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2006-03-13 23:37
It would not be helpful to your future
The first prime minister of India was of a totally different quality from any other prime minister who was to follow. He was not chosen by the crowd, he was not, in fact, a chosen candidate. He was Mahatma Gandhi's choice. Gandhi, whatsoever his faults, at least did one thing that at least he must have been sensitive to a poetic person. He was certainly ascetic; yet with all his nonsense he was still sensible enough to choose Jawaharlal Nehru. That's how a poet became the prime minister. Otherwise there is no possibility for a poet to become a prime minister -- unless a prime minister goes mad, and becomes a poet, but that will not be the same thing. When Osho met him, they talked of poetry. Osho had thought that he would talk of politics. His friend Masto, who had known him for years, was astounded that he was talking about poetry and the meaning of the poetic experience. He looked at Osho as if he knew the answer. Osho said, "Masto, you should know better, you have known Jawaharlal for years. I did not know him at all until just now. We are still only in the process of introducing ourselves. So don't look with a questioning eye, although I understand your question: `What has happened to the politician? Has he gone mad?' No, I say it to you, and to him also, that he is not a politician -- perhaps by accident, but not by his intrinsic nature." And Jawaharlal nodded and said, "At least one person in my life has said it exactly, as I was not able to formulate it clearly. It was vague. But now I know what has happened, it is an accident." "And," Osho added, "a fatal one." And they all laughed. "But," Osho said, "the accident has been fatal. But your poet is unharmed, and I don't care about anything else. You can still see the stars as a child does." He said, "Again! Because I love to see the stars -- but how did you come to know about it?" Osho said, "I have nothing to do with it. I know what being a poet is, so I can describe you in every detail. So please, from this moment, don't be astonished. Just take it easy." And he certainly relaxed. Otherwise for a politician to relax is impossible. In India, the mythology is that when an ordinary person dies, only one devil comes to take him, but when a politician dies, a crowd of devils have to come because he won't relax, even in death. He won't allow it. He has never allowed anything to happen of its own accord. He does not know the meaning of those simple words, "Let go." But this man Jawaharlal immediately relaxed. He said, "With you I can relax. And Masto has never been a source of tension to me, so he can also relax. I am not preventing him, unless being a swami, a sannyasin, a monk, prevents him." They all laughed. And this was not the last meeting, it was only the first. Masto and Osho had thought it was the last, but when they were departing, Jawaharlal said, "Can you come again tomorrow at this same time?" They laughed again, and departed. Masto had come just to make Osho acquainted with the prime minister, and that was done. Masto said, "If the prime minister wants it, we have to stay. We cannot say `No,' that would not be helpful to your future." Osho said, "Don't be worried about my future. Will it be helpful to Jawaharlal or not?" Masto said, "You are impossible." And he was right.

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