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Chapter 4 - This harvest moon
But Rajendra Anuragi is not to go back. Going back is very cowardly. And all these threats
-- they have not taken the house, they have not cut the telephone -- all these threats are simply so that his wife becomes afraid. She has had a heart attack, she has been hospitalized, the children must be worried -- naturally the government must be thinking that Rajendra Anuragi, seeing the situation, will come back.
For a courageous man, no situation exists which can change his mind. He has come here and if the government wants the house -- although it is illegal, he is only on leave -- they can take the house, they can take the telephone and the electricity and the water, but not before his retirement.
But they cannot threaten a man ... This is how the crowd goes on threatening everybody and keeps everybody as sheep. Religions force you to be sheep. All the religions want followers, but this place is for the masters. Here is no crowd, but an assembly of lions, just meeting together. A few lions are asleep ...
(THERE IS A LOUD BELLY LAUGH FROM SARDAR GURUDAYAL
SINGH.) It does not matter, it's just an old habit. They will wake up when they will hear Sardar Gurudayal Singh.
I don't want you to be a follower, I want you to be yourself, absolutely, categorically. Only then you can find your buddhahood. It is not something that comes from outside or from tradition, it is something that has to be discovered within yourself.
At the most, the master can be a help. But the master is not a necessity. And I have to remind you, the master can also become a hindrance, because you may start thinking that because you have a master you don't have to do anything, the master will take care. There are people who are saying this.
Jesus goes on saying, "Believe in me" -- don't believe in yourself -- "Believe in me and I will take care."
Krishna says, "Believe in me and I will take care. Whenever there is some
problem I will come back." Five thousand years have passed and there have been problems and problems and I am waiting to see the guy come back! But not even a postcard! He has not left even a phone number! These people have deceived millions of people for thousands of years. People become believers, they think that that's all that is needed of them.
So in a sense a master can be a hindrance -- if he promises you, "I will do anything for you." You have to find a master like me who is so lazy ... I can promise you: I will never do anything for you! I don't do anything for myself either.
But there are times when I need to hit you. I had to call back from Germany a solid stonehead; he is sitting there with his staff. But I don't order him to hit, because a German hit can be dangerous. Rather than making you enlightened it may make you hospitalized, because Germans don't know that these Japanese masters were not really hitting, they were just using very light bamboos. I have never heard that anybody's head was broken or that anybody got a fracture, so naturally I conclude that those hits were just playful.
Osho - The Miracle 56
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