Ageh Bharti’s insights on the events in 1985
Let me explain this, otherwise no one will ever be able to make a correct guess. At present, this question hasn’t even arisen in anyone’s mind. In the future, however, it is bound to arise in someone’s mind.
To understand this point properly, we must first go back to Jabalpur. Once, Osho was speaking on Gandhi at the Shaheed Smarak Bhavan. He was making quite critical remarks. Osho’s discourses were always held in pin-drop silence. That day, a young man stood up in the middle of the discourse and said, “Acharya-ji, please also say something good about Gandhi.”
Three people standing near the young man got up and began scolding him for interrupting the discourse. Osho told them, “Please be quiet, be quiet. I have heard what he said.” Those people, and the other opponents too, sat down.
Osho said, “We are made of such thin tin that we heat up very quickly. Never mind – before I leave, I will say one good thing – for you.” And he continued his criticism with full sharpness. In the end, he did say one good thing and concluded the discourse.
The next evening, when I went to see Osho, he told me that in the morning Bhikham had come and said that when the discourse ended the previous day, someone had slapped that young man two or three times.
“So take care that none of you hits anyone,” Osho said, “otherwise someone else will strike him and the blame will fall on you people. For someone to be beaten because of me – that would be far too much for me.”
Now let us move forward to Rajneeshpuram, in Oregon. I was there. One day Osho’s then secretary, Ma Hasya, asked, “Beloved Osho, it is a rumor in the air that you are being arrested today or tomorrow. What is your comment?”
Osho replied, “Aha! That’s really groovy. That’s the only experience I have missed in my life. And knowing that this is my last life, I would certainly want to be arrested. Make sure that I am handcuffed, because whenever I do anything, I do it totally.”
And then he added, “I inquired of a few of my sannyasins: they are all wanting to be voluntarily arrested, they want to be with me. So they should come with five thousand handcuffs.” 1
From my own repeated experience, I know that whenever something unusual is about to happen, Osho somehow senses it in advance. He said more in response to Hasya’s question, but I don’t need those details here.
During this period, a swami or a ma suggested to Osho that they should go to North Carolina to rest there. Osho agreed – or perhaps Osho himself planted this suggestion in that person’s mind. While refuelling the airplane there, he was arrested.
Now you can see why he went there. The person for whom it was already “too much” to be the cause of even one opponent being beaten – what would have happened to the sannyasins if he had been arrested in Rajneeshpuram?
There would have been violence, beatings, bloodshed. How heavy a burden that would have been for Osho! That is why he went to North Carolina and allowed himself to be arrested there.
Translated from Hindi by Osho News
Source
- Osho, From Bondage to Freedom, Ch 17, Q 1 – 1 Oct 1985 am
Related
- Full question: The only experience I have missed in my life
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