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CHAPTER 25. JESUS – THE ONLY SAVIOR WHO NEARLY SAVED HIMSELF
the fair so much that I am going there every year. So you can... whenever! disappear, you know
where I am. Don’t be worried.”
He said, ”This is the last time that I punish you; the first and last time. Perhaps you are right: if you
really wanted to go then this was the only way, because I was not going to allow you. In that fair
every kind of thing happens: prostitutes are there, intoxicants are available, drugs are sold there” –
and at that time in India there was no illegality about drugs, every drug was freely available. And in
a fair all kinds of monks gather, and Hindu monks all use drugs ” – so I would not have allowed you
to go. And if you really wanted to go then perhaps you were right not to ask.”
I told him, ”But I did not bother about the prostitutes or the monks or the drugs. You know me: if I
am interested in drugs, then in this very city....” Just by the side of my house there was a shop where
all drugs were available: ”and the man is so friendly to me that he will not take any money if I want
any drug. So there is no problem. Prostitutes are available in the town; if I am interested in seeing
their dances I can go there. Who can prevent me? Monks come continually in the city. But I was
interested in the magicians.”
And my interest in magic is related to my interest in miracles. In India, before partition, I have seen
every kind of miracle being done on the streets by magicians, poor magicians. Perhaps after the
whole show they may get a one-rupee collection. How can I believe that these people are messiahs?
For one rupee, for three hours they are doing almost impossible things. Of course everything has a
trick to it but if you don’t know the trick then it is a miracle.
You have simply heard – I have seen them throwing a rope up, and the rope stands by itself. They
have a boy with them they call jamura; every magician has a jamura. I don’t know how to translate
it... just ”my boy”. And he goes on talking with the jamura, ”Jamura, will you go up the rope?”
And he will say, ”Yes, I will go.” And this continual conversation has something to do with the trick; it
keeps people’s mind on the conversation, and the conversation is funny in many ways. I have seen
that boy climbing up the rope and disappearing!
And the man calls from down below, ”Jamura?”
And from far above comes the voice, ”Yes, master.”
And he says, ”Now I will bring you down part by part.” Then he throws a knife up, and the head of
the boy comes down! He throws the knife up, and a leg comes down! Part by part the boy comes
down, and the magician goes on putting the parts together, covers them with a bedsheet and says,
”Jamura, now be together.”
And the jamura says, ”Yes, master.” The magician removes the bedsheet and the boy stands up! He
pulls down the rope, winds it up, puts it in the bag and starts asking for money. At the most he would
get one rupee – because in those days sixty paise was equivalent to one rupee and nobody was
going to give him more than one paise, two paise at the most; a very rich person would give him four
paise. If he can gather one rupee for his miracle he is fortunate. I have seen all kinds of things, and
the people who are doing them are just beggars.
From Ignorance to Innocence 371 Osho