### Change Society [[Osho]], An American ambassador reportedly said, in reference to you, to a foreign head of state, “He is extremely intelligent, an anarchist, and very dangerous because he can [[Change]] men's minds. He will destroy your whole [[Society]].” How can we safeguard against America and its allies stopping your efforts to awaken men? The American ambassador is perfectly right, but he is not aware that the danger of intelligence is impossible to prevent. All other dangers are very small. They are visible, they may look big, but the danger that he is talking about is concerned with two things: one, that I am extremely intelligent; second, that I am an anarchist. Both together are far more dangerous than all their nuclear weapons. ### Fear of Change is The History of Government You need not be worried about how America should be prevented from destroying my efforts. It is beyond any power to destroy my efforts. The more they will try, the more strength they will give to my ideology. This has been so in the whole [[History]] of man. No truth has ever been defeated. It may take time, but its victory is absolutely certain. In fact they have already started accepting their defeat when the American ambassador says to the head of a foreign [[Government]] that I am extremely intelligent, and an anarchist, and I can easily change human minds. In his statement he has accepted their defeat. Now it is only a question of realising it as reality. Conceptually they have accepted it. Their desperate effort to destroy me, my work, my people is very symbolic. Unless they are immensely afraid, they would not make such an effort. Their fear is their death. One point is clear, that they are unable to propose any alternative to my way of seeing things. The statement makes it absolutely clear that they are utterly helpless. It is not coming out of power; it is coming out of a certain hunch. Deep down they have accepted the defeat. It is strange that they have all kinds of intellectuals on their side. None of their intellectuals have the guts to propose arguments against me. These desperate efforts simply show that they know they are empty and their exposure is imminent. And every day they are becoming more and more desperate. ### Natural intelligence Intelligence can be defeated, because it is part of the mind, and the ambassador does not know that what he is calling “intelligence” is something much more. It is [[Awareness]], which includes intelligence, but it is far more superior than intelligence – far higher. Intelligence can be argued against, but if awareness is there you cannot argue against intelligence because this is not mere intellect; this is a vision of the truth. It is not a question of me, it is a question of the truth being defeated – which is not in the [[Nature]] of things. And he is trying to make the head of the foreign government afraid by adding the word _anarchist_ means “one who does not believe in any government, who does not believe in any kind of discipline, who believes only in the individual and its freedom to act, to think, to express, to create.” For the anarchist the society is a means in the service of the individual – not vice versa. Using the word _anarchist_ with me is simply to create more fear…and then saying that I have the capacity to change the minds of men. In that small statement he has made everything clear about why America is so afraid: my capacity to change the minds of men. It includes that I may change men’s minds toward anarchism, and their acceptance that I have a certain intelligence which seems difficult for them to encounter. But as far as I am concerned, I am not interested in changing the mind of man. I am interested in destroying the mind of man. Changing won’t help; it will be only a reformation, not a revolution. It will be a touch here and there, but the basic quality of the mind will remain there. I am for no-mind. The American ambassador and the American president should understand it – perhaps they have never heard the word _no-mind_. My effort is to take people beyond mind. Secondly, I am not “extremely intelligent,” the way they see it. I have no concern with [[intellect]]. Whatever I am saying and doing is not an intellectual approach, but an existential approach. That is why they are freaking out. It would not have been difficult for them if it was only intelligence. They could have found a thousand and one arguments about it, against it. But it is something that they are absolutely unacquainted with. It is meditativeness, of which they don’t have even any vague idea of what it is. This unknown creates the fear in them. At the most they can think it is extreme intelligence, but it is far away from intelligence. Intelligence itself cannot reach to the world of meditation. They are also not right when they say I am an anarchist, because the anarchists like Prince Kropotkin and others are beautiful people but their [[Philosophy]] is naive. They want that there should be no government, there should be no police, there should be no law. They are too naive, too simple, too innocent, too childlike. They don’t understand man – that he is full of animality, barbarism, cruelty, violence, murder, rape. ### Chaos If all order and discipline is removed, the society will be in a [[Chaos]]. Right now it is in a chaos, but the chaos is in a certain order. There is a certain system, a certain method, but with Prince Kropotkin and his colleagues the chaos will explode into a state that man has never seen. I am an anarchist in a very total, different way. I don’t say there should not be any government. I always work from the roots, I never prune the leaves. I don’t say there should be no discipline, I don’t say there should be no courts and no law – that will be simply idiotic. What I say is that the individual should drop the [[Personality]], be authentic, be honest; that the individual should drop ambitions, desires, and start rejoicing in whatsoever is available. He