[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]
(To Enzo) -- This is your name: Swami Deva Enzo. Deva means divine, Enzo means victory.
All victory is god's, all defeat is ours. Whenever you fail, remember it. Whenever you succeed, remember it: Failure belongs to you Success does not belong to you.
Failure is a shadow of the ego and True victory is the disappearance of the ego. Whenever there is no ego God starts flowing through you, Then all is golden, then even dust is divine. Then whatsoever you touch Is transformed into gold. Then life has a magic Then your life becomes a miracle; But the secret is simple Secrets are always simple.
If we can understand this simple secret that Frustration, failure Is because we are keeping ourselves Separate from god; We cannot succeed against the whole. We can be victorious with the whole. But never against the whole. But to be with the whole You need to sacrifice one thing And that is the ego. And sannyas can be condensed into a single word: 'Surrender' -- surrender of the ego, Then all victory is available, Then there is no frustration, no failure possible. Then for the first time you start tasting The glory of life, the eternal majesty of life, And all the mysteries Open up their doors for you.
Don't be an ego -- and then nothing is impossible. Be an ego and everything is impossible.
(To Ilse) -- This is your name: Ma Dhyan Ilse. Dhyan means meditation. Ilse means one who worships god.
Meditation is the only way to worship god, And I repeat emphatically that It is the only way; all else is pseudo. What goes on in the name of religion Is simply false But the false has an appeal because it is cheap You have nothing to do -- it is formal: You become A Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan... And to be a Christian what is needed? Just you have to go every Sunday to the church, It is a Sunday-religion. It does not affect your life, It does not change you: Deep down you remain the same. Deep down, the Hindu, the Mohammedan The Christian, the Jew, are all the same: Boiling with the same anger, violence Rage, greed, lust but Their surfaces are painted in different ways But it is only a painted face.
Real, authentic transformation happens only When you start going deep into your own being -- That's what meditation is. One need not go to the church Or to the temple or to the mosque But one certainly needs to go within oneself. There is the real temple Where god resides, where god is still alive. In the temples, in the churches He has been dead long -- only corpses are there But people go on worshipping the corpses: It is easier, convenient, It does not require any transformation in you.
Meditation means a death and a resurrection. (Can't get this part) crucifixion. It means dying as an ego And being born as an egoless entity. That is the only true way to worship god Because that is the only way to know god.
(To Lalou) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Lalou. Anand means bliss. Lalou means god's gracious gift; That is half part of the meanings. And the other half Means victorious spirit -- it is made of two words. So your full name will mean: Bliss is a victorious spirit Given as a gift from god to you.
Bliss is not an achievement, it is a gift. One can prepare oneself to receive it But one cannot prepare oneself to achieve it. And remember the difference Between achievement and receiving: Achievement is masculine, receiving is feminine.
A sannyasin has to be feminine, He is not a soldier. He has to be open to existence, vulnerable. The whole art of sannyas is To be more and more receptive To all that surrounds you.
The soldier is aggressive The soldier is just the opposite pole of sannyas. The soldier is ambitious; he fights, struggles. The sannyasin waits, prays, loves, hopes But simply waits -- his patience is infinite. And when the receptivity is total When there is no trace of aggression left in you The gift arrives on its own accord, It descends form the above and transforms you!
(To Andre) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Sandesh. Anand means bliss. Sandesh means message.
My sannyas is a message of bliss. It is not the old idea of monkhood.
The traditional idea Of all the religions about the monk Was that of anti-life. My sannyas is life-affirmative; it loves life, It rejoices in life, it celebrates life, Because to me life and god are synonymous; They are two names of the same phenomenon. And in fact, life is far more beautiful Than the word 'god' because the word 'god' Has been used by the priests In such ugly ways down the centuries -- They have contaminated it They have destroyed its beauty They have corrupted it.
Life -- they have never used the word That because they have been anti-life. So fortunately that word has remained Unpolluted, uncontaminated by the priests Unpoisoned by the priests. And life is god! And the beauty is that if you believe in life You need not be a Hindu Or a Mohammedan or a Christian. If you rejoice life There is no need of any ideology. You need not even be a believer of god, a theist You can even be an atheist And still rejoice in life. Buddha was an atheist; he never believed in god And I think he did perfectly well That he never believed in god Because he came to see that how the word 'god' Has been exploited by the priests; He simply dropped the word, he never used it.
