[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer. It is for reference purposes only.]
Love is the door to the divine. It is the only way To relate oneself to the ultimate. But before you can know what love is You have to go through many purifications Because what is ordinarily known as love Is not only love, Many other things are mixed in it. It is very much polluted, it is not pure. Maybe one per cent of it is love But ninety-nine per cent is something else. And that ninety-nine per cent Is dominating, overpowering, overwhelming. The one per cent is crushed, destroyed By that ninety-nine per cent. One has to drop that ninety-nine per cent.
There is so much jealousy in your love And jealousy is poison. There is so much possessiveness in your love And possessiveness is destructive. Love is a very delicate flower And to be possessive Means throwing a rock on the flower. There is a deep desire to dominate the other It is very unconscious, but it is there And it is very powerful. Then love becomes just a facade and behind it You are just on an ego trip. And the same is also the case With the person with whom you are in love. So quarrel arises, fighting arises. Both become destructive to each other.
After a few experiences of love affairs One becomes weary, tired. One starts feeling That love is the greatest nuisance in life. One feels one's fingers are burnt One starts avoiding it. That's what is happening in the West. People are going far more towards pure sex And avoiding love, because at least pure sex Does not have that much trouble, it is simple. Of course it cannot take you to the heights But neither does your so called love Take you to the heights. On the contrary Your so-called love takes you to such hells. Sex cannot take you to such hells either. It simply keeps you healthy. It is hygienic, healthy, normal. It keeps you a fit animal, that's all.
It has always happened in the past also: Whenever a society allows freedom for love People become tired of love Because in the name of love So much ugliness starts happening that People start leaning towards pure sex. It seems more convenient, more comfortable With no risk. It can be purchased easily. It is sellable, purchasable. Love cannot be sold and cannot be purchased. It is not a commodity. Sex is a commodity It is part of our materialistic world.
Either this happens or Society becomes very repressive towards love And forces marriage upon people So that they stick to one person And that too not for love but for other reasons: For progeny, to give birth to children So that they can take care of your properties When you are no more And they can carry your name down the ages. Love is no more a consideration Because people have become so afraid of it. People think of the family, of richness Of culture, of education, of nobility, aristocracy And all kinds of things. They consult astrologers and palmists But they don't think of love at all They avoid love. They take everything else into consideration Except love -- that's what an arranged marriage is.
So these two things happen again and again. Whenever love is free Whenever there is more freedom Society becomes tired of love. People start moving towards sex. Then sooner or later they become tired of sex too Because it is unfulfilling. Then they fall back upon the old patterns. Again they forget the old lessons They decide to go into marriage. This is how it moves in a vicious circle. India has completed th circle manu times Because it is one of the most ancient societies. Many times it has seen freedom of love Many times it has seen freedom of sex. Then a puritanical, repressive society Then again a rebellion. And the same thing goes on and on. But the reason, the basic reason nobody looks for. The basic reason is not love The basic reason is that love Is mixed with other things. We have to learn to drop those other things.
Love is beautiful Love is the greatest gift of god. But it is like a raw phenomenon. It has to be polished, refined, cut. It is like a diamond: Much has to be done before people can know Its beauty and its splendour.
And that's my whole work here: To help you refine your raw love Into a refined, polished, cultured phenomenon So that it can become A source of upliftment for your soul So that it can become a door to the divine.
Compassion is the transformation of passion. Passion is using the other as a means For your own fulfilment. Compassion is sharing your being, your joy Your bliss, your love, with others For the sheer joy of sharing Because each individual is an end unto himself. No individual should be used as a means. That is cruelty, that is animality.
Compassion is the highest form of your energy And passion, the lowest form of your energy. The same energy passing through meditation Becomes compassion. Meditation is the transforming force. And when a person lives in compassion He lives in pure love. That is true prayer, true godliness. There is no other god than that purity Which love brings, which compassion brings.
