From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
the seven rounds around the sacred fire, I will be ahead of her looking almost like her child she is so
tall. I love her, but I cannot marry her because everybody will laugh.”
And in the marriage ceremony in India all the relatives and friends from faraway gather. It is a
gathering of thousands of people. And they were rich people, so everybody would come and
everybody would see only one thing: the tallness of the wife. Love had to fail before the power
instinct.
I said, ”What does it matter? You can tell them, ’I am not taller than my wife.”’
But you can look around the whole world, and you will find the husband always taller than the wife.
How has it been managed? Why have women remained smaller than the man? It is simply a
question that for millions of years that was the choice: the man will always choose a wife smaller
than himself. Slowly, by sheer selection, the taller women went out of existence; it was difficult for
them to find a husband. They became prostitutes, they became part of the marketplace, available
to all. They could not live a respectable life unless they happened to meet a man taller than them.
But the man was always taller; slowly, slowly, this is how it happened. You can enquire of those
people who crossbreed animals. After generations of this continual crossbreeding: taller husbandsmaller
wife, taller husband-smaller wife....
If the woman is so tall that she cannot find a husband, she becomes a prostitute, she goes out of the
biological market, she is a dropout. She will not be creating children any longer, because a prostitute
cannot afford children. So her line dies out; that branch grows no further
It is not natural that women have to be smaller.
It is the power instinct, the will-to-power.
But sexuality and the will-to-power are not two separate things, not as separate as Adler and Freud
think.
The people who become very much power-oriented start losing interest in sex because their whole
energy moves into the will-to-power.
The people who are very deeply interested in exploring their sexuality cannot go into politics; they
don’t have any energy left.
You can see it in actuality in many places. We don’t allow soldiers to have their wives on the
battlefield. The general can, because the general remains behind; he is not really fighting, he is
simply ordering people to fight. And he is perfectly defended; if any danger is there, he will be the
first to get out of it. He is far behind the forces. He is allowed to have a wife there because there is
no problem, he is not going to fight. But the soldiers are not allowed to. Why? For the simple reason
that if their energy goes into sex, they don’t feel like fighting.
You can observe it in yourself. If you are deeply in love with a woman, you don’t feel like fighting with
anybody. But if you cannot find any outlet for your sexual energy then you will become a criminal,
you may kill somebody. You may be constantly searching for some excuse to fight.
From Ignorance to Innocence 378 Osho