Why Religions Have Put You Against Your Natural Instincts? For The Simple Reason: To Make You Feel Guilty! Let me repeat this word "GUILT". This is their focus of destroying you, exploiting you, molding you, humiliating you, creating disrespect about yourself.
ONCE GUILT IS CREATED -- once you start feeling that,"I am a guilty person, a sinner" -- THEIR WORK IS DONE! Then who can save you? Then the savior is needed. First create the disease.
I HAVE HEARD about two young men. Their business was: ONE MAN WILL enter in the town in the night and THROW COAL TAR ON PEOPLE'S DOORS, WINDOWS... and then leave the town. By the morning, everybody was puzzled. Their doors and their windows are destroyed -- and now how to clean it?
And then suddenly the second man will appear -- THEY WERE PARTNERS IN THE BUSINESS -- and he will announce that, "I clean coal tar."
So everybody was rushing for him that, "You please come to my house and clean my windows." And the first man is already doing the work in another town. By the time one man is finished cleaning this town, his partner has prepared another town for him to clean.
ONE GOES ON MAKING PEOPLE'S HOUSES DIRTY, AND THE OTHER GOES ON CLEANING THEM. Both are partners: fifty-fifty is the game.
THE PRIEST FIRST CREATES GUILT -- that is throwing coal tar on your face. Now somebody is needed to clean it. And it is not the visible face, it is your invisible reality that he goes on throwing coal tar on. YOU CANNOT FIND ANY WAY TO CLEAN IT ON YOUR OWN -- because you don't know what this reality is.
ALL THAT YOU KNOW IS THE PRIEST HAS CONVINCED YOU THAT YOU ARE GUILTY. And he has absolute explanations for it: that you think about sex, that you think about food when you are fasting, that in the night you should not drink water -- nothing should go in your mouth in the night.
But in the summer in India, it is so difficult not to drink water. Even small children are not allowed by the parents. Even small children will steal water in the night. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, YOU ARE MAKING THEM THIEVES -- AND MAKING THEM FEEL GUILTY because they know they have done something wrong.
In my house, WHILE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ALIVE, TOMATOES WERE NOT ALLOWED. Because according to her, the redness of the tomato looks like meat. And I asked her many times, "Have you ever seen meat?" She had never seen meat, but she said, "I know meat looks like tomatoes. Don't bring tomato in the house!" I had not eaten tomato up to the age of 17. I HAD NOT EATEN ONIONS UP TO THE AGE 21 -- because they were not allowed in the house. It was a great sin -- to eat onion, potato!
Now, have you seen more innocent people than potatoes? BUT ANYTHING THAT GROWS UNDER THE GROUND, JAINISM IS AGAINST IT. Anything growing under the ground, Jainas don't allow. Because the sun rays are not reaching to it, it is heavy. Its heaviness, they turn into something spiritual. By eating it, you will be going down; it will make you heavy -- and you need to be light. To have wings you need to be light -- so nothing that grows under the earth should be eaten.
STRANGE ARGUMENT, BUT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS IT HAS BEEN REPEATED -- people have believed it, they are still believing it. And once you eat, then you feel guilty -- because it is against your conscience. The conscience is created by the society....
THE SANNYASIN KNOWS HE IS ALONE. He knows there is no god, no devil, no hell, no heaven. He knows what is harmonious for him -- so he does it. And he knows what is disharmonious for him -- so he does not do it. He knows what brings blessings to him -- he does it; he knows what creates unnecessary suffering -- he drops doing it. It is not a question of stopping, not doing it, he simply drops it.
THE MOMENT YOU SEE YOU ARE CARRYING A SCORPION IN YOUR HAND, is there any need to tell you, "Please drop it!"? Before anybody says "Drop it!", you would have dropped it. All that is needed is to know that you are carrying a scorpion in the hand.
CONSCIOUSNESS MAKES YOU AWARE -- simply aware -- what is right, what is wrong. And the right starts happening, and the wrong starts disappearing.
OSHO
From Unconciousness to Consciousness
Ch #25: I am against religions, but I am for religion pm in Lao Tzu Grove
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