God is only a symbol That represents many beautiful things. Freedom, love, bliss, truth, compassion All that is valuable All that has intrinsic value Is represented by the name god. God is not a person at all It is the ultimate crescendo Of all the beautiful qualities of life Of all the virtues, of all the values.
And compassion is one of the most important, The most significant parts, To be evolved by the seeker. Be friendly, be loving, be compassionate. Help in every possible way that you can And you will be helped. And you will be helped a thousandfold! -- What is the meaning of your name, Maji? -- It came to me in a dream.
It's good. In Hindi 'maji' means the boatman, the ferryman One who takes you to the other shore. Anand means bliss -- a blissful boatman.
Everybody has to take himself to the other shore. He has to be a boat for himself. He is the boat and he is the boatman too. They are not separate. And once you have been to the other shore You can help others also. Those who go to the other shore And never come back And forget all about this shore Are called Arhatas. Those who come back to help others To show the way Are called Bodhisatvas. They create bigger boats so many people Can be taken to the other shore.
When Buddha died His religion was divided into two parts. It was bound to happen because the Arhats Behaved in a totally different way. They wouldn't help. And the Bodhisatvas were so concerned For others, for their misery That they were ready To go make any sacrifice, to go through any suffering To help others.
These two sections were known as Hinayana The section that belonged to the Arhats Was called Hinayana; the small boat people. The boat is so small, only you can sit in it You cannot carry anybody else in it. And the other section was called Mahayana: The great boat people. They created big ships So thousands could be taken to the other shore.
First become a boat for yourself And then you can decide Wether to come back to this shore Or forget all about it! A beautiful name has come in your dream!
The lion represents two things. One: it never moves in a crowd. It is always alone, it loves solitude. It is an individual, utterly an individual. It is not like sheep.The sheep can exist Only with the crowd, with the mob. Alone it is very frightened Alone it is very nervous. It does not know what to do, where to go. It depends on the crowd to be led, to be guided. And the irony is That others are also dependent on the same crowd. So everybody is dependent on everybody else Thinking that others know better. They all live in an illusion. But that's the situation Of the ordinary human being too. They live as part of the mob psychology They don't have their own psyche yet. Hindu -- yes, Mohammedan -- yes, Christian -- yes But it is very rare to find an individual. They can become Communistic very easily. That is another crowd.
My sannyasins have to be individuals. Each sannyasin has to depend on himself. That's why I am not giving Detailed instructions to you So you cannot depend on anything. You have to fall upon yourself. Sometimes it looks cruel But that's the only compassionate way to help: Unless you are thrown back again and again You are not going to be an individual You will remain part of a crowd. You can change crowds, that's not difficult. You can change your affiliations, your labels But the basic thing is missing: You don't have an independent soul. The lion represents individuality.
And secondly The lion represents immense courage. It never escapes from any challenge. It may die but It will not turn its back. It is better to die than to be a coward. To be a coward is a far uglier phenomenon. Death is not ugly. Death can be beautiful if you die courageously. If you die accepting a challenge Joyously, dancingly, As Socrates died, as Jesus died, as Mansoor died, It is one of the most beautiful phenomena On the earth. Death depends on you. If you are a coward even life is ugly What to say about death? If you are courageous even death is beautiful What to say about life?
So remember these two things. Be an individual and be absolutely courageous. That's the way of sannyas: Individuality and courage. Unless one is ready to risk all One cannot find god.
God is freedom. Freedom is another name for god And a far better name! The priests have used god to create a slavery In people's minds. In the name of god They have exploited humanity for centuries. Hence I insist again and again That god is freedom, religion is freedom. And if anything makes you a slave Then its not religion And it has nothing to do with god.
Let freedom be the criterion Always judge be freedom. Whatever gives you freedom Will make you more religious. And whatever gives you freedom Will bring you closer to god. And when you are capable of being totally free You become one with god.
