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painted, more and more personalities will gather around, and the essence will belost. Then you become ugly. Truth and grace are always together. Truth is grace,and grace is truth.The gospel catches the exact point of Jesus' being: truth and grace. He was true,profoundly true to the very core -- utmost, utterly true. That's how he got intotrouble. To live with a society which is absolutely untrue, to live with it withutter truthfulness, is to get into trouble.And the grace. He was not a politician and he was not a priest. He simply lovedlife and lived it. He was not here to preach anything: he had no dogma toinculcate, he had no ideas to force on people. In fact, he lived a pure, graceful,flowing life, and he was infectious. With whomsoever he moved -- whomsoevercame into contact with him was magnetized, hypnotized. This man was a child,an innocent child. People were attracted. People left their houses, their jobs: theysimply started following him.He was not a preacher, he was not giving any political revolution to the world,he was not giving any reformation to the world. He was just giving you a way tolive flowingly. And that was the trouble -- because Jews are one of the mostsuppressed races in the world. Very suppressive. moralistic, puritans. Thatbecame the troublesome thing. They live by principles. They live by the law, andthe law has to be followed.Of course, they are very successful people in the world. If you live by the lawyou will be very successful. If you live by love, you are bound to be a failure. It ismiserable, unfortunate, but it is so: law succeeds, love fails -- in the world. InGod: love succeeds, law fails -- but who bothers about God?Jews are very lawful, very good citizens, and wherever they move they arealways successful because they always move by the law. They live by arithmetic.That is why they get most of the Nobel prizes in the world. Nobody can competewith them. Very talented -- in business they are successful, in politics;whatsoever they do, they do exactly the right thing. But they are very formalisticpuritans, in a deep bondage with the mind. A deep hangover in the mindcontinues.And Jesus started talking about law. The gospel says:AND OF HIS FULLNESS HAVE ALL WE RECEIVED, AND GRACE FORGRACE.FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES, BUT GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BYJESUS CHRIST.THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES. Moses is the foundation of Judaism. Ofcourse it was needed because unless law is established, love will not be possible.Law is a must, it is a necessity, but it is not enough.Moses gave the law to the world. The people were primitive, uncultured; theyhad no sense of society. Moses created a society, and one of the most enduringCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho