Birthday of British Physicist Ernest Rutherford August 30th is the birthday of the British&nbsp;physicist Ernest Rutherford, who is widely regarded as the father of&nbsp;nuclear physics. He was born in 1871 in New Zealand to immigrant parents. At the age of 24, Rutherford went to the University of Cambridge on a research fellowship. He is credited with many groundbreaking discoveries such as the radioactive element radon, the&nbsp;alpha and&nbsp;beta rays and the proton. In 1908 he was awarded the&nbsp;Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is Rutherford’s work that established the nuclear structure of the atom and the essential nature of radioactive decay as a nuclear process. His research laid the foundation for electricity generation using a controlled nuclear chain reaction many years later. Rutherford is deemed to be one of the greatest scientists of all times. Osho has spoken on many great scientists and Rutherford is amongst them. Osho says, “Rutherford and Einstein are people who have penetrated into the deepest mystery of matter -- and their statements look like the statements of mystics.”<div class="raw-html-embed"><div style="width:100%;height:1px;background:#00000036;margin:10px 0;"></div></div>Inferiority is a disease. Superiority which comes to suppress the inferiority is a greater disease. Many times, the medicine proves to be more dangerous than the disease itself. So, Yoga wants to remind us of the other side also. It actually says that if there is any God, he too need not be filled with an ego that he is something, because that which he has, the smallest particle of dust has also. Hence, on one side, even small particles of dust need not feel inferior and on the other side, even God need not be caught up by superiority. And only when one is free of inferiority and superiority both does he gain balance. This declaration of Yoga is an effort to free man of his deep psychological disease. But it is not only an effort to cure the psychological disease, it is the truth also. Neither the small has any reason to weep nor the absolute has any reason to become egoist. Here, one who appears to be very big and one who appears to be very small, they all have similar treasure. Jesus has told a small anecdote. One day a very rich man engaged some laborers in his garden. Then at noon time, some more laborers approached the rich man and they said they wanted work. The rich man engaged them also to work in the garden. When the sun was going down some more laborers came to the rich man and asked for work. The rich man engaged them also to work. Then just as the sun was about to set some other laborers came and the rich man engaged them too to work. Then the day was over and the wages were given to all the laborers for that day. The rich man gave equal wages to all of them. Those who had come in the morning, they stood up in anger. They said, "It is unjust. We have been working since morning. Some people came in the afternoon and a few came just when we were about to finish the work, and equal wages to all -- it is unjust!" The rich man asked, "What you have received, is that too little for your work?" They said, "No, that's more than enough for our work. But what about those who came so late?" The rich man said, "In the kingdom of God, neither is anybody early nor anybody late, all are equal." Yoga is saying the same thing. What it is saying is that even a particle of dust has no reason to grieve, and God himself has no reason to be filled with ego. In the play of this life, neither is anybody ahead nor anybody behind; neither is anybody big nor anybody small. Yoga shows the supreme in the trivial and the trivial in the supreme, shows the ocean in the drop and the drop in the ocean. This is the truth also, as I said. And now science too is saying very strange things. When Rutherford first split the atom, a very strange experience came to light, which was that even the atom of least mass is similar to the solar world of the great suns. In the smallest atom there is a center and there are electrons that go on spinning around the center. The speed of this spinning is similar to the high speeds of the planets Earth and Mars and Jupiter going around the sun. And the energy hidden at the center of the atom is similar to that of the energy of the sun. It is as if a miniature solar family resides in the atom. The difference is of the quantity only, there is no difference in quality. So, science has started saying what the oldest sutra of Yoga says. Perhaps you remember it: "The macrocosm is in the microcosm." This is what the scientist Rutherford and his colleagues say. The whole cosmos is present in a tiny microcosm. That cosmos is in such a small form in the microcosm that even seeing it is not possible. It is only inferred that it is. It is only through inference that we know that it spins. The difference is quantitative. It is like saying, the difference between two and four is the same as the difference between twenty and forty. The same is the difference between two hundred and four hundred. The same is the difference between twenty million and forty million. The proportion is the same between all the figures. Only the figures have expanded, the proportion remains the same. Exactly in the same manner, the difference between the macro and micro is that of proportion. Understanding this truth one should keep in mind two things: an inferiority complex is madness, a superiority complex is greater madness. One should understand it well. It is madness to think of oneself as nothing, it is also madness to think of oneself as something. Yoga says: Inferiority or superiority have no access to that which you are. You should know only this much -- that you are. This much is enough. Its other meaning is: do not compare yourself. There is no sense in it. Do not compare at all. There is no point in comparing. If you compare two and four to twenty and forty or twenty million and forty million, it makes no difference, they are equal; their proportion is equal. Hence, comparison is meaningless. Hence Yoga says: Do not compare a drop and the ocean because a drop is nothing but a small ocean. Source: Listen to complete discourse at mentioned below link. Discourse Series: Sun of Consciousness, Chapter #3 Chapter title: Home - Temple 18 October 1970 pm in Poona, India References: Osho has spoken of scientists like Chamberlain, Edison, Eddington, Einstein, Galileo, Madam Curie, Newton, Rutherford and many others in His discourses. Some of these can be referred to in the following books/discourse titles: 1. Come follow to you Vol. 1 2. The Dhammapada: the way of the Buddha Vol.12 3. Tao: The three treasures Vo.2,4 4. Unio Mystica Vol.1 5. Zen: The path of paradox Vol.1 6. The Messiah Vol.1-2 7. Philosophia Perennis Vol.1-2 8. The Pathless Path Vol.2 9. The Way of Tao Vol. 2 &nbsp;