Hence in India we don't talk About the ultimate as god, but as moksha. Moksha means absolute freedom. Buddha never talked about god. Mahavira never mentioned god For the simple reason that they saw What priests have done in the name of god. They only talked about freedom.
So be free -- free from all traditions Free from all dogmas, free from all churches Free from all priests, scriptures Free from all ideologies. And start living in freedom -- that's sannyas. To live in freedom is sannyas.
-- What is the meaning of your name? -- It's a short form of a name of a magic mushroom. -- Mm! That's good. That's perfectly good! Now you will be an orange mushroom! An orange mushroom becomes more magical, it becomes more psychedelic.
Good, Swami Filpz -- be psychedelic!
Enjoy life like a drunkard. And there is no higher psychedelic Than meditation. There is no greater magic than meditation Because it releases your inner sources Of tremendous joy, insight. It makes life colourful It makes life a dreamland. In fact it is because of meditation And a desire for deeper experiences Of one's own being That people are attracted to magic mushrooms And marijuana and hashish and alcohol. And from the very ancient days, even in The ancientmost scripture of the world, Rigveda They talk about a certain mushroom called soma. And the ancient seers were mad about soma.
Aldous Huxley has said When LSD is perfected totally It should be again called soma. His suggestion is beautiful. But he was in an illusion: He thought that by taking LSD He was experiencing the same ecstasy As Buddha experienced and Kabir experienced And Al Hillaj experienced. There he was wrong. It was not the same ecstasy. What he was experiencing Was just a chemical imitation of it A chemical carbon copy of it. It was a deception. It was not real gold. It was glittering like gold. But it was not real gold.
Real gold has to be found within oneself. You cannot take it in from the outside. And it is already there. Every being is born With an infinite capacity to be ecstatic But we never search for it. We always go for cheaper things. They are easier and available, You can purchase them and you can inject them. Meditation seems to be a long long journey. And we are in such a hurry.
Drop the impatient mind and search within And become as silent as possible. You will come across a source of nectar in you Which is the greatest magic in the world Because it releases The most miraculous experiences in you It opens the doors af all the mysteries.
Mind lives in time. Mind divides reality into past, present and future. Mind functions like a prism. A ray of light passing through a prism Becomes divided into seven colours. That's how the rainbow is created. The rainbow is created by small raindrops Hanging in the air. They function like a prism: Sunrays passing through those raindrops Become divided. Otherwise sunrays are white. But once the white ray passes through a prism It goes through a great division, a great split. It becomes seven.
In the same way mind functions like a prism. Eternity passing through the mind becomes time. It is divided into three: Past present and future. But the whole thing is illusory. You cannot catch hold of a rainbow. It is empty, there is nothing. So is time: time is empty, there is nothing.
One has to go beyond the mind to know the real. The real is eternal, the real is always now. The real is never past, never future It is always present.
And that's the beauty of meditation: It brings you to the present. Slowly slowly you settle into the present. You settle in your own being So silently that you forget All about the past and the future. And this moment becomes so overwhelming So tremendously overwhelming That there is nothing beyond it. To know this moment's totality is to know god. To go beyond time is to go into god. To remain in time is to remain in mind. Meditation means getting out of the mind. Mind is synonymous with no-time.
Get out of mind and time. Rest and relax into the now and here So totally that nothing else is left: No dust of the past, no smoke of the future. In that clarity, in that transparent clarity You become able to see that which is.
In fact god is an ancient symbol. G used to stand for that O for which, and D for is. It is a code word for that which is.
Osho's Commentary
Love is the door to the divine.
It is the only way
To relate oneself to the ultimate.
But before you can know what love is
You have to go through many purifications
Because what is ordinarily known as love
Is not only love,
Many other things are mixed in it.
It is very much polluted, it is not pure.
Maybe one per cent of it is love
But ninety-nine per cent is something else.
And that ninety-nine per cent
Is dominating, overpowering, overwhelming.
The one per cent is crushed, destroyed
By that ninety-nine per cent.
