Osho Rajneesh Book "Hidden Mysteries"

 

Hidden Mysteries

6 June 1971 pm in Woodlands, Bombay, India

In the Pacific Ocean there is a small island, Easter Island, on which there are one thousand huge

stone idols, all about seventy feet tall. The population of the island is just two hundred. It was found,

when that island was first discovered, that it was so small, it couldn’t produce food for more than

two hundred people. When only two hundred people can live there, it was surprising to find such

huge stone idols and as many as one thousand! Five idols for every person! Those people would

not have been able to make such huge idols even if they wanted to, because their lives are spent in

taking care of their day to day needs. What could be the purpose of those idols? Who would have

made them and why? Many questions arose for historians.

In central Asia there is another place that is equally puzzling. It could have been meant to be used

for an airport, but as long as airplanes were not made, that wasn’t possible. The area seemed to

be developed fifteen to twenty thousand years ago. Only after the airplane was invented could we

understand its use, could we understand that that place in central Asia must once have served as

an airport.

I am telling you these things to convey to you the idea that we will not be able to understand the

significance of places of pilgrimage until we ourselves realize the need to have them.

When the idols of Easter Island were photographed from airplanes, it could be imagined that they

were installed at certain geometrical points, in such a way that they could be seen from the moon

on particular nights. Those who have studied this subject think that we, in this century, are not

the first people to look for life on other planets. Many times before experiments and attempts have

been made to find animals and other forms of life on other planets so that communication could be

CHAPTER 2. ALCHEMICAL SECRETS OF PLACES OF HOLY PILGRIMAGE

established with them. Not only that, but beings from other planets also seem to have made contact

with our earth.

These twenty feet long idols are not meaningful in themselves, but when their whole pattern is

observed from a plane there are indications of some signs and secret messages. Those signs could

only be read from the moon. But as long as we had not seen the idols from a plane we could not

imagine their possible use; they were still then just idols. In the same way there are many things on

this earth about which we will know nothing until our civilization investigates and sets up a similar

situation again.

Just three or four days ago, I was talking about a small iron box which was found in Tehran. It

was kept in The British Museum for a long time, for many years it was just lying there. Now it has

been found to be a type of battery which was used in Tehran about two thousand years ago. It was

beyond the imagination that in Tehran, two thousand years ago, such a battery existed. But now it

is an established fact that it is a battery. If we had not invented the storage battery we would never

have been able to imagine that that such a box could be a battery.

A tirtha, a sacred place of pilgrimage, is a unique invention, very deep and symbolic, made by an

ancient civilization. But our present civilization has lost all knowledge about the significance of such

places. Today visiting a place of pilgrimage is just a dead ritual for us. We just tolerate them, without

knowing why places of pilgrimage were established, what their use was and who made them.

Whatever can be seen from the surface is not everything. There are some hidden meanings which

are not visible from the outside. We should understand first that our civilization has lost the purpose

and meaning of the sacred place of pilgrimage and so today people who go on a pilgrimage waste

their time. Those who oppose the idea are also wasting their time, however right they seem to be,

because they know nothing about such places. Neither the people who visit the places of pilgrimage,

nor those who oppose the idea know the purpose of them, so let us understand a few things about

them....

There is a famous place of pilgrimage for Jainas known as Samved Shikhar. Twenty-two out of the

twenty-four tirthankaras of the Jainas have died there, have left their bodies there. It all seems to

have been pre-arranged; otherwise it is impossible that out of twenty-four, twenty-two should happen

to die, with long periods of time between them, in the same place. If we believe the Jainas there

is a gap of one hundred thousand years between the first and the twenty-fourth tirthankara. That

twenty-two of them died in the same place is worth thinking about.

The place of pilgrimage for Moslems is the Kaaba. Until the time of Mohammed, there were three

hundred and sixty-five idols in Kaaba – a different idol for each day of the year. All these idols were

removed or destroyed, but the central stone which was the center of the temple was not removed.

The Kaaba is more ancient than the Muslims’ religion. The history of Islam is only about fourteen

hundred years old, but that black stone in the Kaaba is hundreds of thousands of years old.

Another interesting fact is that the stone does not seem to belong to our earth. How did it come

to earth? The only hypothesis we have is that it is part of a meteor. Within twenty-four hours of

the disintegration of a meteor, thousands of stone fragments fall to the earth........................

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