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CHAPTER 24. IMITATION IS YOUR CREMATION
Whatsoever they are creating is already passing all the stations of the world. Of course they are
creating very strong vibrations. They go on moving around you; you just have to attune your radio
to a certain wavelength, then on that wavelength whatsoever is uttered will be caught.
It is true about us too. Whatsoever we are saying is not very strong, but it never dies, the sound
continues. One day we will find a way to catch hold of sounds which were uttered by different people
in the past – because each person has a different vibe, a different frequency. If we can get hold of
the frequency of Krishna, then what he really said in the Gita five thousand years ago, and whether
it was said at all or not, will be caught again. And I am certain that this big book, the Gita, could not
possibly have been written in the situation in which it was said to have been.
Two armies facing each other – they are just waiting for the signal and they will start slaughtering
each other. And Arjuna says to his charioteer, Krishna, ”Take me in front.” He is the chief warrior of
one side. Seeing all the people there, his friends, his relatives.... The other party was nobody else
but his cousin-brothers, and they had all grown up in the same house, in the same palace, they were
taught by the same man. Dronacharya, the man who had taught both parties the art of archery, was
there on the other side: his own Master.
On this side everybody is related to those on that side. On that side everybody is related to those
on this side: it was a family quarrel. Arjuna freaked out. He simply said to Krishna, ”I will not fight
this war. This is not war, this is simply suicide. These are all our people. Whosoever dies will bring
tears to my eyes. My father’s father, my grandfather, is standing there. My Master who has taught
me, who has brought me up to be the greatest archer in the world, he is on the other side. No, I
cannot fight. I would rather renounce the world and become a sannyasin and go to the Himalayas.”
Now, this is the situation. This big book is a dialogue in which Arjuna goes on asking questions
and Krishna goes on answering them. For me to comment on it took almost – Taru, how many
years?perhaps three years: twelve volumes, one thousand pages each. In this situation it doesn’t
seem to be likely that this big sermon.... In eighteen days the whole war was finished; in eighteen
days the whole Gita cannot be finished! So perhaps he had spoken a few words and later on it is just
elaboration, and more and more was added to it to clarify and simplify and to make it understandable.
But one day it is possible that we may catch hold of Krishna – or Jesus giving his sermon on the
mountain – because no sound ever dies; once it is uttered it remains forever. Yes, it will become
weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker, and you will need more and more forceful, forcible,
stronger receptors, receivers to catch hold of it. And of course it will be a tower of Babel, because
millions of people have been speaking for millions of years and all their words will be mixed.
But there is a possibility.... It is just as your fingerprints are yours alone: they have never existed
before and there never will be a possibility for them to exist in the future. You fingerprints are simply
your fingerprints. Your sound prints are also simply your sound prints; sooner or later we will be able
to sort them out. And once we get your sound print, your frequency, then whatsoever you have said
in your whole life can be reproduced.
You will be surprised to know that Mahavira is the only man in the whole of history who has said,
”Don’t say anything which you would not like to be associated with you forever, because whatsoever
you say is going to be eternal.” He is the only man, but what he is saying certainly has a tremendous
From Ignorance to Innocence 351 Osho