The Salt of the Earth

TrackThe Transmission of the Lamp

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"John the Baptist is not much known. He is overshadowed by Jesus Christ and Christianity. He was certainly more powerful and a greater revolutionary than Jesus himself.
"It is very unfortunate that Jews won't talk..."
The Salt of the Earth
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"John the Baptist is not much known. He is overshadowed by Jesus Christ and Christianity. He was certainly more powerful and a greater revolutionary than Jesus himself.
"It is very unfortunate that Jews won't talk..."

Osho continues:
"He was declaring the death of the old and the birth of the new, which really the old, the orthodox, the traditional, cannot respect.

"And Christians have ignored him for another reason – because he baptized Jesus, initiated him into religion. Christians don't want to mention the fact that Jesus had a master because that lowers the status of Jesus in the eyes of Christians – the only begotten son of God need not have any master, he is born a master and he is born with the message. So although it is mentioned – it is just a mention that John the Baptist initiated Jesus.

"But it is ugly that they will not talk much about the master of their master. They make so much fuss about the crucifixion of Jesus. Their whole religion depends on the crucifixion of Jesus; if he was not crucified there would have been no Christianity at all. But they don't talk about the fact that John the Baptist also was beheaded.

"Neither do the Jews take any note that the man was murdered. They were happy about it because he was declaring the death of the old.

"Nor are the Christians interested in him because he was not a Christian. He initiated Jesus into Judaism, not into Christianity.

"And the man must have had a tremendous charisma, that even a man like Jesus felt to become his disciple.

"Thousands of people were baptized by John. He must have had a great magic around him, and at the same time he was a very humble man – because he did not declare himself to be the messiah. That point has to be remembered. A tremendous beauty…he has every characteristic to call himself a messiah. He influenced more people than Jesus.

"Jesus was crucified by the Jews because he was talking – talking against their conception of God, saying that he is the only begotten son of God. He was claiming something for which he had no evidence, and he was also claiming that he is the long-awaited messiah. Jews have been waiting for that savior since Moses.

"John the Baptist was a charismatic personality. He could have declared himself to be the messiah, to be the only begotten son of God; but he was a humble man."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 80 mins
File Size 16.82 MB
Type Conversa Individual