Is it possible for man to live without God?

Question: The second question: IS IT POSSIBLE FOR MAN TO LIVE WITHOUT GOD? Yes. In fact, it is only possible for man to live without God. A man with God does not live, he hesitates on every point of living, he is just half-hearted. He is making love and worried about hell. How can he love a woman when the Bible goes on saying that the woman is the gateway to hell? He is making love, and thinking about the Bible and the sermon on Sunday: "The woman is the gateway to hell. What are you doing?" So neither can he love, nor can he live without love. God has made man very schizophrenic, half-hearted in everything. You are earning money, and at the same time you know that your greed is a sin. If you don't earn money you starve.

Osho, is god really dead?

Remember, those who were ascetic people, who were ready to deny their nature, were very happy to believe in God. And the people who were more natural, more normal, were happy to believe that there was no God. The reason is the same: the natural person will feel afraid because the natural person will have sex, will have anger, will have jealousy. And God is going to punish him; if God is there then punishment is certain. It is better to say that there is no God; at least for the time being he can feel relieved. And the person who can repress his sex, his jealousies, his anger, would like to declare that God is, because all his investment is in God's existence. God's existence is very necessary for his asceticsm. The pathological people declare that God is and the natural people declare that there is no God. And…

The moon reflected in the stream, the wind blowing through the pines in the cool of the evening, in the deep midnight, -- what is it for? When we attain reality, it is seen to be neither personal nor impersonal. There is no sin, no paradise, no loss or gain; about this transcendentality, no questions! Who is thoughtless? Who is birthless?

For example, you go to the garden and you see a rose flower, and you ask what is the meaning of it. By asking you destroy the whole beauty of it. Now you cannot watch the grace of the flower, now you cannot look into the beauty of it; you cannot see the joy of the flower, you cannot see its dance in the sun, in the rains. You cannot see what is confronting you -- a tremendously significant blooming of existence. Now, you are searching for meaning, you ask 'What is the meaning of this rose flower? Naturally, there is no meaning; you cannot reduce the flower to a meaning. And when you cannot reduce the flower to a meaning, great despair arises. 'There is no meaning in the flower? Life is all meaningless, futile. Man is a useless passion.' You have fallen into a dark night. One step…

Osho, I was shocked to hear you say that god does not exist. Then the question arose in me: how can there be any religion without god? Isn't god the center and religion the circumference?

These are the three phases of the Hindu God: Brahma is the creative phase, he creates the world; Vishnu, the second phase, he maintains the world, and Shiva -- he destroys the world when the time comes to destroy it. In a way it is perfectly balanced; there are all the three functions that existence needs: creation, maintenance, and one day, de-creation. But if you look into the inner life of these three persons, you cannot believe it. One day, Vishnu and Brahma are quarreling about something. In the first place, the idea of a quarrel between two parts of God makes Him schizophrenic. If both your hands start fighting each other... and that's what you are doing in the mind -- one part fighting against the other part. Sometimes you become so split that you are already two persons, and sometimes you are many persons. God is already three…

Beloved Osho, some young people in germany often use this motto: "god does not exist, but still I hate him."

The experience of hate is not very far away from love. It is love standing on its head. The people who say, "God is dead but still I hate him," do not understand what they are saying, and where they are going. In the first place, God has never been, so he cannot be dead. In the second place, if you have not loved God, you cannot hate him. In your hate, love still survives, it can reassert itself. Love reasserts out of hate that God will become alive again. It is your mind again. God is your projection. Whether you love him or hate him, whether you believe in him or disbelieve in him does not matter -- he will dominate your life. Through love he will dominate your life; through hate, perhaps more. Just be free of the projections. When you are free of the projection, the fiction,…