From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 12. FAITH: THE SUICIDE OF INTELLIGENCE
are written by God.... Sheer nonsense! – because in the Vedas there are so many things which are
proved absolutely absurd. If God writes these absurdities then He should be dethroned.
They will all make their answer important, significant, infallible, as if coming from God Himself or
from God’s son or from His messenger.
All these strategies are used to make their answer penetrate your being and condition you so deeply
that your question disappears into your unconscious.
The function of a true religion is to discard all these answers, to discard all these authorities and
bring out your authentic questioning, your doubts, your enquiries, and help you to go in search in
the unknown, in the uncharted. It is a dangerous journey.
Religions have given you comfortable lives, convenient ways of living. But there is no way to live
unless you decide to live dangerously, unless you are ready to go into the dark, to seek and search
for yourself
And I say to you, you will not find the answer.
Nobody has ever found the answer.
All answers are lies.
Yes, you will find reality, but reality is not the answer to your question. The reality will be the death
of your question.
And when your question disappears and there is no answer available, that space is mystery.
A true religion is mysticism.
In the beginning science tried to follow the well-trodden path of the old religions. But science could
not go long on those lines because science had to tackle reality, and religion, so-called religion, is
fictitious. So religion can go on living in its fictitious world but science has to encounter reality sooner
or later. Not even for one century could it continue with the idea, ”Soon we will demystify the whole
universe, soon we will come to know everything.”
Now, ask Albert Einstein or Lord Rutherford, ask these people who have penetrated into the deepest
mystery of matter – and their statements look like the statements of mystics. And they are now very
humble; the old egoism of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century scientist has disappeared
from the world. Now the scientist is the most humble person in the world because he knows that it
is impossible to know.
We can manage to live better, we can manage to live longer, we can manage to live more comfortably
– but we cannot know what life is. That question will remain a question until the very end.
My whole effort here is to help you again to become ignorant.
From Ignorance to Innocence 158 Osho