Osho Rajneesh Book "The New Dawn"

The New Dawn

Genetic science: for those who love creation

28 June 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Question 1

BELOVED OSHO,

I HEARD YOU SPEAK OF SCIENTISTS CHOOSING FUTURE PEOPLE FROM THEIR GENETIC ANALYSIS OF SPERMS. I HAVE NO TRUST IN SCIENTISTS, OR DOCTORS OR ANYBODY WHOSE KNOWLEDGE EXTENDS NO FURTHER THAN THEIR HEAD. I INTUITIVELY FEEL THAT GENETICS PLAYS ONLY A SMALL ROLE IN DETERMINING WHAT A PERSON BECOMES. A GARDENER MAY WELL HAVE BECOME A MUSICIAN; A SOLDIER MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE A SCIENTIST. SURELY WHAT A MAN IS, IS NO MEASURE OF WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

BELOVED MASTER, WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN A OSHO IN THE SPERM AND EGG OF

YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER? PLEASE SPEAK MORE ON THE UNDERLYING SANITY BEHIND YOUR SUGGESTION – WHICH I CANNOT SEE BECAUSE OF MY FEAR OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES.

Devageet, I can understand your concern; it is my concern too. But there are many things to be

understood. The first is, never act out of fear. If man had acted out of fear there would have been

no progress possible.

For example, the people who invented bicycles ... can you ever think of any danger? It is simply

inconceivable that bicycles can be dangerous. But then the Wright brothers made the first flying machine out of the parts of bicycles. The whole world rejoiced – because nobody could have

foreseen that airplanes would be used to destroy cities, millions of people, in the first world war.

But the same airplanes are carrying millions of people around the world. They have made the world

small, they have made it possible to call the world just a global village. They have made bridges

between peoples, they have brought together people of different races, religions, languages in such

a way that no other invention has been able to do. So the first thing to remember is that acting out

of fear is not the right way.

Act cautiously, with consciousness, remembering the possibilities and the dangers, and creating the

atmosphere to prevent those dangers. Now, what can be more dangerous than nuclear weapons in

the hands of the politicians? You have put the most dangerous thing into their hands.

Now, in fact there is no need to be afraid; even nuclear weapons can be used creatively. And I have

a deep trust in life, that they will be used creatively. Life cannot allow itself to be destroyed so easily,

it is going to give tremendous resistance. In that resistance is hidden the birth of a new man, of a

new dawn, of a new order, of the whole of life and existence.

According to me, nuclear weapons have made a great war impossible. Gautam Buddha could not

do it, Jesus Christ could not do it. All the saints of the world together have been talking about

nonviolence, no war; they could not succeed. But nuclear weapons have done their job.

Seeing that the danger is so big, all the politicians are trembling deep down, that if a third world

war begins the whole of life will be destroyed – and they will be included in it. They cannot save

themselves. Nothing can be saved. This is a great chance for all those who love creation. This is

the moment when we can turn the whole trend of science towards creativity.

Remember one thing: that science is neutral. It simply gives you power. Now, how to use it depends

on you, depends on the whole of humanity and its intelligence. Science gives us more power to

create a better life, to create more comfortable living, to create more healthy human beings – rather

than preventing ... just out of fear that some totalitarian power may misuse it.

Everything can be misused. And Devageet himself is a doctor; he himself belongs to the category of

scientists. He should understand one thing, that everything that can harm can also be of tremendous

benefit. Don’t condemn anything, just raise the consciousness of human beings. Otherwise you are

falling into the same fallacy into which Mahatma Gandhi has fallen.

Once you start acting out of fear, where are you going to stop? Mahatma Gandhi was using the

same logic, and he stopped at the spinning wheel. That must have been invented at least twenty

thousand years ago and he did not want to go beyond that. He wanted everything that has been

invented after the spinning wheel to be destroyed. He was against railway trains, because in India

railway trains have been used to make the whole country a slave.

These railway trains in India were not created for people’s comfort and their service. They were

created to move armies, so that within hours armies can move from one part of the country to

another part. This is a vast country. There are places which, even by railway train, you can only

reach in six days’ time. It is almost a subcontinent; and to control this country they had to spread a

big network of railway trains. Its basic purpose was the army and the army’s movement.

But that cannot make us decide that railway trains should be destroyed. That would mean the

movement of man is curtailed, he falls back into the Dark Ages. Mahatma Gandhi was not in favor

even of innocent things like telegrams, telegraphs, the post office, because they were all used in

India, in the beginning, to control the country. Slowly, slowly they were changed into public services.

Every invention has been used first by the military, by the war-mongers, and finally they have come

to be used by the people.

What is needed is not to go backwards; otherwise you will destroy the whole humanity. What is

needed is to go forwards and learn some lesson from the past: so that, as scientific technology

develops, simultaneously human consciousness should develop. And that will be the protection

against technology being used as something harmful to mankind.

My basic disagreement with Mahatma Gandhi has been this: that he was dragging humanity

backwards.

First, horses were used by the soldiers. Do you mean to say that horses should not be used any

more? In fact, every vehicle has been used in the beginning in the service of death. Now there are

all kinds of medicines; and allopathic medicines – which is the official science in the world as far as

medicines are concerned – are mostly poisons. They are in the hands of the powerful.

Now there has been great concern that the Soviet Union is developing a certain ray called a death

ray. It can be extracted from the sunrays; it does not reach us because there is a certain layer of

ozone around the earth which prevents it from entering. Ozone turns the death rays back.

But we only became aware of it when our first rockets went to the moon. They made holes in the

ozone layer and death rays entered. And immediately the cancer rate went so high that it was

unbelievable – what has happened? And then it was found that there are some rays reaching the

earth which have never been reaching before. The Soviet Union has been trying to generate those

death rays rather than sending nuclear weapons and missiles and airplanes loaded with bombs

without pilots, controlled just by remote control.

They are trying to find a far more refined way. Just sending rays ... you cannot do anything against

those rays, they are not even visible. And they will not destroy anything, houses will remain intact.

They will simply destroy only living things – man, birds, animals, trees, anything that has any kind

of life. The moment the death ray touches it, life disappears. It will create really a tremendous

nightmare. Houses will be there, streets will be there, shops will be there, everything will be there,

just life will not be there.

But even then I would not say, not to investigate death rays. As the Russians began to work on

death rays, America immediately started to work on how to prevent them, how to detect them, how

to turn them back, how to create anti-death rays. And there is a possibility ... Perhaps in the future,

even if man does not use these things, if the ozone layer starts breaking in different parts and death

rays enter into the atmosphere, we will be able to create anti-death rays to turn them back. We may

be able to create, closer to us, another ozone layer.

So one should not act out of fear; one should see the whole perspective. If there is fear, that means

the fear comes not from the power generated by science, the fear comes from the unconscious man.

In his hands everything becomes poisonous, dangerous.

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