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CHAPTER 27. BAPTISM: WADING FOR GODOT
One American wanted a child; he simply went for that because the doctors had said that the situation
was such that he and his wife couldn’t have children; they would have to adopt. He simply went to
India to get a child from Mother Teresa. But he forgot one thing, that he is a Protestant. He would
have never thought about it. And when he wanted a child to adopt, the secretary asked him about
his religion, because she had to fill in the form. When he said that he was a Protestant Christian,
she said, ”There is a difficulty. Right now we don’t have any orphans to give for adoption.”
Now, in India you don’t have any orphans... I And Mother Teresa is collecting hundreds of orphans
every day. And if there was no orphan, why did you want him to fill in a form in the first place? You
should have told him before, ”There is no orphan right now, we are helpless. We will inform you; you
just leave your address.”
But the secretary was willing to give him a child – just fill in the form, and you go in and choose a
child – but as he was a Protestant Christian.... He is still a Christian, what to say about a Hindu, a
Mohammedan or a Jaina. And those children belong to Hindus, to Jainas, to Mohammedans.
For example, in Bhopal – Bhopal is a Mohammedan city – those children will be mostly
Mohammedans. They will not be given to Mohammedans, to Hindus, to Jainas, no – even a
Protestant Christian is denied. And what an excuse, ”There is no orphan available.” There were
seven hundred orphans already inside that orphanage, and the secretary was denying that there
was one orphan.
These children go on increasing the Catholic population. God is gracious, compassionate: let all the
factories explode! Let everybody become an orphan so Catholics go on increasing by millions, and
the pope again becomes the emperor of almost the whole world.
There is no wonder that the pope respects Mother Teresa and gives her all the great titles of the
church. There is no wonder that she receives the Nobel prize, because she is being recommended
even by the pope. You can’t get a Nobel prize unless you are recommended by a certain category
of people. Either they have to be Nobel prize winners, or they have to be kings, queens, presidents,
prime ministers.
The pope is the king of that small kingdom of the Vatican, eight square miles. He is the king of that
kingdom – twenty soldiers he has, and six hundred million Catholics around the world. He has great
power, and people like Mother Teresa are working everywhere to bring in more and more people.
You ask me what I want man to do.
First thing: I want man to recognize that he is asleep, because unless he accepts and acknowledges
that he is asleep there is no possibility of waking him up. Can you wake a man who thinks he is
awake? He will slap you! ”Stop all this nonsense, I am awake! What are you doing?” First you have
to recognize it, create a recognition.
I have always loved this story: A few friends, on a full moon night, got drunk. The night was so
beautiful and they wanted to enjoy it, so they drank to the full and went to the beautiful river. The
boatmen had gone, leaving their boats on the bank on the river. It was the middle of the night, the
full moon was just above their heads, and it was a fairy land all over.
From Ignorance to Innocence 396 Osho