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‌CHAPTER 14

15 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Prem Francesco. Prem means love; francesco means freedom. Love is the ultimate form of freedom; if love cannot bring freedom then nothing else can. If even love becomes a bondage then everything else is going to become a bondage. Love is the only hope of salvation.

It is through love that we become able to see something of the beyond. Love means insight into the transcendental. Love a man or a woman and suddenly they are no more human but something divine, something incomprehensible, something mysterious.

Love makes you aware of something which cannot be known by the intellect; it makes you available to the presence of God. And to be aware of God is to be free; to know that God is, is freedom, because to be in God is freedom. Without that experience all freedom is just so-so.

Freedom is not something political or social; it is something spiritual. And only love can bridge you with the ultimate, with the center of existence.

Prem Alessandra. Prem means love; alessandra means courage and compassion. Your full name will mean love, courage and compassion. Compassion is the fragrance of love – love is the flower, compassion the fragrance. And love can become compassion only through courage.

Great courage is needed to dissolve one’s ego totally. When you dissolve your ego in relation to one person it is love; when you dissolve your ego in relation to the whole existence it is compassion. Even love needs great courage, so what to say about compassion? It is falling in love with the whole of existence, with the totality of it. That’s what God is.

[The new sannyasin is seven months pregnant.]

Then just be here and absorb as much of my energy as possible. Be open and vulnerable.

But go to meditations – even if you can’t do them. Just sit by the side. Be a part, just silently participate. Go to the music group and sit silently by the side. Let the music shower on you. And wherever many people are meditating a subtle vibe of meditation is created. Remain silent and become attuned to that vibe, and that will be enough.

[Osho gives sannyas to a baby, and addresses the parents.]

Prem Vega. Prem means love; Vega is the name of the brightest star – love, the brightest star.

Every child represents love, brings love. Every child is a creation of love. Every child is a poem, and every child brings great hope into the world. If the society does not destroy the child, then each child is bound to become a Jesus or a Buddha.

But the society destroys, and destroys in beautiful names: in the name of the nation, church, in the name of religion, country. Beautiful labels, but all destructive. The society destroys in such subtle ways that the child is almost helpless.

Sannyasin parents have to be aware; they have to help the child to be himself or herself. Create a loving space around the child. Give your being unconditionally, but don’t impose your ideas on the child. Give your love but not your ideology.

If a child is given love, protection, nourishment, without being manipulated into being a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan, the world can become paradise, because then each individual will be really an individual and each individual will be a bright star.

We destroy intelligence, we create stupid people, because stupid people are obedient. The society is very much afraid of intelligence because intelligence is always radical and rebellious. The society wants as many slaves as possible; it wants machines not men.

Remember it: help the child to become a dignified human being who can risk all for his love, for his freedom; who can risk even his life just to remain himself. That’s the purpose of the real mother, the real father, the real parent. That should be the purpose of the whole education. Right now it is just the opposite.

Anand Theo. Anand means bliss; theo means a gift of God.

Bliss is not an achievement of man, hence one cannot be ambitious about it. You cannot desire it; if you desire it you will go on missing. The desire is not a help but a hindrance.

It is a gift; it comes whenever you are ready. It is not according to your desire; it is according to your being and its state.

If you are silent it comes, if you are empty of all thoughts it comes, if you put your ego aside it comes; but you cannot bring it. It always comes on its own.

All that you can do is to remove hindrances, obstacles. Thoughts, desires, memories, these are the obstacles – in short, the ego, because the ego consists of thoughts, memories, desires, and nothing

else. The ego is the bundle of all these things, your past and your future. The past means memory, the future means desire, and the ego is just a bundle of all these things.

If you put this bundle aside, if you remain utterly silent, with no past, no future, suddenly it is there.

It comes from the beyond as a gift; whenever you are ready, it appears. But it appears of its own accord – you cannot claim: “I have achieved it.” It comes only when you are not, so how can you claim that you have achieved it?

Hence all those who have known have called it a gift of God. Deva Sugit. Deva means divine; sugit means a beautiful song.

Man is meant to be a divine, beautiful song; that is our intrinsic potential. We may not achieve it; ninety-nine point nine percent of people miss it because we get lost in the unnecessary. We become too interested in the mundane: money, power, prestige, all the games of the ego. And when it is a jungle, you can go on and on – there is no end to it. One desire leads into another, and each desire creates at least ten desires. So it goes on becoming bigger and bigger, and one is lost more and more. And finally one cannot even remember from where this whole nonsense started, why in the first place one entered into these games, except that everybody else was playing these games and one started imitating others.

And the child has no other way; he is bound to speak the language people speak around him, he is bound to learn the style of life that people around him live. He is bound to go to the church: his parents who go... and so on, so forth. He is bound to play the games of the ambitious ego which everybody is playing.

But it happens that almost the major part of humanity never becomes aware of what they are doing and why. Only a very very minor part of humanity starts taking account of its life, starts contemplating, ’Why am I here? For what purpose? Is this all – accumulating money and a little name, and a little fame? If this is all, then life is absurd, because death will come and take everything away.

“If this is all that life is meant to be, then it is utter futility, an exercise in futility, and the whole thing is absurd. Then there is no meaning in it.”

Once a person starts contemplating on it, a new beginning has already happened: the seed has started growing into a sprout. This basic question brings a radical change in one’s consciousness: one starts becoming more interested in the essential, one starts becoming more and more interested in one’s own inner being. A journey towards the inner center starts. Otherwise people are living like extroverts.

Our real life is in and our unreal life is being lived outside our being. The extroversion is superficial; introversion can only lead you into your depths. And there the song is heard for the first time. There is heard the music, the celestial music of which life consists.

We are made of the same celestial music as the stars. We are made of the same harmony, the same accord, as the whole universe. We are part of this infinite cosmos, miniature parts, but even a

single drop of water contains all the oceans because it contains the secret of the oceans. And each single individual contains the secret of God.

And to know it is to become a song, to know it is to become a dance, to know it is to become a celebration.

My sannyas is nothing but entering into the world of celebration. It is not renunciation, it is rejoicing. Rejoice, rejoice that life is! Rejoice in the stars and the sun and the moon and the rains and the wind. Rejoice in trees and animals and birds and people. Rejoice in your own being. If rejoicing becomes your whole life I call it religious.

A religious person is blissful moment-to-moment and his bliss goes on growing, deepening. This deepening bliss brings you closer and closer to God. One day when there is only bliss and you are not – not even to say that “I am blissful,” but simply bliss is – you have arrived home. That is the point where one becomes a Buddha, a Christ.

Deva Satori. Deva means divine; satori means a glimpse of God, the first step into God.

Man lives as a link between the animal world and the kingdom of God. Man himself is not a being but only a process, a beginning. Man has to transcend himself every day because man is a journey. We are continuously going away from the animals towards God.

And the first experience of God is satori. And to experience God for the first time is to experience yourself. God is not something separate: it is the realization of our intrinsic potential. It is just as a seed becomes a flower. Nobody could have ever imagined the flower in the seed. If we had cut the seed and dissected it we would not have found any flower there.

Cut man, dissect him, and you will not find any God there either.

The seed has to grow into a tree and the tree has to wait for the spring. In the right moment the flowering happens; that flowering is satori – when man becomes a flower, a blossoming of the divine within himself, when for the first time he encounters himself, as if he has suddenly become awakened.

Ordinarily we are in a sleep, dreaming a thousand-and-one things. The purpose of sannyas is to shake you, shock you, and to awaken you. Just a glimpse of awakening and all dreams become futile. Then nightmares are nightmares and sweet dreams are also nightmares.

The first taste of awakening is satori; and remember, that is the goal for you. It has to be achieved, and in this very life. So don’t postpone it, don’t postpone it even for tomorrow. Start working from this very moment. Go as deeply as possible into meditations. Bring your total energy. Jump wholeheartedly. Don’t hold back, don’t go halfheartedly, because only passionate intensity brings fulfillment.

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