It’s Time to Herald A New Humanity

Feb 12, 2004, 12.00am IST
Osho.

The most important need of humanity today is to be made aware that its past has betrayed it. There is no point in continuing with the past, for doing so will be suicidal. The new humanity will not be a society in the old sense, where individuals are only parts of it. It will be a meeting of individuals, where individuals are the masters and society is to serve them. It will have many different aspects to it. It will not have so many religions, it will have only a religious consciousness.


The individual, for the first time, will not be programmed; he will be helped to be himself . He will not be given any ideals or discipline, nor any certain pattern. He will be given only tremendous love for freedom, so that he can sacrifice everything, even his own life — but he cannot sacrifice freedom. He will not be repressive; he will be natural, with no inhibitions, expressive of everything that he has, as plants express themselves in different colours and fragrances.

The new individual will not be under the illusion that all human beings are equal, for they are not. That each individual is unique is a far higher concept than equality. Although the new individuals will not be ‘equal’, they will have equal opportunity to develop their potential.

There will be no marriage; love will be the only law.

The new humanity will have an ecology in which nature is not to be conquered, but lived and loved. We are part of it — how can we conquer it? It will not have any race, nation, state, colour or caste. It will have only a functional world government that will not be chosen by mediocre voters — because they necessarily choose people of their own category.

The new humanity will have a totally different pattern. Unless everyone is well-educated and has at least a bachelor’s degree, he will not be allowed to vote. There will be a no-party system because people will vote directly for individuals. The government, unlike now, won’t have any power; it will be simply functional. It will serve society in the real sense, not just in words.

Life has so many dimensions, but politics has dominated them all. Looking at a newspaper, someone on another planet would find it difficult to conceive what kind of people live on earth — only politicians? Murderers? Rapists? Criminals? Because, the media reports are full of these people, and on top of everything is the politician.

Every creative dimension of life will be brought to light, and the ugly aspects don’t need to be advertised. If somebody has murdered, it should be brought to light — not to say that he was a criminal, but to show how the very psycho-logy of the man, his upbringing, went wrong, and why he had to commit murder. In his place, with the same background, anyone would have done the same. So you are not condemning the person, you are condemning the training, the background, the upbringing; this is absolutely scientific.

Newspapers should be full of creativity and positivity. Ninety per cent of a newspaper should give coverage to musicians, poets, sculptors, dancers, actors, philosophers and only 10 per cent should be given to the politicians and the negative elements. The negative elements should be analysed so that the indivi-dual is not condemned. And the politicians should only be given space as information, no more. If they are doing something good or not good, it should be reported — but they should not be dominating our entire life.

(Excerpted from ‘The Path of the Mystic’)