One has to drop that ninety-nine per cent.
There is so much jealousy in your love
And jealousy is poison.
There is so much possessiveness in your love
And possessiveness is destructive.
Love is a very delicate flower
And to be possessive
Means throwing a rock on the flower.
There is a deep desire to dominate the other
It is very unconscious, but it is there
And it is very powerful.
Then love becomes just a facade and behind it
You are just on an ego trip.
And the same is also the case
With the person with whom you are in love.
So quarrel arises, fighting arises.
Both become destructive to each other.
After a few experiences of love affairs
One becomes weary, tired. One starts feeling
That love is the greatest nuisance in life.
One feels one's fingers are burnt
One starts avoiding it.
That's what is happening in the West.
People are going far more towards pure sex
And avoiding love, because at least pure sex
Does not have that much trouble, it is simple.
Of course it cannot take you to the heights
But neither does your so called love
Take you to the heights.
On the contrary
Your so-called love takes you to such hells.
Sex cannot take you to such hells either.
It simply keeps you healthy.
It is hygienic, healthy, normal.
It keeps you a fit animal, that's all.
It has always happened in the past also:
Whenever a society allows freedom for love
People become tired of love
Because in the name of love
So much ugliness starts happening that
People start leaning towards pure sex.
It seems more convenient, more comfortable
With no risk.
It can be purchased easily.
It is sellable, purchasable.
Love cannot be sold and cannot be purchased.
It is not a commodity.
Sex is a commodity
It is part of our materialistic world.
Either this happens or
Society becomes very repressive towards love
And forces marriage upon people
So that they stick to one person
And that too not for love but for other reasons:
For progeny, to give birth to children
So that they can take care of your properties
When you are no more
And they can carry your name down the ages.
Love is no more a consideration
Because people have become so afraid of it.
People think of the family, of richness
Of culture, of education, of nobility, aristocracy
And all kinds of things.
They consult astrologers and palmists
But they don't think of love at all
They avoid love.
They take everything else into consideration
Except love -- that's what an arranged marriage is.
So these two things happen again and again.
Whenever love is free
Whenever there is more freedom
Society becomes tired of love.
People start moving towards sex.
Then sooner or later they become tired of sex too
Because it is unfulfilling.
Then they fall back upon the old patterns.
Again they forget the old lessons
They decide to go into marriage.
This is how it moves in a vicious circle.
India has completed th circle manu times
Because it is one of the most ancient societies.
Many times it has seen freedom of love
Many times it has seen freedom of sex.
Then a puritanical, repressive society
Then again a rebellion.
And the same thing goes on and on.
But the reason, the basic reason nobody looks for.
The basic reason is not love
The basic reason is that love
Is mixed with other things.
We have to learn to drop those other things.
Love is beautiful
Love is the greatest gift of god.
But it is like a raw phenomenon.
It has to be polished, refined, cut.
It is like a diamond:
Much has to be done before people can know
Its beauty and its splendour.
And that's my whole work here:
To help you refine your raw love
Into a refined, polished, cultured phenomenon
So that it can become
A source of upliftment for your soul
So that it can become a door to the divine.
Compassion is the transformation of passion.
Passion is using the other as a means
For your own fulfilment.
Compassion is sharing your being, your joy
Your bliss, your love, with others
For the sheer joy of sharing
Because each individual is an end unto himself.
No individual should be used as a means.
That is cruelty, that is animality.
Compassion is the highest form of your energy
And passion, the lowest form of your energy.
The same energy passing through meditation
Becomes compassion.
Meditation is the transforming force.
And when a person lives in compassion
He lives in pure love.
That is true prayer, true godliness.
There is no other god than that purity
Which love brings, which compassion brings.
God is only a symbol
That represents many beautiful things.
Freedom, love, bliss, truth, compassion
All that is valuable
All that has intrinsic value
Is represented by the name god.
