From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 9. I TEACH A RELIGIONLESS RELIGION
life, Freud was trying to prove that each father is infatuated with the daughter and each mother is
infatuated with the son. And there is some truth in it – but God getting infatuated with His own
daughter...!
Then the woman becomes afraid and she tries to escape, and the only way to escape is to change
shapes, forms, disguises. She becomes a cow, but how can you deceive God? – He becomes a
bull. She becomes other kinds of animals, and God follows. That’s how the whole creation comes
into being – the woman running and the father following her and trying to rape her. He is still doing
the same thing.
With such a God, what kind of religion do you think is possible? This God is a sexual maniac; He
needs psychotherapy. He cannot be the center of religion; He cannot even be on the circumference
of religion – He has to be inside a mental asylum. But if you read Hindu scriptures you will be very
much disturbed by the kind of things that millions of people of the oldest religion in the world are
carrying.
These are the three phases of the Hindu God: Brahma is the creative phase, he creates the world;
Vishnu, the second phase, he maintains the world, and Shiva – he destroys the world when the time
comes to destroy it. In a way it is perfectly balanced; there are all the three functions that existence
needs: creation, maintenance, and one day, de-creation. But if you look into the inner life of these
three persons, you cannot believe it.
One day, Vishnu and Brahma are quarreling about something. In the first place, the idea of a quarrel
between two parts of God makes Him schizophrenic. If both your hands start fighting each other...
and that’s what you are doing in the mind – one part fighting against the other part. Sometimes you
become so split that you are already two persons, and sometimes you are many persons. God is
already three persons – He is not one whole, one piece – and all the three are constantly quarreling.
These two were quarreling and they could not find some way to settle the argument, so they both
thought it would be better to look for Shiva; perhaps he could be helpful. So they went to look for
Shiva. Shiva must have been American – it was morning and he was making love to his wife, Parvati.
Indians don’t do that; that is absolutely unheard of I think Shiva is the first American... making love
to his wife in the morning, with the doors open. Perhaps it would be better to call him Californian –
doors open! – just American will not do.
Brahma and Vishnu both entered, not knowing what was happening inside, and Shiva was so much
into his act of making love that he didn’t bother about them. Both were very angry. In the first place,
making love in the morning does not suit a god; secondly, with doors open, anybody could come in.
And thirdly, he does not even tell them to sit down; he has not even looked at them. Both the gods
were very angry, so angry that they cursed Shiva, saying, ”You will be known in the world by the
phallic symbol.” That’s why in India you find no statue of Shiva, only the phallic symbol. This is the
curse of those two gods: ”You will be known and recognized as a phallic symbol.”
You may not be aware that shivalinga, the phallic symbol for Shiva, is not alone; it is placed in a
vagina. Both are in marble, and for thousands of years Hindus have been worshipping it. And still
Shiva is one third of God!
From Ignorance to Innocence 113 Osho