Immorality

Osho, by conducting such experiments in the midst of society, doesn’t it create any immorality? And do onlookers gain or lose anything from this?

Nudity is being used by prostitutes, dancers, actresses, and advertisers too. But all of them are exploiting your sexual desire. Nowhere is nudity being used for the dissolution of your lust. Everywhere it is used for exploitation. Even to sell a car, they have to stand a half-naked woman next to it. A half-naked woman has nothing to do with the car. This makes no difference to the car’s quality, adds no strength to its mechanism, and proves nothing about the car being good. Yet the car sells—because, with a naked woman standing there and the car, in the human mind the car becomes a sex object; it becomes associated. Hence the color, contour, and shape that cars are gradually taking are those of the female body—their curves and turns are of the female form. As cars keep getting more curvy day by day, they are becoming symbols of sexuality.…

Morality is a phony lie, because the ideas are given by others and you are living them -- you are just an imitator. I am against all morality -- that does not mean that I am for immorality. In fact it is morality that creates immorality too. I am for transcendence, transcendence of the very idea of morality -- and of course, this implies immorality too. I am for consciousness, not for conscience. I don't want to give you any shoulds or should nots. I simply want you to become more aware, alert, watchful, clear, unclouded. When you are like a flame without smoke, whatsoever you do will be right. In a state of clarity the wrong is impossible, but then your character comes from your consciousness, not from your conscience, then it comes from yourself.

Moses has said that something is right and something else is wrong and so has Manu and so has Mohammed, but it is not your heart. And the ultimate decision has to be yours. How can Manu, Moses or Mohammed decide for you? -- everything has changed. So much water has gone down the Ganges since Manu. Manu existed five thousand years ago and Hindus are still following his dictates; he has decided what is moral and what is immoral. No, this is sheer nonsense. Life has completely changed. If Manu comes back he will not be able to recognise anything he will be simply bewildered. He will only be able to understand his own book, MANUSMRATI, the book that he wrote five thousand years ago; everything else has changed. But he will certainly laugh at the foolishness of the Hindus -- that they are still following him.

a friend has asked: Osho, the way you speak—won’t it spread immorality?

As though immorality weren’t already widespread, and now it will spread because of what I say. The situation is such that however much you try to spread it now, it would be very hard to make it go any further than it already has. They say, “Let immorality not spread.” Perhaps they think morality is what has spread. So they ask, “Won’t your words spread immorality?” This fear haunts us constantly. And it’s rather amusing—a funny kind of fear. Because it is immorality that has spread. If morality had spread, there would be no need for such fear. Even after ten thousand years of effort, morality hasn’t spread; it’s immorality that has. And now we’re afraid that immorality might spread! Our fear is like a beggar sitting nervously beside a police station worrying that he might be robbed. What is there of yours to be stolen? Roam freely! You don’t…