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‌CHAPTER 25

26 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Pashupatti – lord of the animals.

It is a name of shiva. The idea behind it is that the animal part in life has not to be rejected but to be absorbed. The animal part has not to be repressed, otherwise one loses vitality. If the animal part is condemned in any way, you become split, you become two, and then there is constant conflict within you, a constant inner war, and that war is a wastage of energies. The animal part has to be absorbed, has to be transformed, has to be transmuted. This is the only country in the world which has given such a name to one aspect of god – that god is the lord of animals. When the animal is absorbed, you become lord of all the vitalities. Then there is energy. Then the saint is not a dead man, but more alive, abundantly alive. So remember that.

It is very deep-rooted in the western mind to condemn the lower, to reject it, to avoid it, to deny it and to pretend it doesn’t exist. Those pretensions never lead to transformation. In fact they lead you into deeper conflicts, problems, anxieties, because the repressed part takes revenge, and it is more powerful than the head. Always remember: the higher is more delicate than the lower, and the higher can be crushed very easily because it is softer, it is feminine; the lower is masculine. The lower is like a rock and the higher is like a flower. If there is a conflict between a rock and a flower, the rock is not going to lose anything; only the flower will be destroyed. The flower can pretend that it has defeated the rock but the rock is there and any moment it can crush the flower.

So a sainthood that depends on rejection is always fragile. Its real part has become its own enemy; the animal, the lower, the base. You are a building without a base and without a foundation. How long can one stand without a foundation? How long can a tree exist without roots in the soil? How long can a man exist without accepting and absorbing the animal?

The animal is our roots, it is our past, it is our earth, our soil. The flower is very far away from the roots, but it is part of the roots. It is the root energy that is flowing in the flower, that has become

transformed in the flower. It is the fulfillment of the root. The root is hidden and the flower is there in the high sky. The flower may pretend that it has nothing to do with the roots but that pretension is simply a lie. It depends on the roots.

So always remember that sex, anger, jealousy, hatred, greed, all have to be used; they all have to be domesticated. They can become great sources of vitality. They just have to be put in the right place and to be used consciously. To use your animal consciously is to become a pashupatti – lord of the animals. And there are many animals. hence the plural. In your unconscious there are animals and animals, because the whole past is there. Scientists say that once man was a fish, and since then there has been constant evolution till monkey became man. All those animals exist in you, their footprints exist in you. There are times when a man looks more like a dog than like a man. Those things exist in you. Everybody carries the whole past of humanity; that is our collective unconscious. Rightly used it can become a ladder to god. Not used rightly, used in a mechanical unconscious way, it can become one’s doom.

[A university lecturer says she feels stupid, closed, lost. Osho says that these are all good indications. First, there is nothing to know. Here we don’t impart knowledge; we help people to become idiots... because idiots are very close. The ignorant person is innocent, Osho continues. The ego feeds on knowledge. The ignorant person is childlike, liquid, mirrorlike... My observation is that you have to start enjoying small things, he says, and gives her a special meditation.]

Just sitting silently, create a giggle in the very guts of your being, as if your whole body is giggling, laughing. Start swaying with that laughter; let it spread from the belly to the whole of your body: hands laughing, feet laughing. Go crazily into it. For twenty minutes do the laughing. If it comes uproariously, loudly, allow it. If it comes silently, then sometimes silently, sometimes loudly, but twenty minutes laughing. Then lie down on the earth or on the floor; spread yourself on the floor, facing the floor. If it is warm and you can do it in the garden, on the soil, that will be far better; if it can be done naked that will be even better. Make contact with the earth, the whole body lying down there on the earth, and just feel that the earth is the mother and you are the child. Get lost in that feeling.

Twenty minutes laughter, then twenty minutes earthing, deep contact with the earth. Breathe with the earth, feel one with the earth. We come from the earth and one day we will be going back to it. After those twenty minutes energising – because the earth will give so much energy that your dancing will have a different quality to it – dance for twenty minutes, just any dance. Put music on and dance.

If it is difficult, it is cold, then you can do this inside a room, or when it is sunny, do it outside. If it is very cold, cover yourself with a blanket. Find ways and means but continue to do it, and within six to eight months you will see great changes happening on their own.

[Osho gives a centre name.] This will be the name: indu.

It means the moon. And I want to create the moon energy in people, because I want people to become mad. The moon is the source of all madness, that’s why the word lunatic. So help people to become ‘luna-tics’!

[A sannyasin asks if she should start acupuncture. Osho gave a sannyasin some groups to do and the sannyasin says she feels disappointed: I must have wanted something else.]

Then it is better to say so. Never leave it to me. It is always better to say ‘This is what I want.’ First people leave it to me and when I say something they feel disappointed because they have a certain desire. and they are waiting for me to fulfill their desire. If there is a desire and you want to do acupuncture, this or that, you should say it! If I feel it is not right I will say no or I will say yes. But this is a very cunning way. You have a secret desire. If I say to do it, then you feel very happy and you say ‘Osho has said to do it’; you will never say to anybody that it was your secret desire. So first you say that whatsoever I say you will do, but that is not true, that’s why the disappointment.

And in you that is there, continuously. You have been here but you have not been in deep contact with me. You go on protecting yourself, you go on defending yourself; you keep a certain distance. But that is at your own risk. You are a loser in that. And I wanted that disappointment because I wanted you to know this, that if you keep this distance finally you will be disappointed.

You are not being innocent with me; you are being calculative, and that is a hindrance. If you enjoy it, it is perfectly good, there is no problem in it. But you will not enjoy it either...

If you go with disappointment into them, then much won’t happen. Things happen only when you go totally into them, when you go joyously into them, when you go with a great passion. Then things happen. If you go lukewarm, so-so, just because you are being sent, you are going like you are going to a school – parents are sending you so you go – then nothing happens. When nothing happens, it becomes a vicious circle. You will say, ‘I knew beforehand that there was no need but Osho insisted so I went, and now nothing has happened.’ It becomes a self-defeating thing.

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