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What is jiveshana (the urge to live)?

Jiveshana is the Divine energy within you; do not suppress it, but live it fully, for it is the pure essence of life waiting to be revealed.

— Osho
According to Osho, jiveshana is the Divine itself—the eternal, pure life-energy surging within. It is auspicious and true; don’t suppress it, live and relish it. What corrupts it are impure forms—egoic cravings for immortality of the body, status, wealth, fame—like a diamond buried in mud. Through total understanding (mind, heart, being), these layers fall away naturally, revealing the boundless, Godlike expansion of life.

The urge to live is God’s life-energy inside you—enjoy it, but don’t confuse it with chasing money, fame, or keeping the body forever; see clearly and the extra junk drops away.

In His Own Words

From the Discourses

Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.

The Tongue Tip Taste Of Tao · Discourse 9Para 1 1978-10-09 Chuang Tzu Auditorium English
Deva means divine, shravano means listening -- the art of divine listening. And that's what meditation is. If one can learn how to listen rightly, one has learned the deepest secret of meditation. People hear but they don't listen. Hearing is one thing -- listening, altogether different; they are worlds apart. Hearing is a physical phenomenon; you hear because you have ears. Listening is a spiritual phenomenon. You listen when you have attention, when your inner being joins with your ears. And once you have learned how to join your inner being with your ears, you can join it with any sense. It can be joined with the eyes or with the nose or with the sense of touch or taste, and slowly slowly you can join it with all your senses simultaneously. In that moment, god is available. But it is easier to start with the ears...
Jivan means life, harito means green -- green life, fresh life, young life. and always remember that life is green, theories are grey. Avoid the theories and plunge into life. Theories are suicidal, poisonous; they destroy. Life is divine, life is eternity. To get in tune with life is to enter into god, and to remain confined to the theories is to remain in the prison of the mind. So the whole dilemma, the human dilemma is: how to get out of the mind and into life. Our whole being is caught in the web of thoughts -- and thoughts are impotent. they cannot give you anything: they can promise you everything but they cannot give you anything. It is only through life that something is possible. So listen to life more, trust life more. Let life become synonymous with god.
The Passion For The Impossible · Discourse 19Para 1 1976-09-08 Chuang Tzu Auditorium English
Deva means divine, nirvesha means enjoyment, joy, bliss, happiness, divine joy. And to me, all joy is divine. Joy as such is divine. If one can be joyful, one is in prayer. Then there is no need to do any other prayer. Then you are constantly offering yourself to God. We cannot offer anything else. In misery we are cut off from God closed, separated, isolated. In joy we are overflowing, relinked, reconnected. In joy we are offering our being. So joy is divine. Not to be joyful is to be irreligious. So if you can do one thing, everything will follow. Just be ecstatically joyful, and for it, no condition is needed. You need not be rich to be joyful. For instance, there are people who are very rich and absolutely joyless. And there are beggars who are full of joy.
I Am Not As Thunk As You Drink I Am · Discourse 25Para 16 1980-10-26 Chuang Tzu Auditorium English
(To want bliss is to miss bliss, Osho tells us.) That's why all the awakened people have been teaching desirelessness, because if bliss is not an achievement you cannot make an ambition of it, you cannot desire it; your desire will become a hindrance. Your very effort to achieve it will cause delay. The way to find it is to be totally desireless, utterly silent, not hankering for it, and in that very moment the miracle happens, when you are not desiring it, it starts showering on you. It is a gift, it is a gift of god. It is within god's pwer to give or not to give; it is not within man's power to get it or not to get it. Yes, a certain groundwork is needed from man's side to prepare you to receive it. You cannot be aggressive about it.
The Sacred Yes · Discourse 15Para 10 1978-11-15 Chuang Tzu Auditorium English
When one has become a witness to happiness and unhappiness, that witnessing leads to the transcendental. Then one goes beyond the two and becomes one. And that oneness is bliss. And that is the goal of all life: how to go beyond the two, how to go beyond the conflict, how to go beyond this constant division in one's being. To attain to one is to attain to god. That one is called god, another name for that one. Deva means divine, magan means utterly absorbed, intoxicated, drunk -- drunk with the divine, intoxicated with the divine, lost in the divine. Man can exist in two ways. One is the way of the ego: separate from the whole, defending his own territory constantly, defining himself in separation like an island. But that is the way of misery, the way of anxiety and anguish, because it is absolutely unnatural.