Osho Rajneesh Book "The Secret"

The Secret

For example, a man will come to Gurdjieff who has never eaten meat, and Gurdjieff will force him to

eat meat. Now, just think of a vegetarian. He will simply escape; he will say, ”What kind of religion

is this?” But by giving meat, Gurdjieff wants to disturb your whole status quo, your whole chemistry,

because only in a disturbed state can your reality be known; otherwise you are too cunning. If a

non-vegetarian comes to Gurdjieff, he says, ”Wait. For thirty days be a vegetarian, and then for

three days fast, and then I will start work on you.” Neither is Gurdjieff for vegetarianism nor against;

he is a designer.

He will give parties for his disciples, particularly the new disciples, and will prepare many kinds of

foods, and then all kinds of alcoholic beverages; and this will continue almost to the middle of the

night, eating and drinking. And when everybody is utterly unconscious, then he will watch. Then

he will sit silently, will go to people, and watch, because people are so cunning – unless they are

drowned in a drug they will not reveal their truth.

Just the man who was pretending to be a celibate, when he is drunk, starts flirting with the woman

who is sitting by his side. And he is a celibate and he is pretending that he is a monk and he has

remained celibate – he is a brahmachari – but once he is drowned in alcohol, he forgets all celibacy,

all brahmacharya. His reality surfaces.

The woman who was pretending to be very elegant, ladylike, sophisticated, cultured, holier-than-

thou, far above the ordinary human beings, once she is under the impact of alcohol, she is just the

opposite; she starts behaving almost like a prostitute.

Gurdjieff will watch his disciples only when they are unconscious. And once he has known their

situation, then he knows. Then he will not bother with what they say; he will start working on what

they are.

BAHAUDIN, INSTEAD OF ANSWERING THE QUESTION DIRECTLY, CALLED FOR DINNER TO

BE SERVED.... And this is one of the Sufi methodologies: they never answer directly. Their work is

indirect because you have become so cunning that there is no way to change you directly. You have

to be hit from the back door.

... WHEN THE DISH OF RICE AND MEAT STEW WAS BROUGHT, HE PRESSED PLATEFUL

AFTER PLATEFUL UPON HIS GUEST. THEN HE GAVE HIM FRUITS AND PASTRIES, AND THEN HE CALLED FOR MORE PILAU, AND MORE AND MORE COURSES OF FOOD, VEGETABLES, SALADS, CONFITURES. AT FIRST THE MAN WAS PATTERED...

That’s what happens when you start gathering knowledge: you are flattered, you start thinking now

you know, you become very, very egoistic. You don’t know a thing, but the knowledge that you have

gathered gives you a false impression, as if you know. And slowly, slowly you forget that ”as if”

completely; you become knowledgeable. You start pretending – to others and finally to yourself. You

deceive others in the beginning, and then you are deceived by the impression that you create in

others. When others start thinking that you know, you start believing. How can so many people be

wrong? If so many people think that you know, you must be knowing. Alone you may have doubts,

but when you gather many disciples, doubts disappear. ”So many people believe in me, I must be

right.” First deceive others, and then be deceived by those who are deceived by you. It is a mutual

arrangement.

IT FIRST THE MAN WAS PATTERED, AND AS BAHAUDIN SHOWED PLEASURE AT EVERY

MOUTHFUL HE SWALLOWED...

Bahaudin was creating a perfect situation. That’s what happens if you go to the so-called teachers.

They will be very happy when they see that you have started learning, that you have started

repeating like parrots; they will be very happy. When they see that you are repeating them, they

are gratified, their egos are more fulfilled. Now they have many people who have become ”his

master’s voice”, who have become imitators. They will be very happy, just as parents are happy

when they see their children are growing, looking just like them. And if somebody says, ”Your boy

looks just like you,” the father is gratified. He may be stupid and the boy may look stupid and just

like him, but that is not the question. He is very gratified that he will not leave the world alone. He

will leave this child in the world to remind it that he has been here; he is going to leave a signature

on the world. And every parent tries to mold the child just in his own image. Down the ages that’s

what parents have been doing with children.

Children are the most exploited class in the world, and utterly helpless. And there seems to be no

way to help them to get out from the imprisonment that parents create for them in the name of love,

in the name of the children’s welfare, for their future. And all that is being done is the parents are

trying to leave replicas in the world, imitators in the world. That is what their parents had done to

them, and so on, so forth. It must go back to Adam and Eve: they created children in their own

image. And the Bible says God created man in his own image. He is the father, he must create

children in his own image. Then Adam and Eve must have created in their own image, and it has

gone on and on.

So you are not only a carbon copy. You are a carbon copy of carbon copies of carbon copies. The

original seems to have never existed.

And then there is no wonder if you are in misery, because only an original person can be in bliss –

because truth brings bliss. You are false.

But a teacher will be very happy when he looks at his disciples and they start repeating what he is

saying. He pats them. That’s what Naqshband was doing with this poor man.

AT FIRST THE MAN WAS FLATTERED, AND AS BAHAUDIN SHOWED PLEASURE AT EVERY

MOUTHFUL HE SWALLOWED, HE ATE AS MUCH AS HE COULD.

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