Is love the most important event of life?

Question: Last question: Osho, is love the most important event of life? Love is the most important event—and yet love is not an event. Love is life; all else is death. The one who has known love has known life. The one who has not known love has known only dying. His life is nothing but a long suicide—done slowly, slowly. He dies a little every day and does nothing else. Love is not an incident that happens in life—love is life’s very other name. And the day this understanding dawns in you, that love is another name for life, the Divine begins to dance within you. The skies give birth no more; for years no mad lover arises. For years no prophet rises out of the wilderness. Love is lost; therefore no prophet can be born. Love is lost; therefore even a true madman is no longer born.

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…

Question: Second question: Osho, is love life itself? Is it aliveness? These are now scientific findings; not poetry or stories. Many laboratories in the world have reached decisive conclusions: love increases life. The rose you love will produce larger flowers—of course it will, because you have given it dignity. The life of the plant is thrilled; it wants to delight you because you delighted it. You gave to it; it wants to return. What more can it do but blossom into a larger flower? Under the love of true Masters, disciples have attained the Divine—sometimes without any doing at all. And at other times, after doing much, if the Master’s loving shade is not there, nothing happens. That is why surrender has such value. Surrender simply means: do not be a wall to the stream of love flowing from the Master’s life—be a door.

Osho, whenever someone tells you that such-and-such is happening in meditation and you say, “Good, that is auspicious,” the ego grows even more. And at all other times the ego keeps raising its head. Even while writing this question the ego thought a lot about it, and still...?

And I tell you: only the shadow remains with you; you have lost the soul. Imagine what your plight must be! Losing a shadow caused such trouble; you have lost the soul and kept only the shadow. But perhaps you don’t notice much trouble because those among whom you live have also lost their souls. The truth is, if you gain your soul, the trouble begins—those without souls become your enemies. Otherwise, why would people stone Mahavira, insult Buddha, crucify Mansoor, poison Socrates, kill Jesus? The crowd is without soul. Whenever a soul-full person stands among them, they become very uneasy. What foolishness! They should learn from the soulful how to become soulful. But seeing a soulful person, they get anxious. They say, “His presence proves we failed to become what we should have become. We lost.” Anxiety arises: “Our life is wasted. Remove this man; his presence is 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…