EDUCATION: A MAN WITH BALANCED GROWTH.''OSHO''

Q: BELOVED BHAGWAN ,SO CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THIS OPEN UNIVERSITY AND WHAT EDUCATION MEANS TO YOU?

A: First: education means to me a man with a balanced growth -- of body, mind,

heart and soul. So up to now there has never been any education which is total. It

is at the most a training of the mind, at the cost of the body, at the cost of the

heart, and finally at the cost of the man's innermost being.

This education has proved dangerous. It creates only clerks; it cannot create

anything else because it diverts all the energy into those three "r's". I am not

against it, they should be absorbed, but they should have their proportion.

Physically, much can be done which is neglected. For example, no education

system bothers about exercises or about food. For example, vegetarian food. For

thousand of years in India the Jainas and the Brahmins and all high caste people

have been vegetarians, but they have not produced any geniuses; they have not

received a single Nobel prize. The three Indians who received Nobel prize were

all non-vegetarians.

The vegetarian food as it has been up to now, lacks something, some proteins

which help the intelligence to grow. So if we depend on vegetarian food then

those proteins have to be added. If you don't add those proteins then you are

killing the person's intelligent growth.

So in my commune what I have done... we were using non-fertilized eggs,

because non-fertilized eggs are just vegetable because they don't have any life;

and they have all the proteins that are needed by a mind, intellect, intelligence.

So now, because I used the eggs, Jainas are against me; just the word "egg" is

enough to make them against, they will not think twice what I am saying. And

the non-vegetarians are also against because their only argument is finished.

Their only argument for non-vegetarian food was that it is the only food that can

help intelligence to grow; vegetarian food will keep you vegetables! So they are

angry because I have now found something -- that meat is not necessary, not

only necessary but in fact, ugly.

And in total perspective of education, a man who eats meat, fish or anything

living will not grow into his heart. His heart will remain insensitive. If just for

eating you can kill, then your heart will remain a stone.