Why don't politicians and sadhus come to the ashram to resolve their doubts?

Jinswaroop has asked: Osho, the politicians and sadhus-mahatmas in this country who oppose you—why don’t they come to the ashram themselves and have their doubts resolved?

They don’t have the courage, they don’t have the strength; they are impotent. They get nervous at the idea of coming to this ashram to have their doubts resolved. They’re afraid the doubts might actually be resolved—then what will they do! And resolved they certainly will be. I say, let Tulsi come. And after what he’s been up to, I don’t even feel like calling him Tulsi anymore—now it’s Acharya Bhondumal! So let Bhondumal and Thothumal both come. Here a hundred processes of mind-revolution are going on. They won’t even know the names of a hundred of them; their forefathers wouldn’t either. Let them come—we’ll take them through all the processes. We’ll make men of them! But first they’ll have to become a rooster—because that’s the nature of these processes. If you go through Primal Therapy, you’ll have to be a rooster! They don’t have the guts to come here.…

Osho, sensitive people from the far corners of the world are being drawn to you. Yet it is surprising that your voice does not seem to reach saintly men like Krishnamurti, Vinoba, Jayaprakash, and Kripalani. Why can they not perceive that here in Poona there is a person who holds the medicine for humanity’s fundamental malady?

With Krishnamurti the ease, the benefit, is that your intellect will always remain satisfied. One who once begins to walk with him keeps on walking. No occasion will arise to leave, because the very reason for joining will never be contradicted—Krishnamurti will go on confirming it again and again, a thousand times. His intellectual conviction will become stronger and stronger. But the danger is that he will remain stuck in the intellect and never reach the heart. And you ask about Kripalani? Krishnamurti cannot come to me; there is no need. Krishnamurti is religion embodied. Kripalani also cannot come to me; there is no need—because Kripalani is pure politics; he has nothing to do with religion. Krishnamurti cannot come because he is established in religion; Kripalani cannot come because he has nothing to do with religion. His whole life has gone into politics—setting up moves and counter-moves, arranging pawns! A…

Osho, why do politicians go on misunderstanding you?

People are different, people are unequal. The most fundamental error that Karl Marx committed was that he was not at all aware of the psychological inequality of human beings. Communism lacks something very fundamental, the perspective that people are unequal psychologically. And a fair and free world has to give people full freedom to be unequal, to move into their own talents, to be themselves. Because I say that capitalism is the natural evolution of human society, immediately the politicians become afraid. They think then I must be working for America or the C.l.A. or something. Just a few days before, a well-known communist, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, wrote an article against me, declaring that I am working for the C.l.A. Now, this is surprising because others say that Khwaja Ahmed Abbas is a Russian agent. In America, if you talk about communism, you are a Russian agent. If you talk…

Osho! Shri Girija Kumar Mathur, who has given poetry a new mode and a new dimension, is a resident of my village, Ashoknagar. He still lives there. He is interested in you—has read some books and also shows interest in your tape discourses. He says, “I do have the eagerness to meet him once, but I get nervous because his personality is controversial.” If you find it proper, kindly say something.

These are not their questions. But to show others, “Our questions are spiritual. We are not ordinary folk—we are seekers. Anger, lust—these we left behind long ago. Wealth, food—such cravings don’t beset us. In us devotion to God has arisen; we want to taste liberation.” Without annihilation there is no savor of abiding. Until you efface the ego, you will not find God. If you want God, one thing must be erased—you must erase yourself. Until you are annihilated—become a pure zero—you will not know the ecstasy of existence. Such is the paradoxical arithmetic of life: the one ready to vanish finds life; the one who clutches at life finds nothing but repeated death. Truth itself is paradoxical; therefore, how can those who have experienced it be anything but controversial? Their utterances become paradoxical. To speak truth, there is no other way but paradox. And to speak truth, compromises cannot…

Osho, after the earth undergoes an austerity of thousands of years and conceives, somewhere a Buddha descends. And in this land, countless Buddhas have happened. This country discovered an immense wealth of inner knowing. Even so, when an awakened one like you is present today, why is it that the people of this country, the so‑called religious leaders, and those in power do not understand what you are saying? Hearing from your own lips how great your compassion for India is, it seems to me that even compassion itself must have felt compassion. But why does the heart of the Indians not melt? Pl

My sannyasins returning from Germany say, “At first we were very frightened. Wherever we walked, people stared: ‘There they go!’ The propaganda against you was so strong we were afraid what would happen.” But slowly the wind has changed. I said, “Don’t worry. Sitting in my room, I keep changing the winds. You need not worry.” Now people come near and ask, “What is the real story? Give us a book to read. Tell us the news. We want to come too.” New people have begun to come who perhaps would never have come. And do you know who organized the whole campaign? The German Protestant Church. They set it in motion—sent spies here, fabricated stories, got false statements issued. Why was the Protestant Church so bothered? Naturally there was a problem: hundreds of young men and women from Germany had taken sannyas here. And one who takes sannyas will…