Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

him. Buddha was born a Hindu: Hindus will not accept him. This is how it hasalways been. Why? Because whenever a man like Jesus or Buddha is born, he issuch a rebellion that all that is established is shaken.An ordinary man lives in the past -- and for the ordinary man the past is moreimportant because the past is already established, grounded. He has much atstake in the past, much investment in the past. For example, if I suddenly cometo you and tell you that the way you have been praying is wrong, and you haveprayed that way for fifty years -- now there is much at stake. To believe me willbe to believe that your fifty years have been useless. To believe me will be todisbelieve fifty years of your own life; to believe me will be to believe that youhave been a fool for fifty years. This is too much! You will fight, you will defend.And when it is a question of a race.... Thousands of years the race has been doingcertain things, and then a Jesus comes and he throws things upside down.Everything is again a chaos. He melts all that is established, uproots all that wasthought to be very significant, creates confusion. He has to, because he has nowbrought you the right thing. But you have been believing that something elsewas right for so many centuries. What to choose -- Jesus or your own long past?What to choose -- Jesus or the tradition?Do you know from where the word `tradition' comes? It comes from the sameroot as the word `trade'. It also comes from the same root as the word `traitor'.Tradition is a trade, it is a business -- and tradition is also a betrayal.Tradition believes in certain things which are not true -- tradition is a traitor totruth -- so whenever truth comes, there is conflict. You can see this here. I amborn a Jain, but Jains won't accept me. Here you can find Christians, Jews,Mohammedans, Hindus, Buddhists, but very few Jains. Impossible for them toaccept me. HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN, BUT HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.Jains are too much against me. Hindus are not so much against me but they arealso, a little. But Christians -- no. Jews -- not at all. The further away you go, theless is the antagonism. I am born a Jain -- Jains are a small community,surrounded from everywhere by Hindus; Jains are almost Hindus -- so Jains willbe very antagonistic, Hindus a little less, and Mohammedans, Christians andJews not so much.The further away you go, the less will be the antagonism. Hence you canunderstand why so many people from so many countries are here and not somany Indians. With Indians there is a problem: their tradition is at stake. If theybelieve me, then their tradition -- they will have to lose it.That's why you will see more young people near me and less old people, becauseyoung people do not have much investment in their past. In fact, a young man islooking for the future, an old man looking after the past. A young man has afuture; an old man has only a past. The future means death: his whole life is past.So whenever a man of seventy comes to me, it is very difficult to change himbecause seventy years will be fighting me. When a small boy of seven comes, alittle Siddharth, there is nothing to fight. He can surrender absolutely, there isCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho