From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
cleverly: he has chosen many of the film stars as his candidates. Poor Vinod missed! If he had been
in India he would have been in the prime minister’s cabinet next month. His rival in the film world,
Amitabh Bachchan... these two were the topmost actors of the Indian film world. And you will be
surprised that India produces more films than Hollywood. Hollywood is number two, India is number
one as far as film production is concerned.
These two persons, Amitabh and Vinod, were the top two. He has chosen Amitabh as one of
his candidates, and Amitabh is going to be in his cabinet, absolutely certainly. And he will win,
because film actors have a certain power, a glamour, as if they are superhuman. He has chosen old
descendants of royal families. One is a very strange fellow, but he will be elected.
Mysore was one of the richest states in India because Mysore jungles are jungles of sandalwood,
and that is the costliest wood in the whole world. All the jungles were the private property of the
maharajah of Mysore. And Mysore has the greatest population of elephants, so Mysore’s maharajah
has the biggest tusks of elephants in his palace. It is unique, because for thirty-six generations they
have been kings.
Now this descendant – the estate is no more there, but he has his private property: a palace worth
fifty million or more dollars, a vast palace all made of Italian marble. His throne must be priceless
because it has so many diamonds, so many sapphires, so many rubies, emeralds, because Mysore
has many mines, and the king had first rights to all the best stones found in those mines. Just the
gold is worth nearabout fifty million dollars. The gold of the throne and all these diamonds and rubies
and sapphires and emeralds – there is no way to count how much they will be worth. But that kind
of throne is just one of its kind, there is no other.
This young man weighs three hundred and fifty pounds. He never goes out of the palace. He speaks
in a nasal tone, almost inaudible. He has never spoken in public in his whole life because how can
he speak? What he says is almost inaudible; perhaps only a few servants who are continuously with
him understand him. He has an imported dog; his name is Kinky – and all that he does is go on
playing with Kinky.
Now he has been chosen as a candidate by Rajiv. He will win the election, because in Mysore, who
can win against him? In Mysore the royal family are thought to be the descendants of God. And
thirty-six uninterrupted generations of royal blood – and no small quantity: three hundred and fifty
pounds! There is no need for him to make a public speech. He cannot, he may not even go out of
his palace, but he will win. And he has been chosen just because he has status and people worship
him. So it is impossible for anybody to stand against him. And he has money, so he will give money
to the election campaign, as much as they want.
People are not conscious of what they are doing. Now the people who are going to vote for this man,
will you call them human beings? Perhaps Kinky is far more intelligent than the man who goes on
playing with him: he is an utter idiot. He has not done anything else in his life; but just to belong to a
royal family is enough. And he has money, and money is power. Perhaps he may become a cabinet
minister.
You are in your unconscious mind when you are fast asleep with no dreams. Freud had reached
the unconscious just by analyzing dreams. If you are on the right track and you analyze a dream
From Ignorance to Innocence 384 Osho