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of going back to the West: I'm afraid that all the things I've dropped will come back again, and that I will drown in them.]
It is natural... fear is natural.
It is very difficult in the beginning to make a distinction between dropping a thing and suppressing a thing. The whole of life is a suppression so we know the language of suppression, but my whole effort is totally different.
I am not teaching you to suppress anything, but rather to drop things that have become meaningless. When you suppress a thing it becomes meaningful; it becomes even more meaningful, more significant.
[Osho went on to say that recently he had been reading Winston Churchill's memoirs of the second world war. He said that in the entire book, in thousands of pages, Churchill had not once mentioned the name of God -- and he was a theist. Stalin, who was not a theist, mentioned God on many occasions... ]
... and Stalin is not a believer! It is a suppression. His own daughter, Svetlana, became converted to theism when he died; she left communism and atheistic ideas -- and the whole training from her father was to remain atheist. What happened? It was suppressed.
Whatsoever you repress remains inside, moves into the unconscious, and goes deeper in fact than it was before.
When Laroslavski, the man who was the head of the League of the Godless in the U.S.S.R., died, Stalin was present. The moment he was dying, he suddenly opened his eyes and said to Stalin, 'Please burn all my books. Look, He is here. He waited for me. Please burn all my books.'
These were his last words. Not that God was standing there. No -- but his whole life he was repressing.
I am not teaching you to suppress anything. I am teaching you to become more and more aware, so that in your awareness many things become useless, meaningless, rotten -- and they drop on their own. If they drop on their own, good. If they don't drop on their own, there is no need to drop them.
Either way, going to the West is going to be helpful. If you again feel attracted towards things which you think you have dropped, move into them. Don't be afraid of being drowned -- because
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