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1、From Unconciousness to ConsciousnessAnswers to the Seekers on the PathTalks given from 30/10/84 pm to 28/11/84 pmEnglish Discourse series30 ChaptersYear published: 1984Originally published as The Rajneesh Bible Volume 1. Title changed 1991.From Unconciousness to ConsciousnessChapter #1Chapter title:
2、 Silence, the Pull of the Innermost Zero30 October 1984 pm in Lao Tzu GroveArchive code: 8410305ShortTitle: UNCONC01Audio: YesVideo: YesLength: 97 minsQuestion 1BELOVED OSHO,WHY DO YOU CALL YOUR RELIGION THE FIRST AND THE LAST RELIGION?It is a little difficult for me to speak again. It has been diff
3、icult always, because I have been trying to speak the unspeakable. Now it is even more so.After one thousand, three hundred and fifteen days of silence, it feels as if I am coming to you from a totally different world. In fact it is so. The world of words, language, concepts, and the world of silenc
4、e are so diametrically opposite to each other, they dont meet anywhere. They cant meet by their very nature. Silence means a state of wordlessness; and to speak now, it is as if to learn language again from ABC. But this is not a new experience for me; it has happened before too.For thirty years I h
5、ave been speaking continually. It was such a tension because my whole being was pulled towards silence, and I was pulling myself towards words, language, concepts, philosophies. There was no other way to convey, and I had a tremendously important message to convey. There was no way to shirk the resp
6、onsibility. I had tried it. The day I realized my own being, it was such a fulfillment that I became silent. There was nothing left to be asked.One of my professors in the university, who was a world renowned man, Doctor S.K.Saxena - he had been a professor of philosophy in America for many years -
7、again and again used to ask me to ask him some question. And those were the days when I was so fulfilled and so content, there was no question, no quest left.So I used to say to him, I have answers; I dont have any questions.He used to laugh and say that I am crazy: How can you have answers without
8、questions?I insisted to him, While you have questions you will never have answers. Unless your questioning drops away you will not find the answer. And it does not come in the form of an answer, but it answers all; not answering any particular question but simply answering all questions - possible,
9、impossible, probable, improbable.After my enlightenment, for exactly one thousand, three hundred and fifteen days I tried to remain silent - as much as it was possible in those conditions. For a few things I had to speak, but my speaking was telegraphic. My father was very angry with me. He loved me
10、 so much that he had every right to be angry. The day he had sent me to the university he had taken a promise from me that I would write one letter every week at least. When I became silent I wrote him the last letter and told him, I am happy, immensely happy, ultimately happy, and I know from my ve
11、ry depth of being that I will remain so now forever, whether in the body or not in the body. This bliss is something of the eternal. So now every week, if you insist, I can write the same again and again. That will not look okay, but I have promised, so I will drop a card every week with the sign di
12、tto. Please forgive me, and when you receive my letter with the sign ditto, you read this letter.He thought I had gone completely mad. He immediately rushed from the village, came to the university and asked me, What has happened to you? Seeing your letter and your idea of this ditto, I thought you
13、were mad. But looking at you, it seems I am mad; the whole world is mad. I take back the promise and the word that you have given to me. There is no need now to write every week. I will continue to read your last letter. And he kept it to the very last day he died; it was under his pillow.The man wh
14、o forced me to speak - for one thousand, three hundred and fifteen days I had remained silent - was also a very strange man. He himself had remained silent his whole life. Nobody heard about him; nobody knew about him. And he was the most precious man I have come across in this, or any of my lives i
15、n the past. His name was Magga Baba. It is not much of a name; magga simply means a jug. He used to carry a jug - that was his only possession, a plastic jug. From the same jug he would drink, he would ask for food with it. People would drop anything in the jug: money, food, water. And that was all
16、he had. Anybody who wanted to take from his jug was also allowed. So people would take out money, or food - children particularly, beggars. He neither prevented anybody from dropping, nor did he prevent anybody from taking. And he was absolutely silent, so nobody had any idea even of his name, becau
17、se he had never said what his name was. They simply started calling him Magga Baba because of the jug.But deep in the night, once in a while when there was nobody, I used to visit him. It was very difficult to find a time when nobody was there, because he attracted strange types of people. He was no
18、t speaking, so of course intellectuals were not going to him - just simple people. And what can you do with him? In India, to go to a man who has realized is called seva. Literally it means service, but it will not be justified because that word seva has a sacredness about it which service has not.
