| Inner War and Peace Timeless Solutions to Conflict from the Bhagavad Gita compilation book (originally pub. as 'War and Peace') by Osho excerpts from talks given live |
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This wonderful tale of the Gita begins with a blind man’s curiosity. In fact, not be a single tale would be told in this world if there were no blind men. All the stories of this life begin with a blind man’s curiosity. A blind man wants to see what he cannot see; a deaf person wants to hear what he cannot hear. Even if all the sense-organs were lost, the desires hidden within the mind would not vanish. So, I would like to remind you from the very outset that Dhritarashtra is blind, and yet sitting miles away, his mind is curious, eager and troubled to know what is happening on the battlefield. Also keep a second point in mind: that the blind Dhritarashtra has one hundred sons, but that the children born of a blind person can never have any real vision even though they may have physical eyes. Those who are born of blind parents – and perhaps generally speaking people are born of blind parents – may have physical eyes, but it is difficult for them to gain inner sight. So secondly, it is important to understand that the one hundred sons of Dhritarashtra were acting blindly in every sense. They had outer, physical eyes but not inner ones. One who is blind can only beget blindness. And yet, this father is curious to know what is happening.... – Osho Inner War and Peace, ch. 1 |
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