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she feels very destructive and if she sees someone in misery she feels more comfortable. She asks Osho to help her.]
A good insight.... That is the situation of almost everybody -- maybe more or less, degrees differ; but that is the situation. People feel very happy when somebody is miserable. They may even cry with the miserable person but they feel happy because now they are superior and they can do something to help the other. The ego feels very good when it is helping somebody. Your hand is upper and somebody is in the situation of being a beggar.
So whenever somebody is in a state where sympathy is needed the ego always feels very good... and there is a subtle enjoyment -- that at least you are better. You may not say so verbally but that is the inner experience.
Whenever somebody is really happy you will feel jealous. You will feel a sort of put-down, inferiority. You would like to destroy his ecstasy or to prove that this is all nonsense, or that this is madness, or that he is just pretending, because it is very difficult for the ego to concede that something is happening to somebody else which is not happening to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche says, 'I cannot allow god to be there, because if god is there, who am I?' If there is any possibility of there being a god, friedrich Nietzsche is the first person to be that -- nobody else can be that! And he is very honest -- he says it clearly: 'I cannot concede that god exists, because then I am number two... and I will never be number one! So all doors are closed!' Hence he says, 'God is dead, and from now man is absolutely free. The freedom of man depends on the death of god.'
Very peculiar logic, but he is honest, sincere: 'Man cannot be free if there is god; you will always be secondary. You can never be the creator; you will always be the created. So the first thing is to destroy god so that you can be free.'
In destroying god, he destroyed himself -- he went mad! The day he declared, 'God is dead and man is now free,' he lost control. He went mad... he destroyed himself.
So when you are destroying somebody else's ecstasy, deep down you are destroying yourself, your
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