OSHO: The Root of Religions – Hallucination
Consciousness is eternal.
Even if this earth becomes
without human beings,
I don't see any problem in it.
There are at least fifty thousand
planets around the earth
where life exists.
Your consciousnesses will move
to other planets.
Nothing will be destroyed --
only this ugly earth,
these ugly politicians,
priests; they will be finished.
This makes me sad:
man on the earth has the highest
quality of consciousness,
and yet his behavior is barbarous.
And everything that you call
civilization is just a word.
Once a man asked
George Bernard Shaw,
"What do you think
about civilization?"
He said, "It is a good thing
but it has not happened yet."
What the religions go on doing
around the world makes me sad.
They go on making you
more and more idiotic.
Their basis is faith.
They force every child to be faithful,
a believer, and if possible,
to be a fanatic believer.
You will find all
kinds of fanatics around.
Even if you don't want to be delivered,
you don't want to be saved,
they will force you to be saved.
There are Christian sects
who are self-appointed saviors.
Who gives you
the authority to save another?
And are you certain that
you are saved?
Your face, your eyes
do not give any proof of it;
you look angry.
Even a nice man like Jesus
was an angry man.
Who gave him the authority
to beat the money-changers
in the temple of Jerusalem
and throw them out?
Self-appointed judges....
He wanted to save the world --
he could not even save himself.
And he has left
an ugly heritage
which goes on growing
like a cancerous growth,
destroying everything that can raise you
to beauty,
to truth, to silence, to ecstasy.
I have never seen
a Christian ecstatic.
Even Jesus was not ecstatic;
he was burdened,
and continuously having hallucinations.
Now thinking oneself as the only
begotten son of God --
do you think the man was sane?
Thinking that he is the only
real messenger
bringing truth to humanity --
do you think
this man is mentally healthy?
He is utterly sick,
and all Christians are sick.
But it is not only the Christians;
the Hindus are in the same boat,
the Mohammedans are in the same boat.
Their names and their theologies
and their scriptures are different,
but the basic madness is there.
They are all hallucinating.