Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

JOHN, THE SIMON PETER, MARY MAGDALEN, EVEN JUDAS AND THEREST OF THE GANG. COULD THIS ALL BE A LIVE-ACTION REPLAY?It is. They are all here. They have to be -- because the gang leader is here! Andnothing ever changes, all changes are superficial. Deep down, humanity remainsthe same.It is natural. I'm not condemning it; I'm not saying that anything is wrong in it. Ithas to be so; that's the way it is. When Jesus comes, the Doubting Thomases arebound to be there.When people who trust come, people who can't trust also come. They create acontrast. And it is good, otherwise your trust will not be of much value. Itbecomes precious because of the Doubting Thomases around. You can compare,you can feel. You can see what doubt is, what trust is.The weeds will also come when you plant a garden. The weeds are also part.When a Jesus comes, the Judas is bound to be there because the whole thing is sotremendously significant that somebody is bound to betray it. It has such a greatheight that somebody is bound to feel very much hurt by it. The ego.Judas was hurt very much. And he was not a bad man, remember. In fact, he wasthe only one amongst all of Jesus' disciples who was well-educated, cultured,belonged to a sophisticated society and family. He was, of course, the mostegoistic. The others were just fishermen, farmers, carpenters -- people like that,ordinary people, from the ordinary rung of society.Judas was special. And whenever somebody feels special there is trouble. Hewanted to guide even Jesus. Many times he tried. And if you listen to him, thereis a possibility that you will be more convinced by Judas than by Jesus.It happened: Jesus came to visit the home of Mary Magdalen. Mary was deeplyin love. She poured precious, very precious, perfume on his feet -- the wholebottle. It was rare perfume; it could have been sold.Judas immediately objected. He said, "You should prohibit people from doingsuch nonsense. The whole thing is wasted, and in town there are people who arepoor and who don't have anything to eat. We could have distributed the moneyto poor people."He looks like a socialist -- a forerunner of Marx. Mao, Lenin, Trotsky, all wouldagree with him.What did Jesus say? He said, "You don't be worried about it. The poor and thehungry will always be here, but I will be gone. You can serve them always andalways -- there is no hurry -- but I will be gone. Look at the love, not at theprecious perfume. Look at Mary's love, her heart."With whom will you agree? Jesus seems to be very bourgeois and Judas seems tobe perfectly economical. Judas is talking about the poor and Jesus simply says, "Itis okay. I will be gone soon, so let her welcome me as she would like. Let herheart do whatsoever she wants and don't bring your philosophy in. Poor peoplewill always be there; I will not be here always. I am only here for a tiny while."Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho