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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

15 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, CHAPTER 16 Let’s not face it – you’re absolutely alone IS THE HYPOTHESIS OF GOD NOT USEFUL IN ANY WAY? – BECAUSE THE VERY IDEA OF DROPPING THE IDEA OF GOD MAKES ME IMMENSELY AFRAID. IT is already too late. The moment one starts calling the idea of God a hypothesis, the idea of God is already dropped. The so-called religious people will never use the word hypothesis for God. For them God is not our hypothesis, but on the contrary we are His creation, He is the very source of existence, He is the most existential being. But when you call God a hypothesis that means you are putting Him in the same category as Euclidian hypotheses in geometry, or other hypotheses which are only assumptions; they may prove right, they may not prove right. Only experiment, experience is going to decide it, and that too will not be an ultimate decision because future experiments may cancel it. A hypothesis is an assumed fact – for the time being accepted as true, but only for the time being. Nobody can say it will be true tomorrow too. In three hundred years of scientific growth you can see it: something was true for Newton, it is not true for Rutherford; it was true for Rutherford, it is not true for Albert Einstein. Better experiments, better instruments can always change the hypothesis. 213

15 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove<br />

Question 1<br />

OSHO,<br />

CHAPTER 16<br />

Let’s not face it – you’re absolutely alone<br />

IS THE HYPOTHESIS OF GOD NOT USEFUL IN ANY WAY? – BECAUSE THE VERY IDEA OF<br />

DROPPING THE IDEA OF GOD MAKES ME IMMENSELY AFRAID.<br />

IT is already <strong>to</strong>o late. The moment one starts calling the idea of God a hypothesis, the idea of God<br />

is already dropped.<br />

The so-called religious people will never use the word hypothesis for God. For them God is not our<br />

hypothesis, but on the contrary we are His creation, He is the very source of existence, He is the<br />

most existential being.<br />

But when you call God a hypothesis that means you are putting Him in the same category as<br />

Euclidian hypotheses in geometry, or other hypotheses which are only assumptions; they may prove<br />

right, they may not prove right. Only experiment, experience is going <strong>to</strong> decide it, and that <strong>to</strong>o will<br />

not be an ultimate decision because future experiments may cancel it.<br />

A hypothesis is an assumed fact – for the time being accepted as true, but only for the time being.<br />

Nobody can say it will be true <strong>to</strong>morrow <strong>to</strong>o. In three hundred years of scientific growth you can see<br />

it: something was true for New<strong>to</strong>n, it is not true for Rutherford; it was true for Rutherford, it is not true<br />

for Albert Einstein. Better experiments, better instruments can always change the hypothesis.<br />

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