Can I also be a God?

Question: BELOVED MASTER, CAN I ALSO BE A GOD? Krishna, Deva, I have given you the name Krishna Deva. It means God Krishna. Yes, there is no trouble about it. In fact you ARE a god; even if you want to be somebody else you cannot. Everybody is trying to be somebody else, but nobody has ever succeeded in being somebody else. God is our nature. You can forget all about it, but you cannot change it. Flaherty and Gluckstein were discussing the merits of their religion. "Answer me this," said the Irishman, "could one of your boys be pope?" "No," answered Gluckstein. "Could one of your boys be God?" "Why, of course not!" replied Flaherty. "Well," said Gluckstein, "one of our boys made it!" If Jesus can make it, if Buddha can make it, why not you?

Question: The second question: Osho, what did you do that made you God? No one becomes God by doing; godhood is our nature. When you drop all doing and look within, you discover—God is what we are! It has nothing to do with doing. You probably imagine: how many fasts were undertaken, how many push-ups and squats (dand-baithak), how many headstands, how many asanas and exercises, how much bhajan and kirtan—perhaps you are asking in that sense: what did you do by which you became God? It is precisely through doing that you miss. By doing and doing, you miss. Because godhood is our very being; nothing needs to be done for it—you are God. Try a hundred thousand methods, you will not become anything else. Every method will fail. That is why you are weeping in life—because every method is failing. Whatever you do does not succeed; it cannot.

Carrying Christ in your head is absolutely meaningless. And that's what Christians are doing, and others are doing the same: Hindus carrying Krishna in the head, Buddhists carrying Buddha in the head. And these are not things of the head, these are not thoughts. These are deep, deep experiences, profound feelings. They can happen only in the heart. And when they happen in the heart you don't become a Christian, you become a Christ. You don't become a Buddhist, you become a Buddha. It is ugly to be a Buddhist or a Christian. When you can be a Buddha or a Christ, why settle for being a Christian or a Buddhist? That is settling for something plastic, something pseudo. Christ is a state of consciousness, just as Buddha is a state of consciousness.

... That these unfortunates seek afar the goodness whose source within they bear.

FOR FEW KNOW HAPPINESS: PLAYTHINGS OF THE PASSIONS, HITHER; HITHER TOSSED BY ADVERSE WAVES, UPON A SHORELESS SEA, THEY BLINDED ROLL, UNABLE TO RESIST OR TO THE TEMPEST YIELD. GOD! THOU COULDST SAVE THEM BY OPENING THEIR EYES. BUT NO: 'TIS FOR THE HUMANS OF A RACE DIVINE TO DISCERN ERROR, AND TO SEE THE TRUTH. NATURE SERVES THEM.... ... THOU WHO FATHOMED IT. O WISE AND HAPPY MAN, REST IN ITS HAVEN. BUT OBSERVE MY LAWS, ABSTAINING FROM THE THINGS WHICH THY SOUL MUST FEAR, DISTINGUISHING THEM WELL; LETTING INTELLIGENCE O'ER THY BODY REIGN. SO THAT, ASCENDING INTO RADIANT ETHER, MIDST THE IMMORTALS, THOU SHALT BE THYSELF A GOD. But truth is not decided by voting. It is not a question of how many people believe in it. It has always been an individual experience. Pythagoras knows it -- he has experienced it. The knowing depends on his experiencing,…

Dear Osho, are you really just a man who got enlightened?

Just the other way round: a god who got lost and has found himself again; a god who rested and slept deeply and dreamt of being a man and is now awake. And the same is true about you. You are not just men. You are gods -- dreaming that you are men. It is not that men have to become God. It is only that gods have to become a little awake; then the dream of "man" disappears. This is the difference between the Eastern attitude and the Western. The West tries to explain the highest by the lowest. If you attain to samadhi -- for example, Ramkrishna attains to samadhi, is lost in the infinite -- ask Freud. He will say this is a sort of repressed sex. Samadhi is to be explained by sex. Ask me about sex, and I will say this is a first glimpse…