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Chapter 18 - Inside you god is hidden
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
YOU SHOWER ME WITH LOVE AND I AM SO ASHAMED, I CAN'T LOOK AT
YOU SOMETIMES. INSIDE I KNOW I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GIVE YOU, AND
WHAT LITTLE THERE IS FEELS SO INADEQUATE. MASTER, MY HEART IS
BROKEN. PLEASE HELP ME.
Milarepa, your question surprises me, because you give so much love to me. You have given yourself to me -- your music, your poetry, your dance. What can be more valuable? You have trusted me -- a stranger. What more can there be that you should feel ashamed? You should rejoice, because all that you had, you have given to me, without holding anything back.
You have given your heart.
But perhaps you don't think that your songs, your music, your dance, your love, your trust, have any value. They certainly are of the greatest value -- although they don't have any price.
You are not poor. Just not to have money does not make a man poor; not to have power, not to be a president or a prime minister of a country, does not make a man poor. What makes a man poor is not to have a soul. And your soul is so full of songs, so full of dance, so full of laughter -- there is no question of your feeling ashamed. You have given to me the richest gifts that anyone can give. But perhaps you have not thought of it in this way.
There are some of the richest people in the world who are so poor inside that all their money cannot make any difference. Their money is outside, and their
poverty is inside --
anything from the outside cannot destroy the inner poverty. The inner poverty is destroyed only by inner values: love, compassion, silence, prayer, meditation -- these are the things that make a person really rich. He may be just a beggar on the street, it does not matter, but even emperors will find themselves jealous of him.
You are misunderstanding. Put things right.
I have heard that Adolf Hitler dies and goes to heaven. He behaves so well that St. Peter tells him he can go back to earth again for a week as a treat. After twenty-four hours, he is back, hammering at the pearly gates to get in.
"What is the matter, Adolf?" asked St. Peter, "you have got six more days."
"Let me in, let me in!" cries Hitler. So St. Peter unlocks the gate, lets him in and asks him,
"Adolf, what is the matter? Didn't you enjoy it?"
"Enjoy it?" says Hitler. "Enjoy it? Everyone has gone mad down there since I left. I come back, and what do I find? The Jews are fighting, and the Germans are making money!"
Certainly Adolf Hitler must have been shocked. His old idea, that Jews make money and Germans fight, is no longer relevant. Now Jews are having a tough fight and Germans are making more money than anybody else in Europe.
Milarepa, you also have the old idea that the man of possessions is rich, and the man who does not possess anything is poor. It is not true. The man of inner possessions is the real rich Osho - The Hidden Splendor
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