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a single adolf hitler, no vietnam. Trees are still pure. Gardening is fantastic. To be with nature is very very good. That is very close to god. Only one step more... and nature can become the stepping stone.
If a person works with mechanical things, by and by he is reduced to a mechanism himself, because it is very difficult to remain aloof from your work -- you become more and more identified with it. A person continuously working with a machine is keeping very bad company.
Machines are not going to become men, but the man is bound to become a machine. When you are with nature, it is better. Something more is possible.
And you have to work for me -- brazil needs me. Much response is there... just a little groundwork, mm?
[To a seeker taking sannyas, Osho says:]
... forget the old name completely, mm? Drop it from the consciousness as if it never belonged to you. Be completely new from this moment... just a blank paper, so I can write something on it. I can make you a beautiful scripture, but the old writing has to be washed away.
And it is very simple -- just a decision is enough. Once you decide consciously, 'I drop the past,' it drops. Not that you have to do anything else -- just an intense desire to drop it is enough, and then you become available for the future, for the present.
Deva rajen. It means divine king. And that's how I look at everybody. Everybody is god-incarnate... maybe incognito, maybe hiding, maybe not saying so to everybody, maybe himself having forgotten -- but that's how everybody is: a divine king. That is the meaning of jesus when he goes on saying, 'The kingdom of god is within you.'
So I declare you a divine king. Now it is up to you to remember it or to forget it. If you remember, soon it will become very very natural, because it is your nature; you just have to claim it.
Blessed Are the Ignorant
Chapter #8
Chapter title: Delight is in My Presence
12 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7612125
ShortTitle: BLESSD08
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[The previous night of December 11th was Osho's Birthday
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