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CHAPTER 10
Man is made of the stuff called love
10 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Prem means love and swarupam means your innermost core – love is your innermost core. It is everybody’s innermost core – that1s why there is so much desire to be loved and to love. And unless that desire to love and to be loved is fulfilled, one remains very desperate. One cannot find any contentment without it. One flowers only when love starts flowing – that is your innermost core.
Man is made of the stuff called love. And it is not only true about man – it is true about existence too. The whole existence is nothing but love energy – in a thousand and one forms, but the energy is one. Its expressions are millions... and love can be expressed in millions of ways – even sometimes in such ways where you cannot imagine how love can be.
When you hate a person, it is a sort of love. You become attached. If your enemy dies you will feel something is missing. He had become part of your being. Without him the world will not be the same. You may have thought many times that if he died it would be good, but when he dies you feel the world is not the same. You miss him – you miss that enmity. You had become attached to the person. Even in anger there is love. In fact it is very difficult to be angry if you don’t love the person – for what, and why should one bother?
You can murder a person, but if you go deep inside it you will find love – love gone berserk, but it is still love. In violence, it is love. Not moving as it should move, true – something has gone astray – but still one has to remember: all manifestations are of one energy. Wrong and right, good and bad, sin and virtue – all are forms of love.
And once you realise that everything is the form of love, it is foolish to wait. If one is going to love, why not love – why hate? Why suffer unnecessarily? Why create anguish around yourself? If it is
going to be love then let it be love – direct, immediate. Why go in roundabout ways, contrary ways? Why go through the opposite polarity? Why take such a long route when the short-cut is available? Mm? that’s what I want you to remember.
[Osho suggested some groups that the new sannyasin should do, reminding him to put his total energy into the groups and meditations.]
I call ‘real’ those people who are ready to go headlong into existential trips – love, beauty, truth, god. One has to be crazy enough – only then do you boil and evaporate. Anything at the extreme point starts trembling and gets ready to take off.
Mm? it is almost like a plane taking off. It has to run fast on the runway to gather speed, and when all the engines are running fast and there is more and more speed, then comes a climax, and from that climax it takes off. That’s true about life too.
You only take off into the infinite when all your engines are running in total speed... when you are functioning at the optimum. Then suddenly, the evaporation!
So use your whole energy – first in the camp, and then book for those groups.
Satya means truth, and jigyasa means enquiry – enquiry into truth. And you have to remember that if one is really in search of truth, one should not settle too soon for cheap consolations. If one is really in search of truth, one should not start believing in things. One should remain open – trusting, yet open. I’m not saying that the enquirer has to be distrusting – no.
There are two barriers in the search – one is disbelief, another is belief; they both hinder the path.
The person who believes feels he already knows – enquiry stops. The person who disbelieves also thinks he already knows – the enquiry stops.
A real enquiry is without any beliefs and without any disbeliefs – it is simply an opening. One is ready to go wherever truth leads. One has no preconceptions about it.
That is the greatest renunciation – and truth demands that renunciation – that one should drop all dogmas and all creeds, all ideologies, and should become absolutely naked. Naked one goes to truth, empty one goes to truth... with not even a slight idea of how truth should be. If you have a slight notion of how truth should be, your notion will become a projection.
And this is the problem: if you have some idea of truth, truth will start looking to you according to your idea. And that is your dream, illusion, hallucination. So only eyes which are without any idea are capable to know truth, eyes which are completely unclouded... just empty eyes which have nothing to project. Only empty eyes have the clarity to seek it.
I am giving you that name because I see the possibility – you can become that courageous. And let this sannyas be an adventure into the unknown – not an effort to settle, but an effort to go for the longest journey. Don’t allow it to become a security. Rather on the contrary, drop all securities and move into the uncharted.
The uncharted is the truth... the unmapped is the truth. It is ineffable... we cannot grasp it. Grasped, it becomes a lie. We can only dissolve into it and be lost into it.
That is the meaning of the word,‘jigyasa’. It is of tremendous significance.
It does not mean curiosity. A curious person is not really an enquirer. He has a certain itch but it is just an itch, and he can settle for anything. He will go so far and then he will settle. The journey is not going to be to the very end. Curiosity is not jigyasa – it is not enquiry.
Enquiry is when you are ready to stake your whole life for it – not just being curious, but you are ready to it, no prejudices about it, no philosophies about it.gamble... and sannyas is a gamble!
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