From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 17. JESUS, THE ONLY FORGOTTEN SON OF GOD
middle it will be difficult to reach to the well. I will wait for you. He goes to sleep at nine o’clock, by
ten the street is empty and eleven is the right time not to take any chances. At eleven we can move
him.”
Only two persons turned up; one didn’t turn up, so we were only three. I said, ”This is difficult. One
side of the cot... and if Balaji wakes up.... I said, ”Just wait, I will have to call my grandfather.”
And I told my grandfather, ”This is what we are going to do. You have to give us a little help.”
He said, ”This is a little too much. You have some nerve to ask your own grandfather to do this to
that poor man who does no harm to anybody except that he shouts six hours a day... but we have
become accustomed to it.”
I said, ”I have not come to argue about it. You just come, and anything that you want, anytime, I will
owe it to you; you just say, and I will do it. But you have to come for this thing, and it is not much –
just a twelve – foot road has to be crossed without waking up Balaji.”
So he came. That’s why I say he was a very rare man – he was seventy-five! He came. He said,
”Okay, let us have this experience also and see what happens.”
The two wrestlers started escaping, seeing my grandfather. I said, ”Wait, where are you going?”
They said, ”Your grandfather is coming.”
I said, ”I am bringing him. He is the fourth person. If you escape then I will be at a loss. My
grandfather and I will not be able to manage. We can carry him, but he will wake up. You need not
be worried.”
They said, ”Are you sure of your grandfather? – because they are almost of the same age; they may
be friends and some trouble may arise. He may tell on us.”
I said, ”I am there, he cannot get me into any trouble. So don’t you be afraid, you will not be in any
trouble, and he does not know your names or anything.”
We carried Balaji and put his cot over his small well. Only he used to take a bath there, and once in
a while I used to jump into it, which he was very much against – but what can you do? Once I had
jumped in, he had to arrange to take me out. I said, ”What can you do now? The only thing is to
take me out. And if you harass me, I will jump in every day. And if you talk about it to my family, then
you know I will start bringing my friends to jump into it. So right now, keep it a secret between us.
You take your bath outside, I take my bath inside; there is no harm.”
It was a very small well, so the cot could completely fit over it. Then I told my grandfather, ”You go
away because if you are caught then the whole city will think that this is going too far.”
And then, from far away we started throwing stones to wake him up... because if he did not wake up
the whole night, he might turn and fall into the well, and something would go wrong. The moment
he woke up he gave such a scream! We had heard his voice, but this...! The whole neighborhood
From Ignorance to Innocence 239 Osho