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‌CHAPTER 20

20 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Veet means beyond, sangati means consistency – beyond consistency.

Life is a paradox, the mind requires consistency, hence the mind can never meet life. The mind is death. Life’s very existence depends on contradictions, it exists through the contradiction. The contradiction creates the challenge: day and night, man and woman, love and hate. Love cannot exist without hate; there is no possibility. The day hate dies will be the death of love too. Compassion cannot live without anger, god cannot live without the world and the soul cannot live without the body. That’s how things are.

Lao Tzu has called it ‘the way of things’. Tao simply means the way of things, how things are. There is no choice in it; we cannot change it. We can either accept it or we can start denying a few things in it which don’t go with the mind and the mind’s requirements.

The mind is incapable of accepting the paradox; it says ‘either/or’. Life says ‘both/and’. Hence the mind becomes a barrier. That’s why poets are closer to existence and truth than philosophers. Somebody said to Walt Whitman, ‘You contradict yourself too much.’ He said, ‘I contradict? So I contradict! I am big, I am huge, I contain multitudes.’ That can be said only by a poet, but it is so true.

Consistency means that you go on living according to yesterday. You go on forcing your yesterday on today and on tomorrow. Going beyond consistency means living the moment, living it utterly fresh, not bringing any-yesterday into it. If it is inconsistent, then it is inconsistent.

There is a famous saying of Emerson: ‘Say what today wants to say and then tomorrow say what tomorrow wants to say, and don’t be bothered about consistency.’

This is what I call sannyas: living joyously in infinite inconsistencies, without trying to choose, without trying to impose a pattern on life, living moment to moment, not with a plan but ad hoc. Whatsoever this moment demands accept the challenge and respond. Don’t say ‘I have to behave in this way’; there is no ‘have to’. You are free to behave in this moment as this moment requires you to... not according to the past, not according to any character, not according to any mind, not according to any plan. That’s what I mean by ad hoc: improvise in this moment, for this moment. It has no message for tomorrow. When tomorrow comes we will respond again. This is a life of responsibility. A responsible man can only be inconsistent, an alive man can only be inconsistent. Consistency creates mediocre minds. And when one can get free of that imprisonment, one starts growing the great mind, mind with capital M. That’s what other religions call god: mind with capital M. The mind with a small ‘m’ has to go...

Start from this very moment and you will find great freedom. Only free people live, only freedom knows the taste of life.

[To someone taking sannyas Osho says:]

Raise your hands, close your eyes and feel as if you are crucified. Feel one with Jesus, and whatsoever expression comes to the body, to the face, allow. If you feel like being pulled upwards, then be pulled. Just imagine you are crucified, then let the body take over.

This is your new name: Swami Anand Yeeshu.

Yeeshu is the indian name for Jesus. I am giving you this name for a certain purpose; because you were one of those people who witnessed Jesus’s crucifixion.

That memory can arise any day; it is there in the deep unconscious. Whenever that memory surfaces to the conscious there will be an explosion in your being, a great transformation. So your name will continuously remind you of Jesus.

And I am not giving you the name Jesus, because in the West that has become too much associated with christianity. It has lost meaning, it is used too much. Whenever something is used too much it loses all significance. One starts taking it for granted. So I will call you Yeeshu; and it is far sweeter than Jesus. Keep this name in your heart, and whenever you have time just raise your hands and feel as if you are crucified. That will bring your resurrection. One day suddenly you will feel absolutely one with Jesus, and in that very moment you will feel a metamorphosis happening: the old is going and the new is coming. You can really become a Christian, and a Christian with a different emphasis than it has in the West; not one who belongs to the christian church, but one who belongs to christ-consciousness.

There are a few people coming who have been in deep relationship with Jesus, a few have already come, and once the group has gathered, then I will start sorting out and making small groups of people who can work on their old methods again. For example, when I have enough people who have been with Jesus in some way or other, then I can make a small group and I can give them methods to work on. The ancient teaching of essenes can be again brought up, and that is the only way to bring it back. Records are lost, or even if a few fragments of records are available, interpretation is impossible; the language is lost.

It is not just a coincidence that so many jews are here; they may not be aware of why they are here. And in that way many more people are coming. Mohammedans and Buddhists will be here and other kinds, other schools. Then we can start working on ancient methods and those methods can be brought to surface from your unconscious. There is no need to go into the scriptures; in fact, that is the only way to recover them. Many beautiful, ancient methods are lost, or have become covered too much with tradition, have lost their shape and their form. Their truth is dead; that truth has to be infused again.

So this is going to be your meditation. Do all the meditations but when you are sitting alone, just raise your hands, sometimes standing, sometimes sitting, sometimes lying down, but make it a point to feel one with Jesus and feel crucified. Some day, something is going to happen. When it happens, just tell me.

Prem means love, sudeep means light, a lamp – light of love. And there is no other light. Life is a darkness; all that we have is the heart. If it can start becoming a flame of love then you have a little light around you, otherwise all is darkness.

Unless your heart becomes luminous through love, no other light can be of any help. But the heart can become luminous, the heart is meant to become; the heart is there only for that purpose. It can become a great flame, and then you become luminous. It is not only that your path is lighted, you start lighting others’ paths too.

Become more loving. The more you love, the more lighted you will be. And when love is absolute, one is enlightened.

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