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CHAPTER 10. SPIRITUALISM, RELIGION AND POLITICS It is always possible that I will appear to be contradictory in many ways. That is what I have been telling you about Krishna – that he is a bundle of contradictions. There are any number of contradictions in me, and you will encounter them often. I accept the whole of life, and that is my humility. If sometimes I feel like being harsh, I don’t suppress it, I become harsh. I am not; there is no one to suppress anything. Similarly when I am humble, I am just humble. I don’t come in the way of anything. I allow whatever is there to be and to express itself as it is. There is no effort on my part to become anything – humble or arrogant. Therefore you will continue to be in confusion regarding me; it is not going to end. Who, as you conceive it, is enlightened? Will you not accept Krishna as enlightened? But Krishna confuses you as much as I do. At times he seems to be departing from his enlightenment. When he takes up arms to fight in the battle of Kurkshetra, it seems he has lost his steadiness, his wisdom. But what is our concept of enlightenment, of wisdom that is unshakeable? Does it mean that an enlightened person acts the way we think to be the right way? Does it mean that his wisdom has been steadied in the way we think it should be? No, steadfast wisdom does not mean wisdom that is inert and dead. It only means that one who has become enlightened, who has attained to the highest intelligence and wisdom allows this wisdom to act as it chooses. He is just a vehicle; he does not do a thing on his own. Such a person owns nothing, neither merit or demerit, neither virtue nor vice, neither respect nor disrespect. He does not say that what he does is right or wrong; he neither brags nor repents; now he does not look back on the past. He dies to every passing moment, and he lives in the moment at hand. He is not a doer; he just allows that which is, to happen. There is no one about him to oversee his spontaneity, to come in its way or decide for it. Now he is utterly choiceless. So it is possible that sometimes I may appear to you to be harsh; I cannot help it. When I am harsh I am harsh, and when I am soft I am so. I have altogether ceased to be anything on my own; I don’t insist any more that I should be this, that I should not be that. This is what I call steady wisdom. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 198 Osho
30 September 1970 pm in Question 1 CHAPTER 11 Draupadi: A Rare Woman QUESTIONER: DRAUPADI, WHO IS ALSO KNOWN AS KRISHNAA, HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO HARSH CRITICISM AND DETRACTION, BUT KRISHNA LOVES HER TREMENDOUSLY. PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HER IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR OWN TIME. As among men Krishna baffles our understanding, so does Draupadi among women. and how the critics look at Draupadi says more about the critics themselves than about Draupadi. What we see in others is only a reflection; others only serve as mirrors to us. We see in others only that which we want to see; in fact, we see what we are. We do nothing but project ourselves on the world. It is difficult to understand Draupadi. But our difficulty does not come from this great woman, it really emanates from us. Our ideas and beliefs, our desires and hopes come in our way of understanding Draupadi. To love five men together, to play wife to them at the same time is a great and arduous task. This needs to be understood rightly. Love does not have much to do with persons; it is a state of mind. And love that is confined to a single person is a poor love. Let us go into this question of love in depth. We all insist that one’s love should be confined to a single person – a man or a woman. If someone loves you, you want that he should love you and you alone, that he not share his love with another person. You would like to possess that person, to monopolize him or her. We not only want to 199
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30 September 1970 pm in<br />
Question 1<br />
CHAPTER 11<br />
Draupadi: A Rare Woman<br />
QUESTIONER: DRAUPADI, WHO IS ALSO KNOWN AS KRISHNAA, HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO<br />
HARSH CRITICISM AND DETRACTION, BUT KRISHNA LOVES HER TREMENDOUSLY. PLEASE<br />
SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HER IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR OWN TIME.<br />
As among men <strong>Krishna</strong> baffles our underst<strong>and</strong>ing, so does Draupadi among women. <strong>and</strong> how the<br />
critics look at Draupadi says more about the critics themselves than about Draupadi. What we see<br />
in others is only a reflection; others only serve as mirrors to us. We see in others only that which we<br />
want to see; in fact, we see what we are. We do nothing but project ourselves on the world.<br />
It is difficult to underst<strong>and</strong> Draupadi. But our difficulty does not <strong>com</strong>e from this great woman, it really<br />
emanates from us. Our ideas <strong>and</strong> beliefs, our desires <strong>and</strong> hopes <strong>com</strong>e in our way of underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
Draupadi.<br />
To love five men together, to play wife to them at the same time is a great <strong>and</strong> arduous task. This<br />
needs to be understood rightly. Love does not have much to do with persons; it is a state of mind.<br />
And love that is confined to a single person is a poor love. Let us go into this question of love in<br />
depth.<br />
We all insist that one’s love should be confined to a single person – a man or a woman. If someone<br />
loves you, you want that he should love you <strong>and</strong> you alone, that he not share his love with another<br />
person. You would like to possess that person, to monopolize him or her. We not only want to<br />
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