Chapter #1 Snap Your Fingers Slap Your Face And Wake Up #1
Discourse Overview
Main Teaching: Truth is not an achievement but a gift that visits only when the mind is utterly desireless, because seeking itself is rooted in desire and thus a barrier. Silence born of this desireless receptivity is benediction—sannyas and surrender are the practical steps to efface the self so the divine can descend. Man carries the wolf of animality yet also the capacity to turn inward and rise toward the divine; evolution is a passage from animality to Godhood and requires an inward choice. The inner lock of existence is unlocked by surrender and emptiness, rooting one in the eternal power of God rather than the accidental drift of worldly life. On desire: Desire is the universal noise that obscures truth—every desire, including the desire for God, must be dropped because it keeps the mind occupied and unreceptive. Only when want ceases does the mind become a quiet vessel where truth can happen. On silence: Silence is not mere absence of sound but the stillness arising when all desires vanish, a sacred receptivity where benediction enters and truth reveals itself. On animal nature: The wolf within is not to be destroyed but to be raised; man is a bridge between animality and the divine and can fall below animals or rise above angels depending on whether he turns inward. Inwardness is synonymous with upwardness; looking outward yields decline. On surrender: Surrender is the practice of effacing the ego—think yourself as nothing—and is the master key of sannyas to unlock the hidden lock of existence. With that emptiness God can happen, conferring immortal, enduring power that transforms a body-bound life into the life of the soul.
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Osho's Commentary
Truth is never an achievement; one cannot seek and search it. Seeking is a sure way of not finding it. Search and you will miss, because the very idea of searching, seeking, is rooted in desire, and desire is the barrier.
Truth happens when there is no desire in the mind. When the mind is utterly desireless, then truth comes. It visits only when desire has left it. Not only the worldly desires but the desire for truth also should leave. Not only desires for money, power and prestige, but desire for God also is a barrier. The object of desire is irrelevant; desire itself is the problem.
Truth is a gift for those who have dropped desiring. In those rare moments when the mind is without desire there is such silence, such receptivity, that one cannot imagine it, one cannot dream about it. It is utter silence, because all noise consists of desires. In that silence is benediction. That silence is truth.
Deva Wolfgang. Deva means divine; Wolfgang means the walk of the wolf. But because each thing is divine, even the walk of the wolf is divine; because each being is divine, even the wolf is divine. The animal has not to be destroyed; the animal has to be raised to the divine.
And we have all wolves within us. We come from the world of the animals. Charles Darwin is perfectly right, that man is an evolved form of animals. But he ends there; that's where he is wrong. Man is not yet arrived; it is on the way. Man has come from the animals but has to go to God too. Man is only a passage for the animal to attain the divine, a bridge stretched between the animal and the divine.
Animals are perfect in a sense: they are born as they are going to live their whole life. Man is not perfect in that sense. He is a becoming, a changing, a flux. He can fall below the animals; he can rise above the angels. Both possibilities are there. It all depends how you use the opportunity of life.
If one goes on looking outside one's being, one goes on falling below. The moment eyes turn inwards, we start rising above. Inwards is synonymous with upwards, outwards synonymous with downwards. The animal has no inside look, the animal cannot look within; that is his limitation. Man is free to look within; that is his glory. But one has to choose. One may not choose; one may go on looking outwards. Then one is man only physiologically but not spiritually.
Sannyas is a step towards the inner world, towards your interiority. It is turning in, and the moment of turning in is the moment of meeting God.
Deva Erich. Deva means divine; Erich means always powerful. God is always powerful; everything else is momentary. Except God, nothing is always powerful. Everything rises, falls; the tide comes and ebbs. Nothing remains eternally the same except God, so those who are not rooted in God remain driftwood, just at the mercy of the waves and the winds. They don't have any destiny; their life is accidental. The accidental life cannot know the essential; and to know the essential is to know oneself. And by knowing oneself one comes to know existence and its mysteries. The lock is hidden within you. Unless that lock is unlocked, existence remains a secret.
Sannyas is a key, a master key, to unlock your inner being. And the first step will be surrender to God. Think yourself as nothing: God is all. Let this be your meditation and prayer: efface yourself, simply disappear. In that emptiness the divine descends. That emptiness is a must, because only in that space God can happen.
And with God you are also then eternally powerful. With God you are immortal. Without God there is death; with God there is no death. Without God one is only a body; with God one becomes a soul.