Can the Bhagavad Gita be addressed to a group?

Osho, the Gita is a personal dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna. But in your Gita discourses you address a group. Please explain whether the Bhagavad Gita can be addressed to a group?

Who told you I’m addressing a group! Does a group have any life with which to understand? Any ears with which to hear? Any heart to beat, any wisdom that can be awakened? “Group” is only a word. A group is not a person. Whenever a dialogue happens, it happens between persons, one to one. A group never meets a person. Have you ever met a group? Wherever you look, you meet individuals. You are here, and others are here with you. But that is only a togetherness. A group is not present; you are present individually. And if people leave one by one, will a group be left behind? The moment persons depart, the group also departs. I am not speaking to your crowd; I am speaking to your person. This is one-to-one. It is direct. And remember: what you understand is what you understand; the person sitting beside…

How is it that an enlightened person like krishnamurti cannot see that he is not helping people? If he is enlightened should not he be able to see all? And you say that you are able to help all types but you also say that you are contradictory on purpose, so that some people will go away. If you are able to help all, why should some need to go away?

This is the deep harmony, the ritambhara. This is the hidden harmony. In fact -- if you allow me to say, because that will look absurd -- if there is not an enlightened man who can fulfill your desire, the desire cannot come to you. Because the whole is one: on one part the desire arises; on another part somewhere the fulfillment is waiting. They come up together; simultaneous is the growth of the disciple and the Master... but this will be too much. When I was seeking my enlightenment, you were seeking your discipleship. Nothing can happen without the whole creating the situation for its fulfillment simultaneously. Everything is related. It is so deeply related that one can relax, there is no need to bother. If really your urge has arisen, you need not go even to seek the Master, the Master will have to come to you. Either…

Osho, among the Pandavas the eldest, Yudhishthira, is called Dharmaraj—the king of righteousness. Yet Krishna spoke the Gita to Arjuna, not to Dharmaraj. Why? Was Dharmaraj not a worthy recipient?

You cannot call the Pope irreligious. He lives by the rules. He prays on time. He reads the Bible on time. He has bound his life in conduct. He is not a thief, not dishonest, not licentious. The Ten Commandments—perhaps he follows them fully. And yet he is not religious. The light that shines in Jesus’ life is absent. Jesus’ search is his own. He has risked his life to seek. The Pope’s search is not his own; it is a traditional arrangement. The pope is an office; Jesus is not an office. To be Jesus is arduous; to be pope is convenient. Every priest would like to be pope. Among the Christians, all priests compete for that chair. Out of millions, one arrives. There are twelve lakh Catholic priests in the world—a great empire. From these twelve lakh, one becomes pope. There are elections, there are ladders to climb;…

Osho, will you regard the Gita as the authentic words of Krishna?

You ask whether I will regard the Gita as the authentic words of Krishna? If there has been a person like Krishna, then a discourse like the Gita would indeed be authentic. The question is not whether Krishna actually spoke it or not. The question is that if Krishna were to speak, he could only speak like this. And even if Krishna did not speak and Vyasa alone wrote the Gita, it doesn’t make much difference, because Vyasa could not write it unless there were a person like Krishna. In the end one has to say—let it be Vyasa who wrote it, it makes no difference—but Vyasa too would be speaking the Gita, no! What difference does it make? It makes no difference. Whether Krishna speaks, or Vyasa speaks, or A, B, C—someone else—speaks, to speak the Gita there must be someone within. This Gita doesn’t drop out of the…