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A Gautam Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Jesus – these people are rebels. Their trust is in the
individual. They have not succeeded either, but their failure is totally different than the failure of
the revolutionary. Revolutionaries have tried their methodology in many countries, in many ways,
and have failed. But a Gautam Buddha has not succeeded because he has not been tried. A Jesus
has not succeeded because Jews crucified him and Christians buried him. He has not been tried –
he has not been given a chance. The rebel is still an unexperimented dimension.
My sannyasins have to be rebels not revolutionaries. The revolutionary belongs to a very mundane
sphere. The rebel and his rebelliousness are sacred. The revolutionary cannot stand alone, he
needs a crowd, a political party, a government. He needs power, and power corrupts – and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
All the revolutionaries who have succeeded in capturing power have been corrupted by the power.
They could not change the power and its institutions; the power changed them and their minds and
corrupted them. Only names became different, but the society continued to remain the same.
Man’s consciousness has not grown for centuries. Only once in a while a man blossoms, but in
millions of people the blossoming of one man is not a rule, it is the exception. And because he is
alone, the crowd cannot tolerate him. He becomes a kind of humiliation; his very presence becomes
insulting, because he opens your eyes, makes you aware of your potential and your future. And it
hurts your ego that you have done nothing to grow, to be more conscious, to be more loving, to be
more ecstatic, to be more creative, to be more silent – to make a beautiful world around you.