Question 3:

All the religions are based on god. their morality, their commandments, their prayers, their saintliness - everything points towards god, and you say that god is dead. then what will happen to all these great things that are dependent on the concept of god?

 

 

All those things that are dependent on the concept of God are bogus; hypocrites are created by all those things. Your morality is not real, it is imposed out of fear, or out of greed. A true morality arises only in a meditator's consciousness. It is not something imported from the outside, it is something arising in your very being. It is spontaneous. And when morality is spontaneous, it is a joy, it is simply sharing your compassion and love.

 

All the qualities which are dependent on God will disappear with God disappearing. They are very superficial.

 

You all have back doors. At the front door you are one person, at the back door you are a different person. Have you ever watched it? At the front door you are a great Catholic, so religious, so pious, so prayerful, that anybody could think you were a saint. But this is only in your sitting room. At the back door you are just as human beings are supposed to be, with all their instincts, with all their sex, with all their greed, with all their anger. Just look at your God himself. Different religions have different ideas, but all ideas prove one thing, that God is the original sinner.

 

The Hindu God created woman and became infatuated - with his own daughter. And the woman became afraid, so she became a cow and God became the bull. She rushed and became somebody else, and God followed her - that's how all the species have been created according to Hindu theology; it was God following the woman into different forms. The woman was changing forms, God was also changing forms. The woman was always the female, the God was always the male.

 

That's why there are so many millions of species. If the woman became a female mosquito, God became a male mosquito. It went on and on, perhaps it is still going on.

 

Do you think this god is a moral god? And the same is true about all gods of all religions. The Jewish god says in the Old Testament, "I am a very jealous god. I am not the one who is going to forgive you, I am a very angry god. You should not worship anybody else except me. And remember I am your father, not your uncle." What kind of god is this, jealous, worried that you may worship another god? And finally he says, "I am your father, remember; I am not your uncle." Uncles are always nicer people than fathers.

 

A german catholic theology professor, uta ranke-heinemann, recently made the following comment: "The majority of catholic bishops in the U.S.

 

Are sexually disturbed. we must assume that german bishops will soon be calling a commission to see if they are sexually disturbed also."

 

The barnsberg church historian, professor george denzler, stated: "The pope is responsible for a very painful, very terrible sexual morality."

 

And a german protestant pastor, helga frisch, said, "When celibacy was introduced in the tenth century, the priest killed the pope's ambassador and threatened to murder the archbishop. i am amazed that priests today don't resort to similar tactics."

 

There is a morality which is imposed from the outside which is never in tune with your heart. And there is a morality that comes from within you, which is always in tune with your heart and in tune with the heart of the universe. That is authentic morality.

 

I don't give you any discipline, any morality. I simply give you a clarity of vision. Out of that clarity whatsoever comes is good, is divine, is moral.

 

- Osho, "God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth, #1, Q1"