In this video OSHO gives the message:
"Do Not Believe, Know" (मानो मत, जानो)
Here is the video transcript in English:
Do not believe if you want to know. The first step towards knowing is, to become free from beliefs. If you ask me, if you ask my arithmetic, it will seem a little contrary, it will seem a little awkward, but I am helpless about it. I am obliged to say the truth as it is.
If you really become an atheist, a non-believer, then perhaps some day you may become a theist, a knower. There is no contradiction between atheism and theism. Atheism is a stairway.. the first step..towards becoming a theist. If it is in my power, I would make each and every child an atheist. I would create curiosity in each child, would create questions, would create the desire to search. In the life of every child i would fill up intense inspiration, that you find out, but do not believe and until you have known, do not stop. Buddha may have known so Buddha would reach and Nanak may have known so Nanak would reach, and Kabir may have known so Kabir would reach. By their attaining, you cannot attain. You will reach only when you know. And the first condition is that the mind's slate should be empty. Wipe it out all that the others have written. Cleanse your slate, clean it up. Let your book be blank. And the fun is as soon as you make your book blank the godliness gets invited. That flower descends on the blank books only. That ray reaches blank books only. Only on the blank books that explosion happens. A blank book means an innocent mind-- free of concepts and beliefs. 'You haven't known the name of godliness' Then you will be able to know. Only then you will be able to know.
'Prayerfulness has diminished.' Rahim is saying, the prayerfulness has been lost because the very name of godliness people have forgotten. The very acquaintance with godliness is no longer there. Between godliness and people there are the pundits and the priests and the imam's and the clerics and the Pope-- who can say how many people are in between! Between godliness and you such a crowd is standing that only people's back you are able to see. The face of godliness how can you see! Get rid of this crowd.
Prayerfulness has diminished. The prayers are going on, but they are hollow. You also know this very well. You even go to the temple and bow down, but your ego does now bow down. Rather what happens is, if the temple is crowded you bow down with more pomp and show, you create a lot of noise.
When I was small, in my village the temple I used to be taken to, it was a Jaina temple; during the entire year no one would particularly go, but when a specific Jaina festival days would come in those 10 days there would be huge crowds. Think of those ten days as of free loot. And what calculations people have made! Those ten days come during the rains... when farming is not possible, neither trading is possible, nor any other business is possible, all the shops remain empty, all the farmers would be sitting at home-- the rains are torrential. How clever people are! The ten days that they have found are such that nothing is lost. They have sought them very calculatingly. They are anyway sitting idle and if one is to get godliness for free, why miss it!
In those ten days I saw an amusing thing that when there is a huge crowd people would take the worship lamp and dance in such a way, those very people whom I had never seen dancing when alone. If there were only a few people, they would dance halfheartedly. And if the crowd was huge, then what would happen is they would not stop, they had to be stopped with great difficulty, they would dance uncontrollably. There was one such dancer. One day I followed him. He asked me, why are you following me? I said, I want to ask you of a secret. I have seen you in all colors, and in all ways. When you are alone then you don't even touch the worship-plate, When there are a few people then you pick up the worship-plate, you circle it once or twice around the statue and then put it back. If there are ten to fifteen people then there is a thrill in your feet. And if there are 100 or 200 people there then one has to stop you, one has to catch hold of you. Even by holding he could not be caught, he kept on slipping away, he kept on getting away, again and again he would pick up the worship-plate. After all people have to do some other work also, they have to go home, they have to eat food. So what is the secret of it? He said, what secret? What is the sense in dancing when alone, there has to be someone to see it!
In a year there are only few such occasions when everyone gathers. On the last day of that particular Jaina festival, the Paryushan he used to create such an uproar as though he is drunk with alcohol. Even if people bow down in a temple even that bowing down is not a surrender of their egos. They bow down, and yet it is worship of the ego.
No comments:
Post a Comment