Can anyone still realize God in this Kali Yuga?

Question: First question: Osho, can anyone still realize God in this Kali Yuga? God is eternal, beyond time. Whoever rises beyond time can realize God—any time. All times are equally good for going beyond. That is why Palatu Das said: all lucky moments and auspicious timings are futile—drop this madness. You have dragged in muhurta again; you have dragged in Kali Yuga! Palatu says: time and auspicious moments are useless—care for the essential. How to step outside time—care for that. And whenever anyone has tried to step outside, the same obstacles were there then as today. Do you think five thousand years ago when someone sat to meditate, no thoughts arose? They did—only the objects differed. There was no thought of a car—certainly—but of a bullock cart: “Let me buy a cart!” Maybe not a thought of becoming president, but becoming king—what difference? Politics was as much; ambition as much.

He is one, he is omkar, the supreme truth. He is the creator, beyond fear, beyond rancor. His is the timeless form. Never born, self-creating. He is attained by the guru's grace. He was truth before the ages and as time ran its course. Nanak says, now is he truth eternal, and forever will he be. We cannot comprehend him though we think a million times; nor quiet the mind by silence, however long we sit; nor a mountain of bread appease the hunger of the soul; nor one hundred thousand feats of mind achieve unity with him. How can truth be attained and the veil of falsehood torn? Nanak says, by s

We need to go deeper to understand things. Science tries to break down the whole of existence. What it first discovered was energy in the form of electricity, and then charged particles like the electron of which all of existence is made. Electricity is only a form of energy. If we ask a scientist what sound is made of, he will say that it is nothing but waves of electricity, waves of energy. So energy is at the root of everything. The sages say the same thing; they are in agreement with the scientists except for a slight difference of language. Sages have come to know that all existence is created out of sound, and sound is only an expression of energy. Existence, sound, energy -- all are one. The approach of science is to analyze and break things down, to reach the conclusion. The sage's approach is absolutely different:…

Then he also said, “Osho belongs to the Kali Yuga.”

Krishna too was considered God—he carried off sixteen thousand other men’s women. Their children must have suffered, their husbands must have suffered, their families must have been destroyed. And these women did not all come of their own free will; they were seized and abducted. And still Krishna could be considered God! That is only possible in Kali Yuga. How could it be possible in Satya Yuga? And in Krishna’s life there is nothing in which godliness shines forth. Krishna is responsible for the Mahabharata. In the Mahabharata India’s spine was broken, and after that India never rose again. The five thousand years of India’s misfortune—if any one person is most responsible, it is Krishna. If he could be called God, then people’s very notion of God shows what kind of intelligence they had. As I see it, I am an evolutionist, not a declinist. For me, better people came…

Osho, “Kaliḥ śayāno bhavati, saṃjihānas tu dvāparaḥ; uttiṣṭhan tretā bhavati, kṛtaṃ saṃpadyate caran. Charaiveti. Charaiveti.” “He who is asleep is Kali; the one who sits up from sleep is Dvāpara; the one who stands up is Tretā; but the one who starts walking becomes the Kṛta-yuga, the Sat-yuga, the golden age. Therefore keep moving, keep moving.” Osho, please be gracious and explain the purport of this subhāṣita from the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa.

Not only small people—your very Maryādā Puruṣottam Rāma runs after a golden deer! He loses the real Sītā chasing a fake golden deer. And this is everyone’s story: people lose the real running after the unreal. They chase a golden deer. Even the craziest person can understand there are no golden deer! The world is called a mirage. This very Rāma calls the world dreamlike, māyā, like the mirage that deludes a thirsty deer in the desert when the sun’s rays... There is a way the sun’s rays behave. Falling on bare sand, they heat it; heated sand reflects rays back. Those returning waves from afar look exactly like water rippling. Not only do they seem so, they appear with “proof”—because when the rays return, the ripples look water-like, and the silhouettes of trees nearby appear in those waves like reflections in a lake. Seeing that reflection, the deer becomes…

And beware of useless talk about this being the Kali Age. Do not fall into futility that in Kaliyuga where is God? That God existed in the Golden Age. Time makes no difference. For God, time is one—circular. Whoever becomes simple enters the Golden Age. The Golden Age and the Dark Age are not names of times, but of states of mind. Your neighbor may be living in the Golden Age while you live in the Dark. Satyuga means: reverent, engaged in the search for truth; one who trusts truth. All children are of the Golden Age, and all old people become of the Dark. But it is not necessary that all elders do so. One can remain of the Golden Age into old age—remain as innocent as a child. Do not give space to logic; do not give space to doubt. Trust trust itself.