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CHAPTER 27. BAPTISM: WADING FOR GODOT<br />

She was in love with J. Krishnamurti. She wanted <strong>to</strong> marry J. Krishnamurti, but because<br />

Theosophists did not allow Krishnamurti even <strong>to</strong> meet with any women.... They wanted him <strong>to</strong><br />

be<strong>com</strong>e a world teacher, and a married world teacher does not look right – I don’t know why.<br />

Perhaps it creates the suspicion that whether you are a world teacher or not, if you have a wife<br />

she will be boss. And the world teacher should not have a boss. He is the boss. So they prevented<br />

it in every possible way. And finally J. Krishnamurti, even though he renounced the Theosophical<br />

movement – their world teacherhood that they were going <strong>to</strong> impose on him – he still continued <strong>to</strong><br />

have the idea that a man like him should not be married.<br />

This is how millions of years of conditioning goes deep. If you don’t want <strong>to</strong> marry that is perfectly<br />

okay; it is your decision <strong>to</strong> be married or not <strong>to</strong> be married. But <strong>to</strong> make it something unholy – that<br />

is strange. He still stays in this woman’s house if she is in Delhi, because she is in a very high<br />

government post. Her principal house is in Bombay. If he is in Bombay then he stays in her house<br />

in Bombay.<br />

It is because of Krishnamurti that she became interested in me, because Krishnamurti was<br />

continually speaking against me <strong>to</strong> her. Naturally she became interested, because if Krishnamurti<br />

speaks against me.... And he never speaks against anybody else by name, that is below him: this is<br />

a subtle kind of ego. For example, if I criticize Mahatma Gandhi, I criticize him openly. Krishnamurti<br />

criticizes him but he never mentions his name; that is below him.<br />

But with me Krishnamurti is really cross, particularly because of my sannyasins. Wherever he goes,<br />

anywhere in the world, they are sitting in the front row. And the moment he sees their red clothes<br />

and the mala, he freaks out. Then he forgets on what subject he was going <strong>to</strong> speak. Then he<br />

starts speaking against me, against sannyas, against the rosary, against disciplehood and against<br />

Masters.<br />

In Bombay I have many sannyasins and they used <strong>to</strong> ask me what <strong>to</strong> do. I said, ”Just go and sit in<br />

front. There is nothing you have <strong>to</strong> do, just smile and enjoy it.” And the more they enjoyed it, the –<br />

more he would beat his head; he would just go out of his senses. He would forget all awareness.<br />

He would act just like a bull does when you wave a red handkerchief or a red umbrella or a red flag:<br />

the bull be<strong>com</strong>es mad. I think Krishnamurti must have been a bull in his last life.<br />

So he was continually speaking against me <strong>to</strong> this woman. And the woman’s sisters, sisters-in-law<br />

– her whole family was very much interested in me; they were all my people. Krishnamurti was<br />

speaking against me and all the family was speaking for me. Finally the woman decided that she<br />

had <strong>to</strong> meet me. She invited me, saying, ”If you pass through Delhi, stay with me this time.”<br />

I was staying with her and she <strong>to</strong>ld me, ”Svetlana is here. Would you like <strong>to</strong> see her?”<br />

I said, ”That’s very good. I wanted <strong>to</strong> meet Stalin, but no harm; some part of Stalin... at least royal<br />

blood!”<br />

When I asked her, ”How was he behaving with your mother?” she just started weeping.<br />

She said, ”He was a monster. He used <strong>to</strong> beat my mother. He used <strong>to</strong> beat me for any small thing<br />

and we could not say a single word against him, because he would do the same <strong>to</strong> us as he would<br />

have done <strong>to</strong> anybody else – he would kill us. We were treated just like servants.”<br />

<strong>From</strong> <strong>Ignorance</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Innocence</strong> 402 <strong>Osho</strong>

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