What happens when an enlightened person appears in existence?

Beloved master, in existence whenever an enlightened person appears, both the bad and the good forces start functioning. As history testifies, often the bad forces win. A jesus is crucified, a socrates is poisoned, a mansoor is chopped, buddha, mahavira are stoned. As such, a large part of humanity remains in utter darkness. Beloved master, will this state of affairs remain as in the past? Will the same phenomenon continue after you leave? Please throw some light.

Dharma Bhikkhu, the first thing to understand is: don't divide existence into good and bad, into God and Devil, into forces of good and forces of evil. That division is a wrong way to look at reality. Existence is one. In existence Jesus and Judas are not separate, but players in the same drama. Can you think of Jesus without Judas? You think Christianity was founded by Jesus alone? Then you are utterly wrong -- fifty percent by Jesus, fifty percent by Judas. And in fact, Judas has played a more important role than Jesus himself. Hence I don't call Christianity "Christianity"; I call it "Crossianity," because the cross has become the symbol. And who is responsible for the cross? Judas is responsible for the cross. Without Judas, the story of Jesus will lose all its glory. Judas gives the contrast; he is the blackboard on which Jesus becomes a…

Osho, why is there such a delay in building the new commune? We sit waiting for the moment when we, too, can enter the super­natural field of Buddha-energy. And it is not just us—thousands are waiting with hope. There is much darkness; we need light. And there are many enemies of light. This also brings fear that this life, too, might pass by empty, like other lives.

I know. Every day countless letters come: “When can we join?” Arrangements are made so their letters do not even reach. A letter leaves Delhi; it takes a month and a half to reach Poona! Some arrive in six months; and those that never come, how would we know! If some take six months, some will take six years. Every letter is opened; none arrives unopened. Every letter is delayed as long as it can be. Every letter is investigated. After the great “revolution” led by Shri Jayaprakash Narayan, a most amazing democracy has been created! This is democracy, where people’s private letters are not private! Phones are tapped. In a country like America, for tapping phones and such mischief Nixon had to leave the presidency. Here it happens every day. Here it is according to the rules. Here no one’s ears so much as itch. They will delay as…

Osho, whenever someone experiences the Vast, it inevitably expresses itself in some form. Is it not so with the enlightened ones?

The experience is such that, try to hide it and it will not hide; it will manifest. As far as the experiencer is concerned, it will certainly be expressed. But as far as you are concerned, it depends on you: it may be revealed, or it may remain unrevealed. Buddha has said what he came to know—whether you heard it or not… On Buddha’s side, it has been expressed; on your side, it may or may not be revealed. The rain falls: lakes, ponds, pits and hollows fill; the mountains stay empty. If your pitcher is kept upside down, no matter how much the clouds thunder and pour, you will remain empty; for you, the rain will not have happened. Not that there was no rain—there was; only, not for you. And until it is for you, what difference does it make whether it happened or not? Even if the…

Beloved Osho, from your talks I understand that there is some kind of evolutionary process that happens. But I have also heard you say that man has not evolved at all. Where are all the seekers who died enlightened?

Man as a collectivity has not evolved. Whatever little bit of humanity has happened to the collective mass is because of those few seekers who became enlightened. But you should understand the proportion. It is like a spoonful of sugar you drop in the ocean to make it sweet; it is not going to do much to the ocean. The ocean is too vast. A spoonful of sugar was perfectly good for a cup of tea, but it is not good for the ocean. An enlightened man is a cup of tea. Even his group -- those who become attuned with him -- are still so small that they cannot make much change in the collective mass, in its vast darkness, unconsciousness. But in thousands of years so many people have become enlightened that a little bit of change in humanity you can see. But the credit does not go…

Beloved Osho, you have told us that there have been many enlightened beings who have never become masters. It seems almost easier for me to understand that than why or how somebody becomes a master. When I see the way you are being treated, I wonder. Governments fight you, don't allow you entry, and put you in jail. The vast majority of people don't even care to find out who you are or what you are talking about. And the few who love and listen to you still linger in their sleep. Beloved Osho, did you choose to be a master and to try to wake us up, or was it existence's decision? Who decides w

The enlightened man is beyond taking any decisions, so the first thing to be understood is that he does not decide. Decision is part of the ego. In essence, it is a fight: to do this or to do that. And the ego thinks it is wiser than existence. Once the ego is gone, decision making is also gone. The enlightened man simply lives without any decision, without any goal, without any longing. He has come to the point from where any decision will be against existence. Only a nondecisive let-go can be the way of the existential man. So it is not a question of decision. Thousands of people have become enlightened, but only very few have become masters. So naturally the mind thinks, who decides that a few should become masters and that the remaining should simply disappear into the universe? Nobody decides. The way things work is…