Is love life itself? Is it aliveness?

Question: Second question: Osho, is love life itself? Is it aliveness? Certainly. Because love means the capacity to give. And the capacity to give can exist only in one who has. You can give only what you have. Love is the gift of life. Whenever you look at someone with love, you add a thousand moons to their life. Whenever you take someone’s hand in yours with love, you give new flame to their fading lamp. Whenever you embrace someone with love, you have lengthened their life. Scientists study whether an infant survives only on mother’s milk, or whether, besides milk, some other invisible current also flows from the mother to the child. Many experiments have been done. All show that milk nourishes the body, but milk is not life. Children have been fed milk and they shrank, they closed in on themselves and died.

love and life are synonymous in language they may have different meanings but in existence they are precisely the same phenomenon no difference, no gap exists between the two the really alive person is pure love and if love is missing then life is nothing but a vegetation one can go on vegetating without love life has not happened at all one was born, one existed, one died but life never happened life happens only the moment love starts flowing and the greater the love, the deeper life becomes a sannyasin has to remember not to put any limitations on his love love should not become object-focussed the moment you become object-focussed you are getting trapped for example, if you love one person that means that the remaining whole existence has been rejected you have excluded it out of your love affair your love has become very narrow and a…

a life without love is life without life itself it is just lived at the minimum somehow lived, in fact a drag it is boredom, meaninglessness it is simply waiting for nothing to happen waiting for godot and godot never comes -- what comes is death the man without love is born dead lives dead, dies dead it is a long process of death but love brings a transformation love is like spring suddenly hidden sources start flowing for the first time one feels the thrill of existence the adventure, the immense call of the unknown and a tremendous desire to plunge into the ocean of existence that's exactly what love is a longing to meet with the whole and in that very longing life starts reaching higher peaks it starts becoming a living fragrance there is no other purpose life itself is its own end my sannyasins have to…

OSHO: Love is the most intoxicating phenomenon. It is the wine that wells up within. It is not something chemical that comes from the outside, it is not even part of the body, not part of the mind either. It is the dance of the heart in tune with the whole. Love is your heart in deep harmony with the heart of the universe. Then there is great intoxication. And yet the intoxication does not make you unconscious; on the contrary it makes you more conscious than ever. That's the paradox of love: on one hand one is intoxicated, on the other hand one has never been so aware before. It is an intoxication that makes you wake up. HER SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER: PREM GARIMA, GLORY OF LOVE. NENE BECOMES MA PREM KUNDAN OSHO: It is by passing through the fire of love that one becomes one's real self.

Question: YOU, THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE, OUR SOURCE IS IN THEE. LOVING THY WILL OUR SPIRIT IS FREE. THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY THAT ALL OF US SEE. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD IS LOVE. LOVE is not only the hope af the world, but the only hope. Up to now man has lived an absolutely loveless life. All the societies and the cultures and the religions that have existed on the earth have talked about love, but lived a very loveless existence. Much talk about love has happened in the past, but the structure that societies have created is basically against love. The society is geared for war, and a society that is geared for war can only talk about love but cannot live it. We have come now to the peak of this ugly, stupid structure of hatred.