My whole vision is that Of a dancing, singing, loving, laughing humanity. I would like to fill the whole earth With laughter, with music, With poetry, with paintings, With creativity, with more sensitivity. And the more a person is sensitive, creative The more he is close to the creator, obviously.
So rejoice in life -- remember That is my message to you!
(To Bernhard) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Sadhu. Anand means bliss. Sadhu means one who is very simple. An embodiment of simplicity.
Be blissful and be simple. A complex person is bound to be cunning Because he has so many personalities. He is a crowd -- how he can be simple? And he has to manage The whole madhouse within himself -- He cannot be simple, and of course, He cannot be blissful either because Those so many faces, so many personalities, Those so many small selves Are constantly at each other's neck. There is constant war inside, People are living in a civil war Fighting within themselves -- One hand fighting with another hand One leg fighting with another leg One part fighting with another part. Hence the mess in which humanity lives, Hence the misery.
Bliss and simplicity Are like two sides of the same coin. Bliss means you are one There is no crowd, you don't have many faces, You have simply your original face. You don't pretend to be anything else You are simply whatsoever you are. You live in total acceptance of it In the very suchness of it. You have no desire to be somebody else. Complexity arises With the desire of being somebody else. Complexity arises with the ideas: You are this and you would like to be that You are A and you would like to be B; Now you will be in trouble -- you can never be B. You are A and you are going to remain A.
Now there are only two possible ways of being A: One is, being in constant conflict with it And suffering, miserable; Another is, in total acceptance of it. Bliss is the by-product Of that deep acceptance of whatever you are. That is simplicity.
A simple person is one Who has no hankering to be anybody else Who simply rejoices whatsoever he is. He never compares himself with anybody. He knows everybody is different Hence there is no point in comparison. He never puts himself above others Or below others. He knows, 'I am myself, they are themselves.' There is no question Of inferiority or superiority; Nobody is inferior and nobody in superior. Then great simplicity arises in you And with that simplicity Comes the fragrance of bliss!
(To Alfons) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Dhyano. Anand means bliss. Dhyano means meditation.
Being blissful is being meditative And vice versa: Being meditative is being blissful. One can start from anywhere: Either by being blissful One can enter into meditation Or by being meditative one can enter into bliss. Two doors Leading to the same temple, to the same shrine.
My suggestion for you is: Enter from the door of bliss And let meditation happen through it.
My experience and observation is that Younger people can easily enter From the door of bliss and reach meditation. Older people can easily enter Through the door of meditation And reach blissfulness -- it depends on the age. Before thirty-five it is easier to be cheerful Far more easier! In fact it is very difficult To be sad and serious. As you grow in age, as life becomes More and more a burden on you, It starts destroying many things in you: It destroys your qualities to wonder, It destroys your qualities to laugh, It destroys your qualities to enjoy small things of life. As you grow older You become so knowledgeable, so egoistic That you lose all innocence. And with your innocence gone Bliss becomes impossible, Cheerfulness becomes impossible. Older people have to make an effort to laugh; Children are giggling constantly -- For no reason at all, or any excuse will do.
You start being cheerful -- dance, sing... And this place is a place Of dancers and singers and musicians... This place is not a serious place. Don't at all think That you have entered in a monastery -- It is not a monastery, it is just its opposite: It may be a carnival but it is not a monastery! And I love carnivals more than monasteries. Monasteries are for dead people And one can be serious when one is dead; In your grave you can remain serious forever.
A disciple of Confucius asked him, 'Master, how to be serious?' And Confucius scolded him; he said, 'You can be serious when you are dead, In your grave.' It does not seem to be accidental That graveness also means seriousness. Nobody has ever seen a dead person laughing And nobody Who has become incapable of laughing is alive. Confucius said, 'You can be serious when you are dead But right now there is no need to be serious. Birds are not serious, trees are not serious Stars are not serious, so why should you be?'
And I perfectly agree with him.
So be here in a very non-serious way. Enjoy the fun of it.
How long you will be here? -- Half a year. -- That's good! We will destroy your seriousness. You have something serious inside you -- maybe carrying something from your past lives... But we will destroy it! Just, this seriousness can't be from this life -- that much is certain. It must be a hangover! Good. Do many groups!
Osho's Commentary
(To Enzo) -- This is your name: Swami Deva Enzo.
Deva means divine, Enzo means victory.
All victory is god's, all defeat is ours.
Whenever you fail, remember it.
Whenever you succeed, remember it:
Failure belongs to you
Success does not belong to you.
