Enlightenment...talk of OSHO

Osho talk on enlightenment....

Q: WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? YOU ONCE SAID IT WAS LIKE
CHOCOLATE. TRUE? WHAT WILL IT DO FOR THE WORLD?

Osho: Enlightenment is coming to know that there is
nothing to know. In other words, existence is a
mystery and there is no way to demystify it. To know
it and to live it is not intellectual; it is a taste
-- hence I have called it like chocolate. Either you
have tasted it or you have not tasted it. There is no
position in between.

Q: ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, LIKE YOU, WERE OR ARE ABLE TO
STRONGLY INFLUENCE THE MASSES. WERE OR ARE ANY OF THEM
ENLIGHTENED? -- POPE JOHN PAUL, RABBI BA'AL SHEMTOV
(THE 'MASTER OF THE GOOD NAME' WHO TAUGHT THAT MAN
REACHES GOD THROUGH JOY RATHER THAN SORROW), MARTIN
LUTHER KING, HITLER.

Osho: Religion is absolutely an individual and private
experience, like love. In fact, there is no way to
know whether Hitler knew any experience of love or
not. At the most through their words and acts we can
infer:

-- Pope John Paul certainly is not enlightened.

-- and Rabbi Ba'al Shemtov is certainly enlightened.

-- Martin Luther King is a good man, but not
enlightened.

-- and, of course, Hitler is not and cannot be
enlightened.

The really enlightened person has no desire to
influence the masses. If they are influenced, that is
another matter: "The wild geese do not intend to cast
their reflections; the water has no mind to receive
their image."

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.