Is love our basic energy?

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.

What is love?

The simple truth is that sex is the starting point of love. Sex is the beginning of the journey to love. The origin, the Gangotri of the Ganges of Love, is sex, passion -- and everybody behaves like its enemy. Every culture, every religion, every guru, every seer has attacked this Gangotri, this source, and the river has remained bottled up. The hue and cry has always been, "Sex is sin. Sex is irreligious. Sex is poison," but we never seem to realize that ultimately it is the sex energy itself that travels to and reaches the inner ocean of love. Love is the transformation of sex energy. The flowering of love is from the seed of sex. Looking at coal, it would never strike you that when coal is transformed it becomes diamonds. The elements in a lump of coal are the same as those in a diamond. Essentially,…

And only when one is full of light.... The first child of light is love. And love contains all that is beautiful, all that is divine: compassion, prayer, creativity, grace. They all follow love, you need not think about them, they are by-products, consequences of love. But love itself happens only through light. All meditation techniques are devices to bring you out of your sleep, to help you wake up. OSHO (to Aige) : Your heart starts pulsating in a different rhythm. The whole world remains the same but your eyes are no more the same; hence you start seeing things which you have never seen before and you stop seeing things which you have always been seeing. So in a sense the world remains the same and in another sense it is no more the same, because when the seer changes, the seen changes.

[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy typed. It is for reference purposes only.] Love is the energy that can be transformed into joy; and love is the only energy that we have, there is no other energy available. It is the same energy on different planes. Sex is the crudest form of love energy and God is the highest form of love energy, but it is the same energy, crude, gross, subtle, hard, wordly, spiritual. It is the same energy that moves in all the planes. It is like a ladder: one part of the ladder touches the lowest and the other part, the highest. Without love, life would be impossible, without love the universe itself would be impossible. Things would fall apart; it is love that keeps them glued together.

That's my whole work here. If I can give you a tongue-tip taste of tao, my work is finished: just a little taste of tao, and then it grows on its own. The first taste is difficult; once you have tasted it just a little bit, then it is so powerful, so potential, it spreads all over your being. It overwhelms you, it takes you on the greatest journey of life; into nature, into reality, into things as they are, into tao. [Osho gives sannyas:] Close your eyes and feel full of light inside, as if a great light is arising from your belly and filling your whole body. If trembling arises, shaking, swaying, go with it. If your body wants to take some posture -- if your hands start moving -- allow it. Simply be possessed by this light, and wherever it takes you, go. ...