Mulla Nasrudin stopped his wife from jumping off a bridge. "If you jump in," he pleaded, "I will have to jump in after you. It's awfully cold and while we are waiting for the ambulance we will both get pneumonia and die. NOW, PLEASE, BE A GOOD WIFE AND COME
COME AND HANG YOURSELF."
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the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept.
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special function in the capital. 'Prem
Ki Madhushala' - a concert by Shubha Mudgal was also
held.
The society needs science, the
society needs religion, says Osho. But science comes first as
the outer world while religion is second as it is about the
inner - more subtle. With the furious advance of science and
technology, science is also needed in running the government,
as the first step in this direction is the President Elect of
India, Dr. A. K. Abdul Kalam, a noted scientist. Osho explains
how these diverse disciples must merge...
I
would like you to be enriched by Newton, Edison, Eddington,
Rutherford, Einstein; and I would like you also to be enriched
by Buddha, Krishna, Christ, Mohammed, so that you can become
rich in both the dimensions -- the outer and the inner.
Science is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far
enough -- and it cannot go. I am not saying that it can go and
it does not go. No, it CANNOT go into the interiority of your
being. The very methodology of science prevents it from going
in. It can go only outwards, it can study only objectively; it
cannot go into the subjectivity itself. That is the function
of religion.
The society needs science, the society needs religion. And if
you ask me what should be the first priority -- science should
be the first priority. First the outer, the circumference,
then the inner -- because the inner is more subtle, more
delicate.
Science can create the space for real religion to exist on the
earth.
Osho
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It
feels ... if somebody says that Gautam Buddha is only half, it
hurts. But truth is truth. Mahavira is half -- just a soul,
anti-life. So is Zorba -- against spirituality. So are all the
scientists -- even the greatest, like Albert Einstein -- who
cannot conceive the possibility that there is an interior
existence of consciousness.
Albert Einstein is half; that is the tragedy of the West.
Buddha is half; that is our tragedy. And the work for the
future is to bring them together.
I have been using one expression, and that is "Zorba the
Buddha." The body has to be enjoyed as much as your soul.
Matter has its own beauty, its own power, just as
consciousness has its own world, its own silence, its own
peace, its own ecstasy. And between the two is the area of the
mind -- something of matter and something of the spirit. The
poet is just in the middle, between the materialist and the
spiritualist; his poetry touches both extremes. I would like
all three points -- the two extremes and the middle -- to
become one unity.
A man who rejoices in his body and the wisdom of the body, a
man who uses his mind as a tremendously significant mechanism
that evolution has brought, and a man who does not stop at
mind but goes on searching beyond, into the realms of
divineness, into the realms of godliness -- to produce this
man should be the effort of all those who are in some way
concerned with educating the new generation. The
educationists, the journalists, the spiritual teachers -- all
people who are involved in some way in creating a better human
being than has been possible in the past -- have to accept the
totality of man without rejecting anything.
Journalists can do a tremendous service to humanity if their
minds are clear, if they are not themselves prejudiced, either
in favor of spiritualism or in favor of materialism. A
journalist has to be of an open mind, receptive to all kinds
of possibilities. He has to be a seeker and a searcher and an
agnostic; he has not to be a believer. The moment you believe
in something, you start enforcing your belief, whether it is
right or wrong. The journalist has to be open to all
dimensions, ready to accept anything that is going to beautify
existence and make man more blissful, more healthy, more
intelligent, more aware of the tremendous mystery that
surrounds us.
To me, that is the only prayer: to become aware of the
miraculous, the mysterious that surrounds us. And only a man
who has come to a unity within himself is capable of
understanding the mystery of existence.
On
the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept.
of Posts. Govt. of India launched a Special Day Cover at a
special function in the capital. '
It
feels ... if somebody says that Gautam Buddha is only half, it
hurts. But truth is truth. Mahavira is half -- just a soul,
anti-life. So is Zorba -- against spirituality. So are all the
scientists -- even the greatest, like Albert Einstein -- who
cannot conceive the possibility that there is an interior
existence of consciousness.
