What is the significance of orders in the context of Hiroshima?

Those would be orders, wouldn’t they? I mean, even those orders—that in all of vast Japan, Hiroshima alone should be chosen! You would hardly have even heard the name Hiroshima before. That Hiroshima should be chosen cannot be accidental—that is what I am saying: it cannot be accidental. This too must have its inner cause-and-effect. Perhaps Hiroshima was the city on earth with the most suicidal people, and it attracted being struck; its consciousness attracted it.

You will be surprised to know that if a car meets with an accident, if an airplane crashes—since we do not know the consciousness, no one can say what is going on in the consciousness of the people sitting in that plane and in what manner it can bring about a result. No one can say. There are two or three most extraordinary incidents in Meher Baba’s life. A house was built for him—built especially for him—and he went to enter it. Standing at the doorway—there was an inauguration, the place decorated with flowers, lamps lit—he stood there for two minutes and turned back. He said, I will not go into this house. People asked, What do you mean, not going into this house? He said, That’s all. I don’t particularly feel anything, but right at the door I suddenly froze… I am not going in. That house collapsed that…

Can you say something more about obedience? Is it not good to serve obediently in a noble cause?

The noble cause was education. It involved three people: the professor, who was the authority figure in charge of the proceedings; the learner or victim; and the experimental subject, who was asked by the professor to act as teacher and to punish the learner each time he gave the wrong reply. Punishment was by electric shocks of growing severity, administered by the teacher on the professor's orders. The learner or victim was strapped into a kind of electric chair. The teacher was seated in front of an impressive shock-generator which had a key-board of thirty switches ranging from fifteen volts to four hundred and fifty volts. There were also verbal inscriptions on the machine ranging from 'slight shock' to 'intense shock' to 'danger: severe shock'. In fact, the whole gruesome set-up was based on make-believe: the victim was an actor, the shock-generator was a dummy. Only the teacher, at whom…

Question: OUR BELOVED MASTER, ONCE, WHEN YAKUSAN WAS RECITING A SUTRA, A MONK ASKED HIM: "YOU DON'T USUALLY ALLOW US TO RECITE SUTRAS. WHY DO YOU YOURSELF RECITE A SUTRA?" "I JUST WANT TO ENTERTAIN MY EYES," REPLIED YAKUSAN. THE MONK ASKED, "CAN I ALSO RECITE SUTRAS LIKE YOU?" "IF YOU WANT TO RECITE SUTRAS LIKE ME," ANSWERED YAKUSAN, "YOU MUST PIERCE EVEN THROUGH THE HIDE OF A COW." ON ANOTHER OCCASION, YAKUSAN WAS ASKED BY GOVERNOR RI, "WHAT ARE THE PRECEPTS, MEDITATION AND WISDOM?" YAKUSAN ANSWERED, "THIS POOR MONK HASN'T SUCH USELESS FURNITURE." RI SAID, "DON'T BE SO MYSTERIOUS!" YAKUSAN SAID, "IF YOU WANT TO HAVE WHAT I HAVE, YOU MUST SIT ON THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN, GO DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEPEST SEA. "YOU DON'T THROW OFF YOUR BURDENS EVEN WHEN YOU GO TO BED; YOU ARE BUSY WITH ILLUSIONS.

Osho, why are you destroying the great religious leaders and ideologies of the world?

I am not in favor of destroying anything at all. My whole approach is creative. But creation involves destruction. That is not my problem. Creation itself is not possible without destroying something. The moment you create something you are simultaneously destroying something else. But when destruction is on the way towards creation you need not be worried about it. It is not destructive, it is creative. Let me repeat: it is creative destruction. There is a possibility, in the same way, of destructive creation. What are nuclear weapons? Certainly a tremendous act of creation -- but for what? Where is it going to lead? What is going to be the outcome? -- nothing but pure destruction. So this is creation leading towards destruction. Only fools will call it creativity. And only fools can call my action destruction. So that is the first thing to be understood. It is not creation…

Beloved master, a lot came up for me in discourse when you said anubuddha was so loving, so caring, so successful. The line that got me the most was, "our best bodyworker." my need for praise and fear of rejection was hit by a strong punch in the stomach. I feel like I'm drowning; you look like the lifeguard, so I scream out for help, but you just smile and tell a joke. Beloved master, how deep is the water?

Obedience is the greatest value in a world of slaves. And this is not only the case with the ordinary politician and the priest; it begins with your God himself. He was against Adam and Eve because they disobeyed. What kind of God have people been worshipping? And a God who prevents his own children from eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the tree of eternal life does not seem to be a very loving father. He seems most dangerous, a despot. And that's what the devil managed to convince Eve of. And the devil was absolutely right. You will be surprised to know, there are thousands of devil worshippers in the world. And I can see the point, why they worship the devil. He was the first revolutionary, and he suggested the right thing. He said "These are the two most important trees in the whole…