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Chapter 20 - Your longing is the seed
from the door of your third eye. From your third eye, the rose is psychedelic; it has rays all around you, it radiates. It is so alive that you cannot think that you have ever seen it before.
The green of the trees becomes so much greener that one is simply surprised at everything, feels full of wonder all around. Ordinary colored stones on the sea beach look like diamonds and rubies and emeralds because they are all radiating; it is just that we have to see them from the right sense.
The sixth sense is the sense which has made man aware of the existence of godliness in the world. And that is the only sense which makes a disciple graduate into a devotee. That is the sense which allows the master to enter in the innermost core of the disciple; that is the center which makes the master and the devotee one soul between two bodies.
And that is the center which makes you finally aware that your being and the being of existence are not separate -- they are one. You have come back home.
Question 2 BELOVED OSHO,
LATELY, I HAVE BEGUN TO REALIZE HOW EVEN MY LOVER IS A STRANGER
TO ME. STILL, THERE IS AN INTENSE LONGING TO OVERCOME THE
SEPARATION BETWEEN US. IT ALMOST FEELS AS IF WE ARE LINES RUNNING
PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER BUT DESTINED NEVER TO MEET. BELOVED OSHO, IS THE WORLD OF CONSCIOUSNESS LIKE THE WORLD OF GEOMETRY -- OR IS
THERE A CHANCE THAT PARALLELS CAN MEET?
Dhyan Amiyo, it is one of the great miseries that every lover has to face: there is
no way for lovers to drop their strangeness, unfamiliarity, separation. In fact, the whole functioning of love is that lovers should be polar opposites. The farther away they are, the more attractive.
Their separation is their attraction. They come close, they come very close, but they never become one.
They come so close that it almost feels like just one step more and they will become one.
But that step has never been taken, cannot be taken out of sheer necessity, out of a natural law.
On the contrary, when they are very close, immediately they start becoming separate again, going farther away. Because when they are very close, their attraction is lost; they start fighting, nagging, being bitchy. These are ways to create the distance again. And as the distance is there, immediately they start feeling attracted. So this goes on like a rhythm: coming closer, going away; coming closer, going away.
There is a longing to be one -- but on the level of biology, on the level of the body, becoming one is not possible. Even while making love you are not one; the separation on the physical level is inevitable.
You are saying "Lately, I have begun to realize how even my lover is a stranger to me."
This is good. This is part of a growing understanding. Only childish people think that they know each other. You don't know even yourself, how can you conceive that you know your lover?
Osho - The Hidden Splendor 203
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