God is not a person at all
It is the ultimate crescendo
Of all the beautiful qualities of life
Of all the virtues, of all the values.
And compassion is one of the most important,
The most significant parts,
To be evolved by the seeker.
Be friendly, be loving, be compassionate.
Help in every possible way that you can
And you will be helped.
And you will be helped a thousandfold!
-- What is the meaning of your name, Maji?
-- It came to me in a dream.
It's good.
In Hindi 'maji' means the boatman, the ferryman
One who takes you to the other shore.
Anand means bliss -- a blissful boatman.
Everybody has to take himself to the other shore.
He has to be a boat for himself.
He is the boat and he is the boatman too.
They are not separate.
And once you have been to the other shore
You can help others also.
Those who go to the other shore
And never come back
And forget all about this shore
Are called Arhatas.
Those who come back to help others
To show the way
Are called Bodhisatvas.
They create bigger boats so many people
Can be taken to the other shore.
When Buddha died
His religion was divided into two parts.
It was bound to happen because the Arhats
Behaved in a totally different way.
They wouldn't help.
And the Bodhisatvas were so concerned
For others, for their misery
That they were ready
To go make any sacrifice, to go through any suffering
To help others.
These two sections were known as Hinayana
The section that belonged to the Arhats
Was called Hinayana; the small boat people.
The boat is so small, only you can sit in it
You cannot carry anybody else in it.
And the other section was called Mahayana:
The great boat people.
They created big ships
So thousands could be taken to the other shore.
First become a boat for yourself
And then you can decide
Wether to come back to this shore
Or forget all about it!
A beautiful name has come in your dream!
The lion represents two things.
One: it never moves in a crowd.
It is always alone, it loves solitude.
It is an individual, utterly an individual.
It is not like sheep.The sheep can exist
Only with the crowd, with the mob.
Alone it is very frightened
Alone it is very nervous.
It does not know what to do, where to go.
It depends on the crowd to be led, to be guided.
And the irony is
That others are also dependent on the same crowd.
So everybody is dependent on everybody else
Thinking that others know better.
They all live in an illusion.
But that's the situation
Of the ordinary human being too.
They live as part of the mob psychology
They don't have their own psyche yet.
Hindu -- yes, Mohammedan -- yes, Christian -- yes
But it is very rare to find an individual.
They can become Communistic very easily.
That is another crowd.
My sannyasins have to be individuals.
Each sannyasin has to depend on himself.
That's why I am not giving
Detailed instructions to you
So you cannot depend on anything.
You have to fall upon yourself.
Sometimes it looks cruel
But that's the only compassionate way to help:
Unless you are thrown back again and again
You are not going to be an individual
You will remain part of a crowd.
You can change crowds, that's not difficult.
You can change your affiliations, your labels
But the basic thing is missing:
You don't have an independent soul.
The lion represents individuality.
And secondly
The lion represents immense courage.
It never escapes from any challenge.
It may die but
It will not turn its back.
It is better to die than to be a coward.
To be a coward is a far uglier phenomenon.
Death is not ugly.
Death can be beautiful if you die courageously.
If you die accepting a challenge
Joyously, dancingly,
As Socrates died, as Jesus died, as Mansoor died,
It is one of the most beautiful phenomena On the earth.
Death depends on you.
If you are a coward even life is ugly
What to say about death?
If you are courageous even death is beautiful
What to say about life?
So remember these two things.
Be an individual and be absolutely courageous.
That's the way of sannyas:
Individuality and courage.
Unless one is ready to risk all
One cannot find god.
God is freedom.
Freedom is another name for god
And a far better name!
The priests have used god to create a slavery
In people's minds. In the name of god
They have exploited humanity for centuries.
Hence I insist again and again
That god is freedom, religion is freedom.
And if anything makes you a slave
Then its not religion
And it has nothing to do with god.
Let freedom be the criterion
Always judge be freedom.
Whatever gives you freedom
Will make you more religious.
