SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: If any of you have any doubts about Rajneesh aka Osho being one of the most radical thinkers of the 20th century, here’s something that should help dispel any such lingering confusions.
Rajneesh was known to speak extempore on a whole gamut of subjects during evening times at his commune in Pune in the heyday of his cult in the 1980s.
Here’s a verbatim account of one such speech. A speech in which he so inimitably delineates one of the most commonly and widely used four letter expletives in the world, f***!
There is uproarious laughter among his disciples as he goes on and on, putting the F-word to good use, especially from the perspective of English grammar!
Here goes:
“F*** is one of the most beautiful words. English language should be proud of it….
“I don’t think any other language has any such beautiful word.
“One Tom from California has done great research on it. I think he must be the famous Tom. Of Tom, Dick, Harry fame…
“He says one of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word F***. It is a magical word. Just by its sound it can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love.
“In language, it falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb, both transitive—John f***ed Mary—and intransitive—Mary was f***ed by John. And as a noun: Mary is a fine f***!
“It can be used as an adjective. Mary is f***ing beautiful. As you can see, there are not many words with the versatility of the word f***! Besides the sexual meaning, there are also the following uses.
“Fraud: I got f***ed at the used car lot!
“Ignorance: F*** if I knew!
“Trouble: I guess I’m f***ed now!
“Aggression: F*** you!
“Displeasure: What the f*** is going on here!
“Difficulty: I can’t understand this f***king job!
“Incompetence: He is a f*** off!
“Suspicion: What the f*** are you doing!
“Enjoyment: I had a f***ing time!
“Request: Get the f*** out of here!
“Hostility: I’m going to knock your f***ing head off!
“Greeting: How the f*** are you!
“Apathy: Who gives a f***!
“Innovation: Get a bigger f***ing hammer!
“Surprise: F***, you scared the shit out of me!
“Anxiety: Today is really f***ed!
And it is very healthy too. If every morning you do it as a transcendental meditation… just when you get up… the first thing… repeat the mantra, f*** you, five times… it clears the throat… that’s how I keep my throat clear….enough for today!
postscript: This is a transcript from a sound file I received from a friend the other day! There couldn’t have been anything more hilarious and queerly odd for a lesson in English grammar! Hope not English professors in the Mysore University do a Rajneesh in class! But then, what the f***? I passed out quite a long time ago, didn’t I!
8 January 2007 at 2:43 pm
Sunaad.. I have heard the sound file… it is f***ing hilarious…
:-)
8 January 2007 at 3:15 pm
Why the fuck overspend on stars! (***)
8 January 2007 at 3:18 pm
as i read the first few lines, i recalled listening to these things somewhere.. haa yes.. one of my friend had played this audio on his system. I thought osho had copied from that audio clip.
did osho really teach this to his discipiles? that too in 80s….
some one year ago, there was a craze among the youths to use this words everywhere. And now…. i see this word being replaced by the “beeeeep” sound on m and v channels. When any celebrity gets “bakraa’d” (just like f***ed), and after they come to know,,, they scream “f*********k…
8 January 2007 at 4:18 pm
i didn’t F*** has this much meanings… but knew some…
really a f***ing article. :-)
8 January 2007 at 4:55 pm
Apparently Acharya Rajneesh did talk about why f*** was his favorite word. Blitz or Illustrated Weekly(I dont remember which one of those) had even carried this sometime in the eighties.
8 January 2007 at 9:36 pm
Sheesh guys as funnily stale as this thing is what relevance has it with MYSORE which is perhaps the Raison detre for this blog. If naything this is a royal fuck.
9 January 2007 at 12:53 am
This is pathetic stuff and has nothing to with Mysore which is what this blog is about. Are you posting this to keep this blog ticking? If that is the reason, get off and shut the blog
9 January 2007 at 8:55 am
yellru adhe Padha namma “Kannada’ dhalli heli Nodona???
English nalli helaudre yeno levellu
9 January 2007 at 9:04 am
ha…DG at his usual best…
9 January 2007 at 10:07 am
Guys,
Along with all the self-righteousness we all profess and the holier than thou feeling we all harbour, let’s also try to take this world and our own relevance a little less seriously!
It was Rajneesh who said this one evening along with all the other impossibly profound things he said on other evenings.
If a great thinker like him could be a little frisky, why not we guys, who are surely, definitely, conclusively, at least 200 times (I’m terrible in maths!) less endowed, metaphysically speaking!
9 January 2007 at 11:48 am
What about this?
‘Where the F*** is the F****** F****R’ ???
which expresses at once, anger, impatience, helpness and uncertainty all rolled into one outburst!!
9 January 2007 at 4:12 pm
Wow Sunaad Raghuram you do take yourself seriously dont you. Its like this my friend, when you take up either the Hindu or the Gaurdian or the NYT you want to read about what is happening in the world. If you were to encounter there a novel you wouldnt want it there even if it were vintage Graham Greene or Orwell or RK Narayan. It is just that this blog is a place I visit to read of the Mysore I once knew. Anything else is simply rubbish. That is all I meant and no offence to you or Rajneesh (he is truly and unintentionally funny you know) and no holier than thou attitude about THE FUCK. As a fellow Bangalorean said- Chandadarive tapasso- mankutimma.
Everything about fucking- in all its myriad forms of use in our everyday life is CHANDA- but still not Churumuri stuff my friend.
11 January 2007 at 3:11 am
Sunaad,
The video of this speech by Rajneesh is available on You Tube.
11 January 2007 at 4:01 am
Kettadhu andhre nodu..yellru hege mugi bidhidhare
14 January 2007 at 12:51 am
Hey, can some one tell me where to get the video?
17 January 2007 at 9:28 am
As every word in a sentence: F*** you F***ing F***ers!!!!!
As a Question: Why don’t you go outside and play a game of “Hide and go F*** yourself”?
26 June 2007 at 3:24 pm
lolzzzzzzzz
Really a f******g good article
:)
30 June 2007 at 10:35 pm
fuc**** good article….and all those u got F****** like it…then f*** off……cheers
29 November 2007 at 5:02 pm
If anyone has that audio please mail me
deegr8@yaho.com
19 March 2009 at 6:32 pm
Almost all of this speech is taken word for word from a routine by the late comedian George Carlin. It is quite well-known, and a simple Google search will show that these are not Rajneesh’s ideas or words, but were stolen from someone else – a real radical thinker, by the way.
4 June 2009 at 10:41 am
Uffffffffffffffffffff!!!!!!!!!
6 June 2010 at 7:09 pm
That was brillant.
16 January 2011 at 6:19 pm
brilliant.