Osho,
How did we who love you let this ugliness happen to your vision and to ourselves? I saw things I thought were ugly. I’d tell myself, “The master must want it this way. I don’t see the whole picture. I don’t want to be negative.”
What is the blindness in us?

First, you should all forgive me for being twenty minutes late. This has happened because of you. You do not understand the meaning of the word responsibility.

And if you do not understand the meaning of that word, you are going to create another Sheela, another fascist regime again. And this time I will not be against it.

People are not turning up to their worship. They are not doing their work as well as they were doing before. They leave their work earlier – as if they needed some dictatorship to do the necessary work.

Responsibility means that you do your best, so that there is no need for anybody to dictate to you.

Everybody wants to decide what should be done and what should not be done. If five thousand people decide that way, do you think anything can be done?

Poor Hasya is continuously pestered by many of you, that the work should be done this way, or it should be done that way. To whom is she going to listen?

People are approaching her, that about everything votes should be taken. Do you want the whole time – day in, day out – for each and every thing, voting? Is it a voting club?

Don’t be stupid, otherwise…. You created Sheela before, and you will create Sheela again.

Last time I interfered and destroyed the whole fascist structure. Next time, perhaps I will not do that. What is the point, if you are going to create it again and again? Then the old is gold – more efficient.

You have not looked at this side. Sheela was only one side of the coin; you are the other side. Without you, she could not have been, and done ugly, criminal things.

And now you are starting to be the tower of Babel. Everybody is arguing, discussing, giving his opinion, and that opinion should be followed. Now there are five thousand people – and what opinion can you give? You are blind, you are in darkness, you live in unconsciousness. If I had not told you what Sheela was doing, you would have completely lived under Sheela without any problem.

You have to recognize it, that your opinion carries no value. Unless you are enlightened, your vote is just stupidity.

It is your votes that make Adolf Hitlers, Joseph Stalins, Benito Mussolinis. It is your votes that create Nixon. Your votes don’t mean anything.