Question 2
Beloved Osho,
Upon being questioned on his place in history, einstein said, "if relativity is proved right, the germans will call me german, the swiss will call me a swiss citizen, and the french will call me a great scientist. if relativity is proved wrong, the french will call me a swiss, the swiss will call me a german, and the germans will call me a jew."
In your case, osho, i imagine the indians will say you had to leave india for lack of space -- you had too many indian followers; the americans will say they persuaded you to leave to help spread your message; the greeks will say they were so impressed with you, that they provided a police motorcade to the airport; and the british will say they even provided you with government accommodation. and all the rest will say that they wanted you to stay but did not want to gain an unfair advantage over the others.
Beloved osho, what do you say?
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity was a simple matter: either it is right or it is wrong. Hence what he said is relevant. My work is more complex, almost impossible, because it is not a question of any theory being right or wrong. I can be right only if humanity goes through a transformation -- which is hoping against hope. But I am an adamant optimist.
Knowing the impossibility of the job, I go on working with absolute trust that the revolution is going to happen. And if my revolution happens, there will be no India and no Indians, no Germany and no Germans, no America and no Americans.
This small planet earth is simply one.
All divisions are false.
If I fail, then these divisions can remain.
If I succeed in convincing the intelligent youth of the world, then all the political lines on the map will have to disappear -- they are absolutely unnecessary. They are against humanity's welfare.
It is one single whole; and we should be proud that our planet earth is the only planet in this vast universe, where there are millions of solar systems having millions and millions of planets. Our planet is the only one which has evolved not only life, not only consciousness, but has even produced the ultimate flowering of consciousness in people like Gautam the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Tilopa and many more.
We should be proud of this planet earth.
All flags need to be burned, and all divisions need to be destroyed, and a single humanity has to be proclaimed.
So if I succeed, Devaraj, there will be nobody as Indian, as German, as American, to say anything about me. Yes, if I fail -- which is more possible -- then they all will condemn me. They are all condemning me already.
Perhaps never a single individual has been condemned by so many nations -- almost the whole world -- together, because my fight is not against any particular superstition, any particular religion, any particular nation. My fight is against the very concept of nationality, the very concept of the divisions of religions.
If there is only one science, there can be only one religion. If one science is enough to explore the inner world of man, then that one religion need not have any adjective to it -- Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism or anything.
Just as science is simply science, religion is simply religion.
In fact, according to me, there is only one science with two dimensions: one dimension working on the outside world, the other dimension working on the inside world. We can even get rid of the word `religion'.
This is a fundamental rule of science, that a minimum of hypotheses should be used. So why use two words? Just one word is enough. And `science' is a beautiful word, it means `knowing'.
Knowing the other is one aspect, knowing one's self is another aspect; but `knowing' covers both.
-Osho, "The Transmission of the Lamp, #31, Q2"