difficulty….
Without the mirror you would not have been able to know how you
look.
The mirror is certainly a great invention.
The master is also a mirror—not for this body and this face,
but for your original face, for your real being, for your inner
flame. And the moment you see it, suddenly you feel all darkness,
all misery, all sadness gone, and there is celebration.
Wherever the master is, there is Kaaba, there is Kashi, because
there is a possibility to experience your authentic blissfulness.
Suddenly a song, a dance—you are no more your old self.
At least for the moment you are a new being.
And if you go on remembering this, then the need of the master
is not. Whenever you remember yourself there will be celebration,
there will be Kaaba, there will be Kashi. upan30
I was very touched by the singing of the Indian swami who sings
before discourse. I felt as if he were playing me like a musical
instrument. What is it about his music and the music of all those
musicians who touch something inside us, that helps us to fly?
Music is born out of deep experiences of meditation; it is a dimension
of meditation. By meditating, you may be able to be touched by
music, but the reverse is also true: If you are totally absorbed
in music, your heart will be touched not only by music but by
meditation too.
Music is sound. Meditation is soundlessness.
The highest music is where the sound does not destroy the soundless
moments in between. As the musician becomes more and more refined,
he can manage to create sound, and between two sounds he can give
you an experience of soundlessness.
That soundlessness touches the heart.
In the East, music has always been part of meditation. Temples
have been full of music and dance.
Ashok Bharti loves me. His music is just a communication of his
love. He pours himself totally into it. The same is happening
with the other sannyasin musician who is present today. They are
not just technicians, they are not singing because they are paid.
They are singing out of love, out of gratitude.
Their singing is just pure innocence. And their words are not
just words—they mean it. And because they mean it, they
can touch your heart, they can transform your heart. sermon16
Ashok Bharti is a poor man, but has a very rich heart; and to
have a rich heart is the only real richness in the world. He has
the potentiality of becoming a great singer, a great poet, a great
composer, but he was not aware of it. He had come just to see
me; he's my old sannyasin. And knowing that to me, religion means
celebration, he brought his khanjhari—just to sing a song
to me; what else to bring as an offering? He was very shy in asking,
"Can I sing a song in Your presence?"
I said, "This is the most beautiful present anyone could
have brought to me. You can sing every day." And I have been
watching him for almost one month—the depth, the significance,
the meaning of his songs has been deepening. His courage is growing,
he is no more hesitant, he is not worried that so many people
are watching. He is not a public singer—he's just like everybody
else, a bathroom singer.
I have been watching Ashok. The first day there was that fear.
Slowly slowly, the fear has disappeared; on the contrary, a fearlessness,
a strength…. And he has been creating his own songs, tremendously
beautiful—not composed by the mind, but arising out of his
love and out of his heart. They have a totally different beauty.
It is true, Ashok, that if you love me you will feel in my presence
as if you are disappearing into a vast emptiness, or into a vast
fullness. enligh14
For a few days Osho is silent; when he returns, he says:
I would not have started speaking. It is because of Darshan,
Bhadra and Hansa. I was not seeing people for the simple reason
that I find it impossible to say no to anything. And when Hansa
recited a small piece of Urdu poetry, which means "I don't
have any complaint. As it is, I am happy; I don't have any complaint.
But life without you is not life at all…. "
It was impossible to say no.
So I said to them, "Inform my people that I will start speaking
today. Rather than saying no to you, I can stop again!" I
have my ways—and this time I will not allow Bhadra, Hansa
and Darshan to see me!
But this is significant to understand: whether I am speaking or
not speaking, whether I am seeing you or not seeing you, if you
can be here feeling the invisible presence, that is more than
can be expected of human beings. And that is the golden key.
And in what situation you will wake up nobody knows. Everybody
is asleep for different reasons and needs different situations
to wake up. sermon08
Please tell a joke. Jayesh is going mad!
I understand Jayesh. He is saying that he is going mad…because
for almost three months he has been away from me.