19、When you go to a realized man what else can you do than serve him? So people would come and massage his feet and somebody would massage his head, and he would not say anything to anybody. He would neither say yes, nor would he say no. Sometimes they wouldnt allow him even to sleep, because four or f
20、ive people were massaging him; they were doing seva. Many times I had to throw people out. He was just living on a porch of a bungalow, open from all sides. Once in a while, particularly on cold winter nights, I used to find him alone; then he would say something to me.ursesHe forced me to speak. He
21、 said, Look, I have remained silent my whole life, but they do not hear, they do not listen. They cannot understand it; it is beyond them. I have failed. I have not been able to convey what I have been carrying within me, and now there is not much time left for me. You are so young, you have a long
22、life before you: please dont stop speaking. START! It is a difficult, almost impossible job to convey things in words, because they are experienced in a wordless state of consciousness. How to convert that silence into sound? There seems to be no way. And there is none.But I understood Magga Babas p
23、oint. He was very old, and he was saying to me, You will be in the same position. If you dont start soon, the inner silence, the vacuum, the innermost zero, will go on pulling you inwards. And then there comes a time when you cannot come out. You are drowned in it. You are utterly blissful, but the
24、whole world is full of misery. You could have shown the way. Perhaps somebody may have heard, perhaps somebody may have walked on the path. At least you would not feel that you have not done what was expected of you by existence itself. Yes, it is a responsibility.I promised him, I will do my best.
25、And for thirty years continually I went on and on talking on every subject under the stars. But I came to a point which Magga Baba had not come to. He saved me from his disappointment; but I came to a new realization, a new point. I had thrown my net far and wide to catch as many people as have the
26、potential to blossom. But then I felt that words are not enough.Now I have found my people and I have to arrange a silent communion, which will help in two ways: those who cannot understand silence will drop out. That will be good. That will be a good weeding; otherwise they will go on clinging arou
27、nd me because of the words, because their intellect feels satisfied. And I am not here to satisfy their intellect. My purpose is far, far deeper, of a different dimension.So these days of silence have helped those who were just intellectually curious, rationally interested in me, to turn their back.
28、 And secondly, it has helped me to find my real, authentic people who are not in need of words to be with me. They can be with me without words. Thats the difference between communication and communion.Communication is through words, and communion is through silence.So these days of silence have bee
29、n immensely fruitful. Now only those are left for whom my presence is enough, my being is enough, for whom just the gesture of my hand is enough, for whom my eyes are enough - for whom language is no more a need.But today I have suddenly decided to speak again - again after one thousand, three hundr
30、ed and fifteen days - for the simple reason that the picture that I have been painting all my life needs a few touches here and there to complete it, because that one day when I became silent everything was left incomplete. Before I depart from you as far as my physical body is concerned, I would li
31、ke to complete it.I have been speaking to Hindus, to Christians, to Jews, to Mohammedans, to Jainas, to Buddhists, to Sikhs, to people belonging to almost all the so-called religions. This is for the first time I am speaking to my own people: not to Hindus, not to Mohammedans, not to Christians, not
32、 to Jews. It makes a lot of difference, and only because of that difference can I give the finishing touch to the picture that I have been painting. What difference does it make? To you I can speak directly, immediately. To the Hindus I had to speak through Krishna, and I was not happy about it. But
33、 there was no other way, it was a necessary evil. To Christians I could speak only through Jesus. I was not at ease about it, but there was no other way. So one has to choose the least evil. Let me explain to you.I do not agree with Jesus on all points. In fact, there are many questions which I have
34、 left unanswered, because even to touch them would have been destructive to those Christians who had come to me. Now they are clean. People say that I am brainwashing people. No, I am not brainwashing people. I am certainly washing their brains - and I believe in dry cleaning. So I can say to you no
