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CHAPTER 8. GOD IS NOT A SOLUTION BUT A PROBLEM
Everything is determined by Him. He is responsible; you are not. But people go on believing in
both things together: God creating the world, God creating man, woman, everything – and then
throwing all responsibility on you. If there is something wrong in you, God is responsible and should
be punished. If you are a murderer, then God creates a murderer; then He should be responsible
for the Adolf Hitlers and the joseph Stalins and the Mao Tse-tungs. He created these people.
But no, the religious mind loses intelligence, becomes rusted, forgets completely that these are
incompatible things; God and freedom are incompatible.
If you are free, then there is no God.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s statement I remind you of again. This man is certainly crazy, but sometimes
the so-called sane people are so dumb and so dull, so idiotic, that crazy people come up with great
insights; and Nietzsche has that genius. Once in a while he comes up with such a great insight that
you cannot believe why people had not seen it before; and Nietzsche was alive just a hundred years
ago.
Nietzsche says: God is dead, therefore, I declare, man from now onwards is free. This whole
sentence brings freedom and God together for the first time in the whole history of man. It was
waiting for this crazy man, Friedrich Nietzsche, to put these together: that God is dead, therefore
you are free, otherwise, you are not free.
You may not have thought about it. How you can be free with a creator who is continuously watching
you, who is continuously maintaining you and directing you? In the first place He has put everything
in you as a fixed program. And you will follow that program; you cannot do otherwise. Just what you
feed to the computer – the computer can only answer with that. If you start asking things which you
have not fed to the computer before, the computer cannot answer it. The computer is a mechanism:
first you have to feed it all the information, then whenever you need, you can ask the computer and
the information will be available.
You are a computer – if there is a creator.
He has put certain information in you, he has programmed you, and you are doing things accordingly.
If you are a saint, you are not to take the credit for it – it was the program. If you are a sinner you
need not feel condemned and bad – it was the program.
In India, the life of Rama has been played every year for ten thousand years. Almost all over the
country, even in the smallest village there is a drama company. Once a year the drama company
starts preparing one month ahead, and big cities who can afford it can ask professional companies.
There are professional companies, particularly in Ayodhya, which was the capital of Rama, and in
other religious places too. So big cities who can afford it ask the professional companies. Small
villages, towns, which cannot afford it, make their own company.
It happened in one of the villages.... The drama begins with Sita’s marriage. In those days
particularly, princes used to have a certain ceremony called swayamvar. All the eligible young men
– of course young princes, because nobody else would be allowed in the palace – from all over
the country would gather together, and the girl, the princess, would take a garland in her hand and
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