What happens when everything is going well?

Question: BELOVED OSHO, HOW COME EVERYTHING IS GOING SO WELL? Gandharaj, the question is not a laughing matter. It touches something of tremendous value in human misery, in human anguish, in human reality. It creates laughter because it looks absurd to ask why things are going so well. We have become accustomed to things never going so well. We are well acquainted with the misery, the pain, the darkness, the meaninglessness, the whole tragedy of human existence. It has gone to our very bones, blood and marrow; we accept it as if it is our nature. If things are going wrong, it seems natural. If things are not going wrong, then something must be wrong -- how come things are going so well? We have forgotten the language of well-being, we have forgotten the taste of blissfulness. We have forgotten our own nature.

My function here is to remind you of your heart, to take you slow4 slowly towards your heart, to create love energy in you, to help you to become more heartful. All the devices that are being used here -- either they are to bring awareness in you or they are to bring love in you. If one is achieved, the other is achieved automatically. But you follow the path of love: be a Sufi! And remember, my sannyas has nothing to do with the old idea of sannyas; it is just the very opposite of it. The old sannyas was and is life-negative. My sannyas is life-affirmative. To me life is God, to me there is no other God than life. And if life is God, then love is the only prayer possible. And if life is God, then today is important, not tomorrow.

It is not a difficult process because the process of looking is the same, just the object changes: you start turning your consciousness upon yourself. You may have seen many pictures of snakes swallowing their own tails. Those pictures are very ancient symbols of mystery schools; they represent this inner transformation. When your consciousness starts turning upon itself you become a circle, and the moment you are a circle you are no more the same old person. Your life starts having a new grace, a new beauty, a new beatitude. You become golden, you become precious. For the first time you have a contact with god, and that contact is a magical transformation. It is sheer magic and a miracle. Enjoy the trip, don't be too fixated on the target, Osho said in conclusion. Bliss is not a pond, it is a river. It is not static.

The day you don't find yourself in is the greatest day of rejoicing. Then life is a continuous celebration, because when you are not, God is. [A sannyasin is leaving and says: I keep wondering what you see happening with me and I was wondering if you could tell me something I could take back.] Stop wondering. Let it happen, because what you call wondering is not really wondering, it is thinking. If it is wondering it is beautiful, but it is not. It is just thinking, analyzing, watching, keeping an eye on what is happening. That becomes a disturbance; it is a distraction: it does not allow the flow to have its course, its natural course. And if you constantly go on keeping an eye on what is happen-ing then things that would have happened will not happen.

In the East we have learned a great secret, and that secret is that if you can find a man who has attained then simply surrender to him, and suddenly all your anxieties and troubles disappear. A clarity arises in which you see things as they are. Suddenly you are unburdened. [A sannyasin said that she was enjoying meditations, though nothing dramatic was happening.] It is good that things should go very slowly. Dramatic changes never become permanent. They come like flashes, and when they are there, one feels on top of the world, but then suddenly one falls to the very bottom. A dramatic change is not something to be desired, because it is not going to remain with you. Slow growth is good. It is hard and not very exciting, but it is good because it is going to stick.