35、w exactly what I feel; otherwise, it was a burden on me.To speak on Mahavira was necessary because without that it was impossible to get any Jainas to hear me. And with Mahavira I do not agree on all points. In fact my disagreement is on more points than my agreement. So I had to do a strange job: I
36、 had to choose those points on which I could agree, and not talk at all about those points on which I was absolutely against. And even on the points on which I have a certain agreement I had to manage another thing: that was to give new meanings to their words, give my meaning to their words. It was
37、 not their meaning. If Mahavira comes he will be angry; if Jesus comes he will be angry. If this whole crowd of Jesus, Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu somewhere meets me they will all be mad at me because I have made them say things they would never have dreamed of. They could not. Sometimes I
38、 have even put meanings into their words which go basically against them. But there was no other way.The whole world is divided. You cant find a single man who is clean. Either he is a Christian - he is carrying one kind of dirt - or he is a Hindu; he is carrying another kind of dirt. Now it is poss
39、ible for me to say exactly and directly even things which may sound bitter.Sheela has asked why I call my religion the first and perhaps the last religion.Yes, I call it the first religion because religion is the highest flowering of consciousness. Up to now man was not capable of conceiving it. Eve
40、n now, only one percent of humanity is barely able to conceive it. The masses are still living in the past, burdened with the past, conditioned with the past. Barely one percent of mankind is in a state now to conceive religion. All the old religions are based in fear. Now, a real religion destroys
41、fear. It is not based in fear.The concept of God in all the old religions is nothing but out of fear, a consolation; otherwise there is no validity, no evidence, no proof for the existence of God. The people who believe in God are really people who cannot trust in themselves. They need a father figu
42、re, a big daddy. They are still childish. Their mental age is just nearabout twelve years, not more than that. They need somebody to give them courage, to guide them, to protect them. They are simply afraid to be left alone. They are afraid of death which is coming closer every day. They need somebo
43、dy to protect them from death. It is a projection of your fear. The moment your fear disappears you will find there is no God. The moment you are able to trust in yourself, to be yourself, there will be no God. You will laugh at the whole concept of God.Now, Jesus is praying to God, continually rais
44、ing his hands towards the sky, as if God is there above in the heaven. And not only is he praying, he is receiving answers too - he is hearing voices! Now, these are symptoms of neurosis. To tell you the truth, Jesus is a mental case. He is a nice fellow, he is a good person, but the way he behaves
45、proves many things. He is a fanatic. He carries the same kind of mind as Adolf Hitler. He is a fascist. He thinks that only those who follow him will be saved; anybody else who does not follow him is going to fall into eternal hell. Now, only a simpleton can say such a thing. Who is he to save anybo
46、dy? But he says he is the only begotten son of God. And he truly believes it. It is not only that he says it, he truly believes it.Until the crucifixion, he truly believes it. It is only the crucifixion which brings a little sense to this insane man. Only at the crucifixion he cries, Why have you fo
47、rsaken me? He was certainly waiting for a miracle to happen. He is the only son of God, and God is not coming. And if he is not coming at the crucifixion, then when? And if even Jesus is not being saved, what is the guarantee that those who are going to follow Jesus will be saved? And the fools are
48、still believing that they will be saved if they follow Jesus. Even Jesus is not saved, and he knew it. He waited for a time for the miracle to happen - but it didnt happen.Miracles dont happen at all. They have never happened. They are only wish fulfillments of people who are dreaming and hallucinat
49、ing. They are not realities. If you believe in them, they may appear to you almost real, perhaps more than real. It is your belief that creates the hallucination; otherwise there is nothing - no miracle. But Jesus himself believed that he was doing miracles; and he was waiting for the miracle. These are all very childish qualities.He is a little bit schizophrenic, too. He goes on saying, Blessed are the meek for theirs is
