From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 17. JESUS, THE ONLY FORGOTTEN SON OF GOD
prayed and died, and it was all just meaningless, useless. Now I will be dying more like a man freed,
completely freed.” He took me into his house. I had been there before; all the religious books were
removed. He said, ”I am no longer interested in all that.”
You ask me: if God is not a hypothesis, if God is not an idea, then what is God?
It is not a hypothesis because there is no way for science to discover God. Science does not move
inwards, it moves outwards, and there you will find the world of things.
If you want to know consciousness, that center is within.
So God is not a hypothesis.
God is not an idea because an idea is a philosophical concept, and philosophers only go on weaving
thoughts, ideas, rationalizations – and they create great systems of thought....
If you look into their systems of thought you will be immensely impressed. For example, Hegel or
Kant... if you are not alert, you will be surprised at what a palatial system they have made – but
there is no base. And it is not a palatial building either; if you come closer you will find it is made of
playing cards. A little breeze and the whole palace falls down, because there is no base to it.
Philosophy is baseless.
It makes castles in the air.
Ideas are just ideas. You can project an y idea you like, nobody can prevent you; and once you
project the idea you can find all kinds of rationalizations to support it. There is no difficulty.
One man came to me, he was an American. He was a professor in a Christian theological college.
Jabalpur has one of the greatest theological colleges in the whole of Asia, where they train ministers
and priests and missionaries, and they go on sending them all over Asia to convert people to
Christianity. There they teach everything – if you just go and see, you will laugh. I used to be
invited there to speak on some subject.
This professor became interested in me. He took me around the whole college. In one class they
were teaching how you have to stand up when you preach in church, in public; on what sentences
you should put the emphasis, what words should be pronounced loudly, what gestures should be
made with your hands.
I was simply amazed and said, ”What are you doing? Are you making these people actors or
ministers?” And these people go on doing that acting – every priest will do the same. It is a training,
a kind of exercise; there is no heart in it.
If there is heart in your words, the emphasis will come on its own. If there is something that
has to be expressed by your hands, the hands will take care of it, you need not do anything. If
something comes to your eyes, it will come. You are not to bring it, otherwise the whole thing
becomes hypocrisy.
From Ignorance to Innocence 241 Osho