From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 19. RELIGION IS REBELLION
home. I would like you someday to meet them.” But she died and that day never came. I was never
introduced by her to her two sons.
Ajay Chauhan I have seen, just on the road, but we were not acquainted with each other. But this
man, Vijay Chauhan, I have not even seen – and he is saying that he was a great friend and for
hours we used to discuss philosophy, religion, and great problems.
Now, many letters of this type come. Sheela asks me, ”Do you know this man?” – she brings the
photograph. ”This man says that he knows you from your very childhood, and you have stayed with
him many times in his home.” I see the picture... and my memory is not bad, not so bad. I have
never seen this man in my whole life, not even heard his name.
One letter was from New York; I had never heard the name. The man was from India; he says that
he is a great poet and I have been quoting his poetry in my lectures. I have never known his name, I
have never known any poetry connected with him, any book written by him. But he says that we are
great friends.... Now what to do with these people? Once I have gone, all kinds of stories will start.
It will be for you to stop all these kinds of stories. Remember, whatsoever is meaningful I have told
you, and whatsoever I have not told you is meaningless: that should be the criterion.
If somebody comes and says, ”I have seen a miracle....” And there will be people; it gives them
importance – that I performed a miracle.... Yes, a few times I have performed a miracle.
One man, Doctor Bhagwandas – he is a professor now; we studied together in the same university,
although he was in a different department. But we were friendly; he used to come, and he used to
go for a walk with me. He invited me once to go to his home. His home was not very far away from
the university, just fifty miles.
So I said, ”Next Saturday we can go. It is not far away.” We went there; we were both sleeping in the
same room, on two beds. Between our two beds was a small table with a clock, because I wanted
to get up at three. At that time I used to get up at three, but in case I went on sleeping, I told him to
put on the alarm – but he had no alarm clock.
He said, ”I don’t have an alarm clock here.”
So I said, ”Then forget about it.” I went to sleep.
But he felt uneasy, so he went to the neighbor, borrowed an alarm clock and put it in the middle on
the table. I was asleep. Because of my habit of getting up at three, I woke up at three, and I heard
the tick tick of the clock by my side, so I looked. It was a luminous clock, so I could see that there
were still five minutes to go before three o’clock. So I covered myself, and from inside the blankets I
said, ”Bhagwan” – his name was Bhagwandas, and I used to call him Bhagwan – ”It is five to three.”
He opened his blanket, and looked at me covered in blankets. He looked at the clock... five to three!
He said, ”What?”
I said, ”It is five minutes to three. After five minutes you wake me up.”
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