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Osho on Badri Kedarnath
Osho :
Osho : In India, for centuries people have traveled on foot
to Badri Kedarnath. The Himalaya is so virgin, so pure, so unpolluted by
man and his stupidities. And there was a suggestion that because so
many people go – and it is dangerous, the footpath is narrow and many
have died and never returned – it would be better to make a road.
Now the road has been made. People don’t go on foot, they travel
by bus. At each stop, there is a restaurant, tea shops, vendors of all
kinds of things. They have destroyed the beauty. Now Badri Kedarnath is
no more the same sacred place it used to be. Because it is not the place
that is sacred. It is the heart full of love – so full of love that it
is even ready to die – that makes the place a sacred place.
Now going in a bus, with all the facilities available by the side
of the road… one beautiful phenomenon has been corrupted. And the
people who have corrupted it think they are serving God because now more
people can go there. Now Badri Kedarnath is always crowded. These are
not the right people. Their only qualification is that they can afford a
ticket for the bus. But the people who used to go on foot were given a
farewell by the whole town, because there was not much possibility of
their returning. The path was dangerous, the height was dangerous, but
they had heard some call, and they were ready to sacrifice their lives
for it. They were brave people.
Then, in the silence and eternal peace of the Himalayan peaks,
Badri Kedarnath was a totally different phenomenon. It was a temple. Now
it is not even a home. It is just a house surrounded by all kinds of
business people, shops. Whatever you want you can get. It has become a
bazaar. Now only idiots go there, or tourists, which means the same. It
used to be a spiritual pilgrimage because of its risk, because you had
to put yourself aside – all your fears of death, you had to drop.
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