It does not need a Nostradamus to predict, priesthood Shantam types are destroying, will continue to be the destroyers of Osho’s work.

I heard that BV doesn`t actually speak the same dialect as the Cretan locals. So there he was, with his shirt half
-unbuttoned, with his heavy medallions shining on his hairy chest, twiddling his large moustache whilst sinking a couple of jars of ouzo, tucking into a kebab, twiddling his worry beads and gossiping at Stavros Papadopoulos`s kebab shop in Agios Nikolaos, when he misunderstood Stavros, who actually said to him:

“I`m just popping up the road to the village. I need to pick up some good red eat to put on my skewer. The rumps on those horny she-goats make my juices run.”

It does not need a Nostradamus to predict priesthood in the lineage of Osho will be the shrewdest and the cleverest one.

All these sutras are to help you to go beyond duality, the dualism, the two. I LIVE NEITHER BY LAW NOR BY LICENSE… There are two types of people ordinarily: people who live by license, by sensuality, by desire — people who simply indulge; they don’t know anything else. They are lost in very ordinary gratifications; their life is very gross. Then there is another type of people who live by law, discipline, commandment: the people who follow the ten commandments — who listen more to the tradition, the scripture, the society, the state, than they listen to their own desiring, body, mind. They listen to authority, they don’t listen to themselves. These are the two ordinary people.

If you live by license you live a life of indulgence — and you will be destroyed by it. If you live a life of law you will again be destroyed — not by indulgence, this time by authority — because nobody can give you the commandment, nobody can give you the law. Life is so spontaneous — how can there be a fixed law to follow? And the moment you start following a fixed law you are a dead entity, not a living being. Your life is no longer a river, it has become a stagnant pool which will simply become more and more dirty, will be more and more stinking, and will disappear into mud.

Kabir says: I neither live by license nor do I live by law. Then how do you live? Kabir says: I live by spontaneity; I live by awareness. Watch it — this is one of the most important things. Indulgence comes from your unconscious mind. Sexuality, or a lust for power, comes from your unconsciousness, from the dark parts of your being — overpowers you, possesses you, drives you mad… and one day you simply feel your whole life is finished and you have not gained anything. Maybe you have succeeded, but still, in the ultimate analysis, ordinary success proves to be a failure — utter failure. I always say: Nothing fails like success. You may have accumulated much money, then one day suddenly you find life is gone. Money is there, but you are gone — so what is the point of this success? You indulge with many women, with many men: energy is wasted, and suddenly there you are — a desert land, a wasteland; nothing has flowered, nothing has grown. That whole journey was just very very momentary, very temporal. Yes, you indulged in one thing after another — but all those things have passed like nightmares, and your hands are empty.

And those moments cannot be reclaimed. The time lost is lost forever; the energies lost are lost for ever… and people who indulge go on indulging to the very end — even when death is knocking on the door, they are thinking of indulgence.

Osho.
The Divine Melody
Chapter #7
Chapter title: : It is heard without ears
7 January 1977 am in Buddha Hall

People have been asking me how it happened that five thousand people, almost all university graduates, having the best qualifications from the best universities of the world, could not see for four years.

The reason is, Sheela was not only doing something ugly and fascist, she was also creating the commune. She was also making the desert into an oasis. She was making the commune comfortable in every way. Every coin has two sides.

Osho.
From Bondage to Freedom
Chapter #4
Chapter title: Where do we go from here?

Perhaps it’s just too, well, you know, kinda ‘inconvenient’?

Wake up from your thought-filled, anger-polluted, self-important slumber and you might find him…

(Miracles can happen!)….

I’m very far from ‘sainthood’, believe it or not, but in such matters I think we have to go beyond both the ‘it’s all part of life’s rich tapestry’ and the ‘freedom means anything is fine’ viewpoints, which conveniently leave out certain key issues.

Try expanding your perspective in the way I suggest and hopefully, you’ll hurt a lot more, Shantam…

If Vartan’s story is correct (and Madhu has challenged its veracity) then look at it:

Deficient in self-respect, as well as, shall we say, a ‘work ethic’, having inadequate money but not wanting to miss out on what promises to be an ‘exciting’, ‘glamorous’, fun-filled, extended (hopefully) holiday, the women in question say to each other, “Oh, yes, we’ve just gotta go there, we can’t miss out on this scene! Sod the money, we can always fuck our way around Greece – or wherever Osho goes next! Who gives a fuck anyway?! We do! (or rather, we don’t!)- let’s just have a good time out there, it’ll be such a gas, sister!”

In a way, another version of the sort of emotionally hyped-up, frantically irresponsible nonsense perpetrated by the powers-that-be at Rajneeshpuram, and making, apparently, its own singular contribution to a similar unhappy collective conclusion. Not to mention any self-inflicted damage to their own psyches.

But if you happily swallow this exploitative (of both self and others) behaviour as ‘spiritually commendable’ (as it were) then I see you as the victim of another sort of conditioning, one that devalues women, sex and love itself (and necessarily, men along the way) – under the all-consuming banner of a ‘freedom’ that always begs such ‘difficult’, ‘inconvenient’ questions.

Just see the point:
Even if the women’s motives were ultimately ‘pure’, ie rather than merely being ‘chancers’ out for a ‘good time’ they simply wanted to take an opportunity to bathe in Osho’s presence more intimately than ever before, and ‘feel the love’ – BE the love presumably being the object of the exercise – how can prostituting themselves, which entails being intimately polluted by men’s psychic garbage, be any sort of viable ‘sadhana’ in that ongoing, most delicate process?

I doubt whether you’ve ever bothered to consider this, have you, Shantam? Why should you, anyway – you’re a sexually-hungry man from a deeply repressive culture, who wants whatever he wants, are you not? And the Sannyas way of ‘anything goes’ suits you just fine. And anything potentially disturbing your so-called, self-ish, er, ‘freedom’ just has to be ‘wrong’, doesn’t it?