A Womb for Transformation

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From:From Personality to Individuality

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"It is a contradiction in terms, but I will not dispose of the question so easily. I will try to squeeze as much juice out of it as possible.
"Yes, there is some way to..."
"It is a contradiction in terms, but I will not dispose of the question so easily. I will try to squeeze as much juice out of it as possible.
"Yes, there is some way to..."

Osho continues:
"The reason has to be understood.

"Before anything like education came into existence, there was only one way to learn, and that was from the people who were experienced. Naturally, the older generation would teach the younger generation. The older generation had experience, and experience was the only school; there was no alternative. The younger generation had to accept whatever the older generation was saying; there was no way to bypass the older generation.

"The older generation was the only source of knowledge, hence the older people became respected. The older they were, the more respected, because the greater was their experience, the longer was their experience – and it gave them a certain authority.

"There was no possible authority to compete with it, the older generation had the whole monopoly. Because of this situation – and this must have prevailed for thousands of years – the mind has got the habit, and habits die really hard. And habits which have been accumulated over thousands of years become engrained. They become a kind of program in you.

"I was criticizing Mahatma Gandhi my whole life but no Gandhian replied to my arguments. I cannot blame them, because there was no argument on their side: whatsoever they would have said would have looked stupid – and they knew it. In private they had admitted to me, 'What you are saying is right, but that you are saying it is not right. Just to say something against a man who is worshipped by millions of people is not right; you are hurting their feelings.'

"I said, 'Do you mean I have to lie not to hurt their feelings? Do you mean I have to stop saying the truth? – and Gandhi's whole life can be described as a deep search for truth? He entitled his autobiography, The Story Of My Experiments With Trutha man who thinks that his whole life is an experiment with truth. And you are his intimate followers, you have lived with him: you have got some nerve to tell me that I should not say it even though it is true.'

"In public, not a single Gandhian had the courage to accept what I was saying, but they were not able to find any argument against me either; so they found one thing which in India is tremendously appealing."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 129 mins
File Size 33.15 MB
Type Individual Talks