26/10/2014
Moving into religion is moving
into the uncharted, into the unmapped.
Robbers can flourish there very easily,
they can wait for you – and they are waiting…
And sometimes, even if the person is
not deceiving you, you want to be deceived.
Then you will be deceived. Nobody can deceive you
if, deep down, you are not ready to be deceived!
Just a few days before, a man came to me and he said:
A baba has deceived me, and he is a great yogi.
I asked him: And what has he done?
He said: He can make gold out of any metal.
He has shown me and I have seen it
happening with my own eyes… Then he said that
I should bring all my gold and he would make it tenfold.
So I collected all my ornaments and he has
simply escaped with them. He has deceived me…
Everybody will think that he had deceived him,
but I told this man: It is your greed that has deceived you.
Don't throw the responsibility onto anybody else.
You are simply foolish. Greed is foolish...
You wanted your ornaments to be made tenfold.
That mind has deceived you…
The other person has simply used the opportunity.
He is just a clever person, that's all.
You are the real problem. If he had not
deceived you, somebody else would have…!*
-osho-
