You have been harassed and tortured all your life

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

If They Had Made the World

There are people who go on thinking that if THEY had made the world it would have been a better world.
If they had made the world they would have done this and they would have done that.
There would have been no disease, there would have been no death, there would have been no ugliness,there would have been no stupidity.
And it looks so logical: yes, if a world is there where no disease exists, how beautiful it will be!
But do you know? – if there is no disease, there will be no health either.
Do you know? – if there is no ugliness, there will be no beauty either.
Do you know? – if there are no thorns, there will be no flowers either.
Do you know? – if there is no death, there will be no life either. You cannot have a life
without death. And if you could have a life without death it would be utterly boring; there would be no way to get rid of it.
A story is told of Alexander the Great when he came to the East. He had heard that in the desert there was a certain cave he was going to pass where there was a small pond of nectar.
If you drank that nectar you would become immortal.
And the story is beautiful. Alexander reached there and entered the cave.
He was so tremendously happy – just think of the happiness of you had been in his
place!
The nectar was there: just a moment more and he would be immortal. He cupped his hands, and just as he was going to drink,
a crow who was sitting on the rock said, ”Wait, just a minute!”
Alexander was surprised – a crow speaking? He asked, ”What do you want to say?”
The crow said, ”Just one thing, that’s why I am sitting here. I have drunk from this pool: now I am here for millions of years. I want to die.
The only idea that persists in me, twenty-four hours, is that of death. I want to get rid of this rotten body, but I cannot. I have tried but nothing succeeds. I have taken poison but it won’t do. I have fallen from the mountains, it won’t do. I have entered into fire, it won’t burn.
Now there is no way to die – and I am tired.
”Just think: for millions of years, I have to go on doing the same repetitive nonsense every day. And there is no hope even in the future.
I will never be able to die, I cannot commit suicide, and I am tired of life!
So now this is my mission: I sit here to
prevent other people.”
And it is said that Alexander thought for a moment, dropped the idea of drinking the nectar and rushed out of the cave – afraid that he might be tempted to drink it.
Without death, life would be an impossibly unbearable burden.
Death relieves. And it is because of disease that you have the feeling of health.
It is because of the dark night that the morning looks so beautiful.
Existence is dual, and existence is imperfect.
But it is because of imperfection that there is growth.
Just think, if everybody was perfect then there would be no growth.
OshO

जुर्म का हमेशा एक निशान रह जाता है

जुर्म का हमेशा एक निशान रह जाता है,
जो जमीन से जुड़ जाए इंसान हो जाता है।
गलती हुई तो गलती अपनी मान ले और,
दूसरों को माफ कर दे जो, महान हो जाता है।
आगे बढ़ो तो औरों की मदद् और सम्मान करो,
फिर खुद-ब-खुद मुकम्मल ये जहाँ हो जाता है।