And whatever gives you freedom
Will bring you closer to god.
And when you are capable of being totally free
You become one with god.
Hence in India we don't talk
About the ultimate as god, but as moksha.
Moksha means absolute freedom.
Buddha never talked about god.
Mahavira never mentioned god
For the simple reason that they saw
What priests have done in the name of god.
They only talked about freedom.
So be free -- free from all traditions
Free from all dogmas, free from all churches
Free from all priests, scriptures
Free from all ideologies.
And start living in freedom -- that's sannyas.
To live in freedom is sannyas.
-- What is the meaning of your name?
-- It's a short form of a name of a magic mushroom.
-- Mm! That's good. That's perfectly good! Now you will be an orange mushroom!
An orange mushroom becomes more magical, it becomes more psychedelic.
Good, Swami Filpz -- be psychedelic!
Enjoy life like a drunkard.
And there is no higher psychedelic
Than meditation.
There is no greater magic than meditation
Because it releases your inner sources
Of tremendous joy, insight.
It makes life colourful
It makes life a dreamland.
In fact it is because of meditation
And a desire for deeper experiences
Of one's own being
That people are attracted to magic mushrooms
And marijuana and hashish and alcohol.
And from the very ancient days, even in
The ancientmost scripture of the world, Rigveda
They talk about a certain mushroom called soma.
And the ancient seers were mad about soma.
Aldous Huxley has said
When LSD is perfected totally
It should be again called soma.
His suggestion is beautiful.
But he was in an illusion:
He thought that by taking LSD
He was experiencing the same ecstasy
As Buddha experienced and Kabir experienced
And Al Hillaj experienced.
There he was wrong.
It was not the same ecstasy.
What he was experiencing
Was just a chemical imitation of it
A chemical carbon copy of it.
It was a deception. It was not real gold.
It was glittering like gold.
But it was not real gold.
Real gold has to be found within oneself.
You cannot take it in from the outside.
And it is already there.
Every being is born
With an infinite capacity to be ecstatic
But we never search for it.
We always go for cheaper things.
They are easier and available,
You can purchase them and you can inject them.
Meditation seems to be a long long journey.
And we are in such a hurry.
Drop the impatient mind and search within
And become as silent as possible.
You will come across a source of nectar in you
Which is the greatest magic in the world
Because it releases
The most miraculous experiences in you
It opens the doors af all the mysteries.
Mind lives in time.
Mind divides reality into past, present and future.
Mind functions like a prism.
A ray of light passing through a prism
Becomes divided into seven colours.
That's how the rainbow is created.
The rainbow is created by small raindrops
Hanging in the air.
They function like a prism:
Sunrays passing through those raindrops
Become divided. Otherwise sunrays are white.
But once the white ray passes through a prism
It goes through a great division, a great split.
It becomes seven.
In the same way mind functions like a prism.
Eternity passing through the mind becomes time.
It is divided into three:
Past present and future.
But the whole thing is illusory.
You cannot catch hold of a rainbow.
It is empty, there is nothing.
So is time: time is empty, there is nothing.
One has to go beyond the mind to know the real.
The real is eternal, the real is always now.
The real is never past, never future
It is always present.
And that's the beauty of meditation:
It brings you to the present.
Slowly slowly you settle into the present.
You settle in your own being
So silently that you forget
All about the past and the future.
And this moment becomes so overwhelming
So tremendously overwhelming
That there is nothing beyond it.
To know this moment's totality is to know god.
To go beyond time is to go into god.
To remain in time is to remain in mind.
Meditation means getting out of the mind.
Mind is synonymous with no-time.
Get out of mind and time.
Rest and relax into the now and here
So totally that nothing else is left:
No dust of the past, no smoke of the future.
In that clarity, in that transparent clarity
You become able to see that which is.
In fact god is an ancient symbol.
G used to stand for that
O for which, and
D for is.
It is a code word for that which is.