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CHAPTER 21. PERSONALITY: THE CARBON COP-OUT
I said, ”You can try them outside; others’ wives will get disturbed” – because he was living in the
professors’ colony. ”You can walk on the verandah of other people’s houses, so why should you be
worried? Nobody can prevent me. I have already established the precedent – you just go.”
He said, ”Let me think about it.”
The next day I came with a pair. He said, ”No, because I enquired of my neighbors. They said,
’Awasthi, if you do this then we are all going to complain against you that you should be removed
from this colony to another colony; this is too much. This boy is enough. When he comes to meet
you he wakes everybody. And a strange time he chooses – three o’clock in the morning! – and we
cannot do anything against him. We have reported it to the vice-chancellor. The vice-chancellor
says that he says it is a meditation.”’
Now, in India you cannot prevent anybody from any kind of meditation. That word is enough! When I
started teaching people dynamic meditation, there was trouble everywhere, even in my own house.
My uncle started doing it, and the neighbor filed a case against him in the court. My uncle told me,
”This is a difficult meditation. That neighbor was my friend, and he would not normally do such a
thing, but he is so angry that he says, ’unless you stop this meditation I am going to fight the case,
because you disturb me early in the morning; when one really feels like falling into a deep sleep,
that is the time of your dynamic!”’
But I told my uncle – and he is our sannyasin; he was here just a few days ago – ”Don’t be worried.
You just say that this is our religion, and this is our meditation.” Once you say ”meditation” in India,
there is no problem.
When he came here, I asked, ”What happened to the case?”
He said, ”We have won the case, because I said, ’This is our meditation,’ and I produced the book.
”The judge read the description and he said, ’If it is a meditation, then... the court has no power over
religion.’ So he told the neighbor,’You have to accept it, there is no other way. This is his meditation.
If you want to do it, you can also do it. Why get unnecessarily boiled up and angry in your bed? –
better you also start.’”
And the neighbor was very irritated with the court.
He said, ”This is strange – the court suggesting, ’You also start, why waste time? And if it is
meditation, we have no jurisdiction over religion.’”
It may appear as mischief – it was not. My mischief was the same shape as now; my shoes are still
the same shape.
This is the shape of the wooden one I dropped because now it would disturb my meditation! Now I
don’t need any help from it; rather, it is a disturbance. That’s why I changed it!
From Ignorance to Innocence 303 Osho