Osho
What did Osho die from? Osho himself certainly seems to have thought it was worth examination, and thought (under Amrito’s influence) that he was dying of thallium poisoning between 1985 and 1989, which was somehow administered to him in the USA (in 1985) when he was separated from his close disciples, and taken from one prison to another for 10 days after being arrested in North Carolina, and before arriving back in Oregon.
Quotes
“You cannot control an ecstatic person; it is impossible. You can control
only a miserable person. An ecstatic person is bound to be free. Ecstasy is
freedom. When you are ecstatic, you cannot be reduced to being a slave. You
cannot be destroyed so easily; you cannot be persuaded to live in a prison. You
would like to dance under the stars and you would like to walk with the wind and
you would like to talk with the sun and moon. You will need the vast, the
infinite night, the enormous. You cannot be seduced into living in a dark cell.
You cannot be turned into a slave. You will live your own life and you will do
your own thing. This is very difficult for society. If there are many ecstatic
people, the society will feel it is falling apart, its structure will not hold
anymore.” -Osho
Beware of the Popes. I have heard that the pope, addressing the youth
in Latin America, said, "My dear ones, beware of the devil. The devil
will tempt you with drugs, alcohol, and most particularly premarital
sex." Now, who is this devil? I have never met him, he has never tempted
me. I don't think any of you have ever met the devil, or that he has
tempted you.
Desires come from your own nature, it is not some devil who
is tempting you. But it is a strategy of religions to throw the
responsibility on an imaginary figure, the devil, so you don't feel you
are being condemned. You are being condemned but indirectly. The pope is
saying to you that you are the devil—but he has not the guts to say
that, so he is saying that the devil is something else, a separate
agency, whose only function is to tempt people.
But it is very strange . . . millions of years have passed
and the devil is not tired, he goes on tempting. And what does he gain
out of it? In no scripture have I found what is his reward for all this
arduous work for millions of years. Who is paying him? By whom is he
employed? That is one thing ...
And the second: Is not your God omnipotent? That's what your
scriptures say, that God is all-powerful. If he is all-powerful, can't
he do a simple thing?—-just stop this devil from tempting people! Rather
than going to every person and telling every person, "Don't be tempted
by the Devil."---Osho (Love, Freedom, aloneness).
