A Hidden Pattern
Osho,
The other day I came through the gates with an Indian sannyasin and
he was turned away by the guard with no reason given. When I spoke
to Laxmi about it, she more or less told me to mind my own business.
Whenever I see people being unjustly treated, my immediate reaction
is to go to their assistance. Is it really none of my business what
happens to other people?
The question is from Ma Deva Tulika.
This is significant for everybody present here, and everybody who is
going to be in any way related to me. Whatsoever happens in this
commune happens according to me. I know who was turned from the
gate. And the man who has been turned away knows why he has been
turned from the gate. And it is none of your business to come into
it.
This you have to understand absolutely, that whatsoever happens
here... I may not come out of my room, I never come out except in
the morning and the evening, and I never go around the ashram - but
whatsoever happens here is perfectly known to me, is happening
according to me. Please don′t interfere.
There are a few other people also like Tulika who are continuously
interfering with the work. You are nobody to judge what is right and
what is wrong. If you know it already you are not needed here, you
have become enlightened - you go home.
This is none of your business to decide what is just and what is
unjust. This is not an ordinary place so ordinary things won′t apply
here. Some extraordinary experiment is on. I know what is somebody′s
need. If I feel that somebody has to be rejected from the gate, he
has to be rejected. If I feel that no reason has to be given, then
no reason has to be given. That′s my device for his life and for his
work.
Now you should not come into it. If you start coming into it you
will only lose your opportunity for growth. Guards have their
duties, they know what they are doing. And I am in contact with
them, with what they are doing. You simply bypass.
It is not an ordinary place. Everything is looked after, and if
somebody needs a hit on the head, he is given. You should not
prevent it, otherwise you will be coming into his growth too, you
will hinder him, and you will be hindering yourself. And you can get
unnecessarily excited about it.
There are a few people - Padma Sambhava is one. They go on writing
to me that this has happened and somebody has done this and this
should not be. Here you are nobody to decide what should be and what
should not be. The moment you become part of my commune you leave
everything to me; otherwise work will be impossible.
Now I know the man who has been rejected and I know why he is
rejected - and he also knows why he has been rejected. There is no
reason to give any reason. If reasons have to be given for each and
every thing, then my whole work will be simply to go on supplying
reasons. There are thousands of people coming, and everybody has to
be given reasons and explanations about everything? Laxmi is right.
And always remember that Laxmi never does anything on her own. She
is a perfect vehicle. That′s why she has been chosen for that work.
Now I cannot choose Tulika for work, because she has her own idea
what is right and what is wrong. Laxmi has no idea. She simply
listens and does. Whatsoever is said, she does.
And you have to learn these ways, because soon we will be becoming a
bigger commune and thousands of people will be coming, and these
things have to be settled. You should not bring them again and
again. Again and again you go on writing questions: "Somebody has
done this...." That is for me to look to, and if I think that it is
not right it will be prevented. You need not bring it to my notice
even. You waste my time.
And you get so excited.... There are some foolish people who have
renounced their sannyas because they saw something unjust was being
done. Now they′re just losing their opportunity. It was not their
business. You have come here for your own growth. This acceptance
has to be total, only then work is possible, only then I can help
you. Please don′t give suggestions to me. The moment you give me a
suggestion, you are disconnected from me.
This is not going to be a democracy. You are not to be asked what
should be done and what should not be done. This should be
remembered from the very beginning - that this is not going to be a
democracy. Your votes will never be taken. You become part of it
with that knowledge, that whatsoever I decide is absolute. If you
don′t choose that way you are perfectly happy to leave.
People are prevented from entering but nobody is prevented from
leaving. You can leave. Have you seen anybody being prevented from
leaving? Leaving is perfectly free - you are free, that is your
decision. If you want to be here you have to be totally here. If you
feel that this is not the place for you, that your ideas are not
being fulfilled, that it is not according to you, you are free to
leave.
This place will never be according to you. This place is to change
you, it is not to be according to you. This place is going to be a
transformation for you. And these are the beginnings. Who are you to
know what is right and what is wrong? And who are you to ask for the
reason? How do you come in?
The Indian who has been prevented, if he feels like asking he will
come and ask. He has not asked because he knows, he has been told
why he is being prevented. He has been a nuisance around here. But
these things are not to be inquired about by everybody. And this is
not good, that everybody should be told about this nuisance. This is
disrespectful to him. He has been told, and he understands because
he knows what he has been doing.
Now YOU suddenly jump in. You think you are doing some great work,
some great service. You think you are saving some person from some
injustice. You don′t know the whole story. And you need not know the
whole story, because who is sitting there to tell you all the
stories about everybody? You decide only about your own self.
This is a place where many things will never be according to you.
You have to fall in tune with things. If you think that that is not
possible for you, you are free to leave.
And let this be the last question. Many questions have been coming
to me. Somebody participates in a group and writes, "Why is there so
much violence in the encounter group?" And that comes from a
groupleader, a woman who has been a groupleader. She participated
for one or two days in the Encounter group and dropped out.
And she had asked for it. I was not going to give her the encounter
group, I was giving her some other groups, but she asked, "I want to
do the encounter." So I said "Okay." But when I say, "Okay," you
should understand what I mean. I mean that then it is for you to
decide.
She thinks she knows because she is a groupleader. She has been
leading groups so she thinks she knows. And I knew that very moment
that she would not be able to go through it, because the encounter
group that is going on here is the best in the world at this moment.
Nowhere else is such absolute freedom allowed.
In the West the encounter group has limitations, because the
encounter groupleader has limitations. He can go only so far. When
he sees that things are becoming difficult, that now he may not be
able to control, that things may go too far, that he may not be able
to bring them back, then he prevents. Here we don′t believe in any
boundaries.
I send people to the encounter group only when I see that now they
understand that they have to go beyond all boundaries - boundaries
of sex, boundaries of violence, anger, rage. They have to break all
boundaries. That is breakthrough - when all those boundaries break
down.
Now the woman became very much afraid, now she is against the group.
Now she is asking me, "Why do you allow such violence?" That is not
your business. If you are not capable of going into it, you are not
required to go into it, mm? You can do some non-violent group -
Zazen, Vipassana. We have all kinds of toys around here. Mm? you can
choose.
But don′t go on writing to me. Whatsoever happens here is happening
with my knowledge. Not a single thing happens here which is not
known to me, so you need not inform me about things, I know them
already. It is a sheer wastage of time.
And the moment you surrender and become an initiate, a sannyasin,
that surrender has to be total. Just live a few months in that total
surrender and you will see - it is alchemical, it transforms you.
New people come and they think, "What is the matter? The old
sannyasins don′t interfere. Somebody is prevented by the guard and
the old sannyasins simply go by. What has happened to these people?
Do they understand or not that this is not right? Have they become
apathetic, indifferent?"
No, they have learned, and they have learned just like you. Slowly
slowly they have learned that whatsoever happens is happening
according to a plan, a device. There is some hidden pattern in it.
And nobody except me knows what that hidden pattern is. So you
cannot go to Laxmi, she does not know. She simply asks me what is to
be done and she does it. You cannot ask Sant on the gate, "What are
you doing?" He simply does what he is told to do.
If you are to be a part of this commune you have to understand this.
You have to relax, you have to stop judging. Soon, after a few
months of relaxation and acceptance, you will be able to understand.
That′s what has happened to the older sannyasins - now they
understand.