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CHAPTER 30. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN You have been humiliated by everybody, you have been trodden on by everybody, you are crushed by everybody – and then comes the priest to give you the opium: ”Don’t be worried, my son, this is just a passing phase. If you remain humble and surrendered, everything is going to be okay for you. And these rich people who are treading all over you – they will be thrown into hell.” And this priest lives on the money of the rich. He knows there is no hell. The rich know there is no hell, there is no heaven, that this is a strategy for the humiliated to be consoled No, I am not at all in favor of surrender. My religion has no place for surrender. It teaches you integrity. It teaches you individuality. It teaches you selfhood. It teaches you self-respect. And the magic of self-respect is that the moment you start searching for yourself, you will come across many shadowy selves, all phony. And it is not difficult to see what is phony because anything that you come across is phony. A simple criterion: anything that you find within you and think, ”This is my self” know well that it is phony. It is the finder who is the true one, not the found. The found is just the object that you have achieved and accumulated. Discard all those selves that you go on finding within you: ”This is the self... No – this is the self. Go on discarding them. A simple criterion, there cannot be a more simple criterion: anything that you find as your self is not your self Go on discarding, and a moment comes when you cannot find any self anywhere. You cannot find anything – all is empty. And that is the moment of awakening. Suddenly the seer is seen. You are awakened to your own awareness. You don’t find an objective self, you find a subjectivity, and finding it is such a blessing, such an ecstasy that you will not care a bit about paradise. And you will not be bothered any more about surrendering because there is nothing to surrender. You have discarded all that was phony, that was only pretension. You have been told you are this, you are that, and you have accepted it. You have started playing the game of being this and being that, and nobody has told you – nobody can tell you – who you From Ignorance to Innocence 448 Osho
CHAPTER 30. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN are. It is only you who can discover it. In discovering it, the ego evaporates it is not surrendered, because it is a non-existential, a shadowy thing, it has no substance in it. A famous incident.... One of the kings, Bimbisara, came to Buddha. That day a rare thing had happened. A poor man, a shoemaker, Sudas was his name.... sudas means a good slave, a nice slave, a slave who has no ideas of rebellion, of revolt or anything, who is absolutely contented with his slavery. He had a small hut and a small pond behind the hut. That day, in his pond a lotus flower blossomed out of season. Once in a while things like that happen in nature. It’s nothing to brag about, nothing to make a miracle out of Sudas asked his wife, ”I should take this to the richest man in the town because he goes every day to Gautam the Buddha, and he will be delighted. And at least he is going to give me one rupee as a reward.” The wife said, ”Go, be quick – he may be leaving.” He went out on the road and found that the chariot of the richest man was coming, going towards the mango grove where Buddha was staying. He stopped the rich man and said, ”Out of season a rare lotus flower has blossomed in my pond, and I thought it would be good if you could present it to your Master, Gautam the Buddha.” The rich man was really happy. He said, ”Of course, because even my Master will be surprised to see it. This is not the season for lotuses. I will give you one thousand rupees as a reward.” The poor Sudas could not believe it – one thousand rupees! In those days rupees were solid gold. In fact the word ”rupee” comes from the Sanskrit word rup, which means gold, pure gold. The coins were pure gold – one thousand gold coins! The poor man said, ”Please say it again, I cannot believe my ears.” The rich man thought that perhaps he was not willing to sell for one thousand rupees. He said, ”Don’t be worried: I will give you ten thousand, or you can ask and whatever you ask I will give you, because I would love to put this rare flower at Buddha’s feet; perhaps nobody has ever presented such a thing to him.” Sudas was so shocked, he lost his voice. He could not say, ”Yes, ten thousand is enough.” And the rich man said, ”Why are you silent? Are you not willing?” While this negotiation was going on another chariot, the chariot of King Bimbisara, came by. Seeing the lotus flower, the king stopped and said to Sudas, ”Sudas, whatsoever the rich man is going to give to you, I will give you five times more. Whatever he is offering, you just come to the palace and collect five times more.” Sudas was almost on the verge of falling dead. Ten thousand the rich man was offering, and he was willing to give even more. And now comes the king who says, ”Five times more, whatever!” – he is not even enquiring. Kings are kings, they should not enquire the prices of things. And of course in front of the king the rich man could not say anything. He knew well that whatsoever he says, the king will give five times more. He had lost it. From Ignorance to Innocence 449 Osho
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CHAPTER 30. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN<br />
You have been humiliated by everybody, you have been trodden on by everybody, you are crushed<br />
by everybody – and then <strong>com</strong>es the priest <strong>to</strong> give you the opium: ”Don’t be worried, my son, this is<br />
just a passing phase. If you remain humble and surrendered, everything is going <strong>to</strong> be okay for you.<br />
And these rich people who are treading all over you – they will be thrown in<strong>to</strong> hell.”<br />
And this priest lives on the money of the rich. He knows there is no hell.<br />
The rich know there is no hell, there is no heaven, that this is a strategy for the humiliated <strong>to</strong> be<br />
consoled No, I am not at all in favor of surrender.<br />
My religion has no place for surrender.<br />
It teaches you integrity.<br />
It teaches you individuality.<br />
It teaches you selfhood.<br />
It teaches you self-respect.<br />
And the magic of self-respect is that the moment you start searching for yourself, you will <strong>com</strong>e<br />
across many shadowy selves, all phony. And it is not difficult <strong>to</strong> see what is phony because anything<br />
that you <strong>com</strong>e across is phony. A simple criterion: anything that you find within you and think, ”This<br />
is my self” know well that it is phony.<br />
It is the finder who is the true one, not the found.<br />
The found is just the object that you have achieved and accumulated.<br />
Discard all those selves that you go on finding within you: ”This is the self... No – this is the self. Go<br />
on discarding them. A simple criterion, there cannot be a more simple criterion: anything that you<br />
find as your self is not your self<br />
Go on discarding, and a moment <strong>com</strong>es when you cannot find any self anywhere. You cannot find<br />
anything – all is empty.<br />
And that is the moment of awakening.<br />
Suddenly the seer is seen.<br />
You are awakened <strong>to</strong> your own awareness.<br />
You don’t find an objective self, you find a subjectivity, and finding it is such a blessing, such an<br />
ecstasy that you will not care a bit about paradise. And you will not be bothered any more about<br />
surrendering because there is nothing <strong>to</strong> surrender. You have discarded all that was phony, that was<br />
only pretension.<br />
You have been <strong>to</strong>ld you are this, you are that, and you have accepted it. You have started playing<br />
the game of being this and being that, and nobody has <strong>to</strong>ld you – nobody can tell you – who you<br />
<strong>From</strong> <strong>Ignorance</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Innocence</strong> 448 <strong>Osho</strong>
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