COME FOLLOW TO YOU (Vol 4) - On the Sayings of Jesus

          Rise above law, go beyond it; reach to the heights of love.

And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying: “This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.” It is the last supper with Jesus and only Jesus knows it is the last. They were silent and in silence they must have eaten and drunk. The bread became Jesus, the wine became his blood. Osho’s talks on the sayings of Jesus in the backdrop of selected versus from the gospels of John, Mathew and Luke (John Ch:13 Mathew Ch:26,27 and Luke Ch:22, 24 ) are transcribed in this last of four volumes.

On that last day of Jesus with his disciples, Jesus washed and touched his disciples’ feet with deep reverence. Jesus touched the feet of the disciples to show them that nothing is lowly. By touching the feet of his disciples, he is saying that the disciple is the master and the master is the disciple. Without saying anything, he is saying the very essence of all religions that “I and thou are not two.”

The governor asked Jesus: “Art thou the king of the Jews?” And Jesus said unto him: “Thou sayest.” “I am not saying,” he said. “I have not said it. It is you who are saying it.” Jesus was misunderstood whenever he talked about the kingdom of God; he never talked about the kingdom of this earth. Osho says that when you are near a man like Jesus, listen to his silence and not to his words.

On the cross Jesus cries, prays and almost shouts at God. “What are you doing to me? Have you forgotten me? Why this much suffering to me? And immediately he says, “But let thy will be done, not mine.”

Jesus’ message was very simple , straight: follow love and forget everything. Make love your only, and the only commandment. If you follow love, everything will be set right of its own accord.

Jesus goes on saying, “I and my father who is in heaven, are one.” This is the meaning of the Upanishadic saying: Aham brahmasmi - “I am the whole.” This is the meaning of el-Hillaj Mansoor who said: Ana’l haq - “I am the truth.” 

Osho’s responses to questions from seekers and disciples are compiled in alternate chapters. Following are some of his observations:

If you have eyes to see, you will find God everywhere, good everywhere: scriptures in silence and sermons in stones. 

We only see that which we want to see, we only see that which we are expecting to see.

Love always creates fear because love is death, a greater death than the ordinary death you know of. 

When you read a book, you never read the book that the author has written.

Osho tells a number of jokes and stories during the course of his talks. Here he reminds us of an old and very famous story from Bhagawat purana:

A crow was flying with a piece of meat in its beak. Twenty crows were pressing it, pursuing it, fighting with it, trying to grab the meat. Flying high to escape them, it became tired, wounded. Suddenly, it dropped the meat, and the twenty crows flew down shrieking, fighting for it. Then the crow, flying high, thought, “How good it is to carry nothing; the whole sky belongs to me.”