“Drop all conflicting tendencies: violence, aggression, fear – be loving, prayerful, meditative.”

“When you are in a kind of rage you become murderers or you become suicidal; when you are in a kind of gratitude you write a song or you paint a picture – you do something creative,” states Osho

Osho speaks on ‘War’; “Unless we transform the very script of man, unless we give him a totally new program of living and being, we can go on talking about peace but we will go on preparing for war.”

Osho, is the world going to survive the third world war?

Osho answers in an interview to Deva Bhaskar, Correio Braziliense, Brasília, Brazil

This excerpt shows Osho’s far-reaching vision that helps understand what is happening with man’s lust for creating wars that is spanning now even into outer space

Osho speaks on war in Afghanistan and in particular on the Pakhtoon people, and about the role of the Americans and opening up of the then Soviet Union

Osho declares, “If we examine the course of human thinking in the last 300 years, we find a steep increase in doctrines of humanity and justice. But never, in all the history of the world, has mankind indulged in such terrible warfares or committed such heinous atrocities.”

Osho speaks about the Great Indian War – Mahabharata – and explains the significance of the four ages: sat yuga, treta yuga, dwapar and kali yuga

Osho speaks on ‘peace of mind’ and asserts that to be against anything is to be at war. “Peace is very alive. Peace is more alive than war – because war is in the service of death, peace is in the service of life.”

“So if this earth disappears, people will be moving to different planets according to their growth, according to whatever is needed for them to grow more,” says Osho

Beloved Osho, What is this undercurrent of giggling in my heart every time I feel that you are using the whole world as a device for our growth, and that you are using us as a device for the whole world? Would you please comment?

During three thousand years, fifteen thousand wars have been fought. Fifteen thousand wars in three thousand years?

Osho talks on ‘War’; “Unless we transform the very script of man, unless we give him a totally new programme of living and being, we can go on talking about peace but we will go on preparing for war.”

Beloved Osho, What do you say about the third world war? Is it going to happen or not? What should we do to prevent it?

“If the world becomes a little more conscious, soldiers will throw away their arms and hug each other, sit down together under a tree and gossip.”

Video showing how European borders changed over 1000 years, with a quote by Osho on boundaries, nationalism and religions

If the whole history of the world were condensed into one year, with us standing at the end of that vast year, it would look something like this: