When Jesus is there, people kill him and when he is gone, they worship him.
Jesus disappeared that day in the River Jordan when John the Baptist initiated him into a totally different life. Jesus says and preaches whatsoever he lives. He speaks in the language of the farmers, the fishers and the carpenters. He says to his disciples, “Moses gave you the law, I give you love. Moses brought you the law, and I bring you a higher law of grace.” Jesus’ whole effort is to tell people to accept themselves and not feel guilty and condemned. Osho’s talks on Jesus in the backdrop of selected verses from the gospels of Mathew and Luke (Mathew Ch: 9, 12, 13 and Luke Ch: 10, 14 and 18) are transcribed in this volume.
Jesus says, “Ask, and it shall be given. Knock, and the doors shall be opened unto you.” “ But because of your ego”, Osho says, “you have not even knocked; because of your ego, you have not even asked. ”
One of the most popular sayings of Jesus is that “ it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” Jesus is talking about that man who is possessive and miserly, who is closed and unwilling to share.
Osho says, “When Jesus talks to you, he is not giving you flowers, he is giving you seeds.” Jesus’ whole life is nothing but a showering of good seeds all around. The gospel says: “He that soweth the good seed is the son of man...” Jesus uses “son of man” for himself more than he ever uses “son of God.”
The charge against Jesus was that he was trying to change the society by corrupting people and creating chaos. According to Osho Jesus was actually trying to change the individual and not the society as was charged by the priests.
When Jesus was crucified, only three women came near him. Osho sees it as symbolic - that only the heart can come near in such moments. Three poor women, Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and Martha, one of them a prostitute, came to take possession of the body and they brought the body of Jesus down from the cross.
Jesus on the cross, according to Osho, is a symbol that the ego has to be crucified. On the cross when Jesus died, he was resurrected on the third day.
After resurrection he became the son of God; before that he was the son of man.
Osho says: “ you can crucify the body of a Jesus, but you can never crucify his spirit.”
Osho’s responses to questions from seekers and disciples are compiled in alternate chapters. Following are some of his observations:
There is much difference between a Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler, but deep down no difference at all, because both have ideas of changing the world according to them.
If you want to love human beings you have to stop loving the country, you have to stop loving the religion, you have to stop loving your colour. If you really want to love human beings you have to stop all political nonsense.
Life is God, love is God. Remember this much, and don’t be worried about knowledge.
Only fools are certain; wise people are always hesitant.
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