always goes on hankering for the moon while the earth is available – but he cannot dance here, he will dance on the moon! My effort is to make man so immensely blissful, peaceful, silent, meditative, that the need for government disappears, that the need for the politician disappears, that sooner or later the courts have to be closed because nobody comes there. Or they have to be changed into meditation centers, that jails become useless because I teach man to be expressive. In the jails are the people who were taught to be repressive and could not repress and went against society; and now society is taking revenge. I teach you to be expressive and to accept all your nature with pride – it is your inheritance from nature. Living naturally without inhibition, things like rape will disappear. Living silently and meditatively, violence is not possible. Compassion will be just a natural phenomenon. Governments, politicians, parliaments, assemblies, should become futile. If I meet Prince Kropotkin somewhere I think he will understand what I am saying. Anarchism cannot be imposed from above, it can only be grown through each individual, from below. And as individuality becomes stronger, integrated, all these things are bound to disappear. It is just like somebody is against medicines, and he wants all medicines to be destroyed. The idea is not bad – in a really healthy society there should be no medicines – but he is starting from the wrong end. First the society has to be healthy, so that medicines become useless, that physicians become useless, that [[Health]] becomes such a natural thing, that sickness becomes something that used to happen in the past – part of history. Then automatically medicines will disappear. Medical colleges will close, you need not close them. I am a far more dangerous anarchist than Prince Kropotkin. I don’t talk about it, I am preparing for it. Prince Kropotkin was only talking about it. But Prince Kropotkin could not create it, because he had no idea that the individual has to be completely changed. Only then can there be a society which does not need any order: everybody is so responsible that the policeman is not needed on the street. Neither is God needed in heaven to punish anybody. Strangely the politician and the priest will disappear together. They have a certain contract. The courts and the temples will disappear together, because the courts live on crime and the temples live on sin – and you have to understand what the difference is between the two. A crime is a sin that has been caught. And a sin is a crime that you managed – and befooled the whole system and nobody could catch you. So for the criminal there is the court, the police, the law; and for the sinner there is the priest, the bishop, the pope, the God. They need hell as their jail; their heaven, they need as reward. But they are together, and they will both disappear together. The American ambassador should understand that I am far more dangerous than he thinks. And as far as your question is concerned, they cannot prevent anything. It is not something that I am saying, it is something that is the need of the times. The time has come for me. I may be alone but the time is with me. They may have all the forces, but the time is not with them. They are digging their own graves; they are out of date. Their ideologies, their philosophies, their theologies are all out of date. My challenge is open. I am ready to argue against everything that their society stands upon – that it is [[hypocrisy]] and nothing else. They can kill me – that is possible. That is not difficult, very simple. But by killing me ultimately they will seal their defeat. They will kill me, and later on they will understand that they have committed suicide with my death. That’s why they are trying other ways to prevent me from reaching to people, because killing has been tried in the past; it has not succeeded. Al-Hillaj Mansoor’s message became engraved in the sky. There have been many Sufis, but nobody is remembered like Mansoor. Jesus Christ would not even have been known if they had been a little patient and ignored him. But they were too impatient, and they killed him – and he was only thirty-three. He had been teaching only three years. And he was not saying anything that was dangerous; he was simply repeating the old scriptures. Just a few things he was adding which could have been easily ignored – that he is the only begotten son of God…. So what! Let him be. I don’t think it hurts anybody. If he likes it, enjoys it, without hurting anybody, leave him alone. If he thought that he is the last messiah that you have been waiting for, you could have enjoyed it. You could have looked all around the messiah, watched: “Great! Looks like the last messiah.” You could have joked; more than that was not needed. Seriousness was not needed at all, because he was not saying anything dangerous to the society, to the vested interests. Just by ignoring a few things which were childish, he could have been used very easily in the service of the old society – and nobody would have ever heard his name. And there would have never been this calamity, Christianity. But crucifying him changed the whole thing. Crucifying him made it clear that the whole Judaic tradition is afraid of the man. Killing him sealed in some way the poverty of the philosophy of the Jewish tradition. They could not argue with an ignorant, uneducated man, and they had great rabbis, intellectuals. The crucifixion seems to be absolutely meaningless. Perhaps they thought to get rid of him quickly, but that getting rid of him quickly has created Christianity, which goes on growing. Now just the Catholics have passed the seven hundred million mark. I have always called Christianity “Crossianity,” because the cross is really the source, not Jesus. And it is not strange that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity…. `Concepts:` `Knowledge Base:` [[Digital index]] [[Articles]]