Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

are healthy. Remember that the reverse is not true. That's why in the next sutraJesus says:BUT GO YE AND LEARN WHAT THAT MEANETH...He said, "This is the truth: sinners are bound to seek me and sick people arebound to come to me. I am a physician of their soul. Those who are healthy, I amnot for them; they need not come. BUT GO YE AND LEARN WHAT THATMEANETH; it is not simple. Go and meditate over it. You may be ill yourself andyou need me, but you have just been thinking that you are not ill."The greatest illness that can happen to a man is when he is ill and thinks that heis not ill. Then nobody can cure him, then no medicine will help him. Then thephysician may be next door, but the man will die uncured. This is the greatestmisfortune that can befall a man: to be sick and to think himself healthy.BUT GO YE AND LEARN WHAT THAT MEANETH,I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE:This is one of the most significant sayings that Jesus has ever uttered. This is hiswhole secret: I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE. Mahavir is not somerciful, Mohammed not so merciful, even the compassionate Buddha is not somerciful as Jesus; because they all say that you will have to sacrifice, you willhave to change your ways and you will have to account for your past karmas.In India we have talked about compassion long enough, but we havecontinuously been talking about karma. One has to keep all accounts andwhatever bad deeds you have done, you will have to cancel them by good deeds.You will have to come to a balance; only then can the accounts be closed. This iswhat Jesus means by sacrifice.He says: I WILL HAVE MERCY. This is his key secret. What does he mean whenhe says: I will have mercy? He means that it is almost impossible for you tocancel all the bad karmas that you have committed because the whole thing istremendous, vast. Millions of lives you have been doing things and all that youhave done has been wrong, has to be wrong, because you have beenunconscious. How can you do anything good while unconscious? You have donemillions of things, but all are wrong.While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible inunconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin. Youhave done so many sins that it seems almost impossible. How will you get out ofthis? -- the very effort doesn't seem probable, the very effort seems hopeless.Jesus says, "Mercy will do it. Just surrender to me," Jesus says, "and I will havemercy." What does he mean? He simply means that "If you can trust me, andtrust that you have been forgiven, you are forgiven" -- because all those karmashave been committed in an unconscious sleep. You are not responsible for them.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho