Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

mind may be needed. But when you come across a Jesus or a Buddha the mindfalls flat, it bogs down. SOMETHING is too much for it. You cannot think aboutanything, you are as if in a deep shock -- and yet the shock is blissful. That isawe.The Bible has awe in it -- the quality of putting your mind completely at a stop --but that you will have to reach directly. The missionary, the priest, the bishop,they destroy because they start interpreting. They put their minds in it and theirminds are mediocre. It is as if you are looking at a tremendously beautiful thingfrom the mind of a very stupid man. Or you are looking into a mirror that isbroken, completely broken -- it has gathered rust, nothing can be mirroredperfectly -- and you look in the mirror and see the moon. Distorted. That is howit has been happening.The Bible is one of the greatest events in the world -- very pure, purer than theBhagavad Gita because the Bhagavad Gita is very refined. The people whocreated it were very cultured and educated, and of course whenever a thingbecomes very refined it becomes ethereal, unearthly. The Bible is rooted in theearth.All the prophets of the Bible are people of the earth. Even Jesus moves on theearth; he is the son of a carpenter, uneducated, not knowing anything aboutaesthetics, poetics -- nothing. If he speaks poetry, it is because he IS, not knowingit at all, a poet. His poetry is raw and wild.Jesus has something of the peasant in him: the wisdom without knowledge. He isnot a man of knowledge; no university would be willing to confer an honorarydegree on him, no. He wouldn't fit in at Oxford or Cambridge; he would lookvery foolish in the gowns and clown-like caps. He would look very foolish; hewouldn't fit. He belongs to the earth, to the village, to ordinary, plain people.Just the other night I was reading a small story, an Arabian story. A man died.He had seventeen camels and three sons and he left a will in which, when it wasopened and read, it was said that one half of the camels should go to the first son,one third to the second and one ninth to the third.The sons were nonplussed -- what to do? Seventeen camels: one half is to go tothe first son -- is one to cut one camel in two? And that too won't solve muchbecause then one third has to go to the second. That too won't solve much: oneninth has to go to the third. Almost all the camels would be killed.Of course, they went to the man of the town who was most knowledgeable: theMulla -- the pundit, the scholar, the mathematician. He thought hard, he triedhard, but he couldn't find any solution because mathematics is mathematics. Hesaid, "I have never divided camels in my life, this whole thing seems to befoolish. But you will have to cut them. If the will is to be followed exactly thenthe camels have to be cut, they have to be divided."The sons were not ready to cut the camels. So what to do? Then somebodysuggested, "It is better that you go to someone who knows something aboutcamels, not about mathematics." So they went to the sheikh of the town who wasCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho