What is the nature of hypocrisy in India?

Do you consider india hypocritical in this respect?

Yes. It is a country now of hypocrites. Whenever a country reaches to the peak, to the flowering -- when it is healthy and young, fearless of everything -- then truth can be taken as truth. In India's golden days we created Khajuraho, Konark, Puri. It was rare daring. There is no comparison to it -- not only in India but in the whole world. A temple of God that has sculptures of maithun, of sexual intercourse There is no pornographic attitude toward the sexual intercourses. It is so meditative, so celestial. But those were the days when the country was healthy. Young -- taking life as it was, celebrating life in its totality. Today it is a dying country, an old country just struggling to be alive somehow. The India that exists today must die dn a way in order to be reborn. Only then will hypocrisy go. I;very…

India is the only country in the world which talks about celibacy so much and yet every four seconds three children are born in india. Please explain this.

So, Kamal, there is no contradiction in it. In fact there is a logical connectedness between these two things -- talking of celibacy, and giving birth to three children every four seconds. The more you talk about celibacy, the more sex-obsessed you will become. If you accept sex as a natural phenomenon, you need not talk about celibacy; it comes in its own time. Just as youth turns into old age, sex turns into celibacy. Celibacy is sex lived truly, is the fragrance of sex lived truly. Celibacy is sexuality become mature. Otherwise hypocrisy continues. Meditate over this story. This man was in bed with a married woman when they heard the door open. "Oh my God," she gasped. "It's my husband! Quick, hidden in the closet!" The man hurried into the closet and closed the door. Suddenly he heard a small voice saying, "It's very dark in here." "Who…

Osho, someone once told me Poona is the Oxford of India—a city of culture and a representative of the country’s elite. But here, almost every night, well-dressed people ride scooters or cars around Koregaon Park and mercilessly beat sannyasins—especially sannyasinis—with sticks. And now, as if sticks were not enough, they’ve started using iron chains. Osho, what kind of people are these?

In the West you can bathe naked at the seashore—no problem. No man will pounce on you. Here the situation is the reverse. If your arm is showing, it means you lack character; you are attackable. If you were wrapped in a sari, you would be certified as a lady of a “good family.” Here people are weighed by their clothes. So Western visitors naturally face difficulties. They continue to behave as they learned from childhood. There is nothing wrong in that behavior. Among decent people, bathing naked at river or sea should be no issue. Nakedness is natural. Yes, wear clothes in office and market—but there should be some place where one can move free. Here there is none. Mulla Nasruddin went to his doctor. The doctor had hired a newly trained Western girl as an assistant. Mulla kept staring. Inside he said, “You’ve hired such a beautiful girl…

Osho, there is a great deal of hypocrisy in india about sex. People are not even willing to discuss it openly, yet there is a growing proliferation of, and obsession with, nude pictures. Will this flood of pornography help? Can it finally bring sex out into the open in india?

If you want to see the reality of the politician you will have to see him from his back door. There he is in his nudity, as he is, and so is the priest. These two kinds of cunning people have dominated humanity. And they found out very early on that if you want to dominate humanity, make it weak, make it feel guilty, make it feel unworthy. Destroy its dignity, take all glory away from it, humiliate it. And they have found such subtle ways of humiliation that they don't come in the picture at all. They leave it to you to humiliate yourself, to destroy yourself. They have taught you a kind of slow suicide. You ask me, Silvera: "There is a great deal of hypocrisy in India about sex." It is not only a question about sex. Sex is the most fundamental hypocrisy, but then there are…

Osho, you say you want to show india "love," yet most indians who come here, when faced with love, see it only as lust. What should be done about it?

The most important thing in the Indian mind is sex. Hence every day so many rapes happen, and no woman is safe walking on a street. How many sannyasins have written to me, particularly women sannyasins, saying, "Is it not our right to walk alone under the stars in the sky? Are we not human beings? Don't we have such a simple human right?" But in India it is impossible. Just the other day a young woman sannyasin was attacked by four Indians. Of course she screamed, and some sannyasins reached in time; otherwise they were going to rape her -- they had torn her dress apart. And this is not just one accident, it has been happening every once in a while for almost six years. The Indian mind is so sexually repressed that it cannot love, it can only lust. And once the lust is there you start…