Why is there a lack of suitable employment for talented scientists?

If we do indeed possess the talent for creating scientists, why aren't we also endowed with the ability to make the right kind of employment available to them?

An ordinary man is born immediately. This is like if you were to move from your house, you would obviously make a search for another house in the same neighborhood. If you fail to locate a house here, only then would you go looking for it somewhere else, in another neighborhood. If you don't find it in Bombay proper, you may hunt for it in the suburbs: if you don't succeed there, you may move ahead and look somewhere else. But once you have found the house, the matter is over. This phenomenon was put to a wonderful use. It would be good to consider a couple of things in order to see how this principle was used. It is necessary that we take a look at it now, because it carries a special significance in the context of the present times. The most amazing application of it was made…

Osho, if we have the talent to give birth to a scientist, then surely we also have the talent to give him a job.

India divided the whole society into four varnas, and it tried to ensure that when a Brahmin’s soul dies, it enters the Brahmin varna; when a Kshatriya’s soul dies, it enters the Kshatriya varna. Naturally, if varna is assured in a society, when a Kshatriya dies he is very likely to search in the neighborhood and enter a Kshatriya family. And if a person’s soul remains Kshatriya for five or ten births, the kind of Kshatriya that emerges cannot be produced by a day of military training. And if a soul is born for ten or twenty births in Brahmin families, the purest Brahminhood that arises cannot be created by setting up a gurukul and schooling someone. You will be surprised to know that while we think of educational methods within one lifetime, some people devised an educational arrangement across countless lifetimes. Hence it was a marvelous experiment. But it…

Osho, you discussed how science could organize the creation of superior human bodies. But what will be achieved by superior bodies alone? How can science choose superior souls? And how will it ensure that only superior souls enter excellent bodies? This task would have to be done by a pure, enlightened soul like you. Science may be able to produce a scientist or a Hitler, but how could one arrange to bring forth a Krishna, a Mahavira, or a Buddha? Please shed light on this.

And souls are eager; infinite souls are always wandering, ready to enter wombs. And you will be surprised to know: ordinary souls enter immediately, because ordinary wombs are always available—thousands of fools are engaged in intercourse, twenty-four hours somewhere or other... somewhere it is night. And now the modern man doesn’t even count day and night; he is at sex day or night—who cares! Everywhere there are wombs available for ordinary people to be born. But extraordinary beings have to wait for many years to take birth, because such an extraordinary womb is not available. If we can provide extraordinary wombs, we can fill the earth with Buddhas, with Mahaviras. And certainly, if people are healthy, prosperous, intelligent, then what you say, Anand Veetrag—that this work will have to be done by a pure, enlightened soul like you—my work will become simple. The work of awakening the soul will become…

A friend has asked, Osho, one can die with awareness, but how can one be born with awareness?

Most fasters spend twenty-four hours repeating, “I am hungry; I have not eaten,” with their minds absorbed in planning tomorrow’s menu. Then the fast is wasted; it is merely a hunger-strike. That is the difference: a hunger-strike means not eating; upavasa means “dwelling nearer and nearer.” Nearer to whom? To oneself. Away from the body, closer to the self. Even the word upavasa carries no implication of starving; it means nearer-dwelling. Thus one could be in upavasa even while eating—if one knows the eating is at a distance and “I am elsewhere.” And one could not be in upavasa even while not eating—if one keeps thinking, “I am hungry; I’m dying of hunger.” Upavasa is a psychological knowing of one’s separateness from hunger. Other sufferings too can be invited voluntarily. A man can even lie on thorns, simply to see that the thorns do not pierce me; they pierce elsewhere,…

Osho, you spoke of planned procreation and said that, by way of example, society could then receive geniuses like Mahavira, Einstein, and Buddha. My question is: the names you cited as examples were themselves neither the product of planned procreation nor of a commune-based society. Therefore, the idea that a commune alone will yield gifted children, or that a child’s development is primarily society’s responsibility, does not seem entirely correct.

So the highest have often had no children; they did not marry. And the basest have no other occupation. Their only entertainment is producing children. That is why the poorer a country, the more children it produces. Poor countries have few other amusements—no TV, no money for world travel, no expensive alternatives. Only one cheap option: produce children. Keep yourself entangled, surrounded by toddlers. Let them squeal and keep you occupied. Thus life passes in entanglement, and at least the emptiness doesn’t sting. At least you are doing something. You are leaving something in the world; you did not come and go leaving no mark! People will remember that you were here! You ask, Ramshankar Agnihotri, that Mahavira, Einstein, Buddha were not born through planned procreation. I agree. But if only a system of planned procreation were put in place, many Einsteins could be born, many Buddhas, many Mahaviras. Heaps…