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CHAPTER 22. THE COMMUNE: THE DISTILLATION OF REBELLIOUS SPIRITS
I was seeing a film, THE DIFFICULTIES OF AN ORDINARY GOD. It is a beautiful film. A man starts
seeing a very ordinary God, just like an old hobo, with a hat cricketers use. Now, God in a hat which
cricketers use! And he looks also like a cricket player. He is very old, but must have been in His
young days a cricket player. And when God declared to this man, ”You don’t recognize me: I am
God, I created the world,” the man said, ”My God! You created the world! Don’t say it to anybody
otherwise people will think you are mad.”
But the old man insisted, He said, ”You want some proof?”
The young man said, ”I don’t want any proof. Just seeing you is enough to know that you are no
God. This is not the way – that God suddenly stops you on the way; that you are going somewhere
and He wants a lift! This is a strange meeting. I have heard about the God Moses met on the
mountain and Jesus heard from the sky, and Mohammed... but God asking for a lift?”
But the old man was stubborn, He said, ”I will give you proof” And He gives him proof: He simply
disappears.
The young man looks all around – He was in the car sitting by his side – He is not there! He says,
”My God!, perhaps He really was God, but what a funny God! And I missed the opportunity.”
The old man appeared again, He said, ”Look, whenI was gone you started thinking you had missed
an opportunity.”
But seeing Him again the young man said, ”You did some trick, you must know some magic. But I
cannot accept you as God. Your clothes seem to be purchased from a secondhand place, or you
have stolen them. They don’t fit you, they are too loose and too dirty – as if you have not taken a
bath for many years.”
But the old man said, ”God is so pure that He does not need any bath or anything. And of course
the clothes are very old, because I am very old. I have told you that I created the world; at that time
I created these clothes. Since then I have not created anything, so they are very ancient.”
The young man said, ”What to do about you? Where do you want to get out?”
He said, ”Anywhere, because I am everywhere.
The young man said, ”Then why did you want a lift?”
He said, ”Just because I see a potential in you, that you can become my messenger.”
The young man said, ”My God! Your messenger? If I say to anybody that you are God they will think
I am mad!”
But God said, ”You try,” gave His picture to him and disappeared.
The young man looked at the picture and said, ”It is better to keep silent about the whole thing.
Either I am hallucinating, dreaming....”
From Ignorance to Innocence 307 Osho