Failure is a shadow of the ego and
True victory is the disappearance of the ego.
Whenever there is no ego
God starts flowing through you,
Then all is golden, then even dust is divine.
Then whatsoever you touch
Is transformed into gold.
Then life has a magic
Then your life becomes a miracle;
But the secret is simple
Secrets are always simple.
If we can understand this simple secret that
Frustration, failure
Is because we are keeping ourselves
Separate from god;
We cannot succeed against the whole.
We can be victorious with the whole.
But never against the whole.
But to be with the whole
You need to sacrifice one thing
And that is the ego.
And sannyas can be condensed into a single word:
'Surrender' -- surrender of the ego,
Then all victory is available,
Then there is no frustration, no failure possible.
Then for the first time you start tasting
The glory of life, the eternal majesty of life,
And all the mysteries
Open up their doors for you.
Don't be an ego -- and then nothing is impossible.
Be an ego and everything is impossible.
(To Ilse) -- This is your name: Ma Dhyan Ilse.
Dhyan means meditation. Ilse means one who worships god.
Meditation is the only way to worship god,
And I repeat emphatically that
It is the only way; all else is pseudo.
What goes on in the name of religion
Is simply false
But the false has an appeal because it is cheap
You have nothing to do -- it is formal: You become
A Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan...
And to be a Christian what is needed?
Just you have to go every Sunday to the church,
It is a Sunday-religion.
It does not affect your life,
It does not change you:
Deep down you remain the same.
Deep down, the Hindu, the Mohammedan
The Christian, the Jew, are all the same:
Boiling with the same anger, violence
Rage, greed, lust but
Their surfaces are painted in different ways
But it is only a painted face.
Real, authentic transformation happens only
When you start going deep into your own being --
That's what meditation is.
One need not go to the church
Or to the temple or to the mosque
But one certainly needs to go within oneself.
There is the real temple
Where god resides, where god is still alive.
In the temples, in the churches
He has been dead long -- only corpses are there
But people go on worshipping the corpses:
It is easier, convenient,
It does not require any transformation in you.
Meditation means a death and a resurrection.
(Can't get this part) crucifixion.
It means dying as an ego
And being born as an egoless entity.
That is the only true way to worship god
Because that is the only way to know god.
(To Lalou) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Lalou.
Anand means bliss. Lalou means god's gracious gift;
That is half part of the meanings. And the other half
Means victorious spirit -- it is made of two words.
So your full name will mean: Bliss is a victorious spirit
Given as a gift from god to you.
Bliss is not an achievement, it is a gift.
One can prepare oneself to receive it
But one cannot prepare oneself to achieve it.
And remember the difference
Between achievement and receiving:
Achievement is masculine, receiving is feminine.
A sannyasin has to be feminine,
He is not a soldier.
He has to be open to existence, vulnerable.
The whole art of sannyas is
To be more and more receptive
To all that surrounds you.
The soldier is aggressive
The soldier is just the opposite pole of sannyas.
The soldier is ambitious; he fights, struggles.
The sannyasin waits, prays, loves, hopes
But simply waits -- his patience is infinite.
And when the receptivity is total
When there is no trace of aggression left in you
The gift arrives on its own accord,
It descends form the above and transforms you!
(To Andre) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Sandesh.
Anand means bliss. Sandesh means message.
My sannyas is a message of bliss.
It is not the old idea of monkhood.
The traditional idea
Of all the religions about the monk
Was that of anti-life.
My sannyas is life-affirmative; it loves life,
It rejoices in life, it celebrates life,
Because to me life and god are synonymous;
They are two names of the same phenomenon.
And in fact, life is far more beautiful
Than the word 'god' because the word 'god'
Has been used by the priests
In such ugly ways down the centuries --
They have contaminated it
They have destroyed its beauty
They have corrupted it.
Life -- they have never used the word
That because they have been anti-life.
So fortunately that word has remained
Unpolluted, uncontaminated by the priests
Unpoisoned by the priests. And life is god!
And the beauty is that if you believe in life
You need not be a Hindu
Or a Mohammedan or a Christian.
If you rejoice life
There is no need of any ideology.
You need not even be a believer of god, a theist
You can even be an atheist
And still rejoice in life.
Buddha was an atheist; he never believed in god
And I think he did perfectly well
That he never believed in god
Because he came to see that how the word 'god'
Has been exploited by the priests;
He simply dropped the word, he never used it.
My whole vision is that
Of a dancing, singing, loving, laughing humanity.
