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CHAPTER 28. SCIENCE PLUS RELIGION – THE DYNAMIC FORMULA FOR THE FUTURE
He is a simple man. That’s why it is very difficult to find a religious man, because he will be so
simple and so ordinary that you are going to miss him. He won’t have any talent. He will not be a
Picasso, he will not be an Einstein, he will not be a Stalin; he won’t have any kind of talent. You will
not be able to judge his genius because his genius is unobsessed, so he cannot produce science,
he cannot produce new discoveries, new inventions.
It is not just a coincidence that in the East, where religion has existed for at least ten thousand
years.... And there have been a few authentically religious men. Of course there has not been yet
an authentic religion; but here and there, once in a while, there have been authentic religious men.
But the East has not been able to create science.
Do you think Buddha had not the genius equivalent to Albert Einstein? He had a far bigger, higher,
deeper genius than any Albert Einstein could ever have. But he is not obsessed, hence his genius
does not move in one direction. His genius becomes a fragrance around him, becomes a light
around him. Those who have eyes can see the light. Those who have ears can hear the music
around him, can hear the silence that surrounds him... can smell the fragrance of the man.
But Buddha is not going to invent a computer. He is not obsessed; he is absolutely unobsessed.
So you can feel his genius, but you cannot see it reflected in some objective achievement. What is
his achievement? Far smaller people have achieved much more. He has not achieved anything, but
he has been just himself. If you can call it an achievement, then call it achievement. But it is not
achievement.
What he is, he has always been. Achievement means something that was not there and now is
there. But to realize oneself; to know oneself, is not to bring any new thing into existence. It has
been there; whether you know it or not doesn’t make any difference to its existence. It has been
there. It is there. Yes, there was a time when you were keeping your back to it, and now you have
taken a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and you are facing it – but nothing new has come into
existence.
You can feel that experience – yes, it is an experience. All that you need is to be receptive, available,
open, because a man like Buddha cannot even knock on your doors: even that will be interfering
with somebody else’s being.
Buddha can stand before your doors and wait till eternity: someday you may open the door, someday
you will invite him in. Without your invitation he is not going to come in. There is not a question of
ego. It is your house, you are the host, and unless you invite him it is not right to trespass on your
privacy in any way.
Buddha became enlightened – but for seven days he remained silent. And he gave many arguments
why he remained silent for seven days; in fact he wanted to remain silent forever. Later on when he
was asked again and again why he had remained silent for seven days and then had spoken, he
said, ”Even to speak is to interfere; let the other understand the silence. And if he cannot understand
the silence, do you think he will understand my words? Because my words will be far away from my
silence. They won’t be representative. There is every possibility he may be misguided by my words,
and I may be helpless to prevent it. In silence if somebody comes to me, he cannot misinterpret
it. He may understand, he may not understand; there are only two possibilities, and I will not be
From Ignorance to Innocence 418 Osho