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‌CHAPTER 9

9 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Deva means divine and chirantana means eternal; divine eternity. And a few things have to be understood. First, eternity is not duration: it is not time going on and on and on. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is something totally different than time – diametrically opposite, rather.

[Osho said time is a distortion of eternity. When one looks at eternity through the tiny hole of the mind, one has the illusion of time. See ‘The Shadow of the Whip’, December 3rd, where Osho expands on this.]

From the eternal viewpoint, the past is as much now as the future is, as the present is. Past, future and present, all exist together. Existence is simultaneous, all together. This very moment everything that has ever existed and will ever exist, exists. Then the now becomes the suprememost value.

To know the chirantana, the eternal, one has to live in the now, one has to go deeper into the now. You have to go so deep that the ripples of time disappear and you come to a moment where there is no time, where the clock has stopped. That’s what meditation is all about: you come to a moment where time disappears, where time is no longer.

When time disappears, mind disappears, because time and mind are both connected together. Time is the creation of the hole of the mind, the distortion. Hence all meditative techniques insist that one should go beyond the mind. You can go beyond time or you can go beyond the mind – it is both the same.

This is the message in your name ‘chirantana’: you have to go beyond time, you have to look at the totality without any media. You have to look immediately... and this is possible! Once there is no thought moving in the mind, you are immediate.

With the thoughts the mind functions. When there is no thought – not a single thought – suddenly all the holes have disappeared. Then you are in tune with the totality, and to be in tune with the totality is to be divine.…

Prem means love, nura means light; light of love.

Nura is a sufi name, and I’m giving it to you for a certain reason. You have been a sufi in the past life and still much is there. It just needs to be helped and it will explode. Because on the spiritual path nothing is ever lost. Whatsoever you do goes on accumulating.

Down the centuries, whatsoever you have done on the spiritual path goes on accumulating. Everything else is lost: the money that you accumulate in one life is lost, the prestige is lost, the name, fame is lost, the political power is lost. Only one thing is never lost – it continues from one life to another – and that is whatsoever you do towards your spiritual growth.

The river of spiritual growth is infinite, from the beginning to the end. It is not confined to one life – the body dies, the mind changes, but the spirit remains the same.

So much is there ready... just a little effort and the shell will break. You will come to an experience which you cannot even imagine, which cannot be told, cannot be expressed and cannot be defined – it is ineffable. One knows it only when one knows.

And there is no map for it, because it is immeasurable. But one thing about it is that it is something like infinite light exploding – hence the name nura. It is as if a sun is born inside you, a great source of light.

Once that light is experienced the whole of life becomes a light. Then whatsoever you touch becomes gold and wherever you look you find god. Each moment is precious – but that preciousness comes from within... you pour it onto every experience of life. Mm? you may look at an ordinary flower and suddenly it is tremendously beautiful. Now you are pouring your light onto it.

The world is beautiful only when you can pour your light on it. Without your light it is a dark phenomenon – the beauty remains hidden. We are sitting on millions of miracles but our inner light is missing so we cannot see those miracles – they are happening all the time. Once your inner light is there you start looking at things in a totally new way.

And that is the meaning of being religious – when your touch brings divinity to things.…

[A sannyasin said that he is clearing his conditioning; his relationship is helping to destroy it; and he feels stronger with Osho inside him.]

That’s right! This is going to help. This happens... it is natural, because character is not something like a mechanical structure. Character is something that you constantly create. It is not a dead thing – it is a dynamic factor.

It is just like cutting a tree... it is a dynamic process. Just by removing one leaf, nothing is going to change – another leaf comes out – because the tree immediately compensates.

So character is not just dead armour, it is a very dynamic force and it is self creative; it creates itself. So you will see sometimes that something is falling and another day again there is something else.

Just watch – you have to become more watchful. And rather than fighting with the character, you have to fight with your unawareness, because unawareness is the fuel. Deep down that is what creates your character, because unawareness needs the character, otherwise you will go mad. A conscious person can afford to be without character – an unconscious person cannot; character is a necessity.

It is almost as if your eyes are not working well. then you have to use glasses. You cannot afford to throw them – if you throw them you will not be able to see.

When your eyes are functioning well, perfectly well, then you can throw the glasses; there is no point in wearing them.

Character is something that helps the unconscious person to live in the world smoothly. It gives you a certain eyesight – it functions like glasses. So rather than throwing the glasses, start becoming more aware, more alert, more conscious. The more conscious you are, the less will be the need for the glasses and they can be thrown away; they can be easily dropped. But this is going to help, mm? you are coming closer to it... and you are coming closer to me too.

The closer you come to awareness, the closer you will be to me. There is no other way to be close to me – physical closeness makes no difference. So just become more and more alert and enjoy life more, but enjoy with a deep alertness. Don’t become intoxicated.

[The sannyasin then said that he finds a split between the awareness inside and the trip with people.]

There is nothing contradictory in it. You can remain alert doing whatsoever you are doing; you can do a thousand and one things and remain alert. Alertness is not something that you do – alertness is something that you create inside yourself. Whatsoever you are doing is not the question. You do it in a luminous way... you do it consciously remembering that you are doing it. So you can relate to people or you can sit alone, you can be in the marketplace or you can go to a monastery – it does not make any difference. Whatsoever you do is not the point – you do it consciously.

Consciousness is not something that you do once in a day and then you do other things; it is not one thing and other things. It has to become a substratum of all that you do... it has to become an inner continuity of all that you do.

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