Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

The Upanishads can feel poor, the Vedas can be jealous:IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD.What does it mean when the gospel says IN THE BEGINNING? Christians havebeen interpreting it as if IN THE BEGINNING means that there was a beginning.They have been using and interpreting these words 'IN THE BEGINNING' as ifthey show something about the beginning of time. But without time how canthere be a beginning? To begin, time will be needed in the first place. If time wasnot in existence, then what do you mean by IN THE BEGINNING?IN THE BEGINNING is part of time and cannot precede time, so IN THEBEGINNING does not mean that there was a day when God created the world.That's absolutely foolish. IN THE BEGINNING is just a way of talking. IN THEBEGINNING does not mean in the beginning at all, because there has never beena beginning -- and there can be no end. God is eternal, His creativity is eternal. Ithas always been so and it will always be so.Because of these words 'IN THE BEGINNING' much controversy has continuedfor centuries. There have even been foolish priests and bishops who have tried tofix the exact date: four thousand four years before Christ, on a certain Monday,the world started. And what was God doing before that? Eternity must havepreceded it -- four thousand years is nothing. What was he doing before that?Not doing anything at all? Then why suddenly on a certain date did he start theCreation?It has been a problem, but the problem arises because of a wrong interpretation.No, IN THE BEGINNING is just a way of speaking. One has to start fromsomewhere, the gospel has to begin from somewhere. Life is eternity, life neverstarts from anywhere, but every story has to start and every scripture has to start.Arbitrarily they have to choose a certain word and you could not choose better:IN THE BEGINNING. IN THE BEGINNING simply says that we don't know.But from the very beginning, if there was any beginning, God has been creative.Let me try to say it in a different way: God IS creativity. You can even drop theword 'God'. In fact the gospel itself does not want to use the word 'God'. IN THEBEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, ANDTHE WORD WAS GOD.IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD. What word are you talking about, whatis this word? Somebody who has known truth knows well that to name God isfutile: there is no name, no definition -- and all words are small, they cannotcontain the whole. THE WORD is again simply a way of indicating the nameless,the unknown. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD.Jews, who preceded Jesus, of whom Jesus was the very culmination.... The Judaicspirit came to a fulfillment in Jesus. Of course they denied Jesus; that is anotherstory. Sometimes it happens that somebody amongst you attains to thefulfillment of the whole race, but the fulfillment is so vast and so great and youare so low that you cannot believe it; you have to deny it.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho