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just picked him up. He said, "What are you doing?"
The peon said, "What am I doing? I am doing what I am supposed to do -- lie down!"
He immediately followed the instructions of the peon: "Close your eyes, and I will put a cloth soaked in water over them. You are burning and hot with fever -- it must be 108 degrees, not less than that."
Professor Roy said, "You are right. I am seeing things that I have never seen. It seems the bench is flowing up, sannipat. It happens when the fever reaches beyond 105 degrees." And he had a fever of 108 degrees according to the peon, who knew nothing about what 108 degrees is!
And then I came with all the papers I had collected and I told him, "Please go through these papers."
He said, "This is not the time.... Just a few moments are left. If you have something to say, say it; or just put your hand on my head and sit by my side -- but no more papers. What papers?"
I said, "You don't understand; these are not examination papers or anything. These are the papers I have collected behind you."
He immediately sat up. He said, "But what papers?"
I showed him: "To the wife you denied that you are sick, denied that you had a fever. You said that you slept perfectly well, that you are a hundred percent healthy, that you suspected the wife's eyes and you wanted her to go to the optician. These are the papers, and this is the end result -- you are lying down on the bench. For what?"
And actually he had a fever! I said, "I will take you back home. But it was simply because of your insistence that I had to prove that people's minds are made by the opinions of others."
People can die just because of the opinions of others; people can live a long life just because of the opinions of others. We are so false.
This is not our true reality.
Have the courage to get out of the jungle of the opinions of your whole life. Just in the passage you will have to be, for a moment, nobody -- and then you are all, everybody. And that freedom of being all and universal and eternal... that's the goal of all real seekers.
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
I AM A FIRST
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