Are the deaths of meditation and love different, and are their processes different as well?
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"Meditation and love lead to the same death of the ego; one is a gradual descent into silence, while the other is a daring leap into surrender. Choose your path, for both will dissolve you into the divine."
According to Osho, the 'death' reached by meditation and love is the same: the disappearance of the ego; only the routes differ. Meditation is a step-by-step purification and alert descent, ending in a final snuffing out. Love/devotion is a one-step leap of trust—mad, total surrender—after which the divine pull completes the fall. Choose the path matching your nature; both arrive at the same dissolution.
Both meditation and love end the little ‘I’; meditation goes down the stairs slowly, love jumps all at once and trusts the pull.
Why this matters practically
- Choose the path aligned with your temperament
- Stops comparison and imitation; deepens commitment
- Reduces fear: different methods, same ego-free end
- Stops comparison and imitation; deepens commitment
- Reduces fear: different methods, same ego-free end
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