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Osho, is their coming again also the need of the world?

Absolutely—it is the world’s need, only the world’s need. The moment a person attains bliss, the very life-breath of the whole world begins to call to him: share. Because the world is in so much sorrow, so much pain, so much suffering, whenever even a single person attains bliss, a cry rises from the souls of all beings and reaches him again and again: share. He returns only to share. It is that pressure to share, rising from all sides, that brings him back. This is not immediately visible to us. People ask me, “Why do you speak?” Their question is fair—since I am the one speaking, they ask me. It is hard to imagine that someone has become eager to listen; therefore I speak. In the outer world the sequence seems reversed: I will speak, then listeners will come. But in the inner world the happening is entirely different:…

Question: OSHO, IS THE WORLD GOING TO SURVIVE THE THIRD WORLD WAR? I don't have any hope, but I am hoping against hope. There are many things to be considered. First, perhaps it is good that it does not survive. It has become so rotten, so ugly, that if it survives and remains the same it will be worse than not surviving. Our world is in almost the same situation as thousands of people... around the world they are just surviving because they can still breathe. In the hospitals, with all kinds of medical support, they can continue to breathe; even the breathing is not their own -- they need some mechanical device to help them to continue to breathe. Do you call that life?

Beloved Osho, what do you say about the third world war? Is it going to happen or not? What should we do to prevent it?

Don't do anything to prevent it, because this humanity that you see around the earth is not worth anything. A good third world war will at least clean this planet of human garbage: cathedrals, temples, mosques, White Houses where only lies are manufactured. Perhaps that's why it is called the White House -- because we know the phrase "white lie." Lies are always white; they have to be painted white. All these politicians, with no awareness, no love, and with all the nuclear weapons in their hands.... The world right now contains so many nuclear and atomic weapons that this poor humanity can be killed seven times -- although that is not needed, once is more than enough. And they go on piling them up. But I am not a pessimist. I am saying it to you just to emphasize the fact that it is not a question of the…

Osho, you said that there is a russian here. What do you think of russians? Will there be a third world war?

And they have learned one thing: how to prevent a revolution from the very beginning, from the very seeds of revolution, so not even freedom of opinion is allowed. You are even afraid to talk to your own wife because, who knows? -- she may be an informer. Nobody knows about anybody. You are afraid to talk to your own children because they belong to the Young Communists' League and they inform against their parents. Only in Russia do walls have ears -- only in Russia. Everywhere else it is only a proverb, in Russia it is a reality. You cannot even think independently because to think independently you need certain things to be made available. If Marx had been born in Russia he would not have been able to write DAS KAPITAL because there is no British Museum where he could have gone and consulted all kinds of books.…