Does the absolutely free God have any laws?

Osho, the jnani calls God the supreme law, and says this rit, this law, is utterly just and severe. The bhakta, on the other hand, calls God supreme love, infinitely gracious. Please say something about this fundamental difference in outlook.

Aristotle was walking along the seashore when he saw a man who seemed mad. With a tiny teacup he kept drawing water from the ocean and pouring it into a small pit he had dug in the sand. He would run, fill the cup, pour it, run again, pour again. Aristotle kept walking, and kept silent—why interfere in another’s work? But his curiosity grew strong. He could not restrain himself. He said, “I should not interfere, but I do not understand what you are doing. You bring a teacup of water and pour it into this hole in the sand—it vanishes. You run again; by the time you return, the earlier water has been drunk by the sand. What are you doing? To what purpose?” The man said, “I have decided to pour this entire ocean into this pit.” Aristotle began to laugh. “You are mad,” he said. Hearing this,…

God is freedom. That is why those who searched the deepest—Mahavira or Buddha—named God as moksha, liberation. Mahavira did not even use the word God; he said moksha is sufficient. Moksha means freedom. The world lives in perfect freedom. If we are doing wrong, it is a wrong use of freedom. If we choose, we can do right. But freedom is our destiny. Therefore we can descend to the lowest rung of sin and we can climb to the highest peak of virtue. We can go to hell; we can go to heaven. We can fall into the last abyss of darkness and enter the utterly luminous realm of light. Both are possible, because the intrinsic nature of our soul is freedom. Sartre has said it rightly: You cannot choose to be free; you are freedom!

Question: THIS UNIVERSE, WHICH IS THE SAME FOR ALL, HAS NOT BEEN MADE BY ANY GOD OR MAN, BUT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN, IS, AND WILL BE -- AN EVERLIVING FIRE, KINDLING ITSELF BY REGULAR MEASURES AND GOING OUT BY REGULAR MEASURES. THE PHASES OF FIRE ARE CRAVING AND SATIETY. THE SUN IS NEW EACH DAY. And the total freedom is possible only if there is no person controlling, manipulating, no boss in existence; only then is there freedom. But freedom makes you afraid. You don't want to be free. You want to be slaves -- that's why you create God. And if there is no God... for example, the communists tried a religion without a god. But man is so afraid, he cannot live without gods; so communism has created its own gods. Lenin has become a god; now they worship him.

Osho! A few days before his passing, revered Dadda-ji, while talking one night, said: “Only That is, and other than That there is nothing.” When we asked, “Who runs the world?” he said, “No one. Everything moves on its own. What is happening is happening. No one is doing anything; it is all happening.” In response to questions about the doctrine of karma he said, “It’s all nonsense.” We asked, “Then what should we do?” He said, “Eat, drink and live joyfully. That’s all—there is nothing else in the world.” Osho, please say something about these teachings of his.

You are lying on both counts. You do not believe you are a great sinner. Put your hand on your heart and say it. You will say: “Me, a great sinner? There are much worse than me! What count am I in! I’m only saying it. I call myself a great sinner so I can call you great compassion. I blacken my face to brighten yours.” But ask your heart. Such praises won’t work there, because there is no one to hear. No answer will come. And because your prayers are not answered, atheism arises. For thousands of years you have prayed; no answer came—so atheism grew. The basic cause of growing atheism is your pundits and priests with their false assurances. Since those assurances fail. Yes, now and then, by chance, an arrow hits the target. Shoot in the dark, sometimes it hits. No prayer is heard—sometimes it lands.…

Osho, if God and religion are but names for the Supreme Law, nothing else, then prayer, devotion, worship—all become futile. Then religion becomes synonymous with science, and religion remains only the quest for that Supreme Law. Please shed more light on this.

Prayer, worship, adoration are not because of God. But because of prayer, worship, adoration, the world begins to appear God-like. It is not that God is—and therefore we pray. We pray—and therefore God happens. People say, “God created you,” and I say, “Your devotion creates God.” Where your devotion flowers, there God manifests. Where your devotion departs, there God departs. God is your way of seeing. Religion is law. But to enter that law, you must change yourself—only then is it possible. Prayer is to change you. Ordinarily we pray to change God. You are ill, so you pray, “Make me well.” Our prayer is an attempt to change God’s intention. If you are ill and truly a devotee, you would accept, “God wills that I be ill; that is why I am ill.” We try to change God’s view: “Make me healthy; I am poor—make me rich. I am…