How can I satisfy God?

Question: Second question: Osho, how can I satisfy God? Sudas Bharati! God is supreme fulfillment itself. God is not to be satisfied; you are to be fulfilled. But I understand what you mean: you are asking, “How should I be so that God becomes satisfied with me?” God is already satisfied with you, just as you are. He has not the slightest difficulty with you. You can keep your back turned to him—he is fulfilled. You can worship him—he is fulfilled. You can throw stones at him—he is fulfilled. You can offer flowers, you can sing songs, you can hurl abuses. You can believe in him, or you can refuse to believe in him. For lifetimes you may not remember him at all; or you may remember him day and night. God is fulfilled; there is no way for him to be unfulfilled.

Osho, I want to be rich, I want a high position, and I want a beautiful woman too. What should I do?

A man once placed an advertisement—meant for people like you: “Send two rupees and learn the formula to become a millionaire overnight.” Now who wouldn’t want to become a millionaire for two rupees! Almost a hundred thousand people sent their money. A week later, everyone who had sent the two rupees received the reply: “Do exactly what I did.” He had indeed become a millionaire overnight! One lakh people sent two rupees each—two lakhs landed in his lap. This is how you’re being duped—through gambling, matka. And it’s not only people who run these scams; governments do it too. Governments that claim to be Gandhian run lotteries! A lottery is gambling—a cheat dressed up nicely. But the greedy get hooked: “Just one rupee for a chance at lakhs. If it comes once, that’s enough…!” But what will you do after getting lakhs? There’s a famous story by Tolstoy: A tailor…

Osho, what is the relationship between meditation and patience?

If you sit to meditate to remove mental restlessness, you will keep looking back again and again: “Has it gone yet?” And the irony is that when you begin to meditate, restlessness will increase. Because what has been repressed will start surfacing; catharsis will begin. The rubbish you have kept hidden within and never allowed to express—meditation will break open those doors too. It will clean the house. Dust piled up for years, for births, will rise again; there will be gusts and storms. For a while even the little peace you had will be lost. Then you will panic: “I came for peace, and even what I had is gone.” Without patience, you could even become unhinged, because meditation brings such a great storm. The disease is not from a day or two; it’s from lifetimes. Meditation will break through all the layers to reach your innermost core. In…

Osho, you said there should be contentment toward the world and discontent toward God. And you also said that no craving should remain; there should be acceptance of what is, and a witnessing attitude. Please have the compassion to clarify the apparent contradiction between these two statements.

The world is not made to fit together. If it did, you would never search for God. Why does the search for the divine arise? Because the world does not fit. If it did, would Buddha search? Would Mahavira? Would Ashtavakra? If the world fit, God would become nonessential! Understand this: If contentment were possible in the world, religion would be meaningless. Religion has meaning because contentment is not possible here. So we seek contentment elsewhere. That is why I said: whatever is here—little or much—be at ease with it. Being at ease does not mean you will find contentment in it; it means don’t keep running after it. Don’t try to assemble this toy; it won’t fit. And toward God become discontent. There, discontent itself is contentment. There, thirst itself is the quenching. The more intense the thirst, the nearer the lake comes. The day the thirst is so…

Osho, I am dissatisfied with everything. What should I attain so that I may find contentment?

As long as you think in the language of getting, you will not find contentment. It is the very language of getting that creates discontent. As long as you keep asking, “What should I get?” you will remain dissatisfied. Contentment is in celebrating what is. Discontent is in the desire to obtain what is not, in craving. And there is so much that you do not have. If you set out to get what is not, you will keep on going and going; you will never get it all. You will never be content. Discontent will remain the tale and the torment of your life. No; what is, is not little. You have been given life—have you offered thanks to the Divine for this life? And if you had to go purchase this life, how high a price would you not be ready to pay? These eyes were given, these…