His has been a strange story.
He was a successful businessman; then he got tired. He heard about
me, read about me and came from Canada to be with me in the commune
in America with great expectations that "Now I will be sitting
and meditating."
And the next day he was arrested with me, and we were behind bars.
He told me, "Osho, this is too much. I came to meditate…But
in a way I am fortunate that from the very beginning I am with
you. Although it is jail, it does not matter."
And then he was with me all around the world, being deported from
this country to that country.
For three months he has been away—working for me. Certainly
he must be going mad because he has been trying to find a headquarters
for me. He works to the last—everything is complete—and
then at the very end American pressure comes in. Because the American
spies are continuously surrounding him. The American ambassador
is continuously watching every move.
At the last moment, as they are going to sign an agreement that
I can have a commune in their country, the phone rings and the
American president himself is on the phone. And such blackmail!
He threatens that "If you allow Osho to remain in your country
more than thirty-six hours then you will have to return all the
loans that you have taken in the past"—which means
billions of dollars. "And if you cannot return them, then
your interest rate will be doubled. Secondly, whatever loan agreements
there are for the future"—which are again for billions
of dollars—"are cancelled immediately. You can choose,
you are free; you can choose Osho or you can choose American loans."
Naturally no country is in a position…. They have to drop
the whole idea.
Jayesh has been working, working, working for almost the whole
year. It takes a month or two months to negotiate with the politicians
and everybody, and when the final decision is about to be taken
then immediately American pressure comes in. And it is not pressure,
it is simply blackmail; it is threatening them that "We will
kill you."
And certainly a country will be killed—it cannot pay the
loans, and it has all its future programs based on the loans that
America is going to give. All those programs…bridges will
remain half built, hospitals will remain half built, and there
will be such a great unemployment that the whole economy will
flop. This is economic imperialism: on the surface politically
you are free, but deep inside you are not free, nobody is free.
Naturally he needs a joke after three months, just to give him
a laugh. enligh22
For more than ten years I have been following you from place
to place. I can't believe that I am back in India. Am I brainwashed,
addicted, or what?
You are certainly brainwashed.
I use a dry cleaning machine, I am not old-fashioned. And naturally
you are addicted. Who will not be?
Addiction is not always bad. If you are addicted to beauty, to
poetry, to drama, to sculpture, to painting, nobody tells you
to drop the addiction. Addiction has to be dropped only when it
makes you unconscious. Alcoholics are told to drop the addiction,
but here my teaching is of consciousness—be addicted to
it more and more.
And what is wrong in being brainwashed?—wash it every day,
keep it clean. Do you like cockroaches? When I brainwash people,
I find cockroaches. Cockroaches are very special animals. It has
been found scientifically that wherever you find man you find
cockroaches, and wherever you find cockroaches you find man. They
are always together, they are the oldest companions.
What have you got in your brain? So just washing it is perfectly
right. But people have given it a very wrong connotation; those
are the wrong people.
Christians are afraid of somebody brainwashing Christians, because
then they will not be Christians. Hindus are afraid because then
those people will not be Hindus. Mohammedans are afraid, communists
are afraid.
Everybody is afraid of brainwashing.
I am in absolute favor of it.
There used to be an old saying: "Cleanliness is next to God."
Now there is no God, so there is only cleanliness left.
Cleanliness is God.
And I am not afraid of brainwashing because I am not putting cockroaches
in your mind. I am giving you an opportunity to experience a clean
mind, and once you know a clean mind you will never allow anybody
to throw rubbish and crap into your mind. They are the criminals.
Brainwashing is not a crime—who has made it dirty? Dirtying
other people's minds is a crime, but all over the world all the
religions, all the political leaders, are using your mind as if
it is a toilet. These ugly fellows have condemned brainwashing;
otherwise, brainwashing is a perfectly good job.
I am a brainwasher.
