Politicians are of the lowest consciousness, power their only desire

   
MAN'S CONSCIOUSNESS has not grown with the same pace as his scientific progress, and that has been the cause of all the old civilizations destroying themselves.

    There was no outer cause, no outer enemy -- the enemy was within man. He created monsters as far as machines are concerned, but he himself remained very retarded, unconscious, almost asleep. AND IT IS VERY DANGEROUS TO GIVE SO MUCH POWER TO UNCONSCIOUS PEOPLE.

    The same is happening today. POLITICIANS ARE THE LOWEST KIND AS FAR AS CONSCIOUSNESS IS CONCERNED. They are clever, they are cunning, they are mean, too; and they make every effort for a single goal -- how to be more powerful. THEIR ONLY DESIRE IS FOR MORE POWER -- not for more peace, not for more being, not for more truth, not for more love.

    AND WHAT DO YOU NEED MORE POWER FOR? -- TO DOMINATE OTHERS, TO DESTROY OTHERS.

    ALL THE POWER ACCUMULATES IN THE HANDS OF UNCONSCIOUS PEOPLE. So on the one hand, politicians in all the civilizations that have developed and died -- it would be better to say have committed suicide -- had all the power in their hands. And on the other hand, the genius of human intelligence was searching for more and more technological, scientific ways. And all that they discovered finally had to go into the hands of the politicians.

    It was Albert Einstein who wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. He had escaped from Germany. In Germany he was researching atomic theory for Adolf Hitler, but reluctantly -- because he was a Jew, and Adolf Hitler was killing Jews in such vast numbers that it seemed unbelievable. A SINGLE MAN KILLED SIX MILLION JEWS INSIDE GERMANY. During the second world war Adolf Hitler is responsible for killing maybe fifty million people.

    Seeing the situation -- of course Albert Einstein was not going to be killed, he was too valuable -- he escaped from Germany. He did not want to make the atom bomb for Adolf Hitler. It was a simple human reaction -- so many of his people, his friends, had been killed. He wrote a letter to President Roosevelt of America: "I can come to America and I can create the atom bomb. I have the whole secret with me. And whosoever has the atom bomb is going to be the victor in the second world war." IMMEDIATELY ROOSEVELT INVITED HIM and created all the facilities to make the atom bomb.

    By the time the atom bomb was ready, Roosevelt was no more the president; Truman had come in his place. Germany was defeated, and it was only a question of seven days at the most -- that's what all military experts of the world agree -- before Japan was going to surrender. There was no way... because all the power had been coming from Germany. Japan was only an associate. And even American generals advised Truman, "Now there is no need to use atom bombs. With ordinary bombs, within seven days, Japan will have to surrender." BUT TRUMAN WOULD NOT LISTEN.

    Again Albert Einstein wrote a letter, saying that now there was no need. But now who cares about Albert Einstein? The bombs are in the hands of the president. AND TRUMAN, FOR NO REASON AT ALL, BOMBED TWO CITIES OF JAPAN, HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. Big cities... each city had more than one hundred thousand people, and within five minutes all those people had evaporated. Such destruction had never been heard of. And it was a destruction which was not needed.

    Truman was in a hurry. HE WAS AFRAID THAT IF JAPAN SURRENDERED, THEN THERE WOULD BE NO OPPORTUNITY TO USE ATOMIC BOMBS, which had been created with so much money. And he would not be able to show the whole world that America was the greatest power, that he was the man who holds the key to the greatest power. Those bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not meant just to defeat Japan. Their basic purpose was totally different -- AN EGO FULFILLMENT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMAN that: "I am the greatest, the most powerful man in the whole world, and my nation has come to the top." And this has been happening again and again.

OSHO
The Razor's Edge
Ch #11: Bring the dawn, dispel the darkness
pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium