Transcript for OSHO: God is Not a Solution - But a Problem (A)

I do not believe

that God does not exist

I know for sure

he does not exist.

And thank God

that he does not exist

because the existence of God

would have created so many problems

difficulties

that life would have been almost impossible.

You may not have looked from this angle

from which I am going to talk to you

perhaps nobody has

ever tried to look at it from this angle.

The Christians say God created the world

In fact, the hypothesis of God is needed

for the creation

The world is there

somebody must have created it.

Whoever created it

that creator is God

But do you see the implication?

If the world is created

then there can be no evolution

Evolution means that creation continues

Think of the Christian story

God created the world in six days

and then on the seventh day he rested

since then he has been resting

The whole creation was completed

in six days

Now, from where can evolution

can have a possibility

Creation means: finished!

the full stop has arrived

on the sixth day

the full stop;

and after that there is no possibility of evolution

Evolution implies

that creation is not complete

hence the possibility of evolving

But God cannot create an incomplete world;

that will be going against God’s nature

He is perfect

and whatsoever he does is perfect

neither he is evolving,

nor the world is evolving

everything is at a standstill, dead.

This is the reason why the popes

were against Charles Darwin

because that man was bringing in an idea

which is going to kill God sooner or later

Those popes were perceptive in a way

they could see

the faraway implications of the idea of evolution.

Ordinarily you would not

connect creation and evolution

What connection is there

between God and Charles Darwin?

There is a connection. Charles Darwin is saying

that the creation is an ongoing process

that existence is always imperfect

it is never going to be perfect

only then can it go on evolving

reaching new peaks, new dimensions,

opening new doors, new possibilities

God had finished his work in six days

and not long ago

four thousand and four years before Jesus Christ was born

It must have been first of January,

a Monday

because we manage to fit God into everything

that we have created.

He has to follow our calendar

If you ask me, I will say

it must have been

Monday, the first of April, the Fools’ Day,

because that day seems to be

absolutely suitable for doing such an act

of creating a complete ready-made existence

If evolution becomes impossible,

life loses all meaning

life loses all future

then it has only a past

It is not unnatural

that religious people are constantly past-oriented

they have only the past

Everything has been already done

there is nothing to be done in the future

the future is empty, blank