From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 1. PSEUDO-RELIGION: THE STICK-ON SOUL
He said to me, ”If you come to New Delhi sometime, come and visit me.”
I said, ”Not sometime – I will come simply to visit you. But tell the idiots surrounding you that I am
allowed in.”
He told his secretary, ”You have to take care that nobody prevents him.” That’s how that secretary
became one of my followers. And whenever I needed, he was immediately ready to arrange it: the
doors of Jawaharlal’s house were open for me.
I remembered this incident because that’s what has happened with the whole of humanity.
You see the misery, but you don’t see the cause. The cause is covered with flowers. You see the
flowers, and because flowers cannot cause the misery you turn back.
The second thing to remember is that it is not only now that humanity is miserable; it has always
been so.
Yes, one thing new has happened – it is a little difference, but a difference that really makes a
difference – and that is: a certain percentage of humanity has now become more aware than it has
ever been before.
Misery has always been there; but to be aware of the misery, that is a new factor. And that is the
beginning of transformation.
If you become aware of something, then there is a possibility that something can be done to change
it.
People have lived in misery, accepting it as part of life, as their destiny. Nobody has questioned it.
Nobody has asked why.
And before anybody could ask why, the religious prophets, messiahs and priests were ready with
the answer.
Christianity is ready with the answer: because Adam and Eve committed the original sin; hence you
are suffering. Now, can you see any connection?
Even according to Christianity, the world was created four thousand and four years before Jesus’
birth – which is not at all accurate, which is absolutely stupid. The world is millions of years old. And
by world, I mean only our world, this earth; I don’t mean the sun, the solar system, because that is
far more ancient. And I don’t mean the world of the stars... because they are not as small as you
see them. They are bigger than your sun – they are all suns – and they all have their own solar
systems. And they are far more ancient than our solar system.
In fact, when you come to calculate about existence, years cannot be used as a measurement, they
are too small. A million years does not mean anything. When you start thinking about how old the
solar system is, you have to use a new measurement which is not used ordinarily because we never
come across such a big thing. And that new measurement is invented by physics: the light year.
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