Just this evening, Nirvano was telling me, ”You have been harassed and tortured all your life.
Why don’t You stop speaking?”
I can understand, when I am harassed and tortured, and it has been going on for years continually....
Just today I have received another summons.
Somebody in Kanpur has filed a case against me; his religious feeling is hurt.
It seems to be the strangest religious feeling Seems to be so weak....
In India we have a very beautiful plant with very small leaves, but which is a real coward – its name is Chhuimui – because if you touch it, all the leaves immediately close; you touch one leaf and all the leaves of the bush immediately start closing up.
I have never come across another plant who is so cowardly. These so-called religious people are just Chhuimui.
If your religion is so weak that any argument against it hurts you, then it is not worth remaining in that religion.
Change that religion: it is your sickness, it is your weakness, it is your impotence.
Whatever I am saying – if you are just a little bit intelligent – either agree with me or disagree with me, but why should you get hurt and run immediately to the court...?
I have been asked by my friends, disciples, thousands of times, ”Why do You
unnecessarily get into trouble?”
I am not a teacher – it is not my profession.
I am a master – it is my very soul.
And if I stop speaking the truth, it will be committing suicide: What will be the point for me of living any more, even for a single second?
Because as far as I am concerned, I am fulfilled – I am not living for myself.
And I was surprised that since I have started living for those who are thirsty for truth, who are thirsty for love, I have found a life that is not mine; now it belongs to existence.
In fact, I am receiving all these summons on behalf of God, because these idiots cannot find God and his address – only I am left.
But it does not disturb me; it simply makes me feel sad and compassionate for these people, because they think they are religious.
They don’t know even the ABC of religion.
If somebody is hurt in Kanpur, rather than going to the court he should come here,
he should expose his wound that has been hurt.
And the way I know how to hurt people, I know how to heal.
The court is not going to help.
The court knows nothing of healing the spirit of people. Hundreds of cases... and finally the court has to dismiss them, because I am simply stating the facts which are in your own scriptures.
If you are really hurt, burn those scriptures, because they are hurting you.
You go on printing all kinds of nonsense in your scriptures, and distributing them.
If I indicate that your scriptures are full of rubbish, and if you are really a religious man, either you will have an argument, sharper, higher, deeper than my argument... quash my argument, or I am going to quash all your arguments.
And the courts are not going to help, for the simple reason that your scriptures are stating the fact.
I have never spoken against any religion without solid evidence.
If you are hurt, that simply means you were making castles in sand – just a little breeze and your castle disappears.
And rather than thinking that you were idiotic – castles are not made in the sand, out of sand – you feel hurt because your castle has been destroyed.
Send a summons to the breeze, ”This breeze has hurt my feelings very much.” Perhaps it was not a castle, it was a temple....
Your religious feelings are hurt, but I cannot stop speaking – for the simple reason that it is not me who is speaking.
I am not a teacher. I have allowed the hidden secrets of life to speak through me, to speak through my eyes, to speak through my hands.
I have offered everything to existence.
Now, only existence can stop me from speaking.
OshO
Why don’t You stop speaking?”
I can understand, when I am harassed and tortured, and it has been going on for years continually....
Just today I have received another summons.
Somebody in Kanpur has filed a case against me; his religious feeling is hurt.
It seems to be the strangest religious feeling Seems to be so weak....
In India we have a very beautiful plant with very small leaves, but which is a real coward – its name is Chhuimui – because if you touch it, all the leaves immediately close; you touch one leaf and all the leaves of the bush immediately start closing up.
I have never come across another plant who is so cowardly. These so-called religious people are just Chhuimui.
If your religion is so weak that any argument against it hurts you, then it is not worth remaining in that religion.
Change that religion: it is your sickness, it is your weakness, it is your impotence.
Whatever I am saying – if you are just a little bit intelligent – either agree with me or disagree with me, but why should you get hurt and run immediately to the court...?
I have been asked by my friends, disciples, thousands of times, ”Why do You
unnecessarily get into trouble?”
I am not a teacher – it is not my profession.
I am a master – it is my very soul.
And if I stop speaking the truth, it will be committing suicide: What will be the point for me of living any more, even for a single second?
Because as far as I am concerned, I am fulfilled – I am not living for myself.
And I was surprised that since I have started living for those who are thirsty for truth, who are thirsty for love, I have found a life that is not mine; now it belongs to existence.
In fact, I am receiving all these summons on behalf of God, because these idiots cannot find God and his address – only I am left.
But it does not disturb me; it simply makes me feel sad and compassionate for these people, because they think they are religious.
They don’t know even the ABC of religion.
If somebody is hurt in Kanpur, rather than going to the court he should come here,
he should expose his wound that has been hurt.
And the way I know how to hurt people, I know how to heal.
The court is not going to help.
The court knows nothing of healing the spirit of people. Hundreds of cases... and finally the court has to dismiss them, because I am simply stating the facts which are in your own scriptures.
If you are really hurt, burn those scriptures, because they are hurting you.
You go on printing all kinds of nonsense in your scriptures, and distributing them.
If I indicate that your scriptures are full of rubbish, and if you are really a religious man, either you will have an argument, sharper, higher, deeper than my argument... quash my argument, or I am going to quash all your arguments.
And the courts are not going to help, for the simple reason that your scriptures are stating the fact.
I have never spoken against any religion without solid evidence.
If you are hurt, that simply means you were making castles in sand – just a little breeze and your castle disappears.
And rather than thinking that you were idiotic – castles are not made in the sand, out of sand – you feel hurt because your castle has been destroyed.
Send a summons to the breeze, ”This breeze has hurt my feelings very much.” Perhaps it was not a castle, it was a temple....
Your religious feelings are hurt, but I cannot stop speaking – for the simple reason that it is not me who is speaking.
I am not a teacher. I have allowed the hidden secrets of life to speak through me, to speak through my eyes, to speak through my hands.
I have offered everything to existence.
Now, only existence can stop me from speaking.
OshO
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