Forefathers come in the form of crows to take the food ???????

It is reported that in Nanak’s life he was in Hardwar, and it was the time when people worship their dead forefathers and give food to the crows –

Thousands of crows; forefathers come in the form of crows to take the food.

I said, ”This is a good idea, but no crow can create this idea.”

But the worship and the food that the crow gets is secondary.

There is a mediator, a priest, who is praying to God to send the ancestors.

It is because of his prayers that crows are coming – and not ordinary crows; they look ordinary, but to the believers they are their forefathers.

Nanak saw this happening.

He said, ”My God, this is great!

People who have died centuries ago are coming.”

He just went to a well where this ceremony was going on – because people have to take a bath and go through certain rituals of prayer.

So he took a bath and started drawing water from the well and
throwing it on the road.

A crowd gathered; they said, ”What is the matter?
What are you doing?”

He was perspiring, drawing the water and throwing it on the road.

And he said, ”Nothing, just watering my fields in Punjab.

If these rituals make it possible to cross the barrier of time, hundreds of centuries...
it is only hundreds of miles.

And I am far away, and right now I cannot go.

And it is the time that water should be given to the fields.”

They said, ”You must be mad. Throwing water here, it cannot reach to your fields.”

He said, ”Crows are eating the sweets, and they are reaching to your parents – and my water is not reaching just a few miles?”

If you look around, there are pretenders who are ready to take all your responsibilities – of this life, of past lives, of future lives.

All that you have to do is to believe in them, to follow them –

Blindly.

Blindness has been up to now the very foundation of religion.

And that’s why all the religions are against me.

Because I say blindness cannot be the foundation.

Eyes are needed.
Better eyes, More Insight is needed.

OshO ❤
CHAPTER 19. RESPONSIBILITY: THE VERY FIRST STEP OF FREEDOM
The Osho Upanishad