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CHAPTER 16. LET’S NOT FACE IT – YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY ALONE
He said, ”I don’t want to take any chance. I don’t believe you. You may have collected the dhoti and
the tin can in the morning, and it may have been really a ghost.”
I said, ”I am telling you, I was in that tree.”
He never came again in the night on that path. My whole family knew that I was the person because
they had seen me going up the tree, but even my family became afraid. They started saying,
”Perhaps the ghost took possession of you.”
I said, ”Strange people! I have said I did it, but now you are projecting new ideas: that the ghost
took possession of me, that’s why I did the whole thing. You can’t take simple facts as simple.”
If the fear comes up, that means you have to face it; it is in no way going to help you to cover it by
the idea of God. You cannot have faith again, that is destroyed.
Once you have met me you cannot have faith in God, because doubt is a reality, and faith is fiction.
And no fiction can stand before a fact.
Now God is going to remain a hypothesis to you; your prayer will be useless. You will know it is a
hypothesis, you cannot forget that it is a hypothesis.
Once you have heard a truth it is impossible to forget it.
That is one of the qualities of truth, that you don’t need to remember it.
The lie has to be remembered continually; you may forget. The person habituated to lies needs a
better memory than the person who is habituated to truth, because a true person has no need of
memory; if you only say the truth there is no need to remember. But if you are saying a lie, then you
have to continually remember, because you have said one lie to one person, another lie to another
person; something else to somebody else. To whom you have said what you have to categorize in
your mind and keep. And whenever a question arises about a lie you have to lie again, so it is a
series. The lie does not believe in birth control.
Truth is celibate, it has no children at all; it is unmarried in fact.
Once you have understood, only once, that God is nothing but a hypothesis created by the priests,
the politicians, the power elite, the pedagogues – all those who want to keep you in psychological
slavery, who have some vested interest in your slavery.... They all want to keep you afraid, always
afraid, trembling deep inside, because if you are not afraid, you are dangerous.
You can either be a person who is a coward, afraid, ready to submit, surrender, a person who has
himself no dignity, no respect for his own being – or you can be fearless. But then you are going to
be a rebel, you cannot avoid that.
Either you can be a man of faith or you are going to be a rebellious spirit.
From Ignorance to Innocence 223 Osho