else. And you should not look for that, that is a deception. I have saved
myself, I cannot save you, you will have to save yourself. I can indicate the
way, I can tell you how I have saved myself. Buddhas only show the way, but
all else you have to do. Nobody can save you, you should start being
responsible for yourself. You have learnt a very ugly trick of throwing
responsibility on somebody else. WHY should anybody else be a saviour to
you?
I am not. I don't take anybody's responsibility on me. I throw you to
yourself. That is the only way to help you, that is the only way to create a soul
in you. That is the only way to make you feel that your life is your life. If you
want it to be miserable that is your choice, if you don't want it to be miserable
I make the way available to you. You can drop your misery this very moment.
But don't start clinging to me and don't start throwing your responsibility on
me, otherwise sooner or later you will be disappointed and you will be angry
with me.
There are sometimes questions -- 'I have been here for three months and,
Osho, you are not doing anything to me yet.' Who I am to do anything? I can
only indicate. I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't wait, go to the moon.
Don't wait and don't cling to the finger. But there are people who start biting
my finger rather than going tO the moon.
I am not a saviour.
Listen to this beautiful anecdote:
In a shopping-plaza parking-lot in the American Midwest, a woman kept
seeing a strange man who claimed to be Jesus Christ. Crowds would often
gather to hear him preach: 'I am Jesus Christ! Come and be saved.' One day in
exasperation she approached the so-called messiah and said, 'You are no more
Jesus Christ than I am. You are a fraud.' Whereupon the self-proclaimed
Christ declared, 'I am too, and I can prove it if you would like. Come with me
if you want proof.' So off she went with him. As they walked along he said,
'You will see that I am indeed none other than Jesus Christ.' He walked up to
the front door of a house and knocked. After a few minutes a man opened the
door, looked at the preacher and screamed, 'Jesus Christ! Are you here
again?!' And he said, 'Look, this is the proof.'
I am not going to give you any proof of any kind. And don't ask 'How to
recognize you?' -- there is no need. Just listen to what I am saying to you, let it
be transformed into your own insight. You need not recognize me -- as a
saviour, as a Jesus, as a Buddha -- there is no need. And how can you
recognize me? Unless you have become a Christ you will not be able to
recognize a Christ -- you will not know what it means to be a Christ. No, I
don't expect you to recognize me. And there is no need. I am what I am, your
recognition will not make any difference. So don't bother about that. And I am
not going to give you any proofs.
And remember again: Don't look towards me as a saviour. Because of this
idea -- that a saviour has to come or a messiah has to come -- people go on
living the way they are living. What can they do? they say. When the messiah
comes then everything will happen. This is their way of postponing
transformation, this is their way of deceiving themselves. Enough is enough,
you have deceived enough. Now no more. No messiah is ever going to come.
You have to do your own work, you have to be responsible for yourself. And
when you are responsible, things start happening.
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