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CHAPTER 7. SHAME IS THE NAME OF THEIR GAME
has any meaning if somebody is going to win and somebody is going to be defeated. But in this
third world war nobody is going to be defeated and nobody is going to be a victor – all are going to
be killed. There will not be anybody left to declare, to announce, ”We are victorious.”
But still they both go on, continuously pouring all their resources into nuclear weapons because of
the fear that the other is doing it, so you have to do it. The other is also just like you, human – you
are doing it, so the other has to do it. Now, where is this going to stop?
The same happened with religions. They have all helped each other unknowingly. Hindus became
united against Mohammedans, Christians became united against Jews, jews became united against
Christians. And the whole world became a battlefield.
Man became a battlefield inside, and the world became a battlefield outside.
And the strategy used was repression.
How can repression do all these things and many more? Repression simply means: remember that
your nature is your enemy – you have to fight it, you have to kill it, you have to destroy it, you have
to go above it; then only are you holy.
Now, this is impossible.
Nobody has ever been able to go above nature.
Wherever you are, you are within nature. Yes, you can cripple yourself, you can cut your limbs to the
size prescribed by your holy scripture, you can suffer, you can torture yourself as much as you want
– but you cannot go beyond nature.
Nature is all there is – there is no beyond.
Beyond is within nature – not outside it.
So those who are fighting with nature never go beyond it. And their continual failure makes them
miserable, makes them mentally unbalanced, makes them psychologically insane. And all these
things are good for the priest: he exploits you.
His whole profession is to help you – but before he can help you, you must be put in a position where
you need the help.
In India I came across many psychologists, psychiatrists, who had been trained in the West, and
belonged to the Freudian school or the Jungian school or the Adlerian school or Assagioli’s school.
They had one thing in common: they were all against me. And I told them, ”Can you see the point?
You are all against each other, but you agree on one point: that you are all against me. Why? –
because I can simply destroy your profession.” And if the profession is destroyed, the Freudian will
suffer just as much as the Adlerian, as much as the Jungian.
I can make man whole again.
From Ignorance to Innocence 92 Osho