How can we drown in the ocean of light during meditation?

A friend has asked: Osho, when Krishna himself says that it is not in the scriptures, then what is the point of explaining the Gita? What will reading the Ramayana do? When Krishna himself says there is nothing in the Vedas, how can there be anything in the Gita?

He speaks rightly. The friend is asking well: if we accept Krishna’s own words, then what is there in the Gita either? But even if from the Gita you come to know this much—that “it is not in the Vedas”—that is already knowing a great deal. If reading the scriptures brings you to see that scriptures are useless, that is quite some knowing. Would you have discovered even this on your own! People come to me and say, “Krishnamurti says, don’t believe anyone; find out for yourself.” I ask them, “But you have come here believing Krishnamurti. And Krishnamurti has explained: don’t believe anyone. And you tell me, ‘Krishnamurti says don’t believe anyone; now we will not believe anyone.’ But you have already believed someone.” Krishnamurti says, “Nothing can be gained from a guru.” Then why did you go to Krishnamurti? And if you gained even that much, then at…

Osho, you tell me to float, but my body is so heavy with a dead-weight mind that I feel I will drown if I float. So I keep swimming in panic.

And just as the wretched soul jumped into the pit, a whistle blew and a voice called out: "All right, everybody! Tea break's over -- stand on your heads!" If you choose you choose hell. Choice is hell. That's how you have created your hell all around you -- by choosing. When you choose you don't allow God to choose for you. Krishnamurti goes on insisting for choicelessness. That is just one end of the whole story. The other end is: if you arc choiceless God chooses for you. That is only half of the story -- become choiceless -- just the beginning. The moment you are choiceless life continues. You will not be there -- life will continue. And you are nothing but a hell. Once you don't stand between you and God he chooses. He has been always choosing for you. There is a proverb which says, "Man…

Another friend has asked: Osho, what is the relationship between the method of meditation and jati-smaran (recollection of past lives)?

But the one who becomes skilled in this—who can fully awaken any day’s memory up to the age of five—will find that the memories begin to awaken completely. And you should test it. As today passes, note down some events and lock them up. After two years, try to recall today. Most of it will have been forgotten. Then remember—and after remembering, break the lock and compare whether what you recalled matches what you had written. You will be amazed—astonished—that besides what you wrote, many more details have come back which you did not even note at the time. They will all be there in memory. Buddha called this alaya-vijnana. There is a corner of the human mind he called the storehouse of consciousness. Like a junk room in the house where we keep all the odds and ends, there is a storehouse that collects memories—where everything from birth after…

Osho, in the third stage of Dynamic Meditation, when a lot of energy is put in, nothing remains there but light. Then fear seizes me: “I’m dead!” O Lord, what should be done in that moment?

In that moment, die. Without dying, it won’t do. In that moment, the very attempt to save yourself will bring you back again. In that moment, lose yourself. In that moment say— This is the final longing in my heart! Light the lamp of my life— let anyone dispel the darkness; but if ever the lamp must be extinguished, let it be by your tender hand. This is the final longing in my heart! If by the hand of the Divine your lamp is extinguished, what greater good fortune could there be! But if ever the lamp must be extinguished, let it be by your tender hand— this is the final longing in my heart! The question is: “Beloved Master, in that moment, what should one do?” Nothing should be done. One should silently slip into the ocean. Like a dewdrop sliding off a blade of grass, falling into the…

Osho, a woman cannot reach without love. A woman only knows how to drown. And it can only happen by drowning in you. Please drown me and carry me across.

Pratibha, the question is not of woman and man. Without drowning, no one has ever arrived, nor will anyone ever arrive. The soul is neither woman nor man. The differences of woman and man are extremely superficial—like differences of clothing; they go no deeper. They are differences of skin, of bone and flesh. What abides within you is beyond both woman and man. And when that drowns, the boat reaches the far shore. Do not think that a woman cannot reach without love. No one can reach without love. Love is the doorway to the divine. The consummation of love is the experience of the divine. When the flower of love fully blossoms, the fragrance that arises—that very fragrance is what we call the divine. The divine is not a person. The divine is an experience—the fragrance arising from your innermost being. And this will not happen without drowning. What…