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primal. There must be some deep-rooted problem involved. We must go andask." So they went down.They stopped the laborer who was pulling the barrow behind him and thepsychoanalyst said, "Please, just help us to discover something very deep-rootedin you. Eleven persons are pushing their barrows in front of themselves; onlyyou are pulling your barrow. There must be some explanation for it. Somethingtremendously traumatic must have happened in your childhood, a deeprepression, obsession, compulsion -- some complex. Please tell us somethingabout it. What do you feel? "The laborer looked at them and said, "Blimey, guv'nor, I just hates the sight of thething, that's all. That's why I'm carrying it behind." Just HATES the sight of thething!Krishna Radha, there is nothing to it, you are just a woman. Go beyond it. Manhas to go beyond his manhood and woman has to go beyond her womanhood.And when you are neither man nor woman, then you will be able to allow myglance to reach to the deepest core of your being. Then you will be able to openyour doors. Then my knock will not go unanswered.Question 3SURELY THAT WHICH HAPPENS IN THE INSTANT OF DEATH BYDROWNING IS THE TRUE EXPLANATION OF JESUS' BAPTISM AT THEHANDS OF JOHN. WAS NOT THE SKILL AND STRENGTH OF THE BAPTISTTHAT OF TAKING A MAN TO THAT POINT, AND THE PREPARATION YOUTALK OF BEFOREHAND EMPLOYED SO THAT A MAN BE TRANSFORMEDBY THE EXPERIENCE RATHER THAN TERRIFIED BY IT?Yes, exactly so. The baptism is possible only when you are ready to die. That isthe symbolic meaning: that John the Baptist used to take his disciples to the riverwhen they were ready to die, when they were ready to let go, when they wereready to flow with the river. When the resistance was broken, when they were nolonger fighting, when the whole struggle to survive had disappeared, only thenwould he take them to the river. They were ready to be drowned by him, to bemurdered by him.There is a story I would like to tell you about a Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid. He wasgoing towards the river one day to take his morning bath. A seeker followed himand asked him, "Please, just wait for one minute. You look so filled with thedivine, but I don't even feel a desire for it. You look so mad and just watchingyou I have come to feel that there must be something in it. You are so happy andblissful and I am so miserable, but even the desire to seek the divine is not there.So what to do? How to create the desire? "Farid looked at the man and said, "You come with me. I am going to take mymorning bath. You also take a bath with me in the river and maybe, right whileCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho
you are taking a bath, the answer can be given. Otherwise we will see after thebath. You come with me."The man became a little puzzled. This Sheikh Farid looked a little mad: whiletaking a bath how was he going to answer? But nobody knows the ways of themystics, so the man followed.They both went into the river and when the man was taking a dip, Farid jumpedon him and pressed him down in the river. The man started feeling restless.What type of answer was this? At first he thought Farid was joking, but then itbecame dangerous. He was not going to leave him! He struggled hard.Farid was a very heavy, strong man and the seeker was very thin -- as seekersare. But when your life is at stake.... Even that thin-looking man threw Farid off,jumped on him and said, "Are you a murderer? What are you doing? I am a poorman. I have just come to ask you how the desire can arise in one's heart to seekthe divine and you were going to kill me!"Farid said, "Wait. A few questions first. When I was pressing you down in theriver and you were suffocating, how many thoughts were in your mind?"The man said, "How many? Only one thought -- how to get back to the air to takea breath."Farid asked, "How long did that one thought stay?"The man said, "That, too, did not stay long because my life was at stake. You canafford thinking when nothing is at stake. Life was in danger -- even that thoughtdisappeared. Then to come out of the river was not a thought; it was my wholebeing."Farid said, "You have understood. This is the answer. If you are feelingsuffocated in this world, pressed from all sides, and if you feel nothing is goingto happen in this world except death, then the desire to seek truth or God, orwhatsoever you name it, will arise. And that, too, will not last long. By and bythat desire is no more a desire, it becomes your being. The very thirst becomesyour being."I have shown you the path," said Farid. "Now you can go."Just try to understand the whole situation in the world. If it is already destroyingyou, jump out of it. The real question is not how to seek God; the real question ishow to understand that where you are thinking life is, there is no life but onlydeath.John the Baptist, or anybody who has ever baptized anybody else, who has everinitiated anybody else, who has ever brought anybody to the world of truth outof the world of dreams, has to prepare you for death. Yes, that is the meaning. Bybaptism he was saying, "Your old self has gone down the river; you are no morethe same. A new identity has arisen; now you have a new nucleus. Functionthrough it and don't function through the past."The same has been done through initiation by fire. In India initiation by fire, notby water, has been used traditionally. There have been a few side-currents thathave been using water baptism also, but the main current in India has been usingCome 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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Page 21 and 22: Ramakrishna functioned more freely
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Page 43 and 44: So first let God descend in you. Th
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Remember, he was killed by very goo
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happy with your father, come and be
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If you are afraid to go to a place
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This is the key message of Jesus: t
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done something wrong or not is irre
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I cannot prove it to you, I cannot
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It is already the whole. Nothing ex
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looks sad, very sad. You are sad an
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Always look at them as great artist
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Ordinarily your mind will agree wit
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When Jesus comes -- a man of consci
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WHY DO YOU ALWAYS TELL US TO BE HAP
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The hero said, "There is something
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That's why a man like Jesus is so h
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Hence, religion. Religion is nothin
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If a guest comes to your house and
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Jesus knows: he says, "I am homeles
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worldly father you don't attain to
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When you start teaching you are not
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deep down one should live in renoun
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He cried. For a moment he even beca
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it will try to again reclaim the fa
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