And those who come to me should come with the clear conception
that they are going to a man who is bound to brainwash, clean
their minds of all kinds of cockroaches. Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian—they
are all against me for the simple reason that they go on putting
in their cockroaches, and I go on washing people's minds.
It is just an up-to-date religious laundry. upan23
Avatari Lama is a buddhist lama, who has been seeking truth and
meditating for forty years. His grace and silence now attracts
many seekers. One of his disciples showed him your picture, and
read some passages from your book Antar Yatra to him.
When he saw your picture, the Lama said: "Osho comes from
the land where I go every day in my meditation. this time he has
come with full glory, (sixteen kalas)—which happens only
in the incarnation of Krishna or Buddha. Now there is no need
to come to me for guidance; follow Osho, he is the right master."
Osho, how can people see so much just in your picture, which we
disciples cannot realize even after such a long association?
The lama has been meditating for forty years.
He can see in my picture things which you cannot see….
The lama must be going well in his meditations. If he can see
what he has seen in my picture, that validates that he is on the
right path, that his meditation is bringing flowers, that he is
very close to the home. enligh15
Swami Govind Siddharth writes in detail to Osho about a vision
he had during his meditation. He sees Gautam Buddha and Osho together.
Buddha says:
"I have fulfilled my promise. I was to come as Maitreya after
two thousand five hundred years, and I have come….
I am merging my third body with Bhagwan's energy without disturbing
his individuality.
"He is like an ocean; many small and big rivers merge with
it, but still the ocean remains, unperturbed. Its identity remains
as an ocean without any change. "In him, all enlightenments—past,
present and future—have become alive and active; a unique
event that has not happened before, nor will it happen again.
"Osho is total acceptance, total emptiness, total nothingness,
and unbounded compassion. He is both purna and shunya incarnated.
"From my third body, I address him as 'Osho,' but from now
onwards he will not be only 'Osho Rajneesh,' he will be `Osho
Rajneesh, the Buddha Lord Maitreya'—A Buddha, a true friend
to all."
Thus saying, Buddha's third body merged with our beloved, beautiful
Osho. Bhagwan's radiance was increasing and filled the whole universe.
I remember the prophecy of Lama Karmapa*, who had predicted this
event, but had asked me not to talk about the event till it happened.
Now it has happened and flowers have showered.
So let it be known to all, let it be shouted from the rooftops
that Osho Rajneesh, the Buddha Lord Maitreya, is here; Buddha
has fulfilled his promise.
Govind Siddharth, it is not a question.
It is a realization, and it is a declaration.
Whatever you have experienced was not a dream….
I love Gautam Buddha as I have not loved any other master, but
my love is not blind. I have criticized him as severely as possible.
I have praised him when I have found him right—right for
today, right for tomorrow, right for the new humanity to come.
And I have criticized him severely whenever I have found that
he is twenty-five centuries old, still carrying conditionings,
rotten ideas which are of no use for the new man, but will be
a great hindrance.
Govind Siddharth must have been puzzled seeing what he has seen,
because I would appear to be the last man that Gautam Buddha would
choose to be a vehicle.
But this is the beauty of Gautam Buddha: he understands that the
message has to be for the present and for the future, that he
needs an absolutely fresh being—unattached to any old tradition,
his tradition included—a man absolutely untraditional, unorthodox.
A man of today, as fresh as today's rose—even if the man
goes many times against the teachings of the old Buddha.
I was not going to declare it for the simple reason that then
it would become difficult for me to criticize the old man. So
I was keeping completely aloof, so that my freedom and my independence
are not in any way curtailed.
I have my own message.
If Gautam Buddha finds that my message has the essentials of his
message too, then it is his choice. It is not a burden on me.
I will go on criticizing him whenever I find anything that is
not right for human growth in the future.
But Govind Siddharth's difficulty was that he could not keep it
a secret. One of the most difficult things in the world is to
keep a secret—and such a secret!
But I will remain exactly the same as I am, no compromise. Gautam
Buddha and all the masters of the past can choose me as their
vehicles, but I will not allow any pollution. My message will
remain my message.
