Gautam Buddha's third body has been hovering around the world to find someone to become a vehicle, so that whatever he said twenty-five centuries ago can be updated, resurrected, made fit for the modern man - for the new man who is going to be born.
In twenty-five centuries so much dust has gathered that unless something absolutely fresh begins...
There are millions of Buddhists, there are thousands of great Buddhist monks; it looks simply absurd that he should not choose a vehicle from these people. It will be just natural and logical to choose a Dalai Lama or a great Buddhist monk, learned.
But you have to remember - that is one of my basic emphases - that these people cannot be chosen, because they are still hanging on to the Buddha that was twenty-five centuries ago. To choose them as vehicles is just meaningless; they will be repeating the same.
I love Gautam Buddha as I have not loved any other master, but my love is not blind. I have criticized him as severely as possible. I have praised him when I have found him right - right for today, right for tomorrow, right for the new humanity to come. And I have criticized him severely whenever I have found that he is twenty-five centuries old, still carrying conditionings, rotten ideas which are of no use for the new man, but will be a great hindrance.
Govind Siddharth must have been puzzled seeing what he has seen, because I would appear to be the last man that Gautam Buddha would choose to be a vehicle.
But this is the beauty of Gautam Buddha: he understands that the message has to be for the present and for the future, that he needs an absolutely fresh being - unattached to any old tradition, his tradition included - a man absolutely untraditional, unorthodox. A man of today, as fresh as today's rose - even if the man goes many times against the teachings of the old Buddha.
I was not going to declare it for the simple reason that then it would become difficult for me to criticize the old man. So I was keeping completely aloof, so that my freedom and my independence are not in any way curtailed.
I have my own message.
If Gautam Buddha finds that my message has the essentials of his message too, then it is his choice.
It is not a burden on me. I will go on criticizing him whenever I find anything that is not right for human growth in the future.
But Govind Siddharth's difficulty was that he could not keep it a secret. One of the most difficult things in the world is to keep a secret - and such a secret!
But I will remain exactly the same as I am, no compromise. Gautam Buddha and all the masters of the past can choose me as their vehicles, but I will not allow any pollution. My message will remain my message.
Yes, they can... and Govind Siddharth says it rightly: The river can fall into the ocean; thousands of rivers can fall into the ocean - they don't make the ocean sweet. They themselves become salty.
Gautam Buddha has chosen me as his vehicle because it was difficult now to keep hanging around in his third body anymore. Twenty-five centuries have passed; in fact a few more years have passed.
He had to choose, but he has chosen a person who has his own message. It will surely be beautiful if it coincides with his essentials, but if it does not coincide, then I am going to be as hard on him as I have been before. It will not make any difference.
I am not going to be his voice, I am going to remain my voice.
But what Govind Siddharth has seen is a tremendous experience, a great realization.
There are two more persons present here - if they gather courage, then their questions will be coming. If they cannot gather courage, then they will always remain burdened with a secret. It is better to bring it in the open and be free of it - and anyway it is in the open, Govind Siddharth has done almost 99.9 percent of the work. Nothing is left for you.
Anybody who has been close to me has felt it many times, that I bring Gautam Buddha, his life, his stories, more than those of anybody else to illustrate some of my ideas. Gautam Buddha comes very close to me. The difference is not of twenty-five centuries - maybe only twenty-five centimeters - but the difference is there.
I am not a person who compromises.
I will not be compromising with Gautam Buddha either, but whatever is ultimate truth is nobody's possession, neither Gautam Buddha's nor mine. Only the non-essentials are different; the essential is always the same. And my effort is to cut all non-essentials and give you only the pure, essential message. Because only the essential religion is going to survive in the future. The non-essential rituals are all going to be dead.
With this century ending, there will be a religiousness in the world but no religions.
Perhaps he has chosen a right man.
And he has also chosen a right man in Govind Siddharth to declare the fact. I was not going to declare it, because declaration from my side brings a certain compromise, as if I have become a vehicle of somebody else's message.
I am nobody's vehicle. In fact, my message and Gautam Buddha's message are almost parallel - so parallel, so similar that it can be said that he was my vehicle or it can be said that I am his vehicle.
But it is not going to change my approach in any way. Now I will be even harder on Gautam Buddha, so that only the most essential and the purest part of him reaches to humanity in the future.
OSHO...☆☆☆
The Osho Upanishad Index
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