... son, "Go and say that daddy is out." Now the boy is puzzled. What to do? My own way in my childhood was to go out and say to the man, "Daddy says he is out." What else to do? One has to be true and one has to be obedient too. Now either I can be true or I can be obedient.... Small children, we start corrupting their minds. We corrupt animals, and it is possible one day we will...

... discover that we even corrupt trees, because they are also very sensitive. Living with man they must be learning all kinds of things from humanity. Alfie and Dan, two Cockney pub crawlers, were in their cups one afternoon when Alfie pointed to a woman sitting at the end of the bar. "Hey!" he said, That woman looks like Queen Elizabeth!" "Nah," replied Dan. "What would the...

... trouble all over the world. Just a few days ago many letters have come that in Australia, the school, college, university authorities are very much disturbed by my orange-people, because many teachers, many professors, have become sannyasins. And a problem is being created by the parents and their leagues. The problem is being created that these orange people and their presence may corrupt their...

... children, so the parents are against them. The Catholic priest comes in his robe; he is accepted, he does not corrupt. But my sannyasins, just because they are coming in orange robes, can be a dangerous influence. Anybody who is not behaving like you, not living like you, is hated. This is your experience in Poona too. The people are not really in any way HARMED by you -- my sannyasins are the most...

... cultivation; you cannot cultivate it - religious life has nothing to do with character. Character can be cultivated. Character is moral; even an irreligious person can cultivate it. In fact irreligious people have more character than the so-called religious, because the religious person goes on believing that he can bribe God, or at least he can bribe the priest of God, and he will find some way to enter...

... so that nobody could corrupt my innocence, clarity; from where did I get this courage? How could I manage not to be humiliated by grown-ups and their world? I have not done anything, so there is no question of how. It simply happened, so I cannot take the credit for it. Perhaps it happens to everybody but you become interested in other things. You start bargaining with the grown-up world. They have...

... sacred duty not to disturb me. So for seven years continuously nobody tried to corrupt my innocence; there was nobody. Those three old people who lived in the house, the servant and my grandparents, were all protective in every possible way that nobody should disturb me. In fact I started feeling, as I grew up, a little embarrassed that because of me they could not talk, they could not be normal as...

... been able to corrupt them very much, although the Vatican is there. But the Italians are incorruptible - they corrupt the Pope! I like that quality of earthiness, that smell of earth that makes people alive. I have chosen a few of the Italians as my mediums. Now many ugly women, flat-chested women, go on writing letters to me. It has now reached epidemic proportions: "Osho, it seems we can never...

... still have the ego trip. So she got married to the chief of the commune in Zurich -- without getting divorced. And when she was told by her husband that, "This is stupid. I will also be a criminal with you," so she ran away to Nepal, because in Nepal -- it is such a poor country that you can bribe any magistrate and can get a divorce backdated - - so she got a backdated divorces from Nepal...

... SHEELA. WHICH ONE WOULD YOU THINK IS THE REAL ONE? "I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH BHAGWAN" OR "BHAGWAN IS THE MOST CORRUPT ON EARTH." A:* Both must be hers, because love can become hate any moment. They are two sides of the same coin. She had loved me now she hates me. But my love is different. Once I love, I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is...

... want to remain together, let them. Perhaps it may cut India to its half size, but it will also cut India's problem to half size. Q:* BUT KNOWING HOW CORRUPT POLITICAL LIFE IS IN INDIA, EVEN MORE SO THAN IN THIS COUNTRY MAYBE, DO YOU THINK THAT'LL HAPPEN WITHOUT TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF BLOODSHED? A:* It is corrupt. It is bound to be because India has no experience of politics. For at least two thousand...

.... Those who desire power are persons in whose hands power is most harmful. There is a famous saying of Bacon: "Power corrupts." This is only half the fact. Power corrupts, because only the corrupt seek power. If you are immoral within, your immorality cannot manifest without power. Therefore, when power is attained, the corruption that is within becomes manifest. Generally people are surprised...

... some power. Power gives him the freedom to do what he chooses; he no longer has to pretend. Thus, power does not corrupt a man. Rather, it gives freedom of action to the immoral. Lao Tzu says, "Only he can be entrusted with the government of the world whose ego is annihilated." When the ego and power join together, immorality results. If the 'I' is dissolved, power alone cannot produce...

..., that the deceiver could not corrupt you. He may have taken your money, he may have taken your prestige, he may have robbed you completely, but you will enjoy. And you will feel tremendously happy and blissful that he could not corrupt your trust; you still trust him. And if he comes again to rob you you will be ready; you still trust him. So the person who was deceiving you may have robbed you...

... different personalities, and can switch them as they want. Some of the victims are usually implicated in criminal acts (drug dealing or worse) so they will always remain afraid of the authorities.. And to kill any remaining hope inside them, the handlers may make them witness real corrupt cops and judges so the victim will be convinced that there is no way out, and any attempt to escape or expose is...