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CHAPTER 4. LIE DOWN AND WITNESSAnd this happened many times, because there was in those days a very strange tradition in Indiathat Indians themselves never look back. Perhaps they were afraid they may come across somethingugly; there is so much ugliness.He killed all the chhatriyas, but he did not kill the women because it was not a question of women.The issue was that some man was having an affair with his mother. So the women were left aswidows all over the country. The tradition was that any woman can go to a seer, a saint, ask him togive her a child and the saint cannot refuse. Great saints and great religions! So all these widowswent to saints; in fact they had to stand in queue because there were not so many saints as hadbeen created widows by Parasuram. But they all became pregnant by some saint. Perhaps theymay have invented saints just to become pregnant.Again young boys started growing and again Parasuram went on another round, killing the smallboys. He was determined that he would not leave a single warrior in the world. His world wasconfined fortunately to India only. Sixteen times he killed the warriors. But this country was full ofsaints – they were really a kind of bull. Just one bull can manage to make many cows pregnant. Youdon’t have to have many bulls for many cows. They don’t believe in monogamy – one cow, one bull.One bull is enough for the whole village. Just one saint was also enough. So although Parasuramkilled sixteen times, the warriors still continued. He could not delete them from existence.My problem is that Hindus still go on believing that he is an incarnation of God. If these people arean incarnation of God, then who are the criminals? Either animals or criminals, they have chosenstrange people... The fish is the first and the horse is the last. The horse has not come yet. That isthe last incarnation of God which will end this age, this civilization. So most probably within twelveyears you will see a white horse trotting around killing sinners, saving saints.I have been going through all the Hindu PURANAS and not a single purana even mentions this: thatyou are giving too much responsibility to a horse – he will judge.All these are ways of taking dignity from man. Before you can make a man a Christian or a Hindu,or a Mohammedan, you have to take away his dignity.My effort here is to take away everything that hinders your dignity to grow to its ultimate heights.I want you to be freed from all these gods they are your slavery, all these religions and all thesescriptures, they are your slavery. I want you to live in a silent and peaceful freedom of being, in tunewith existence, with joy and blissfulness, with gratitude and ecstasy.There is no question of worship at all and there is no question of any gods’ incarnation. In the firstplace the god does not exist himself. How can he have incarnations? It is just so obviously foolish.Hindus had ten incarnations before Mahavira. Their scriptures before Mahavira mention only tenincarnations, because of the ten fingers – to count more than that was a difficult job. And Hinduismis the most ancient religion. Religion came first; mathematics came centuries later, so ten was theonly ultimate number.But Mahavira, just to make the Hindus feel inferior, dropped the idea of ten. Jainism believes intwenty-four tirthankaras. They are equal to incarnations of God. Twenty-four...? – because thereare twenty-four hours in the day. Exactly like that there are twenty-four periods of one age – for oneperiod, one incarnation. And so they arrived at the idea of twenty-four.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 58 Osho
CHAPTER 4. LIE DOWN AND WITNESSBuddha was the founder of his own religion. He was in a difficulty. So he managed this idea oftwenty-four previous lives, just not to be inferior in any sense to Mahavira. Hindus immediatelychanged their number. After Mahavira all Hindu scriptures talk about twenty-four reincarnations.What happened to the ten incarnations suddenly? God changed his mind? It was a questionof comparison. Jainas have twenty-four tirthankaras, buddhas have twenty-four incarnations ofBuddha. Hindus looked so poor, with just ten incarnations of God, and so they immediately raisedthe number. It is just imagination, so you can play with it the way you want. After Buddha andMahavira all scriptures completely forgot about ten incarnations.I mention this point to show you that it is all imagination. How did ten become twenty-four? It wasjust because it looked inferior in the marketplace. Everybody has twenty-four and you have onlyten. Such a poor god! And because it is all imagination, it is very easy to make it twenty-four. Nowall the three religions have twenty-four. Buddha closed his door. He is the last buddha in the lineof twenty-four buddhas. Mahavira closed the door. He is the last tirthankara in the line of twentyfourtirthankaras. Hindus had to keep at least one reincarnation still in the future because of theirmythology.Their mythology is that God has three heads. The first head is Brahma, who creates the world; thesecond head is Vishnu, who maintains the world; the third head is Shiva who destroys the world.It is perfect mathematics. And because the world is still there, there has to be one incarnation leftto end it. And perhaps in the coming twenty years of this century, whether Kalki comes or not, theworld is going down. Between the fish and Kalki lies our whole history.I would like Avirbhava to bring her fish god....(FROM THE RIGHT ENTRANCE OF THE PODIUM, TWO VERY ORNATE FISH COMESWIMMING IN. MEANWHILE, A HUGE GREY DOLPHIN GLIDES DOWN FROM THE PAGODAROOF OF THE PODIUM AND WRIGGLES IN A VERY FISHY DANCE IN FRONT OF OSHO. FISH,DOLPHIN, MUSIC, LAUGHTER... ALL DIVE, SOAR AND LEAP IN ONE EXPLOSION OF PUREJOY.)An introductory note for the sutras:HYAKUJO WAS KNOWN FOR HIS SIMPLE WORDS, BUT HE HAD A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGEOF BUDDHISM. HE WAS CLEVER AND GENTLE AT THE SAME TIME; THERE WAS NOTHINGOSTENTATIOUS ABOUT HIM.MANY DISCIPLES BEGAN TO GATHER AROUND HIM, AND ENDLESS DISCUSSIONS TOOKPLACE WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOLLOWING ONE UPON ANOTHER. AMONG THEMOST FAMOUS OF HIS DISCIPLES WERE ISAN AND OBAKU.The sutra:ONE DAY WHEN HYAKUJO WAS TO GIVE HIS DAILY DISCOURSES TO HIS DISCIPLES, HEBEGAN BY SAYING, ”I AM NO ZEN ADEPT. I HAVE NOT A SINGLE THING TO OFFER ANYONE,SO I MUST NOT KEEP YOU STANDING HERE. GO AND TAKE A REST.”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 59 Osho
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