I would like to fill the whole earth
With laughter, with music,
With poetry, with paintings,
With creativity, with more sensitivity.
And the more a person is sensitive, creative
The more he is close to the creator, obviously.
So rejoice in life -- remember
That is my message to you!
(To Bernhard) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Sadhu.
Anand means bliss. Sadhu means one who is very simple.
An embodiment of simplicity.
Be blissful and be simple.
A complex person is bound to be cunning
Because he has so many personalities.
He is a crowd -- how he can be simple?
And he has to manage
The whole madhouse within himself --
He cannot be simple, and of course,
He cannot be blissful either because
Those so many faces, so many personalities,
Those so many small selves
Are constantly at each other's neck.
There is constant war inside,
People are living in a civil war
Fighting within themselves --
One hand fighting with another hand
One leg fighting with another leg
One part fighting with another part.
Hence the mess in which humanity lives,
Hence the misery.
Bliss and simplicity
Are like two sides of the same coin.
Bliss means you are one
There is no crowd, you don't have many faces,
You have simply your original face.
You don't pretend to be anything else
You are simply whatsoever you are.
You live in total acceptance of it
In the very suchness of it.
You have no desire to be somebody else.
Complexity arises
With the desire of being somebody else.
Complexity arises with the ideas:
You are this and you would like to be that
You are A and you would like to be B;
Now you will be in trouble -- you can never be B.
You are A and you are going to remain A.
Now there are only two possible ways of being A:
One is, being in constant conflict with it
And suffering, miserable;
Another is, in total acceptance of it.
Bliss is the by-product
Of that deep acceptance of whatever you are.
That is simplicity.
A simple person is one
Who has no hankering to be anybody else
Who simply rejoices whatsoever he is.
He never compares himself with anybody.
He knows everybody is different
Hence there is no point in comparison.
He never puts himself above others
Or below others.
He knows, 'I am myself, they are themselves.'
There is no question
Of inferiority or superiority;
Nobody is inferior and nobody in superior.
Then great simplicity arises in you
And with that simplicity
Comes the fragrance of bliss!
(To Alfons) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Dhyano.
Anand means bliss. Dhyano means meditation.
Being blissful is being meditative
And vice versa:
Being meditative is being blissful.
One can start from anywhere:
Either by being blissful
One can enter into meditation
Or by being meditative one can enter into bliss.
Two doors
Leading to the same temple, to the same shrine.
My suggestion for you is:
Enter from the door of bliss
And let meditation happen through it.
My experience and observation is that
Younger people can easily enter
From the door of bliss and reach meditation.
Older people can easily enter
Through the door of meditation
And reach blissfulness -- it depends on the age.
Before thirty-five it is easier to be cheerful
Far more easier! In fact it is very difficult
To be sad and serious.
As you grow in age, as life becomes
More and more a burden on you,
It starts destroying many things in you:
It destroys your qualities to wonder,
It destroys your qualities to laugh,
It destroys your qualities to enjoy small things of life.
As you grow older
You become so knowledgeable, so egoistic
That you lose all innocence.
And with your innocence gone
Bliss becomes impossible,
Cheerfulness becomes impossible.
Older people have to make an effort to laugh;
Children are giggling constantly --
For no reason at all, or any excuse will do.
You start being cheerful -- dance, sing...
And this place is a place
Of dancers and singers and musicians...
This place is not a serious place.
Don't at all think
That you have entered in a monastery --
It is not a monastery, it is just its opposite:
It may be a carnival but it is not a monastery!
And I love carnivals more than monasteries.
Monasteries are for dead people
And one can be serious when one is dead;
In your grave you can remain serious forever.
A disciple of Confucius asked him,
'Master, how to be serious?'
And Confucius scolded him; he said,
'You can be serious when you are dead,
In your grave.'
It does not seem to be accidental
That graveness also means seriousness.
Nobody has ever seen a dead person laughing
And nobody
Who has become incapable of laughing is alive.
Confucius said,
'You can be serious when you are dead
But right now there is no need to be serious.
Birds are not serious, trees are not serious
Stars are not serious, so why should you be?'
And I perfectly agree with him.
So be here in a very non-serious way.
Enjoy the fun of it.
How long you will be here?
-- Half a year.
-- That's good! We will destroy your seriousness.
You have something serious inside you --
maybe carrying something from your past lives...
But we will destroy it! Just, this seriousness can't be from this life -- that much is certain. It must be a hangover! Good. Do many groups!