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Sathya Sai Baba Quotes
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Osho Quotes on Sathya Sai Baba
- Satya Sai Baba is neither a mystic nor a philosopher, just an
ordinary magician.
- People ask me why Indians are not here. They cannot be here
because we are REALLY interested in meditation. They go to Satya Sai
Baba because meditation is not the question there -- miracles are
happening. They can hope. They are ill: maybe Satya Sai Baba, by his
miracle, can take their illness away. Maybe they are unemployed: by
his blessing they will be employed. They are poor: by his blessing
they will become rich. They go to Satya Sai Baba -- he deals in
things which they need. And they are really surprised when
Swiss-made watches appear out of nowhere. That is their real object
-- they want Swiss-made watches. Stupid people, and stupid are their
saints. Now a saint playing games, magic games, ordinary magic
games! We have sannyasins -- Avinash can do it, Sarvesh can do it --
just small games, of no value at all, of no religious value at all.
Maybe entertaining.
- It happens that when for the first time a meditator attains to
some psychic energy, some psychic power, the tendency, a natural
tendency, is to exhibit it. And if he exhibits, sooner or later he
will lose the power. Then a great problem arises: he cannot do it
now, but now he has respectability. He is worshipped and people
expect him to do miracles. Now what is he going to do? He will have
to turn to magic, he will have to start learning tricks, to maintain
his prestige.
That's what happened to Satya Sai Baba and people like that. The
first things that they had done were real, the first few experiments
that they had done were not phony. But then the energy disappears.
And by that time you have become famous, and people start gathering,
foolish people, stupid people, and they expect you, and your whole
ego depends on your exhibition. Now the only possible alternative is
to learn magic tricks so that you can go on maintaining your
prestige. If you brag, sooner or later you will become a victim of
magical tricks. You will have to learn, and deceive people.
- One hypocrite in India is Satya Sai Baba. I call him a hypocrite
because he knows nothing of yoga. There is nothing wrong if you
don't know anything of yoga -- I don't. I can afford to be sick,
nobody can object; it is my birthright to be sick. I don't know
yoga. But Satya Sai Baba declares himself a great yogi; then the
problem arises. Then for his appendix operation he has to go to Goa
secretly. And he has to pay ten times more to the doctor so the
secret should not be known, because a great yogi going for an
operation? What control has he over his physiology? But it is
difficult to hide because his whole ashram became curious: where has
Baba disappeared? His own people became curious about where he had
gone. And after the operation he had to rest for two or three days
in Goa. They found out, and the media and the press -- everybody was
there, and the doctor had to confess that he had done the operation.
- Don't ask for miracles. A man of meditation is himself a
miracle. Whatever he does is a miracle. It is a beauty, it is magic,
but it is all spontaneous. It is not practiced, it is not rehearsed.
But most people are interested in supernatural powers, healing
people with supernatural powers, or creating things out of nothing,
just as Satya Sai Baba is doing. All kinds of frauds... but people
become interested in them, thinking that here is a man of miracles.
And what is the miracle if you can produce a Swiss watch which was
hiding in your sleeve...?
One old Parsi woman came to me in Bombay. Satya Sai Baba used to
stay at her place, and she told me, "One day when he had gone into
the bathroom, just out of curiosity I looked into his suitcases.
They were all full of watches! I could not believe that this man was
deceiving." She said, "I kicked him out. I told him, `Never again
come in my house!' I cannot be a partner to any kind of fraud." She
told me, "I am an old woman. Nobody listens to me, they think I have
gone senile. I have come to you... perhaps you can do something
about it."
I said, "I have been challenging Satya Sai Baba, saying that this is
stupid. When the country is dying of starvation, produce more food
out of your miracles. He should bring rain to Hyderabad" ... where
the Shankaracharya of Puri is going to force a woman to be burned
alive on her husband's funeral pyre, and only then rain will come.
And Satya Sai Baba is not far away from Hyderabad. Bring rain to
Hyderabad -- do some real work! All that he produces is ash, and he
gives you the ash and you think it is great. It is so simple that
any street magician can do it. In fact the more experienced street
magicians can do it in a far better way, and can do many more things
than he is doing.
I have no objection to him as a magician, but he should not pretend
to be a spiritual man. It is not only a question of a single person
pretending to be spiritual when he is not. The question is that he
attracts thousands of people, mediocre people, who believe that this
man of miracles may impart something to them, may lead them to the
ultimate truth.
- You may go and seek Satya Sai Baba, because that will be a deep
fulfillment of your greed. You will see: here is the man. If he can
produce things out of air, he can do anything. Now your greed is
provoked. Now a deep affinity happens immediately. That's why you
will see thousands of people around Satya Sai Baba. If a Buddha
exists, you will not see multitudes there, because there is no
affinity. Satya Sai Baba has an appeal deep inside you: your greed
is provoked. Now you know this is the right man. But you are wrong.
How can you decide who is the right man? You create your deceivers,
you give them the opportunity. You follow magicians, not masters.
If you really want to seek a master, drop greed and drop your
beliefs. Go to a master completely nude in the mind, with no
beliefs; as if you are a tree in the fall with no leaves, naked,
standing against the sky. You go and seek a master with a naked
mind, with no leaves, with no beliefs. Only then, only then, I say,
will you be able to see without projection; only then will something
penetrate into your life from the above. Then nobody can deceive
you.
- The curtain of attachments is so dense and thick that even if
you go towards religion you look for miracles. If you find Buddha
standing before you, you will not recognize him. If Buddha and Satya
Sai Baba are both present you will definitely move towards Satya Sai
Baba, and not towards Buddha, because Buddha is not so stupid as to
conjures things out of the air! You are in search of magicians. You
are impressed by miracles, because your deepest desire is for the
world and not for God.
Source: from
Osho Book "Yoga Vol 10" |