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‌CHAPTER 16

16 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

[Prem Shozo – love and to rise high.]

Prem means love; and love is the way to rise high. It is the only natural psychedelic that takes you high. Love is the ladder to god. Those who try without love are always bound to fail; it is only through love and as love that one arrives. Love is vaster than the sky, bigger than the universe, because the universe itself is only a tiny expression of love energy.

Many universes have happened and disappeared, many universes will happen and disappear, but love continues. Love is the stuff existence is made of: love is god.

Deva means god, Bhavit means possessed by – possessed by god. The experience of god is an experience of being possessed by the whole. As the ocean enters into the drop, the infinite enters into the finite. Naturally when the infinite enters into the finite, the finite disappears. When the ocean enters into the drop, the drop cannot exist; as a drop it cannot remain.

God comes as a possession: one is suddenly possessed with some unknown energy, with something so huge, so enormous, that one cannot control it; one can only be controlled by it.

Hence, without surrender, nobody can attain to god. Surrender is the beginning and the end. In the beginning surrender remains partial, so-so; slowly slowly it becomes deeper and deeper. And the day it is total, immediately, instantly, something from the beyond enters and transforms you.

That experience is bhavit: that experience is the experience of being possessed by god. Simant means the end of all boundaries.

Sannyas is the end of all boundaries. To become a sannyasin means that now you will not remain confined in any conditioning, that slowly slowly you will drop all the programmes that the society has imposed upon you. The whole process of sannyas is that of de-programming, de-conditioning, de-hypnosis. The moment all conditions are dropped and you are innocent again, all that you had always desired and longed for immediately happens, and it happens of its own accord. You are not to positively do anything for it, the whole effort is negative: you have to drop many things.

When there is nothing clinging to you and you are not clinging to anything, in that state of non- clinging, it happens: truth happens, god happens.

It can happen only when you have the innocence of a child – fresh like a dew-drop, clean like a sky without clouds, empty, with no content. When there is no content inside, the mind cannot project anything. When there is emptiness inside, the mind goes into non-functioning, and the non- functioning of the mind is the beginning of god.

To cease as a mind is to start living as a god. Cessation of the mind is the beginning of divine, eternal life.

The mind consists of boundaries – Hindu, Christian, Communist, Indian, Chinese, white, black. These are all boundaries given to you, and they have become ingrained. One accepts them without any awareness; they function from your unconscious.

Sannyas is a work of great cleansing, cleansing the house and cleaning it of all the rubbish that the society has forced into you. It is a process of unlearning, and when you have unlearned all that you have learned, in that state god is so close, closer than you are to yourself, and truth is not a goal, then truth is the quality of the now, the here,. Then truth is like breathing. Then truth is spontaneity, naturalness – and to become natural, to become spontaneous, is to have arrived home.

Love is a fire – and if one allows, it burns one totally, it destroys one as one is. Only in that death is the new born. In the beginning love is a crucifixion, and in the end it is a resurrection. It is a new birth, a new beginning, but the beginning is possible only if the old ends.

The new cannot be continuous with the old, otherwise it will remain in some way still old. Maybe it is modified a little bit here and there, renovated here and there, painted, polished here and there, but its spirit will remain that of the old . The new has to be discontinuous with the old. The old has simply to cease, it has to disappear and the new has to appear, unconnected with the old. The old cannot be a cause of the new; if it is a cause then it remains old.

This is one of the most fundamental things to be understood about initiation; that it is the end of the old. It is consciously dropping whatsoever your identity has been, losing it consciously, forgetting all about it – as if you have read about it in a novel or you have seen it in a movie, but it has nothing to do with you. Just as the snake slips out of its old skin and does not even look back, that’s what initiation is: slipping out of the skin of the old and not even looking back.

When one is free of memory of the past, life has a totally different flavour. Then life is alive. It throbs with wonder, with joy, overflows with benediction. Not only does one feel blissful; one is ready to bless the whole world too. And that miracle happens through love.

Sannyas is entering into the world of love. I teach love and love and nothing else – because to me, as love deepens, prayer arises; and as prayer deepens, god arises.

Your new face will not be your face, it will be god’s face. It will be your original face as god meant it to be; it will not be a mask.