Yes, they can…and Govind Siddharth says it rightly: The
river can fall into the ocean; thousands of rivers can fall into
the ocean—they don't make the ocean sweet. They themselves
become salty.
Gautam Buddha has chosen me as his vehicle because it was difficult
now to keep hanging around in his third body anymore. Twenty-five
centuries have passed; in fact a few more years have passed. He
had to choose, but he has chosen a person who has his own message.
It will surely be beautiful if it coincides with his essentials,
but if it does not coincide, then I am going to be as hard on
him as I have been before. It will not make any difference.
I am not going to be his voice, I am going to remain my voice.
But what Govind Siddharth has seen is a tremendous experience,
a great realization.
There are two more persons present here—if they gather courage,
then their questions will be coming. If they cannot gather courage,
then they will always remain burdened with a secret. It is better
to bring it in the open and be free of it—and anyway it
is in the open, Govind Siddharth has done almost 99.9 percent
of the work. Nothing is left for you.
Anybody who has been close to me has felt it many times, that
I bring Gautam Buddha, his life, his stories, more than those
of anybody else to illustrate some of my ideas. Gautam Buddha
comes very close to me. The difference is not of twenty-five centuries—maybe
only twenty-five centimeters—but the difference is there.
I am not a person who compromises.
I will not be compromising with Gautam Buddha either, but whatever
is ultimate truth is nobody's possession, neither Gautam Buddha's
nor mine. Only the non-essentials are different; the essential
is always the same. And my effort is to cut all non-essentials
and give you only the pure, essential message. Because only the
essential religion is going to survive in the future. The non-essential
rituals are all going to be dead.
With this century ending, there will be a religiousness in the
world but no religions.
Perhaps he has chosen a right man.
And he has also chosen a right man in Govind Siddharth to declare
the fact. I was not going to declare it, because declaration from
my side brings a certain compromise, as if I have become a vehicle
of somebody else's message.
I am nobody's vehicle. In fact, my message and Gautam Buddha's
message are almost parallel—so parallel, so similar that
it can be said that he was my vehicle or it can be said that I
am his vehicle. But it is not going to change my approach in any
way. Now I will be even harder on Gautam Buddha, so that only
the most essential and the purest part of him reaches to humanity
in the future. upan35
*Note: see Part VI, and Sannyas Magazine, June-July 1972, where
Lama Karmarpa, head of the Tibetan Kargyupta linneage, states
that Osho is a world teacher
A vision is an objective phenomenon, it is not projected by your
mind. You are seeing something, you are not projecting. In a certain
clarity, your mind is capable of seeing things….
The dream always happens when you are asleep.
The vision always happens when you are not asleep.
This is the first distinction: you are fully awake. And the vision
always appears to be coming from outside, reaching to you. And
sooner or later, you will find its validity, its reality. enligh06
A few months ago in Bombay, Govind Siddharth had a vision that
Gautam Buddha's soul has been searching for a body. And he saw
in his vision that my body has become a vehicle for Gautam Buddha.
He was right. But this is the misfortune of man: that you can
go wrong even though you had touched upon a point of rightness.
Because I declared him to be enlightened, he has disappeared.
Since then I have not seen him. Perhaps he thinks, "Now,
what is the use? I was searching for enlightenment and I have
found it."
Enlightenment is only the beginning, not the end. He came very
close and has gone very far away. nomind01
Is it all right with you to have a disciple who has so little
authenticity and who hardly knows what love is?
The question is such…it is as if you are sick and you go
to a physician and ask him, "Is it all right for you to accept
a sick man as a patient, or do you accept only the healthy people?"
My whole business is to accept all kinds of people—hypocrites
with all kinds of masks…insincere…obedient against
their own intelligence. But these are the people who need me,
and these are the people I need too.
Bring all your sicknesses.
Don't be worried, I have even initiated a few dead people in the
hope that resurrection is possible! enligh16
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