How do we know that God has died?

Osho, how do we know that God has died?

By looking at human beings it becomes clear that God has died. You won’t find God’s corpse anywhere by searching. Nor will you find a tombstone saying he was buried here. And even if you scour every corner of the earth, you won’t discover witnesses before whom he died. No; we ourselves are the testimony—each and every person! What is so much suffering in life, so much darkness, so much pain and restlessness a sign of? It tells us that the source of bliss, the source of light in life, has been cut off from us. The connection has broken. One night a blind man was a guest at a house. After midnight, when he was about to leave, the family said, “The road is dark, it’s a moonless night—take a lantern with you.” The blind man laughed, as was natural. He said, “What difference will it make whether I…

Osho, is god really dead?

Remember, those who were ascetic people, who were ready to deny their nature, were very happy to believe in God. And the people who were more natural, more normal, were happy to believe that there was no God. The reason is the same: the natural person will feel afraid because the natural person will have sex, will have anger, will have jealousy. And God is going to punish him; if God is there then punishment is certain. It is better to say that there is no God; at least for the time being he can feel relieved. And the person who can repress his sex, his jealousies, his anger, would like to declare that God is, because all his investment is in God's existence. God's existence is very necessary for his asceticsm. The pathological people declare that God is and the natural people declare that there is no God. And…

Is god really dead?

IF NOT DEAD, then seriously ill, on his deathbed. Which is far worse. I have heard: There was a small synagogue somewhere in some obscure village in central Poland. One night when making his rounds, the rabbi entered and saw God sitting in a dark corner. He fell upon his face and cried out, "Lord God, what art thou doing here?" God answered him with a small voice, "I am tired, Rabbi. I am tired to death." God is tired of man's inhumanity to man. God is tired of man's immense stupidity. God is tired of man's unawareness. Only man seems somehow to be a misfit. The whole existence goes on harmoniously; the whole existence is a dance. Man is out of step. And the reason is that only man is free to be out of step. The glory of man is that he is free? totally free. Nobody else…

First of all, many friends have asked this: On hearing that God is dead, we felt very sad!

They stopped by a well. The elder said, “Let me wash my hands and face a little.” He gave his bag to the young disciple: “Keep it carefully.” The elder went to wash. The disciple looked inside the bag—a brick of gold was there. He had suspected that the elder’s sense of danger meant there must be something in the bag; otherwise why fear? He saw the brick. The elder was busy washing. The disciple threw the brick into a pit and put a stone brick in the bag instead—a substitute brick, a replacement. The elder returned, quickly slung the bag over his shoulder, felt the weight, and walked on contentedly. After a while he asked, “Now the night has deepened; isn’t there a village nearby where we can stop? There isn’t any danger, is there?” The disciple said, “There is no danger at all—let’s go on.” The elder had…

Osho, why did friedrich nietzsche declare th4t god is dead?

Man has to be loved, because it is only through the nourishment of love that man can grow. Man has to know that he is alone, and he has to know that he has to depend on his own resources and not on some heavenly father. Once man takes responsibility, total responsibility on his own shoulders, a great revolution is bound to happen, because man has infinite potential to grow. Remaining dependent on some God, he has completely become oblivious to his potential, to his future, to his growth. It is good that God has been discarded. Now man has to take his life in his own hands. And the beauty is, if you become responsible, responsible for yourself, if you declare your freedom -- you have to declare it because God is dead; there is nobody higher than you -- if you accept that now you have to seek…