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CHAPTER 5. ECSTASY IS NOW – WHY WAIT?
In the Hindu paradise, the apsaras – how to translate the word apsara? – they are callgirls for those
great sages who live in paradise. Of course, they need callgirls. Those callgirls, those apsaras, are
the most beautiful; it has to be so. They remain always young – that gives me the clue that they are
plastic. They are stuck at the age of sixteen; for millions of years they remain just sixteen. Because
in the Indian mind sixteen is the most mature age for a woman, they remain at sixteen.
Apsaras don’t perspire; neither Mahavira nor Buddha nor Jesus nor Mohammed had any idea of
deodorants, so the only thing they could conceive of was that those girls who serve the sages should
not perspire. But only if your body is made of plastic will you not perspire; otherwise, perspiration is
absolutely necessary. And those girls will not get old, will not die.
Nothing dies in paradise, nothing gets old, nothing changes; it must be an utterly boring place. Can
you imagine the boredom – where everything remains the same every day? There is no need for
any newspaper there. I have heard that only once was one newspaper published – one edition, on
one day – and it flopped because after that nothing happened! It described everything in the first
edition; that was the last edition also.
This desire for permanency is somehow sick; but it was there, so the religious firms – yes, I call them
firms – Christian, Hindus, Mohammedans, they did great business for centuries. They are still doing
it... and their business can never end, for the simple reason that they sell invisible commodities.
They take visible things from you and they give you invisible things which you have to believe in.
I am reminded of a story. A king had conquered the whole world and he was very restless – now,
what to do? He was thinking that once he had conquered the whole world he would rest. He
had never thought that he would be so restless, he had never been so restless. While fighting,
continuously invading, going on and on – because there is always some place to go, some enemy to
destroy, some country to conquer – there was no space, no time to be restless; he was so occupied.
But now he had conquered the whole world, he was utterly restless – what to do now?
A con man heard about this situation. He came to the palace, asked for an audience with the king
and said, ”I have the remedy for restlessness.” Immediately he was taken inside, because all the
physicians had failed. The king could not sleep, could not sit, was walking back and forth and was
worried continually. He was asking, ”What to do now? Isn’t there another world? Find out! We will
conquer it.
This con man came into the court before the king, and he said, ”Don’t be worried. You are the first
man who has conquered the whole world. You are worthy to receive the clothes of God himself –
and I can manage it.”
This was a great idea. The king became immediately interested. He said, ”You start working. God’s
own clothes...! Have they ever before come on the earth?”
The man said, ”Never, because nobody has been worthy of them. You are the first man. So for the
first time, from paradise, I will bring the clothes for you.”
The king said, ”Every preparation should be made... and how much will the cost be?”
The man said, ”They are beyond cost; still, millions of rupees will be needed – but it is nothing.”
From Ignorance to Innocence 60 Osho