From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 21. PERSONALITY: THE CARBON COP-OUT
My professors told me, ”This is not right, particularly for you, because your scholarship depends
on him. He can cancel your scholarship, and he has every opportunity in many ways to harm you,
because he will appoint those who are going to be your examiners. He will appoint the one who is
going to take your verbal examination. And your future... after your M.A., he is the person who will
decide whether to give you a research scholarship or not.”
I said, ”Don’t be worried about anything. I have taken care of everything today.”
They said, ”By doing this mischief?”
I said, ”The man has offered an apology and still you are calling it a mischief?”
They said, ”Yes, a disturbance in a public place making him look stupid.”
I said, ”I was not trying to make him look stupid, and he proved that he is not stupid. And I have
asked many students: they all said that their respect for him in their eyes has increased because he
was ready to accept that what he had said was just oratory. You can go on sometimes carried away
by words; one word takes you to another word.
”People who have been speaking their whole life – professors, teachers – go on saying things which
they don’t mean. You have to pull them back:’Where are you going?’ lust one word leads to another
word, that word leads to another word... you have to pull them back. Of course pulling on anybody’s
leg looks like mischief, but it was not. And he has not accepted it as mischief”
I went to him, and he said, ”You have done something great to me. In my whole life nobody has
ever disturbed me while I was speaking. And you disturbed me on such a point that I had no way
to deny you; and I loved you for the simple reason that you had the courage. Whatever you need
and whenever you need it, always remember I am here. Just let me be informed about it and every
facility, everything that is in my power will be available to you.”
And I didn’t have to say anything to him. He, without my asking, made arrangements that from the
university mess I should receive a free pass for two years, and that two hundred rupees per month,
my scholarship, should be granted. And you will be surprised that before deciding on my examiners,
he enquired of me, ”Do you have any preference for whom you would like?”
I said, ”No, when you are deciding I know that you will decide on the best people. I would like the
best, the topmost people. So don’t think whether they will pass me or fail me, give me more marks
or less marks; that is absolutely irrelevant to me. Choose the best in the whole country.”
And he chose the best. And strangely, it turned out to be very favorable. One of my professors that
he chose for Indian philosophy, the best authority, was Doctor Ranade of Allahabad university. On
Indian philosophy, he was the best authority. But nobody used to choose him as an examiner
because he had rarely passed anybody. He would find so many faults, and he could not be
challenged; he was the last person to be challenged. And almost all the professors of Indian
philosophy in India were his disciples. He was the oldest man, retired. But Doctor Karpatri chose
him, and asked him as a special favor, because he was old and retired by then, ”You have to.”
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