The Mystic Rose

TrackSatyam Shivam Sundaram: Truth Godliness Beauty

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"Milarepa, it is not a question suitable to you, but I will answer anyway.
"The mystic rose is an ancient symbol of tremendous importance.
"Charles Darwin propounded a theory of evolution. Most of it is..."
"Milarepa, it is not a question suitable to you, but I will answer anyway.
"The mystic rose is an ancient symbol of tremendous importance.
"Charles Darwin propounded a theory of evolution. Most of it is..."

Osho continues:
"Even today, most people are not clear what the problem is, why Christians are so much against Charles Darwin.

"Christians believe that God created the world in six days in its completion. Obviously, when God creates something it is bound to be complete and perfect; hence the question of evolution does not arise. Evolution means things are evolving, becoming better, more perfect, reaching to higher levels. This was against the idea of a fixed creation; hence Charles Darwin was criticized, condemned.

"I remember…. There was a small school and the teacher was explaining to the students how God created the world. One small boy, whose father was a scientist and had been teaching him about the theory of evolution, stood up and said, 'But my father says something else. He says we are born out of the monkeys.'

"And the Christian teacher said, 'As far as your family is concerned, he may be right. We are not discussing your family here. You can see me later after the class.'

"But that was the attitude all over the world – not only of Christians but of Hindus and of Mohammedans. They thought that Charles Darwin had taken away their dignity as the greatest and the most superior creation of God. He has destroyed their ego: that God created man in his own image. Now this fellow is saying that God created man in the image of a monkey! Nobody was ready to accept it.

"I am also not ready to accept it, but my grounds are different. It is not a question of comparing skeletons; the evolution is in the consciousness, not in the body. Man has a body, monkeys have their own bodies, chimpanzees have their own bodies.

"Even Charles Darwin was very much puzzled: How can a monkey suddenly become a man? As far as we know, for at least ten thousand years, there has not been a single case when suddenly a monkey jumps out of a tree and becomes a man. If it has not happened in ten thousand years, it is inconceivable that it could ever have happened.

"His whole life he was looking for some missing links. The gap between the monkey and man seemed to be too big."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 75 mins
File Size 15.08 MB
Type Conversa Individual