Chapter #22
Even Bein Gawd Ain T A Bed Of Roses #22
Date:
1979-10-22
(pm)
Place:
Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Osho's Commentary
OSHO: Love is the most intoxicating phenomenon. It is the wine that wells up within. It is not something chemical that comes from the outside, it is not even part of the body, not part of the mind either. It is the dance of the heart in tune with the whole. Love is your heart in deep harmony with the heart of the universe. Then there is great intoxication. And yet the intoxication does not make you unconscious; on the contrary it makes you more conscious than ever. That's the paradox of love: on one hand one is intoxicated, on the other hand one has never been so aware before. It is an intoxication that makes you wake up.
HER SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER: PREM GARIMA, GLORY OF LOVE. NENE BECOMES MA PREM KUNDAN
OSHO: It is by passing through the fire of love that one becomes one's real self. Cowards are afraid of love as much as they are of death. It needs courage to go into love because it is a kind of death, in fact a deeper death than the ordinary death. Ordinary death only changes your body, your form, but not your substance. Ordinary death only changes your shadow, your personality, but not your essence.
Love changes your very being, it gives a new birth. Hence the fear; hence many decide not to move into love. They can find many excuses. They can say "Love is blind": that is a rationalization of the cowardly mind. They can say "Love is animal": that is again a rationalization of the so-called religious mind. They can even deny the reality of love; they can say it is all poetry, just a fiction created by some imaginative people.
Either the coward finds some rationalization, some excuse, or he finds some substitute. For example, sex can become a substitute for love, and by just going into sex one can think, "I am a great lover". Or people can find even more subtle substitutes for example, somebody is greedy for money -- money has become his love object. And he is not aware that he has fallen in love with something absolutely false. Or power can become his love affair. But these are strategies of the mind to avoid.
Beware of all these strategies and take a jump into love. It is fire. It will burn you, it will destroy you but it wil also give you a new birth, a resurrection.
Osho's Commentary
HER SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER: PREM GARIMA, GLORY OF LOVE.
NENE BECOMES MA PREM KUNDAN
OSHO: It is by passing through the fire of love that one becomes one's real self. Cowards are afraid of love as much as they are of death. It needs courage to go into love because it is a kind of death, in fact a deeper death than the ordinary death. Ordinary death only changes your body, your form, but not your substance. Ordinary death only changes your shadow, your personality, but not your essence.
Love changes your very being, it gives a new birth. Hence the fear; hence many decide not to move into love. They can find many excuses. They can say "Love is blind": that is a rationalization of the cowardly mind. They can say "Love is animal": that is again a rationalization of the so-called religious mind. They can even deny the reality of love; they can say it is all poetry, just a fiction created by some imaginative people.
Either the coward finds some rationalization, some excuse, or he finds some substitute. For example, sex can become a substitute for love, and by just going into sex one can think, "I am a great lover". Or people can find even more subtle substitutes for example, somebody is greedy for money -- money has become his love object. And he is not aware that he has fallen in love with something absolutely false. Or power can become his love affair. But these are strategies of the mind to avoid.
Beware of all these strategies and take a jump into love. It is fire. It will burn you, it will destroy you but it wil also give you a new birth, a resurrection.