Deva means divine, veena is an Indian musical instrument. Sabina means with the divine instrument, with the divine musical instrument. Sa means with, veena means the musical instrument. The whole name will mean: with the musical instrument of god.

The heart is the divine instrument, and one has to learn how to play on it. It is very rare to find a person who knows how to play on the heart, and unless you know how to play on the heart your life remains a tragedy, because the music that you are carrying within yourself is never expressed. That’s the tragedy. The only tragic thing in life is not to explode into your true being. Not to bloom in all the colours and the sounds that you have been carrying within you, not to release the fragrance of your being to the winds – that is the only tragedy. And it is very rare to find a person who is not tragic.

Whenever you find a person who has learned how to play on his heart, you will find god speaking through him, god singing through him. He becomes a flute. Then he is no more there; he is just an instrument in the hands of god. Then his life becomes the life of a messenger. That is the very meaning of the word ‘messiah’.

One can become a messiah of god only by learning how to play on one’s heart, because god only understands the language of the heart; he can only hear the notes produced by the heart. There is no communication between the head and the divine. The head is human, the heart is divine: with the head you can communicate with people, with the heart you can commune with god. And the moment that you can commune with your heart with some human being too, that human being immediately turns into a divine being. That’s why lovers start thinking of the other as a god or a goddess. When they are really in love, the other disappears as a human being and becomes just a personification, an incarnation, of a god or a goddess.

Wherever the heart functions, god is felt. And wherever the head functions, god is not found at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche could declare that god is dead, because he lived only in the head. He was one of the most intelligent persons ever born, he had one of the sharpest intellects ever born, but he could not find god anywhere – not because god is not, but because the way he was searching was the hindrance. He was looking through the head; the head has no way to commune with the divine. It is perfectly okay with matter; with consciousness it is impotent. It is perfectly good with parts, fragments; with the whole it is simply useless.

The whole can be contacted only by the heart; but people’s hearts are not functioning. The school, the college, the university – they don’t teach you the ways of the heart, they teach you only the ways of the head. So it is natural to see a tragic humanity. People are carrying great flowers, possibilities, potential. It is becoming heavier every day, and they don’t know what to do with this potential. They remain hung up in the head.

Let sannyas become your entry into the heart. Sannyas is the university of the heart; it is coming down from the head and entering into the heart. Start playing the music that is hidden there, start singing the song that the heart has always been longing to sing. It is the beginning of a new dance. Immediately, with the first stirring of the heart, god is felt. Then he becomes a very tangible presence.

This will be the name [for the centre]: Upanishad. Upanishad literally means being in communion with the master, sitting at the feet of the master. Because of this meaning, the most sacred writings of India are called the Upanishadas.

The message was received in deep communion. Those sacred writings of India are just notes of the disciples; they had heard it in silence. And when the master approved, the writings were collected, but they were not verbally communicated. The disciples were just sitting at the feet of the master, in deep silence, and something penetrated their being, a ray of light, something parapsychological, something beyond the world of the mind. And they took notes of those experiences. When the master nodded yes, those notes were collected; those collections are called the Upanishadas.

They are the most beautiful sacred writings that have ever happened anywhere. There is no comparison with the Upanishadas, no book can have any comparison to them. Nobody knows who wrote them because the disciples could not sign them, they were not their writings; and the master could not sign them because he had never said anything, so they have remained unsigned, anonymous. Each statement is of tremendous import.

Ultimately this commune is going to become a communion of silence. I am just preparing, and preparing fast, so that soon it can happen that you can just simply sit with me. There is no need to speak, there is no need to hear; there is nothing to say and there is nothing to hear ... just a meeting, a meeting beyond minds, a transmission beyond words. Something simply jumps like a flame from one lit candle to another unlit candle; the unlit candle is no more unlit. The lit candle has not lost anything and the unlit has gained a whole universe of new meaning, of new poetry, of new being.

[A sannyasin says she is staying for ever. Osho suggests she do a few groups and then work. She says she does not want to.]

So that means the beginning of trouble.…

Because the basic principle of being here and part of the ashram is to listen to me.

But start working, then we will see. If you start feeling that some groups are needed, then I will give you some later on, mm? Good.

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