You Are Here

You Are Here

You are here because this existence needs you as you are. Otherwise somebody else would have been here! – the existence would not have helped you to be here, would not have created you. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, AS YOU ARE.


And your so-called mahatmas go on teaching you, ”Become a Buddha, become a Christ, become a Krishna.” Nobody tells you just to be yourself. Why should you become a Buddha? If God wanted a Buddha he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha, and that was enough. And he was satisfied to his heart’s desire, utterly satisfied. Since then he has not produced another Buddha or another Christ. He has created you instead. Just think of the

respect that the universe has given to you. You have been chosen! – not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna.


You will be needed more, that’s why. YOU fit more now. Their work is done, they contributed their fragrance to existence.

Now you have to contribute YOUR fragrance.


But the moralists, the puritans, the priests, they go on teaching you, they go on driving you crazy.


They say to the rose, ”Become a lotus.”

And they say to the lotus, ”What are you doing here? You have to become something else.”


They drive the whole garden crazy, everything starts dying – because nobody can be anybody else, that is not possible.

The rose is a rose and the lotus is a lotus. And the lotus is good as a lotus, it can live only as a lotus. If it tries to be a rose it will die, it will become paralyzed – that is not possible because that is not intrinsic to it; that cannot arise.

And if the lotus really becomes a victim of the priests and starts trying to be a rose, or the rose tries to be a lotus, what is going to happen? The lotus will become pseudo; as a lotus it will start dying, and as a rose it will pretend.

That’s what has happened to humanity. Everybody is pretending. Authenticity is lost, truth is lost, everybody is trying to show that he is somebody else. Just look at yourself: you are pretending to be somebody else. And you can be only yourself – there is no other way, there has never been, there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You will remain yourself. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away if you condemn it."


Osho,

Take it Easy, volume 2