The popular adage: history repeats itself  is applicable as long as we live our lives unconsciously. The mind is a mechanical device and therefore it goes on repeating the same mistakes our forefathers committed. History has to repeat itself because we perpetuate our follies-- from generation to generation. History goes on spinning in a very mysterious way, weaving strange patterns.
When Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was assassinated, General Zia became the  Prime Minister of Pakistan. After his early death, he was succeeded by Benazir Bhutto. Osho saw what she was doing and warned her not to make the same mistakes as her predecessor. And the message is there for all of us. The gorgeous fighter of a woman Benazir had to meet with the same fate as her father did.
One would ask, why? Why on earth did she follow in her father's footsteps to the last step which was murderous death? Osho had commented on her regime when she came to power the first time. In fact he had warned her not to repeat what the previous presidents did. But she did exactly what they had done.
 It seems people don't learn from history at all. Otherwise, there is no reason for history to repeat. If you learn, you only commit a
 mistake once, not twice. That's what learning means: commit as many mistakes as you want, but only commit one mistake once.
This conditioning of following our parents blindly is not going to reap  good fruit for the next generation. What is needed is to review the lives of our forefathers objectively, dispassionately and look at their wisdom and mistakes.
Avoid the mistakes and absorb the wisdom gratefully. That will be the real tribute to them. If every new generation becomes better than the previous one, we are participating in the evolution of life.
"I am against the political mind. The political mind means the cunning mind. The political mind means the murderous, violent mind.
The political mind means the mind that is only interested in dominating others, that is only interested in being in such a position where millions of people's lives are in his hands.
I would like a world which has the religious quality, not the political quality. At least I would like the political quality of the mind to recede into the background. At the centre should be the creative mind. Politics is destructive.
But for millions of years politics has been in the centre, so this cannot happen right now. A great meditative energy has to be released first. If millions of people become meditators then slowly slowly, the structure of the energy on this earth will change - will start moving from the political mind to the religious mind."