What I am saying to you can only be said now

Just as body matures in fourteen years, THE SPIRIT MATURES IN FOURTEEN GENERATIONS. That is the minimum limit; it depends on you. It may not grow even in one hundred forty generations -- you can be very lazy, or you can remain unawares. Then you can go on and on for millions of lives and it may not grow. But fourteen generations is a natural time limit. That much is needed.
 
    THE SPIRIT IS NOT A SEASONAL FLOWER: IT IS LIKE A GREAT CEDAR OF LEBANON. It takes time -- fourteen generations for the tree to grow, to reach to the sky. It is not a seasonal flower that within weeks it comes, but within weeks it is gone too. The spirit means the eternal; the eternal needs time, patience. These fourteen generations are just a symbolic number.
 
    JESUS CANNOT BE BORN BEFORE FOURTEEN GENERATIONS. That state is possible only after a time -- after few steps have been crossed. And that is so in other dimensions too.
 
    For example, the caveman could not give us the Platonic Dialogues or the symphonies of Beethoven or the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci or the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. It was not possible for the caveman to give these things. The caveman could not give us an Albert Einstein either, or a Dostoevsky or a Picasso. The caveman could not give us a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Jesus. IT NEEDS TIME, AND IT NEEDS PREPARATION, and it needs a certain milieu to grow. Only then is Jesus possible.
 
    FOR JESUS TO EXIST MANY THINGS ARE NEEDED. He can only exist in those circumstances. For Jesus to say what he wants to say, a certain kind of people are needed who can understand it.
 
    WHAT I AM SAYING TO YOU CAN ONLY BE SAID NOW. It can only be said now, not before; it was not possible before. And what I will be saying to you tomorrow will be possible only tomorrow, not today. You have to become receptive, you have to grow. If you are not in a certain state to receive it, it cannot be uttered....

OSHO
I Say Unto You
Vol 1, Ch #1: The Flute on God's Lips
Buddha Hall