From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 17. JESUS, THE ONLY FORGOTTEN SON OF GOD
I remained there, because Saugar is just unimaginably beautiful. It is a small city, but the city is away
beyond a very big lake. The city is on one side of the lake, and on the other side there is a range of
hills, and on the hills is the university. And all around, huge trees... and so silent. Benares was so
crowded and so buzzing with ten thousand students in the university. Saugar is a small place, and
the university was new. I remained there.
Rajbali Pandey once came to Saugar while I was still there to deliver a series of lectures on history,
and he saw me and he said, ”What happened? I thought you had gone back to Jabalpur.”
I said, ”First I tried to look all over, perhaps there was something better – and here, you see.... The
trees in Jabalpur are good but not so huge and not so ancient. And these hills and this lake and
those lotuses... it is the right place.”
Man has done so much harm to nature, that when I say that one day it can go crazy, it is not only
scientific fiction, it is possible. If all these trees that we have been cutting and destroying become
just a little bit united... I don’t think they know anything about trade-unions and things like that. They
have not heard Karl Marx’ famous slogan: ”Proletariat of the world unite, you have nothing to lose
but your chains, and you have the whole world to gain.” So just change the word proletariat: Trees
of the world unite, you have nothing to lose, not even chains, and you have the whole world to gain!
If these trees start attacking you, do you think you will be able to survive, even with all your nuclear
weapons? Impossible. And it has happened a few times, that’s why the science fiction came into
existence. In a few places it has happened. Once it happened in Africa, that a certain bird suddenly
started attacking people, and it killed many people; before they could kill all those birds, a few people
were killed.
It happened once in Indonesia with another bird; the whole community of that species started
attacking people. They simply attacked the eyes and they made hundreds of people blind before
anything could be done. Because we don’t think about these things, we are not prepared.
You have a fire brigade because you know fire can happen. You have the police for the criminals;
you have the army if somebody attacks... but if birds start attacking your eyes, by the time you get
ready to do something, much harm would have happened. And it was only one kind of bird.
If all birds and all animals and all trees simply decide one day, ”It is enough, now get rid of these
people,” I don’t think man can survive, there is no way. All your armies will be useless, all your arms
will be useless, all your nuclear weapons will be useless-and then you will understand how weak
you are.
You have forgotten your weakness because of all these things. But think of the man in the beginning,
when there was nothing, and he felt himself absolutely weak. lust think of before even fire was
invented. What was the situation of man? The weakest animal on the earth.
Fire is perhaps the greatest discovery of man, not nuclear weapons, because it was fire that gave
man tremendous courage. Then in the night he could make a bonfire and sleep around it; and the
animals were afraid of fire so they would not come. Otherwise sleep was impossible – if you slept
you were finished; any animal could take you away.
From Ignorance to Innocence 234 Osho