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‌CHAPTER 18

22 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

[Wasi – a sufi name of god]

It literally means: the all-comprehending one, the all-knowing one, one who understands all. Deva Wasi will mean: divine knowing, divine comprehension.

There is a human way to know; that is intellectual – it is like groping in darkness. There is a divine way to know; that is intuitive – it is not groping in the dark. It is just opening your eyes and seeing things as they are. Through the intellect we arrive at conclusions – through logical processes, syllogism, inference. We collect data, we argue this way and that, for and against, then we decide. But our decision is bound to be tentative, it can never be absolute; that’s why science goes on changing every day.

No scientific statement is absolutely true; it is only relatively so. Today it is true, tomorrow it may not be. At the most we can say perhaps it is true. It is hypothetically true, approximately true. It is the closest that we can comprehend right now but tomorrow new facts will be coming in, new research will be done, new discoveries will be made, and we will have to change accordingly. So science remains a changing flux.

Religion is totally different. Its truth is absolute because it is not being arrived at by syllogism, by logical process. It is a revelation. It is not through thought; it is through no-thought. It is not through mind; it is through no-mind. To work scientifically means to train the mind in a scientific way, with a scientific approach, attitude, methodology. To be religious means to put the mind aside so that it creates no disturbance. Then your heart is available to reality.

Religion never gives any conclusions the way science does. They are not conclusions because there is no process behind them. And they are not logical statements. They are simple and pure

existential statements: ‘God is.’ It is not a syllogism, there is no why. It has simply been revealed to the religious consciousness that God is, only God is and nothing else is. The mystic cannot give any proof for it, neither can anybody else disprove it. It is beyond proof and disproof; it is just intuitive.

The word ‘intuition’ has to be understood. Intellect is through tuition – it has to be taught. Intuition means: that which has not been taught, that which arises spontaneously. No school, no college, no university can give you intuition – it can only give you tuition and tuition only trains the mind. But there is a way, a separate way of knowing reality by putting the mind aside and looking directly into it, becoming a mirror.

That mirror is ‘Wasi.’ God knows not because He thinks – He simply knows because He is a pure mirror. And everyone can become a pure mirror. That is the work that has to be done here: each of my sannyasins has to become a pure mirror – a mindless awareness, a contentless consciousness.

Moumina. It is a sufi name for God – it means: the faithful one. God is always faithful... even when we are not faithful to Him. He never betrays, even though we betray Him a thousand times. He never goes away from us, although we go astray. He is always with us; we are not always with Him. His love is unconditional, it demands nothing. He simply goes on pouring His being into our being.

It is because of Him that we breathe, it is because of Him that we live, it is because of Him that we love, it is because of Him that we are. He is our being. He is utterly faithful, and not only to man – He is faithful to the trees, to the birds, to the animals, to the rocks. He is faithful to His existence.

And that moment is a great moment when we also become faithful towards Him. Then there is a great meeting, a communion. Become a ‘Moumina’... become faithful!

[A sannyasin does not know if she is committed to being here permanently. Osho asks about her responsibilities in the west – a job and studying at a drug rehabilitation centre for another year.]

Another year? No other responsibilities? – just these? You can come – these are nothing; there is no problem.

Being here will be of immense value. Just to be in my presence helps tremendously. And if you can be lovingly in my presence, then nothing else is needed – no method, no meditation. Just that love will take you higher and higher, and without any effort on your part.

While I am here you can simply ride on my wave, you can simply fall in tune with my wavelength; that’s all that is needed. That’s what I call love: to be in love with me means falling into the wavelength that I am, allowing me to take possession of your whole being.

So these are not problems. Your job is not a responsibility; somebody else will do it and will be happy to do it. You will create a little more employment there! Come back. And studies are nothing much to worry about. The real study is here. So finish things there and come back here and be part of the commune.

Deva means divine, Waduda is a sufi name for God. Literally means: the loving one. Your full name will mean: divine love. and there is no other kind of love in the world; all love is divine.

Even when it is mixed too much with mud, then too it is divine. It is always divine. Love is the way of God expressing Himself in the world, and only those who approach Him through love, reach. Those who try to approach in some other way go on missing.

And you are on the right track now. something is going to happen. It has already happened!

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