Buddha came across a ceremony going on; a great crowd has gathered. He asked, “What is happening?” and hey told him that the man who was worshipping has asked for something and it has been fulfilled. Now he was sacrificing a bull; he was killing a bull – it was a religious ceremony.
Buddha said, “But what has the bull to do with it? If that man feels that god has given something to him, has been favorable to him, he should sacrifice himself.” Buddha entered the crowd and asked the man, “What are you doing?” Why are you being violent to this poor bull? He has not done anything!”
The man was a Brahmin, a scholar, a knower of scriptures. He quoted the scriptures saying, “You don’t know. The Vedas say that if in a religious ceremony an animal is crucified, killed, murdered, butchered, the animal soul goes to heaven directly. I am not being violent to him, he will go to heaven.”
The Buddha said, “Why don’t you kill your father or your mother or yourself? Why are you missing the opportunity to go to heaven? This bull may not want to go to heaven. If this is certain, then kill your father or kill your mother – or kill yourself! The best thing is to kill yourself!”
The Brahmin listened to Buddha. His presence made it so clear to him: he dropped the weapon right there, he renounced that religious ceremony and he asked Buddha, “Now you tell me how to be religious, because I have been doing these things my whole life. You have shocked me, but you have made me awake too.”
Excerpted from ‘The Wisdom of the Sands’ by Osho
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This is called Fate of Man. what is going on for generations people would blindly follow that without applying their own mind to it
A very logical answer by Buddha!
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