From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 28. SCIENCE PLUS RELIGION – THE DYNAMIC FORMULA FOR THE FUTURE
responsible for sending him on a track which was not my intention at all. But my words can take him
in a direction which is not the direction I am pointing at.”
So for seven days he remained silent and people asked, ”Why did you speak?”
He said, ”Now, this you will have to just take on faith, if you trust me. But there is no need to accept
it, because it is meaningless. I was persuaded by other enlightened beings who are in the cosmos.
But this you will have to take on faith, unless you reach that state.” He insisted, ”This should not be
part of my teachings; I am just fulfilling your curiosity. You can reject it because it is not an essential
part of my teaching. But if you insist on asking why I spoke, then I have to answer you.
Buddha said, ”People who have become enlightened before persuaded me, they argued with me.
They said, ’In thousands of years a man comes to this state of being, where you are. Even if out of a
hundred people one person understands your words rightly, that is enough. Don’t be worried about
the ninety-nine because they will go astray even without hearing you. They are bound to go astray.
”’If they can go astray even hearing you, then what do you think – that without hearing you they will
not go astray? Take it for granted: those ninety-nine are determined to go astray whether you speak
or not. But what about that one percent? We appeal to you for that one percent who may not be
able to find the path without your speaking.’”
And Buddha said, ”I am speaking for that one percent.”
Strangely, I am still speaking for that one percent.
The world has not moved a single inch.
Twenty-five centuries and man is as blind, as asleep, and unconscious as he ever was.
Charles Darwin was absolutely wrong, because looking at man there seems to be no evolution: as
far back as we can see, he is the same. If for ten thousand years there has not been any evolution
in man, do you think one day suddenly a few monkeys jumped from their trees and, without any
Patanjali to teach them yoga exercises, stood – instead of on their four legs, on two legs? And their
two front legs turned into two hands? And their monkey mind became man’s mind?
It seems to be a far greater miracle than any prophet or messiah has been performing. It would
have been far better for Jesus to turn a monkey into a man, because that would have proved poor
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. But he could not even turn man into man – what to say about
turning a monkey into a man!
In English you have only one word for man; that is a poverty of language. In Hindi we have two
words for man: one is admi – that is from Adam – and another is insan: both mean man. Admi is
the lowest state of mankind; insan is the highest state of mankind.
One of the great poets, Mirza Ghalib, has a statement in which he says, ”In this world the most
difficult thing is the transformation of an admi into an insan. It is one of the most difficult things to
make man really a man. He is subhuman.”
From Ignorance to Innocence 419 Osho