OSHO: “UNLESS WE ARE READY FOR A TOTAL REVOLUTION, MAN CANNOT BE SAVED...”

ALL OUR RELATIONSHIPS HAVE GONE POISONOUS, AND A GREAT REVOLUTION IS NEEDED to change all this garbage of centuries that has collected around our beings. But it is possible -- not only possible, IT HAS TO HAPPEN because there is a limit to everything. This insanity that we have lived for thousands of years has come to the peak.

BECAUSE OF THIS MADNESS WE HAVE CREATED NUCLEAR WEAPONS, knowing well that if any war happens, that will be the destruction of all. Nobody will be defeated, nobody will be victorious. Still nations go on creating nuclear weapons. Even poor nations, which are not able to feed their people, want to join the race, want to put billions of dollars into destructive war material.

Just twenty-two years before (in June 1987), there were only five nations which had nuclear weapons; now there are almost three times that many. India is one, Pakistan is also one. IN INDIA ALONE, ONE BILLION PEOPLE WILL BE DYING -- but nobody is interested in that. Your politicians are interested in getting more uranium, more materials to create nuclear weapons.

You will be surprised that ALMOST HALF OF THIS COUNTRY IS HUNGRY, people go to sleep with no food in their stomachs. If they can manage one meal a day they are very fortunate. And India is ready to give wheat to purchase more of the war materials necessary for creating atomic energy, nuclear weapons, and being ready for a third world war. It is not a question of some individual gone mad, IT IS THE WHOLE HUMANITY WHICH HAS GONE CRAZY.

This is the very limit, unbearable. EITHER WE HAVE TO COMMIT SUICIDE because of all these idiots who are creating the situation for a global murder, OR WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE WHOLE PAST: its institutions, its education, its ways of living, its ways of being religious.

UNLESS WE ARE READY FOR A TOTAL REVOLUTION, MAN CANNOT BE SAVED.

MY HOPE IS THAT HOWSOEVER FAR MAN MAY HAVE GONE CRAZY, HE STILL WANTS TO LIVE. His will to live is the only hope left.

WE HAVE TO PUT MORE FIRE INTO THE WILL TO LIVE. We have to create wildfires around the world -- for more life, for more love, for more songs, for more music -- so that it becomes impossible for humanity to go along with these political, scientific, and other kinds of madmen to commit suicide.

IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE VAST HUMANITY IN THE WORLD. If they simply say, "We have decided to live, and we have decided to make this world more beautiful, and we have decided to dissolve nations so that we can dissolve wars, and we have decided to dissolve religions because they are also causes of war and discrimination..."

UNLESS SUCH A MIRACLE HAPPENS, man's history has come to its last chapter.

OSHO

The Rebel
Ch #34: A danger to the crowd
pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium