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no doors. We think this is more safe and secure. This is neither safety nor security, this is death. This is living in a grave.
To me that is the meaning of the story of Lazarus coming back to life. To me it is a metaphor, a parable, poetry. It is not history, it cannot be history. I don't believe in any stupid things.
Lazarus is dead and Jesus calls him back to life -- that's the function of all the masters of all the ages. When the disciple comes to the master he is dead because he is closed, he is in a grave. The master has to call to him, Lazarus, come out of the grave. And once the disciple trusts the master he will open his doors and windows; only out of trust will he open the doors and windows. Unless he feels secure with the master he cannot open up. But once you open, the joy of opening up is such that you can compare it with the misery of living in a dark cell -- now the whole sky is yours, all the stars are yours and all the mysteries are yours.
The master is simply an instrument of god, a vehicle. God cannot speak directly to you, he has to come through somebody. Once you have heard a master calling you and you trust him enough to open your windows, the function of the master is finished. Then you will fly out of the window, then you cannot remain in the dark cell any more.
[And to remind the next sannyasin of that promise Osho gave him the name Akash -- sky!]
Mind is a very small thing, it is like a prison cell. And everybody is imprisoned in his own mind: in his prejudices, creeds, dogmas, religions, philosophies -- political and spiritual. Everybody is living in a very small dark cell. The cell is made of conditionings.
Meditation means unconditioning the mind and never allowing it to be reconditioned. Otherwise it is very easy to move from one dark cell to another dark cell.
A Hindu can become a Christian; that is very easy, there is no conversion. Instead of worshipping Krishna he starts worshipping Christ. In fact linguists say that the word 'Christ' comes from the word 'Krishna'; they are not different words, their root is the same. So you have changed from one cell to another.
A Christian
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