Is the Master both Brahman and death at the same time?

Osho, sometimes you speak on spirituality, sometimes on society; sometimes on politics, then on science; sometimes you support the scriptures, and at other times you talk of consigning them to the Holi bonfire. This creates all kinds of contradictions, which makes it difficult to understand you. You seem revolutionary, yet your traditional side also shows, because you insist on ochre robes and the mala. Is revolution not possible without sannyas? Can a person not be healthy without the label of sannyas? Is it not enough to be human—just human? This vast organization you are building—what is th

Melaram Asrani! I understand your difficulty. Your difficulty is the difficulty of many; therefore it is worth considering—worth considering seriously.

Being beyond the limits of time he is the master of masters. He is known as aum.

REPEAT AND MEDITATE ON AUM. REPEATING AND MEDITATING ON AUM BRINGS ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL OBSTACLES AND AN AWAKENING OF A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. Remember this -- desire and need -- these two words. Desire is of the mind; need is of the body. Desire and need, then you are a clock with hands. Only need, no desire, then you are a clock without hands, and when need also drops, you have gone beyond time. This is eternity; beyond time is eternity. For example: if I don't look at the watch -- and I have to look continuously the whole day -- if I don't look at the watch, I don't know what is the time. Even if I have seen it five minutes before, again I have to look because I don't know exactly, because now -- no time inside -- only the body is ticking. Consciousness has no…

Osho, you have earlier said, “Live moment to moment, live in the present.” Now you are saying, “Return to the past.” What should we do?

So it is with the mind—there are ruts. The past means endless grooves. However much you understand, your intellect agrees, you make decisions, you resolve—at the moment of resolve you feel something is going to change. But not even an hour passes before your decision breaks. Then only self-condemnation is produced, nothing else. Your saints, your fakirs, your priests and pundits—most of the time they only succeed in producing self-condemnation in you, nothing else. Their words are logically correct. You cannot even say they are wrong; you have to admit they are right. In that admission you take a decision. But against what are you deciding? Inside are grooves carved since who knows when, deep tracks. Walking in them has become a habit. It is easy to walk in them. They will pull you again and again. The meaning of returning into the past is: these grooves must be erased.…

Beloved Osho, when I come to your darshan, I feel a fear, as if of death. But with your presence, fear disappears and I feel life. Osho, what is happening?

The ancient seers have a very strange statement. I have asked shankaracharyas -- because they are technically the representatives of those ancient seers -- but none of them has been able to explain even a simple statement. The statement is that "The master is nothing but death." But it is only a half statement; the remaining half is that the master is a resurrection too. Coming to me, you feel the fear of death. That is absolutely as it should be. I am going to be a death to you. My whole function is to kill you because whatever you are is not your reality. It has to be destroyed, dismantled, burned. So just like a phoenix bird -- out of the tire which is burning your old personality, a new being is born. Hence, the master is also life. That's why when you are here you feel life. And…

Osho, There was neither a search for a master nor a thirst for God, nor any sense of lifetimes upon lifetimes! What call brought me to you? Your meeting, your coming, your sitting, your going—you may know your own story. But now—without the Guru there is no peace. The Guru is found—bliss dawns. For us you alone are everything, you alone are the Divine! “The Guru is Brahma, the Guru is Vishnu, the Guru is Maheshvara; the Guru is verily the Supreme Brahman—unto that revered Guru I bow.” On this festival of surrender to the Guru, please be gracious and explain this scriptural saying!

Money has some attractions. One is the hope that with money there will be no limits. You have experienced how limited you feel without money. You walk down the road, a shop displays beautiful clothes; you want to buy, your pocket is empty—there’s the limit! The heart sinks. If only the pocket were full today, such a limit would not be felt. You see a beautiful house; you want it; then you remember your bank balance; head down, you pass—limit! The lack of money makes you feel walled in, enclosed by a Great Wall. So you think: with money I will become limitless. No more limits. I will buy what I want, live where I want, marry whom I want—no limits. I tell you: your inner quest is for the Infinite. But if you think money will give the Infinite, you are mistaken. Money may come one day, and life…