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CHAPTER 8. GOD IS NOT A SOLUTION BUT A PROBLEM
– which was made all of gold – ”is on fire and you are immediately needed. Without you everything
will be gone.” So poor Ravana has to leave the bow and rushes to Sri Lanka. Meanwhile Rama wins
the contest, and is married.
This is the story – the beginning. In this particular village the actors were all programmed and being
prompted from the back. But when the man came saying, ”Sri Lanka is on fire,” the man who was
playing the role of Ravana said, ”Let it be! I am going to marry Sita. Enough is enough; this time I
am not going to go anywhere.
The prompter was trying hard: ”This is not what we have told you.”
The actor said, ”You stop all this prompting – I know what I am doing.” In fact he was in love with the
girl who was playing the role of Sita, and the girl’s father was not willing for them to marry. This was
the only chance to declare before the whole town.... And before anybody else could do anything,
Sita garlanded him.
Now, the whole town was in a shock. The story was finished before it had even started, because
this was the beginning only, just the introduction: the real things were just going to happen. The
actors were in such a hurry, they forgot even to pull the curtains. The whole mass was shouting and
screaming and clapping, and they were saying, ”We have seen many things but nothing like this.
This is just the best drama that we have seen!”
In a drama you may go against the program, because it is acting, it is not your being; your being is
still free. You may be acting the part of Ravana or Rama, but those are parts, roles; your being is
still free. You can decide for or against.
But if your being is created then there is no possibility of your going anywhere other than where the
program says, doing anything other than what’s in the program.
If there is a God who has created the world, then nobody is responsible except Him. And to whom
can He be responsible? – there is nobody above Him. You are not responsible because He has
created you. He is not responsible because there is nobody else to whom He can be responsible.
God means the world loses all responsibility, and responsibility is the very center of your life.
Then you can play the role, but you are not there, only promptings; whether given from the outside,
from behind the curtain, or whether given from the inside through the hormones, through biology,
physiology, psychology doesn’t matter. You are only a collection of promptings, and you are just
following them.
It takes all dignity from man totally.
It reduces you to a puppet.
To accept God is not to be religious, because without responsibility how can you be religious?
Without freedom how can you be religious
From Ignorance to Innocence 105 Osho