How have you managed to stay with us for so long after enlightenment?

Beloved Osho, recently you said that most people who become enlightened die shortly afterwards. What I want to know is how you have managed to stay with us so long? I am so grateful.

Really I should be grateful to you. It is love for you, and the love that you go on pouring upon me that has helped me to remain with you. Love is a spiritual nourishment. Those who died after their enlightenment died because they thought they had found it and now there was no reason to live. When I found it, I said to myself, "Now there is every reason to live." Before finding, there was no reason; I could have died easily. But after my finding it, my love would not let me die. I waited for you, and you started coming. I have not sent a message, not written a letter. Still, from faraway lands you started coming, as if you have always belonged to me. Now I am part of you, you are part of me. It is going to be very difficult for death to take…

Osho, I first met you at the Matheran camp in 1964. The love with which you called out to me at the Matheran station—those words still echo in my ears. That day tears flowed in streams; even now they come in the same way. While listening to you, while having your darshan, the same state remains. I was blessed to live near you, to sit and move with you, for many years. The state of fullness of love I received from you that day is the same fullness even today. I regard this as the greatest and most astonishing event of my life. May this state of love remain until the end of my life—this blessing

Sohan, when love is, it is always complete; there is no such thing as an experience of incomplete love. Just as a circle, if it is a circle, is whole; there cannot be such a thing as an incomplete circle—if it is incomplete, we can no longer call it a circle. So too, love is always complete. That is why love is the experience closest to the divine. One who has known love will not find it difficult to know God—it is as if only one more step remains. Love is the last step to the temple of the divine; after that, there is entry into the shrine. Jesus has said: God is love. I go a step further—and I should, for two thousand years have passed since Jesus uttered that statement; in two millennia human consciousness has touched new dimensions. Jesus says, God is love. I say, love is…

Osho, seeing your health makes me very anxious. You have poured your soul out trying to make the world understand, yet instead of changing, people want to erase you. Why are you working so hard?

A small incident comes to mind. Among the Jews there arose the Hasidic mystics. The mystic who gave birth to the Hasidic tradition—the Baal Shem—wrote his first book and sent it as a gift, by the hand of his disciple, to the greatest rabbi of the Jews, their chief priest. He told the disciple: Take this book. Give it into the chief rabbi’s own hands, no one else’s. I am sending you because I want to know his response—what he says, what expression appears on his face. Notice everything. You must return and tell me, detail by detail, without missing a thing. And I am sending you because you are my most alert disciple. Hasidism is a revolutionary tradition. The Jewish rabbis stand for old, decayed, dead conventions. To be a Hasid one must pass through revolution; to be a Jew it is enough to be born in a Jewish…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, IN THIS PAST YEAR, I HAVE BEEN APART FROM YOU FOR MANY MONTHS, LIVING IN THE WORLD. I LEARNED HOW YOU AND YOUR MESSAGE HAVE BECOME AN EVERYDAY LIVING EXPERIENCE IN ME, INDEPENDENT OF TIME AND DISTANCE. IN SOME STRANGE WAY, YOUR LIFE HAS BECOME MY LIFE AND MY LIFE YOUR LIFE. BEING CLOSE TO YOU IS UTTERLY DELICIOUS. WHEN YOU TALK OF LEAVING US, ALTHOUGH MY TEARS COME, I KNOW YOU HAVE DONE YOUR WORK WELL. YOUR VISION WILL LIVE ON LONG AFTER YOUR BODY HAS RETURNED TO THE EARTH. I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, JUST A GRATITUDE FOR YOUR TREMENDOUS EFFORTS TO WAKE US UP. P.S. PLEASE TELL THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP TO CRUISE AROUND FOR A LITTLE BIT LONGER. HE HAS WAITED SO LONG THAT A FEW MORE YEARS WON'T MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE. P.P.S.

Beloved Osho, you said a few days ago, "I love you like nobody could ever love you." I know in my heart that it is true. I would also like to tell you that I love you more than anyone I could ever love. Without you, my life is absolutely meaningless. When I took sannyas, I used to say I would die for you, I'm ready to give my life to you. Now I say I would like to live for you and I'm ready to give my life to you. Thank you for the life you are giving me. I bow down to you with unexpressible gratitude.

He said, "I was here, I know you all. Fifteen years ago, I died... and I shouted, but you did not hear. Then finally I had to adjust life according to the situation. And I cannot say that I have not been happy. In fact, I have never been happier than I have been for these fifteen years -- no anxiety, no fight, nobody to insult you, nobody to humiliate you. And every day, new discoveries...." What has been given by nature to man is a great faculty to adjust in different situations. It is a flexibility -- nature has not made man rigid. But man has misused it: rather than going on a spiritual search for the secrets of life, the miracles of existence, he has become completely adjusted with the mundane, with the meaningless. He has misused his great faculty. Every faculty has that danger -- you can…