OSHO-VOI SINTETI LUMEA

One man lived for thirty years in the Himalayas. His problem was anger, and he wanted to get rid of it. In the Himalayas for thirty years he was not angry for a single moment - there was no reason. The wife was not there, the children were not there, the parents were not there, the society was not there - there was no provocation. His name became famous by and by, and people started coming to worship him. Now it was even more difficult to be aware that the anger was still there. When people are worshipping you, there is no question of anger. Then came the Kumbha Mela in Allahabad. People said, "You are such a great saint. Without you, the Kumbha Mela, the greatest gathering of people on the earth in one place, will be missing something. You have to go." And by now he was convinced that he had become a great saint. People were coming from far away to make the difficult, arduous journey through the mountains just to pay respects to him. He went to Kumbha Mela, but there were millions of people - nobody knew him. Somebody stepped on his foot, and immediately he slapped the man, took hold of his neck and said, "What do you think you're doing?" Suddenly he remembered that he was a saint. He said, "My God, what am I doing? What happened to thirty years? The anger came in such a flash, so instantaneously, not even a single moment of thought." He was going to kill the man. That was the reason he had gone to the Himalayas - because he was afraid he would murder somebody and would be crucified or have to live for his whole life in jail. Even his family had said, "It will be good if you go to the Himalayas because you will kill somebody, and that means you have killed yourself too. This way two lives are saved. You go." But thirty years... What happened? It is simple fact: the people who have escaped from the world are not to think that they are not responsible for this world. By escaping, they have not changed the world. By escaping, they have not contributed anything to make it more beautiful, more human, more intelligent, more meditative. Neither have they changed the world nor have they gone through any inner change themselves. Hence I am against renouncing the world. Be in the world, however difficult it is - because it is only in the world that you will be reminded on every step what kind of mind you are carrying within. And that mind is projected on the outside, and it becomes huge because so many minds are projecting in the same way. "You are the world" is not a mathematical statement. "You are the world" is a psychological insight. And it can become the very key for the only revolution that can succeed. Osho - Sermons in Stones #2

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