Is the island of Crete an enlightened island?

Is the island of crete an enlightened island? -- because first zeus and now Osho.

I am not a god, nor was the first one a god. God is simply a fiction. But godliness can be experienced anywhere, in any part of the world. This is one earth. This island is not separate.

Question: Third question: Osho, isn’t India a land of the enlightened? In old age Mulla Nasruddin’s eyesight weakened. When an elephant began to look like a mouse to him, he went to an eye specialist. The doctor examined him and put a pair of quite thick lenses on him. Mulla came out delighted. On the way home he passed through the market and thought, “I have received new light today; let me buy the children some toys to celebrate.” He walked into a grape seller’s shop and asked, “Brother, what do you charge for these balloons?” Sometimes when people “fix” their eyes, they over-fix them. Either an elephant looks like a mouse, or a mouse looks like an elephant. Hence the Buddha said: right vision—balanced sight. What does a person want? One thing: somehow to give the ego new ornaments, fresh adornment. So—“My country is great!” Why?

Question: BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? IS IT DIVINE REVELATION? It is not divine revelation, it is divine realization. And the difference is big. Divine revelation means something objective, like God, is revealed to you. You see some God, but you are separate from him and he is separate from you. I don't believe in a God who is separate from us, who is separate from existence. I don't believe in a God who is a creator; I believe in a God who is creativity. To say it in other words, I don't believe in a God as a person, I believe in godliness as a quality. So I say it is not divine revelation, but divine realization. You realize that you are God, and in realizing that you are God, you realize that everything is God -- that only God exists and nothing else exists.

Why did you choose to come to crete? Are you a kazantzakis enthusiast?

Not Kazantzakis... but I am a lover of Zorba. It is a tragedy that Kazantzakis himself could not live the life which he has created in Zorba. Reading ZORBA THE GREEK you will think the man who wrote it must have lived like this. You are wrong. The man who wrote it was just the opposite, -- miserable. He wrote it as a consolation. This is the way he wanted to live, but he could not. Kazantzakis is sick. I am not interested in him, but I am certainly interested in Zorba. To me Zorba is the symbol of an authentically uninhibited human animal. And unless a man lives like a Zorba, totally and intensively, there is no possibility for him to rise above, into the higher realms of consciousness. I said that it is a tragedy because ZORBA THE GREEK is only half a book, because Zorba is only…

Beloved Osho, I am happy to be free from any god, and to be living more and more on my own authority. But now I cannot imagine what enlightenment is all about. Isn't it just another god?

It seems to be the same stupid man. How do you know that there is no God -- because I have said it? But when did I say it to you, "Believe in me"? You must be enjoying great egoism: "I am free of God." You are not free even of your ego, how can you be free of God? How do you manage to know that there is no God? One can know this only after enlightenment, because then the whole existence is crystal-clear, open; life is there, but there is no God anywhere. Because you started with a belief -- hearing me say again and again that there is no God -- you felt good, because if there is no God then you are free to do anything. When I am saying there is no God, I am not freeing you from responsibility. In fact, when there is…