Comparison

Osho, why are you being compared with rasputin rather than with jesus, krishna, mahavira or buddha? And especially when you are continuously and bitterly criticizing present politics and politicians and giving the world a dynamic view of religiousness?

So they will make every effort to destroy me -- but because they cannot destroy they become enraged. Then at least they can write in newspapers and spread rumors -- and I love it! I love all those rumors! Even respected newspapers, news agencies go on doing stupid things, but it creates sensation and they live on sensationalism. This is absolutely natural; it has to happen in this way. It can only happen in this way -- this is inevitable. Only my people will understand what I am, and I don't care what others say -- not a bit! In fact, I would like them to create as many rumors as possible, because their rumors bring people to the ashram -- and once they are here I can always hypnotize them! Those rumors are bringing many people here. Once they are here their vision changes, their perspective changes. They start…

Osho, when I see you, a longing arises in me that I too may one day touch heights like yours. Is this also comparison? Is it the outcome of an inferiority complex?

It happened: there was a Muslim fakir, Junoon. He lived in Egypt. He used to say that God has made everything perfect, for from the Perfect only the perfect can be born. As the Isha Upanishad says: from that Perfect, the perfect comes forth, and yet the Perfect remains. Junoon also used to say that God made everything complete. In the village there was a logician—a pundit as well. One day he came to hear Junoon. Junoon said that God has made everything complete. The logician said, “Wait!” He had brought a man with him—a hunchback. He was completely bent; he could hardly stand upright; his hands and feet were crooked; his back utterly hunched. The logician said, “Look at this man! Is he also perfect? And did God make him too?” Junoon laughed and said, “We have never seen a more perfect hunchback than this. I have seen many…

Beloved master,you say unenlightened persons cannot be compared. But I compare and evaluate myself constantly with other people. I feel this constantly brings clouds and a distance between me and them. What can be done about it?

Veetdharma,I have said that unenlightened people cannot be compared, because they are utterly different from each other. Their histories are different, their biographies are different, their pasts are different. They have moved through different terrains, different lives, in different ways; their karmas are different. They cannot be compared. It will be like comparing a stone with a rose flower, or a rose flower with a star. People are so different from each other, they cannot be compared. Only unenlightened persons can be compared, because they are no longer different at all, because they ARE no more. Emptiness can have only one taste When two rooms are utterly empty, what is there to compare? They are so alike. If you want to compare, you can compare; you can say both are empty. Otherwise there is nothing in them to compare. When both the rooms are full of different furniture and paintings,…

A friend has asked: Osho, in your talk on the first day you said that socialism turns a human being into an animal. But man today has become worse than an animal; so if man does become an animal, what is the harm?

If someone forcibly makes us good, that will be worse than being bad. In a prison no one can steal, no one can murder; there is no freedom to do anything bad. Even so, we would not choose to live in a prison. Outside, there is freedom to do evil—along with it, there is freedom to do good. If no one can steal in a prison, neither can anyone there discover a way to take life higher. A prison is dependence. Socialism can try to turn a whole country into one big prison. It has built prisons. And by making prisons, many conveniences do arise. But those conveniences are a very expensive bargain; we lose a great deal in them and gain nothing. Therefore I would say: let man acknowledge his capacity to be animal, preserve freedom, and yet strive in the direction of not becoming an animal. And why…