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CHAPTER 15. THEY SAY BELIEVE; I SAY EXPLORE
He regretted it his whole life, but that’s another story. The atom bomb was used – President Truman
authorized it – and the moment it was used then there was no question of Japan going on fighting.
The war was won: Hiroshima and Nagasaki burning ended the second world war. Albert Einstein
was working on the same project in Germany. He could have written to just a different address –
instead of to Roosevelt, to Adolf Hitler – and the whole of history would have been different, totally
different.
The future is going to be in the hands of the scientist. It is not far away. Now there are nuclear
weapons, politicians cannot manage to be on top. They know nothing about it, not even the ABC.
It was said while Einstein was alive that only twelve persons in the whole world understood his
theory of relativity. One of these twelve people was Bertrand Russell who wrote a small book for
those who could not understand it: THE ABC OF RELATIVITY. He thought that at least they could
understand the ABC – but even that is not possible, because if you can understand the ABC then
the whole alphabet becomes simple. It is not a question of only understanding the ABC; then XYZ
is not far away. The real problem is to understand the ABC.
Now all these politicians don’t understand anything at all. Sooner or later the world is going to be in
the hands of the people who have merit. First it will move into the hands of the scientists.
This you can take almost as a prediction, that the world is going to move into the hands of the
scientists. And then a new dimension opens up.
Sooner or later the scientist is going to invite the sage, the saint, because he cannot manage it
alone.
The scientist cannot manage himself. He can manage everything but he cannot manage himself.
Albert Einstein may know all about the stars of the universe, but he knows nothing about his own
center.
This is going to be the future: from politicians to scientists, from scientists to religious man – but
that will be a totally different kind of world. Religious people cannot go asking... you will have to ask
them. You will have to request them. And if they feel that your request is sincere and the need is
there, they may act in the world. But remember it will not be politics at all.
So let me repeat, the politician can become religious if he drops politics; otherwise it is impossible.
The religious man can become part of politics if politics changes its whole character, otherwise it is
impossible for a religious man to be in politics. He cannot be a politician.
But the way things are moving, it is absolutely certain that first the world will go into the hands of the
scientist, and next, from the scientist it will go to the mystics. And only in the hands of the mystics
can you be safe yourself.
The world can be really a paradise.
In fact, there is no other paradise unless we make one here.
From Ignorance to Innocence 212 Osho