Osho's perspective on Messiah
When Osho Spoke About Messiah
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Question: BELOVED OSHO, ARE YOU A MESSIAH, A PROPHET, OR A REINCARNATION OF GOD? I have never expected that one of my sannyasins would ask such a bullshit question! I am simply myself. I am not a messiah, because there is no God to send messengers to the world. Moreover, I don't want to be crucified. To prove that you are a messiah of God, crucifixion is absolutely necessary. Not that I am afraid of death, but I would like a comfortable, luxurious death. Not carrying the cross on my own shoulders, not even on your shoulders -- the cross will be carried on a Rolls Royce limousine. I am not a prophet either. I don't know what is going to happen in the next moment. I don't know even what I am going to say in the next moment. The future does not exist for me.
Beloved Osho, are you a messiah?
No, Sheela, absolutely no. The whole idea is fundamentally wrong. It is not only that I am not a messiah, there has never been anyone who was and there will never be anybody who will be. You will have to go deep into the concept of it. The idea of a messiah is a secondary idea. First you have to believe in God as a person, then only can you start thinking of God sending special messengers, messiahs. To me there is no personal God at all who can send a messiah. I am reminded of a very beautiful incident of one of the most famous Mohammedans, Caliph Omar. The caliph in Mohammedanism is parallel to the pope in Christianity; he is both the religious head and the temporal head. Omar was a very nice and good man. One day, his soldiers brought a man to his court who was…
Question: Second question: Osho, are you a messiah? What do you take yourself to be? ... But those footprints were very clear. The astrologer grew anxious—was his scripture wrong? He followed the tracks. In the direction the prints seemed to go, he walked, for it had become necessary to see this man. Walking along, he reached the tree under which Buddha sat—and then he was in deeper trouble. Seeing Buddha’s face, it seemed indeed the face of a chakravarti—his very presence had the aura a world emperor should have: the same halo, the same circle of light, the same fragrance, the same majesty. Yet the man looked like a beggar. A begging bowl lay beside him; not even a mat to sit upon. He was seated on a rock under a bush.
मगर ये पैर के चिह्न बहुत स्पष्ट हैं। ज्योतिषी को बहुत चिंता हुई कि क्या मेरा शास्त्र गलत है! उसने पैरों के चिह्नों का पीछा किया। जिस तरफ चिह्न जाते मालूम होते थे पैर के, उसी तरफ चल पड़ा कि इस आदमी को देखना ही जरूरी है। चलते-चलते पहुंचा उस वृक्ष के नीचे जहां बुद्ध बैठे थे, तब और मुश्किल में पड़ गया। बुद्ध के चेहरे को देख कर तो लगे कि है तो चेहरा चक्रवर्ती सम्राट का ही। व्यक्तित्व में वही आभा है जो चक्रवर्ती की होनी चाहिए--वही मंडल है, वही वर्तुल है प्रकाश का, वही सुगंध है, वही ऐश्वर्य! मगर आदमी भिखमंगा मालूम होता है। पास में भिक्षापात्र रखा हुआ है, बिछाने को चटाई भी नहीं है। झाड़ के नीचे चट्टान पर बैठा हुआ है। वह पैरों पर गिर पड़ा ज्यातिषी, उसने अपने शास्त्र जो बड़े बहुमूल्य थे वहीं रख दिए और बुद्ध से कहा कि मेरी जिज्ञासा को शांत कर दें, मैं बहुत अड़चन में पड़ गया हूं। …
Beloved master, who are you?
I am not a messiah, nor a prophet, nor a savior. I am simply a human being, with a little difference that you are not awake and I am awake. You can call me the awakened one. I emphatically deny the role of the messiah, the prophet, the savior, for specific reasons. My understanding is that nobody can save anybody else -- the very idea is insulting. And if somebody can save somebody, he can also drown him, because both the capacities come together. I am not a prophet, representing God, his message. As far as I am concerned existence is divine, but there is no God as a person. It is a quality of creativity, but not a creator. So the people who are creative are more religious than the people who go on praying in the churches, in the temples, in the synagogues to a God above in…
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