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CHAPTER 4. RELIGION HAS NO HISTORY, IT IS ETERNAL to whether you are a kshatriya or a brahmin, whether you are going to fight or you are going to renounce the world and take sannyas. You have to be clear and decisive about your basic role in life. Indecision splits one into fragments, and fragmentation leads to confusion and conflict, to grief and disintegration. Then you will disintegrate, you will perish.” The word sanshaya in the GEETA has been taken to mean doubt, and therein lies the whole confusion and mistake. I am in support of doubt, but I don’t support indecision. I say it is good to doubt, that skepticism is necessary. And Krishna, too, would not deny skepticism. He stands by skepticism, and that is why he asks Arjuna to put his questions again and again. To raise a question means to raise one’s doubts. But at the same time Krishna warns him against indecision. He tells Arjuna not to be indecisive, not to remain in conflict and confusion. He should not be incapable of deciding what he should do and what he should not do. He should not get bogged down in the quagmire of either-or, either to be or not to be. Soren Kierkegaard was an important thinker of the last century. He wrote a book with the title, ”Either-Or”. Not only did he write a book with this title, his whole life was the embodiment of this phrase, either-or. People in Copenhagen, his birthplace, forgot his real name and called him only ”Either-Or”. When he passed through the streets of his town they said to one another, ”Here goes Either-Or.” He would stand a long while at a crossroad, thinking whether he should turn to the right or to the left. After inserting a key in the lock he took long to decide which way to turn it. Soren Kierkegaard was in deep love with a woman named Regina. When Regina proposed to him, for his whole life he could not decide whether to marry her or not to marry her. This is indecisiveness, not doubt. Krishna admonishes Arjuna not to fall prey to indecisiveness, because it will destroy him. Whosoever becomes a prisoner of indecision inevitably falls to pieces, because indecision divides one into contradictory fragments, a sure way to disintegration and ruin. Integration is health, and it comes with decisiveness. If you have ever taken a clear decision in your life you must have immediately become integrated in that moment. The bigger the decision, the greater the integration. And if one comes to a total decision in life, he has a will of his own, he becomes one, he attains to a togetherness, to yoga, to unio mystica. All of Krishna’s effort is directed toward eradicating indecisiveness, it has nothing to do with doubt. He says, ”Doubt fully, but never remain indecisive.” I am fully in favor of doubt. Doubt you must. Go on using the chisel of doubt until the statue of trust becomes manifest. Keep chiseling from the rock, with the hammer of doubt, the foreign elements that have entered your nature, until you eliminate the last of them and nothing remains to be eliminated. Then the statue of trust will appear in its full splendor. But remember, if you continue to use the hammer of doubt even after the statue has manifested, you will injure the statue, you will hurt your own being. Trust is the ultimate product of doubt, and insanity is the ultimate result of indecision. An indecisive person will end up insane; he will disintegrate and perish. If you understand it in this light, you will understand what Krishna means to say. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 82 Osho
27 September 1970 pm in Question 1 CHAPTER 5 Follow No One but Yourself QUESTIONER: WHAT WERE THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS OF HIS TIMES THAT MADE IT NECESSARY FOR A SOUL LIKE KRISHNA’S TO TAKE BIRTH AMONG US? PLEASE EXPLAIN. All times and all conditions are good enough for a consciousness like his does not depend on any social and political conditions. Such a soul is not at all dependent on time. People who are asleep and unconscious depend on certain conditions for being born. No awakened person takes birth in a time which he may call his time; on the contrary, he molds time in his own way. Time follows him; he does not follow time. It is the unawakened ones, the unconscious people who come in the wake of time and go on trailing behind it. But we always think Krishna was born to respond to the needs of the times, because the times were bad, because the times were terrible. But this kind of thinking is basically wrong: it means that even a man like Krishna comes as a link in the chain of cause and effect. And it shows that we reduce even the birth of Krishna into a utilitarian item. It means we see Krishna as serving out interests. We cannot see him in any other way. It is as if a flower blooms by the wayside and a passerby thinks it has bloomed for his sake and that its fragrance is meant for him. Maybe he writes in his diary that wherever he goes flowers bloom to perfume his path. But flowers bloom even in secluded places where humans never go. Flowers bloom for the sheet joy of blooming; they don’t bloom with the purpose of pleasing others. If someone happens to partake of their fragrance, it is quite a different matter. 83
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Question 1<br />
CHAPTER 5<br />
Follow No One but Yourself<br />
QUESTIONER: WHAT WERE THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS OF HIS<br />
TIMES THAT MADE IT NECESSARY FOR A SOUL LIKE KRISHNA’S TO TAKE BIRTH AMONG<br />
US? PLEASE EXPLAIN.<br />
All times <strong>and</strong> all conditions are good enough for a consciousness like his does not depend on any<br />
social <strong>and</strong> political conditions. Such a soul is not at all dependent on time. People who are asleep<br />
<strong>and</strong> unconscious depend on certain conditions for being born. No awakened person takes birth in a<br />
time which he may call his time; on the contrary, he molds time in his own way. Time follows him; he<br />
does not follow time. It is the unawakened ones, the unconscious people who <strong>com</strong>e in the wake of<br />
time <strong>and</strong> go on trailing behind it.<br />
But we always think <strong>Krishna</strong> was born to respond to the needs of the times, because the times were<br />
bad, because the times were terrible. But this kind of thinking is basically wrong: it means that even<br />
a man like <strong>Krishna</strong> <strong>com</strong>es as a link in the chain of cause <strong>and</strong> effect. And it shows that we reduce<br />
even the birth of <strong>Krishna</strong> into a utilitarian item. It means we see <strong>Krishna</strong> as serving out interests.<br />
We cannot see him in any other way.<br />
It is as if a flower blooms by the wayside <strong>and</strong> a passerby thinks it has bloomed for his sake <strong>and</strong><br />
that its fragrance is meant for him. Maybe he writes in his diary that wherever he goes flowers<br />
bloom to perfume his path. But flowers bloom even in secluded places where humans never go.<br />
Flowers bloom for the sheet joy of blooming; they don’t bloom with the purpose of pleasing others.<br />
If someone happens to partake of their fragrance, it is quite a different matter.<br />
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