The civilization has touched its peak. . . . .

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The civilization has touched its peak, and now it will disintegrate. These are

the last years.

 

We have not noted that India disintegrated after Mahavira and Buddha. After

them, that golden crest could not be touched again. People ordinarily think that

this happened due to Mahavira and Buddha, but in fact the case is just the

opposite. Actually, just before disintegration begins, persons of the caliber of

Mahavira and Buddha are able to work, not before that -- because just before

disintegration, everything is in disorder and just on the point of crumbling.

 

Just as death faces an individual, so now death shows its dark face before the

collective consciousness of an entire civilization. And that civilization's

collective mind becomes ready to go deep into the realms of religion and the

unknown. That is why it was possible that in a small place like Bihar fifty

thousand sannyasins could move along with Mahavira.

 

This can repeat itself again; there is a complete possibility for it. I have a

complete plan and a blueprint in my mind for this. In one sense, my work of

finding the people I wanted is nearabout complete. Also, they do not know that I

have found them. Now I have to give work to them by preparing them and sending

them out to spread the message.

 

As long as it was my work, I knew what I had to do and I was doing it with

comparative ease. But now I have to give work to others; now I cannot remain in

that ease. I have to hurry up. This is another reason for my hurry. I therefore

want to make it clear to all friends that I am in a hurry, so they should also

hurry up. If they keep on at the speed with which they are walking, they will

not reach anywhere. If they see me in a hurry, then perhaps they will also pick

up speed. Otherwise not.

 

Jesus had to do this. Jesus said to the people that the world was very soon

coming to an end. But people were so foolish that it was very difficult for them

to understand. Jesus said that before their very eyes everything would be

destroyed, that it was time for them to make a choice, and that those who did

not change then would never get a chance to do so later. Those who heard and

understood him became transformed, but most of the people went on asking when

that hour would strike.

 

Now, after two thousand years, some Christian scholars, priests and theologians

sit back and think that it seems as if Jesus had made some mistake -- because up

until now that day of judgment has not arrived. Jesus had said that the event of

world destruction would happen before their very eyes -- while he was there --

that the day of reckoning would come and that those who missed would miss

forever. But that time has not come yet.

 

Was this the mistake of Jesus or have we misunderstood him? Some say that he

made such a great mistake because he did not know anything about the matter, and

therefore there may have been many other things about which Jesus did not know.

Still others say that there is something wrong in our interpretation of the

scriptures. But none of these people know that there are deep reasons and a

calculated purpose behind what people like Jesus say. By saying these things,

Jesus created an atmosphere of emergency in which many people became

transformed.

 

------------------Osho------------

 

 

 

 

 

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