Come Follow to You, Vol. 3

Talks on the Sayings of Jesus
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Osho looks at Jesus in a highly original way: Jesus the master working with his disciples, Jesus walking in the marketplace, Jesus the fiery rebel creating troubles for the rabbis in the temple. Here is the man who enjoyed his food, enjoyed his wine, and who very much enjoyed his short life.

Osho looks at Jesus in a highly original way: Jesus the master working with his disciples, Jesus walking in the marketplace, Jesus the fiery rebel creating troubles for the rabbis in the temple. Here is the man who enjoyed his food, enjoyed his wine, and who very much enjoyed his short life.


Excerpt from: Come Follow to You, Vol. 3, Chapter 4

The so-called religions have created a dichotomy. They have created a dichotomy and they have poisoned the whole mind of humanity. The so-called religions are afraid of beauty because somehow in beauty, they feel sex hidden. That becomes the trouble. Wherever they feel beauty they feel the erotic, and they have been thinking that the erotic is against the divine. It is not. The erotic is the first glimpse of the divine. It is not the last – that has to be remembered – but it is the first arising of the same energy. The energy is the same; it is the first flood, it is the first tremor, but the energy is the same. If the energy goes higher and higher and higher, then it becomes a great wave of bliss, then it reaches the heavens.

Because religions became afraid of sex, because they became afraid of the body, they became afraid of beauty because beauty is form. God is formless, beauty is form, but the form is of the formless. Because religions became afraid of the world, they started thinking of God as against the world – this is some absurdity that has entered all religions. They all say that God created the world, and at the same time they say that you cannot attain God if you don’t renounce the world.

This is patent foolishness because if the world is God’s creation, why should it be a basic requirement to renounce it? Rather, one would think that the basic requirement should be that one should rejoice in it; it is God’s creation. If you love the painter, you also love his paintings. In fact you come to know the painter only through his paintings; there is no other way. If you love the poet, you also love his poetry. How do you know that he is a poet? It is only through his poetry. No poet will say that you can love him only if you renounce his poetry.

If God is the creator, then the world has to be loved, loved totally, loved deeply. You have to get involved in it, rejoice in it, delight in it. Only through your delight will you, by and by, have glimpses of the creator in the creation. If you look at the painting of a great painter, you will have glimpses of the master. It cannot be otherwise because the master has entered those colors: his touch is there, the master touch. If you love a poem and you penetrate it, you will find the heart of the poet beating there. And unless you have penetrated that depth, you have not understood, you cannot understand it. Unless the poetry becomes the heart of the poet, it is not understood.

The world has to be rejoiced. The body is beautiful – delight in it, it is a gift of God. Don’t try to renounce it, because renouncing it means you reject the master.

Gurdjieff used to say that all religions are against God, and he is perfectly right. The so-called religions are all against God. They talk about God, but they are against God. They show it through their actions, they say, “Renounce the world, renounce the body.” Renounce should be a dirty word. Rejoice! Replace renounce by rejoice, and a totally different conception of religion arises. Then aesthetics, then beauty, then the sensitivity to beauty is not against spirituality. Then it becomes the beginning. And one has to deepen it. Be committed to beauty, and through it you will come to know what religions call “God,” you will come to know divinity, divineness.

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