It means the pretend parts of you are melting so your true self can open into peace, light, and a feeling of belonging to everything.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, lately, I have experienced something soft and calm -- a beauty which arises in me from within. Something which fills me stronger now than ever before. I can't say that it belongs to me, and still it feels as if it is me. Is it love?
Yes, it is love. And in other words, it is the beginning of a great pilgrimage which only begins and never ends, which goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Whatever you are feeling, go on deeper into it. Don't be afraid of anything because we have nothing to lose, and we have the whole universe to gain. You are right on the doorstep of the temple of God. Love is the beginning, God is the journey. God is not the goal, God is the pilgrimage. I am reminded of Al Hillaj Mansoor, a great Sufi mystic. He was young, but very poor. He collected money, borrowed money, tried to earn, because he wanted to go to Mecca for a pilgrimage. For Mohammedans, one of the essential things is that at least one time in your life, you should go for a pilgrimage to Mecca, the place where Mohammed created the…Read the full discourse →
Osho, athato prema jijñasa—now, therefore, an inquiry into love. Does the very inquiry into love transform into the experience of egoless love? Please explain.
Athato jijñasa—athato prema jijñasa. With this we began Dariya’s sutras. Good to complete it here. Because love is the beginning and love is the end. Love is the seed and love is the fruit. Love is the start and the final expression. Athato prema jijñasa. We have searched for everything in life—wealth, position, respectability—yet we have not searched for love; hence we seem crippled, impoverished. The inquiry into love, the search for love, finally becomes the search for the divine. Why? Because in love the ego dissolves, melts. Love means your death—your disappearance. Where you are not, God is. Your presence is the obstacle; your absence becomes the door. Die, O yogi, die—dying is sweet. Die the death by which Gorakh was seen. Dissolve. Become zero. Let this identity go—this ego, this I-sense. The moment the I is gone, samadhi arrives. This I-sense is like ice; let it melt in…Read the full discourse →
Beloved Osho, it is strange... The closer I come to you, the more ordinary it feels. It is a calmness and a coolness and a nothingness, and yet out of this space I find myself dancing, clapping, laughing, and rejoicing with you. But it feels so different -- as though something has gone, but I can't remember what. And if I look for words to describe this new feeling, I can only say, "love." but I say it uncertainly, insecurely. Oh, beloved Osho, what is going on?
A bird on the wing looks so beautiful, so representative of freedom. The whole sky belongs to it... no limits, no boundaries. You can catch the bird; you can keep it in a cage. It is the same bird in a way, but it is not the same bird because, where is its sky? Where is its freedom? Where is its joyful dance in the air? All that was alive in it is gone. It is only a faraway echo of the real bird that you had seen in the sky. It resembles it, it is a carbon copy, but it is not the original. When love comes to you -- and it comes only when the ego is absent -- when love comes to you, you cannot be certain about it and you cannot be secure about it. You can only be grateful. You can only be amazed --…Read the full discourse →
if it can be lowered a little bit you can walk through the wall through the mountain there is no problem because it is pure energy there is nothing solid any more this is a great advance that science has to concede reluctantly they conceded because to say that existence consists of energy is to come very close to the mystics they have always been saying existence is energy they say something more too they say that energy is awareness science may never be able to know that for the simple reason it has no way to experience awareness it can be experienced only through meditation and the moment you experience awareness the whole existence is immediately revealed to you as awareness not only that, it starts converging on you immediately, instantly you become the centre of it you become the beloved of the whole and to be beloved of…Read the full discourse →
The fakir kept dancing. The pundit said: “Stop this capering about. Give a precise answer to what I have asked; you won’t get an answer by jumping around like this. I am asking: what is love?” The fakir said, “I am love. And if you cannot see it while I dance, then when I stop you won’t see it at all. If you cannot see it when I sing, then when I fall silent I will drift even farther from your understanding. I have already answered.”
“In the life of those who have no love, there is only the world. In their life there will be money, position, rank, prestige, fame, ambition—a thousand insanities—only love will not be there; and when love is not, all insanities begin to appear. Have you observed? The ambitious person cannot love. The greater the ambition, the more he says, ‘Tomorrow—for love, tomorrow; today money, today office.’ He says, ‘Elections are near—how can I love now?’ He says, ‘I have to go to Delhi—how can I remember the temple now?’ He says, ‘This is not the time to sing songs, it is the time to fill coffers.’ He says, ‘I am still young—shall I waste the energy of life on love now? Let me earn for now; tomorrow when the hands are weak for earning, then we will love and pray and find God. There are few days to enjoy; there…Read the full discourse →