From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 14. SOCIETY CROWDS YOU OUT; RELIGON OUTS YOUR CROWD
And I said to my father, ”That’s what the whole brahminism teaches – the chain of reactions.”
My father said, ”You keep your philosophy to yourself. And stop going to these lectures of the sadhus
and the monks and mahatmas, because whatsoever you get from them you somehow manage to
conclude such strange things.”
I said, ”But this is what I am saying, and it is not strange. That’s exactly what the theory of karma
is: you do one act, the reaction will follow. He has done an act of complaining against me, now the
reaction will follow.”
And the reaction followed, because he had told me that he was going to the other village.... He was
very angry with me, but when you are angry, you are angry – and he was really completely freaked
out. So he was angry with his wife, with the children.... I watched everything, and he somehow
managed to get his things together and went off in a horse buggy.
The moment he left, I told his wife, ”Do you understand where he is going? He is going forever –
and you don’t know! He had come to say this to my father, that he is going forever and he is never
coming back again.”
The wife suddenly started crying and screaming, Stop him! Other people ran and they stopped his
buggy.
He said, ”Why are you stopping me? I have to catch the train!”
They said, ”Not today. Your wife is crying and beating her heart – she will die!”
He said, ”But this is strange. Why should she beat herself, and why should she cry?” But the people
would not allow him to go, and they were pulling at his bag and suitcase.
The man who was driving the buggy said, ”I will not take you. If this is the situation, that you are
leaving your wife and small children forever, I will not do such an act.”
The brahmin said, ”I am not leaving, I will come back, but I don’t have time to convince you. The
train will be missed – the station is two miles away from my house.
But nobody was listening to him, and I was provoking people: ”Stop him, otherwise his wife, his
children... you will have to look after them – who is going to feed them?”
They brought him back with his bags, and of course he was angry and threw his bag at his wife. His
wife asked, ”What have we done? Why are you...?” And I was there outside in the crowd
He said, ”Nobody has done anything. That boy told me there would be a reaction. The reason is
that three days before, in the temple, I was teaching the philosophy of action and reaction and this
boy was present there. Now he is teaching me.” He told me, Forgive me and I will never say a single
word about this action and reaction. And you can cut anybody’s choti if you want, I will not complain.
You can cut of my head and I will not complain – because I want to stop this chain completely. My
train is gone.”
From Ignorance to Innocence 186 Osho