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a paradise after death -- we have found it here. And if you want to label it as hypnosis, we have no objection. But it is worth it. Come and try! Perhaps you may also like the taste.
"We have tried both: your life we have lived and we know it is hell; and our life, which you call hypnosis, we have also lived. We choose hypnosis against hell."
Those people simply throw words at you. They think just by throwing words they can condemn a certain phenomenon. They are stupid. And rather than fighting about words -- that it is not brainwashing, it is not hypnosis.... You are getting caught by those idiots in their trap.
It is better to shock them and say, "It is." But make it clear: "We know both -- we know your life, we have lived it; and we know this life, we are living it. You don't know both so you cannot say anything about our life.
"Have a little courage. Experience our life too, then you will be able to compare. And if you find that the brainwashed life of a sannyasin, the hypnotized life of a sannyasin is not so great as the old hell was, you can always go back to your hell. We will all support you -- we will throw you out of the ashram!"
I have found that it is easier to accept their label and not to make any unnecessary argument about the label -- the label does not matter. On the contrary, make it a point: "You should experience it -- you are talking without experience. You don't have any way to compare. We can compare, and still we are not coming to your hell."
Question 3
BELOVED OSHO,
IT SEEMS THAT THE U.S. AUTHORITIES AND GOVERNMENT -- AND THE GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD -- ARE MORE SHOCKED BY YOUR SANNYASINS' TOGETHERNESS AND COURAGE THAN WE OURSELVES WERE BY THEIR BRUTAL MISTREATMENT OF YOU. OSHO, DO YOU FEEL WE HAVE MISSED SOMETHING; OR WHAT ELSE MAY WE LEARN FROM SUCH EXTREME SITUATIONS?
No, you have not missed anything. It was so new for you that you could not figure out what was happening; you were in a state of confusion. But you showed your strength perfectly well, and you made the American government aware that they cannot do anything to me without destroying their own image of democracy.
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