What does it mean to meet a man on a higher level of being?

Beloved Osho, it is said "if you meet a man on a higher level of being than your own, you will not understand him." the distance between you and us seems so infinite. What are we doing here, Osho?

It is true. If you meet a man of a higher development in consciousness, you will not be able to understand the man; communication will be almost impossible. But you are saying and seeing only one side of the phenomenon. You will not be able to understand a man of higher consciousness but he will understand you -- more than you understand yourself. He has passed through the same stages that you are passing. He's well-acquainted with the whole territory and he is standing on a high place from where he can see far and wide. On your part, if you can understand only this much -- that understanding will be difficult because his consciousness is higher -- then your question will be: "First raise my consciousness so that I am at a point from where communication is possible." You will not ask other questions because his answers will not…

How can I understand that which you really want to convey?

There are three ways. One is the most usual and the most superficial -- through the words. It is very fragmentary, and there is more possibility of misunderstanding me than understanding me. Language is not adequate. There are things which go beyond it. But that is the usual. That's what we have been trained for -- we understand only words. And we know that when I use a word and you hear it, you hear the word but you don't hear my meaning. My meaning is left behind. The word goes like an empty shell and you put your meaning into it. Meaning will be yours. So that is not the right way. To begin with, okay, but to cling to it is not going to lead you anywhere very deep. The young vicar and his bride had just undressed and were ready to taste the fruits of love. But…

Sometimes you say that it is possible for a master and disciple, for two lovers, to meet being to being. And sometimes you say that we are totally alone and it is impossible to ever be together. Is wanting to meet another -- being to being -- a desire, a fiction of the mind that has to be dropped? Please explain if you can.

Listen to me: two cannot meet -- that is impossible; and, two can meet, but then the quality of twoness has disappeared. When I say a meeting being to being, I mean now there is neither the lover nor the beloved... they are lost, disappeared, something else as a oneness has penetrated into their beings. In that deep silence love exists, not lovers. When a disciple and Master are together, if the disciple is ready to be lost.... Because the Master is that who is lost already, who is an emptiness. If the disciple is also ready to float with the emptiness of the Master -- with no demand, with no desire, because they won't allow you to disappear; with no doubt, no uncertainty -- if the disciple is ready to become part of this emptiness, the emptiness surrounds both. It becomes encompassing. In the cloud of that emptiness both…

Beloved Osho, when I listen to your discourses, you take me on an indescribable journey. If afterwards someone asks me about what you have said, I hardly remember. But when people ask me personal questions, answers are coming out of my mouth which astonish me the most. Osho, am I becoming a parrot of your words?

Listening to me is less like listening and more like drinking. Although it is a verbal communication, that is only the superficial part of it. Hidden beneath it is the real communion where meanings are absorbed and words are forgotten. You cannot become my parrot -- at least while I am alive. It is impossible to become my parrot. You will go crazy! My words are so full of contradictions that the poor parrot will be crushed under those contradictions. And it is a sure signal that you are not becoming a parrot because you don't remember my words. The parrot only remembers words, but whatever is being communicated to you is absorbed. It has to become part of your blood, your bones, your marrow -- not part of your memory. Unless it becomes your blood, your bones and your marrow, it cannot transform you. And the transformation is happening.…

In moments of deep love and merging with the surrounding existence, o fragrance, your fragrance, comes to me, and gratitude arises in my heart. Is love the only communion possible with a master?

There is no other communion, not only with a Master -- there is no other communion with anybody except love. There are three ways to be related. One we call communication. It is mind to mind. You talk. Words meet, not you. Intellects grope, try to understand each other, but you remain far away. It is a very guarded relationship. Not really a relationship, just a groping, trying to find whether you would like to come closer or not. Intellect is very suspicious, non-trusting. In ordinary life ninety-nine per cent of your relationships remain intellectual. You talk to judge You talk to protect. You talk to avoid. In fact when you are talking to people you are not saying much, in fact you are trying not to say much. Words create an illusion that you are saying many things. It may be just otherwise, you may be hiding. Have you…