You may not like it. But I like it. I like Rajneesh. No matter you call him Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Rajneesh or plain Mister Rajneesh. I like him for what he is and what he says. And he is beautiful to behold and spell - binding to hear, nay to listen. Words roll out of his lips like the mother pearls of the first waters. Beautiful, beautiful. Plop, plop, they fall gently on your ears.

Politics is anathema to him. Like perhaps to all Saints. But unlike other saints, Bhagwan Rajneesh has no Politician (Indian) as his follower. Well, in any case, no working politician will dare risk his future by associating himself with Rajneesh. The Indian politician would rather be seen with Satya Sai Baba and others. But not with Rajneesh.

Oh, yes there is another Godman whom politicians shun. He is Anandamurthi (Mr. Sarkar) of that notorious Ananda Marg. Anandamurthi is murderous, Rajneesh is obscene!

Rajneesh always picked on the Sarkari Sadhu Vinoba Bhave, Gandhiji, Satya Sai Baba and, of course, Morarji Desai. He poked fun at their idiosyncrasies, fads, foibles and eccentricities. If he called Satya Sai Baba a magician, he called Gandhiji a maniac who sat on a mountain of suppressed desires! Morarji Desai has been the butt of many a joke. He spares no one, not even himself!

Bhagwan's jibes and anecdotes sometimes spring from his creature Mulla Nasuruddin, Here is the one Bhagwan produced in the course of his morning discourses about our present day politicians who are treacherous and without any ethics.

Mulla Nasuruddin's son asked him: "Father, you are so engrossed in politics all the time. Please tell me what politics is."

Mulla said to him: "It is not possible to put it into words, it is a secretive thing. I will let you experience it."

He then asked his son to climb a ladder which was against the wall. When the boy had climbed the ladder, he took away the ladder and asked him to jump, saying he would not let him fall. The boy hesitated but again Mulla told him not to be afraid because he would catch him, that the boy should trust his own father.

After being told again and again, the boy jumped. Mulla moved away and the boy fell on all fours. Bruised and bleeding all over, he asked his father the meaning of this action. Nasuruddin said to him, "This is politics, son. Don't trust your own father. This is the first lesson."

Well, sure our Raja of 2G Spectrum, Suresh Kalmadi of CWG and Hasan Ali of Swiss Bank Secret Account, all patronised by leading politicians of our country, must have realised this truth about politics just as Mulla Nasuruddin's son.