Krishna is on the side of freedom; he cannot be on the side of equality. If there is freedom it is possible that inequality will diminish. I don't say equality will come with freedom, I only say in equality will gradually be reduced. #SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
But if equality is forced on people then their freedom is bound to diminish and disappear. Anything imposed with force is synonymous with slavery. So basically it is a choice of values. And in my vision the individual is the highest value.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
So freedom of the individual is of the highest. The camp of evil has always been against the individual and in favor of the group, the collective. The individual has no value whatsoever in the eyes of evil, and there is good reason for it.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
The individual is rebellious, the seed of rebellion. If you want some evil act to be done you will find it easier through a group than through an individual. It is very difficult for one Hindu to set fire to a mosque, but a crowd can do it for fun.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
A single Muslim will find it hard to stick a knife into a Hindu child's chest , but a horde can do it without a qualm of conscience. In fact, bigger a crowd the less soul it has. But its the sense of responsibility that is the kernel of the soul.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
When I go to push a knife in somebody's chest my conscience bites at me. It says, "What are you doing?" But my soul does not feel disturbed when I am with a crowd, killing people recklessly and burning their property.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
Then I say its not me but people, Hindus or Muslims, who are doing it, and I am just keeping company – and tomorrow I will not be held individually responsible for it. The side of evil always wants to attract the crowd; it depends on the crowd.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
Evil wants to destroy individual who sees it as a thorn in its flesh. Wants the crowd to live & grow. Good accepts the individual, wants him to grow to his supreme fulfilment & at the same time, wants the crowd to disappear gradually.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
Good stands for a society of individuals who have relationships; but then it will be a society and not a mob. Only free individuals make a society, and where the sovereignty of the individual is denied, society turns into a herd, a mob.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
This is the difference between a society and a crowd. Society is another name for the inter-relationship of individuals, a cooperative of individuals – but the individual has to be there, he is the basic unit of society.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
When an individual freely enters into relationship with another individual, it makes for society. So there cannot be a society inside a prison; a prison can only have a crowd, a collection of faceless individuals.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
Prisoners also relate with each other, exchanging greetings and gifts among themselves, but they are definitely not a society. They have just been gathered together and forced to live within the four walls of a prison; it is not their free choice.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
Therefore I say that Krishna will choose the side where freedom and the sovereignty of the individual, where religion and the possibility to seek the unseen and the unknown will be available in predominance.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
I say "in predominance" because it never happens that one side has all these values and the other side is wholly devoid of them. The division between good and evil is never so clear-cut, even in a battle between Rama and Ravana.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
In Ravana there is a bit of Rama, and a bit of Ravana in Rama. Kauravas share few virtues of Pandavas & latter a few vices of former. Even the best man on this earth has something of worst in him. And the meanest of all carries a bit of goodness.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #osho
So it is always a question of proportion and predominance of one or the other. So freedom and the individual and the soul and religion are the values with which the intelligence of good will side.
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#SanatanDharma #hinduism #OSHO
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