From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 7. SHAME IS THE NAME OF THEIR GAME
professors’ colony. So I made a few people ready, particularly the wives, a few small children –
anybody I thought was reliable. And they were very happy, they said, ”We will do it.”
And lastly, as Professor Mehta used to enter the department, was the peon who used to sit in front
of the office. I said to him, ”Dhyananda, I have never asked anything from you....”
He said, ”That’s true. Everybody tortures me:’Dhyananda bring this, Dhyananda bring that.’
Professors torture me, students torture me. That’s true, you are the only person.... In all these
two years, you have not even asked for a single glass of water. And I was wondering... this is rare.
So whatever is to be done I will do.”
I said, ”You have to do this. When Professor Mehta comes here, you simply stand up and hold him
and say,’You will fall down. You are trembling! What has happened?’”
He said, ”But is it true?”
I said, ”No, it is not true, but you have to pretend it is true.”
He said, ”Okay. You have never asked anything from me – I will do my best.”
The next day I collected all the pieces of paper, because I was just following the professor. He was
going ahead of me, and I was just following him collecting the papers. And Dhyananda really did a
hatchet job. He really shook him so hard that he fell! I had to support him; we both took him inside.
He said, ”I am not able to even sit, just put me on the bench.” So we put him on the bench. I ran and
brought a pillow and a blanket because he was shivering, perspiring.
I said, ”What has happened?”
He said, ”It seems I have some strange fever. Last night when I went to bed, everything was okay.
But now my headache is such as I have never had and I feel my whole body trembling. Just call the
doctor. If it had not been for Dhyananda I would have fallen and broken my leg.”
And it was actually because of Dhyananda that he was going to fall – because Dhyananda was an
uneducated man and he did it for real! I called the doctor, and I explained to him, ”You have to be
very serious. Nothing is the matter, it is only to do with a challenge that I’ve accepted; so just be
kind to me – be very serious.”
He was very serious; he checked this and that, and he said, ”Mr. Mehta, you need at least three
months’ complete rest.”
He said, ”Three months complete rest! But what has happened?”
He said, ”I cannot tell you. I will talk to your wife.”
And Professor Mehta said, ”But do one thing please. Take me to my house in your car because I
cannot walk back again. One mile...!”
From Ignorance to Innocence 94 Osho