From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 10. GOD – THE NOBODY EVERYBODY KNOWS
why” – that could not be asked of Adolf Hitler. You could not ask, ”Why have you decided on this
procedure...?”
Nobody was allowed to ask; even the closest people were not close enough. Not a single man was
close enough to put his hand on Adolf Hitler’s shoulder. Nobody was a friend; Adolf Hitler never
allowed any friendship. He was far above that... the reincarnation of the prophet Elijah, and you
ordinary human beings crawling on the earth – and you ask him why?
So for four years he was continually winning, until Winston Churchill himself had to come down to
the same rules, against his will. This was stupid, but what to do? – if you are fighting with an
idiot, you have to be an idiot, otherwise you are going to be the loser. He had to call astrologers
from India, because that is where you can find the best astrologers. And the Indian astrologers felt
tremendously great, that finally even Winston Churchill had understood that, ”Astrology is a science
and we are far more advanced than you are.
And certainly Winston Churchill started winning with the entry of astrology, because now he was
also going crazy. He was a great general but now he was doing things against himself, against his
whole reason and experience – but what to do? ”That other fellow will be listening to the astrologers
– you have to listen to astrologers. And it is a question of victory, so it is not the time to argue
about astrology; the time for that argument we can find later on. First finish this man and this mad
situation.”
When Winston Churchill started listening to the astrologers, he started winning because he also
began attacking in a crazy way, with no logic. And certainly he had stranger astrologers than Adolf
Hitler, because Adolf Hitler’s astrologers were western: you could find in London the same kind of
astrologers who could tell you what those German astrologers would be suggesting to Adolf Hitler.
But these Indian astrologers had a totally different astrology.
Adolf Hitler had no way to find out what these astrologers were suggesting, because both were
different in their workings. Even in palmistry... in western palmistry some line shows something; in
Indian palmistry the same line shows something else – because there is nothing written on the line.
It depends on you, what you want to make out of it.
Jesus died on the cross – that does not seem to be the right place for the son of God. And if you ask
Jainas, Buddhists and Hindus, you will find an answer in what they say. You will be surprised also
with their answer, but their answer seems to be more rational. They say, ”He must have committed
some great sin in his past life and this is the outcome of that great sin – the simple law of karma –
otherwise why should he be crucified?
”No Hindu avatara is crucified, no Jaina tirthankara is crucified, no Buddha is crucified – that is
impossible! In fact when Mahavira, the Jaina tirthankara, walks on the road” – and in those days
there were no tar roads or cement roads, just muddy tracks – and if there is a thorn on the road it will
immediately turn its pointed part downwards so that Mahavira’s feet remain unhurt and unharmed.
Because that man has finished with all his karmas, even a thorn cannot hurt him – what to say of a
cross! Even a thorn has to consider that,’a man is coming here who is finished with all his karmas.
You cannot bother him; you had better put yourself in such a position that you don’t hurt him.”’ Now,
these people – how can they accept Christ as the son of God, a messiah?
From Ignorance to Innocence 128 Osho