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AND HE SAID UNTO ANOTHER, FOLLOW ME. To one who has not saidanything he says, "Follow me."BUT HE SAID, LORD, SUFFER ME FIRST TO GO AND BURY MY FATHER.To the other man Jesus said, "Follow me" -- and the man had not asked. But theman was more ready, the man was more prepared, the man was more mature.Just a few days before, a Dutch woman came to me. A very simple and goodheartedwoman, in fact too good-hearted. Even good-heartedness can become adisease if it is too much. She comes to me again and again, and she writes notesand letters that she cannot tolerate poverty. When she goes to her hotel she meetsbeggars on the road and she cries and weeps, she feels guilty and she suffersmuch. She cannot meditate -- even in meditation, those beggars' faces come. Shethinks that it is selfishness to meditate while there is so much poverty.A very good-hearted woman, but not mature. Simple, good -- but childish.I told her, "You do either of two things. Go and first remove the poverty from theworld and then come -- if time is left and I am here. First remove the poverty andthen come and meditate so you don't feel guilty. Or, if you think that isimpossible, then drop the idea. Meditate, and out of your meditation, whatsoeverhelp you can give to people, give."Then she became worried about sannyas. She wanted to take it and yet wasafraid -- her Christian upbringing. Then she came again and she said, "There is aproblem. My father has been very good to me. He has taught me how to be. Nowif I take sannyas I will be betraying my father: his teachings. But if I don't takesannyas it is a constant haunting around me that I should move into it so I can betransformed."I said, "You decide either way."That too she couldn't decide. Then one day she came and she was very worriedso I told her, "One thing is certain now: that even if you ask for sannyas, I am notgoing to give it to you. So you be at rest now. I'm not going to give you sannyas."Since then I have seen her -- she has not come to see me, but she is here. Now sheseems to be worried -- I can watch her face -- that if she comes to me for sannyas,I will not give sannyas to her.Good, but immature. Commitment can only be out of maturity. A certainripeness is needed.And Jesus SAID UNTO ANOTHER, FOLLOW ME -- but that man's father haddied. He could not contain himself: that's why he may have come to see Jesus onthe road. He was passing by the village, his father was Lying dead, and he said,LORD, SUFFER ME FIRST TO GO AND BURY MY FATHER.This is a very symbolic situation: the father who has given birth to the body isdead, and another father is present who can give birth to the soul. The questionis between the soul and the body, the question is between life and death. From aCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho
worldly father you don't attain to life. In fact, you are born to die, you are born todeath.The father is dead. The man said, "Suffer me, Lord, to go and bury my father -- aformality, but let me do it."JESUS SAID UNTO HIM -- one of the most poignant, penetrating sayings ofJesus -- LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD: BUT GO THOU AND PREACHTHE KINGDOM OF GOD.It looks a little harsh, it does not show compassion. The father is Lying dead andthe son is expected to bury him. It is a formality: a social mannerism and a duty.But Jesus said, LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD. Jesus said, "In the villagethere are many dead people. They will do that. You don't be worried about it.There is no need for you to go."The symbolic meaning is that one who moves into religion need not bother aboutduties, morality, forma]ities, because morality is a lower religion, duty is a lowerreligion, formality is part of the personality. When you attain to religion, you candrop all morality because you will be fulfilling something deeper and higher.Now there is no need to carry mannerisms, no need to carry social etiquettes."There are enough dead people in the town who will do it, and who will do ithappily. You don't be worried about it. Let the dead bury the dead; you go andpreach the kingdom of God."What manner of man is this Jesus? Some man's father is lying dead and he wantsto make him a preacher of the king dom of God? Is this the moment to go andbecome a preacher of God?But it is symbolic. He's saying, "Don't be worried about death, be worried aboutGod. And don't be worried about the father who gave birth to your body; thinkabout the father, go and preach about the father, who has given your soul toyou."BUT GO THOU AND PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD. In a way. if youwatch the death of anybody who has been very intimate to you -- a father, amother, a wife, a husband, a friend who has been very intimate to you and isdead -- only in that moment is conversion towards God possible. If you miss thatmoment, you will again be in the mess of the world.Death gives you a shock. Nothing can give you a shock like that -- death is thegreatest shock. If that shock does not make you awake then you are incurable,impossible. Jesus used that moment. He is one of the greatest artists who hasever walked on the earth, the greatest alchemist.The situation is death. The father is Lying dead in the home, the family must becrying and weeping -- this is no time to go and preach the kingdom of God. Itlooks absurd, looks harsh. Jesus looks too hard.He is not. It is because of his compassion that he says this. He knows that if thismoment of death is missed -- in burying the dead body -- then there will be noCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho
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Come Follow To You, Vol 1Reflection
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Hence I have chosen to talk on Chri
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Christ rose high. Jews had been wai
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you assert so silently that even yo
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enlightened. You are full of light
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him. Buddha was born a Hindu: Hindu
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can become flesh, it can be uttered
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painted, more and more personalitie
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These two lawgivers have created th
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Come Follow To You, Vol 1Chapter #2
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Ramakrishna functioned more freely
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And if you love me I know that you
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That's the problem. You ask, "Why d
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And when God happens, everything ha
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cannot easily become an atheist and
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Suddenly his whole science disappea
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The enemies asked, "Why have you co
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REPENT: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN I
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What are you doing -- repenting? Yo
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If you repent, conversion happens.
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So first let God descend in you. Th
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the innermost revolution that he wa
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In the last days of his life, befor
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Jesus is peace, silence. He is not
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so direct, God is very indirect. He
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ody may be there, tremendously beau
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an old man, uneducated but wise thr
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oats together and they are moving i
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you are taking a bath, the answer c
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Watch people who think of committin
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toes, it will not go to your whole
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why I insist: drop a little out of
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If I can get it down and look at it
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they don't have their own eyes; the
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It is said that travellers in forei
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presence is second. Sariputta would
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intelligence, the more possibility
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Only if God is enthroned in you --
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tuned to the inner. She always clos
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move, and you can forget that anyth
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Wagner said, "Because I was unhappy
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afraid. Maybe you talk about freedo
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achieve anything. Don't try to beco
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