Truth has its own world. It consists of a very few courageous people who can stand against the masses. It is difficult. It is risking your comfort, it is risking your life, it is risking your respectability, it is risking everything. You can see an extra ordinary example of one ARVIND KEJRIWAL in india.. how he has risked everything, how he has lost everything. He don’t even have a character among masses except few. The whole world is against him– because he simply went on insisting that the king is naked – and others(masses) may be millions, but they are all liars.
I have to tell u an osho story here:
A man said to an emperor, "You have conquered the whole world. This is unique. You are the first, and God is so happy that I can persuade him to bring his clothes for you. They will be simply without any comparison to what has ever existed or will ever exist again.”
God’s clothes? The emperor could not believe it. But he thought, "What is the harm in it?” He said,"Remember, if you deceive me death will be the reward for it.”
The man said,"That I know; about that you need not be worried. But much money will be needed to go to heaven, to bribe the whole bureaucracy in heaven, because it is not easy to approach God.”
The king said, "How much it costs does not matter but you will have to stay next to this palace in another palace surrounded by the army. You cannot go out. You do whatsoever you want to do from inside. Everything will be supplied to you, and whatever you ask for will be immediately given to you. You bring the clothes.”
And after seven days, as promised, the man came out with a beautiful box. The whole capital had gathered and people from faraway places had come. The capital had never seen such crowds. God’s clothes? Who would not like to see them?
The court of the king was full. For the first time everybody was present; the queen was present, the princesses were present. The man said to the court and to the king, ”I have brought the clothes. And for these clothes, the two, three million rupees that you have given are nothing. When you see the clothes you will see they are a thousandfold more costly. In fact you cannot appraise their cost on the earth; they are something that belongs to heaven. They are not found on the earth.”
The king was in a hurry. He said, ”Open your box!”
The man said, ”The way it must be done has been explained to me. You give me your cap. First I will put your cap into the box, then I will take out the cap of God and put it on your head. Just one condition has to be remembered by all: the cap will be seen only by those who are really born of their own fathers. Those who are not born of their own fathers will not be able to see it.”
The king said, ”There is no problem. In this court everybody is born of his own father. You don’t be worried, just open the box.” He gave him his cap. The man threw it into the box and took out his hand, empty. Nobody could see anything; neither could the king see anything. But now they were all caught in a difficulty: if they say the truth, then they lose respectability. The king thought it is wiser to accept the cap and say, ”How beautiful it is!” So he accepted the nonexistent cap and said, ”How beautiful it is!”
Everybody in the court was praising the cap, saying that they had never seen such a thing. And because everybody was saying, ”It is unique,” everybody was also thinking, ”Perhaps I am the only one..Now there is no point in saying the truth – that I don’t see it at all! That will disgrace me; it will disgrace my father, it will disgrace my mother. It will not be possible to live, it will be such a disgrace. So it is better to keep silent. When so many people see it, it must be real.” And one by one the clothes disappeared, and the king finally came to the underwear.
The man said, "Give me your underwear,” and the king thought, ”This is really too much! From the cap till now it was okay, but now to give my underwear... And I know perfectly well that this is a con man. But he is really cunning: I cannot even say, ‘I don’t see the underwear.’ ” Now it was too late; up to now – the coat, the shirt – he has praised. He was caught in his own lies.
Everybody saw that the king was going to be naked. And he had to be naked – reluctantly, but there was no other way – otherwise he would disgrace this whole royal family, that he is not born... because the whole court sees the clothes! So he had to accept the nonexistent underwear.
And that man was something! He said, "Millions of people have gathered in the capital. I have been told by God himself, ‘When my clothes go there and the king wears them, he should go through the capital in his chariot so everybody sees the clothes.’ ” And the people of the court were all enthusiastic: it is a great thing to show to the public what our emperor has got – a gift from God!
And everybody can see that the emperor is naked! This man is a perfect con. He has befooled the whole court, he has befooled the king, and now he will befool the whole capital, millions of people. In front of the chariot of the king a man was shouting loudly, ”The clothes can be seen only by those who are born of their own fathers; otherwise you cannot see them. They are not something human, they are divine.” The naked king on a golden chariot and millions clapping and shouting with joy, ”What beautiful clothes!” And everybody was thinking, ”My God, the king is completely naked – but millions of people see the clothes, so to go against these millions and say that the king is naked is absolutely absurd, it is just to be condemned. Maybe people will kill you, stone you to death: ‘You are such a disgrace!’ ”
Just a small child who had come with his father, and was sitting on his shoulders, whispered in his father’s ear, ”Dad, the king is completely naked!”
The father said, ”Shut up! When you grow up you will also see that he is not naked. You can’t see – nobody else sees – that he is naked.”
He said, ”But my growing up – what has it to do with his being naked? He is naked!”
The man said, ”You keep quiet or I will take you home and never bring you to anything.”
The boy said, ”I can keep quiet, but I cannot see the clothes.”
The man had to escape because others may hear that the boy does not see the clothes and that will mean that he is not his boy, his son, that his wife is deceiving him, having some affair with somebody
else.
The boy asked again and again, ”Why are you taking me away?”
The father said, ”For these things one needs to grow up first. You are too small; you don’t understand.”
”But,” the boy asked, ”what is the question of understanding? With my eyes I can see everything, and you have never suspected that I am seeing wrong. The king is naked!”
And the father said, ”He is not naked, the clothes are divine. It needs some maturity to see it.”