What is the loss if one does not find God?

Question: The last question: Osho, if one does not find God, what is the loss? There is no loss at all—because you can know what the loss is only after you have found God. Loss is felt only when something gained is then lost. What has never been gained—how could you know the loss of losing it? What you do not yet have—how can you even estimate whether gaining it would be a profit or a loss? If a little child asks, “What’s the loss if I never grow up?” what will you say? It’s hard to explain what the loss would be of not becoming young. If a blind man asks, “What’s the loss if I never get my eyes?”—he has never known light.

Osho, what is the proof of God’s existence?

And you still ask for proof? There have been people who offered proofs, and all their proofs are futile. No proof works. All the proofs for God so far are not worth a penny. Someone says: everything that is made must have a maker; such a vast world—surely it must have a maker. But that proof commits suicide; the moment it meets an atheist, it goes lame. The atheist says: If every made thing must have a maker, if God is needed to make the world, then who made God? With that he tightens the noose around your neck. Who made God? You protest: No, no one made God. Then the atheist says: If God can be without being made, why can’t the world be without being made? The argument collapses; it falls flat. You say: just as the potter makes the pot, so that Great Potter made this world.…

Osho, why should we seek God at all? Why look for the “doors of the Lord’s temple”?

Don’t. But you will not be able to avoid doing it. You even ask, “Why should we?” That question itself has arisen. Whoever has “why” in the mind cannot escape the search. You ask: Why seek the Lord’s temple? Don’t seek it, I say. But you are asking, “Why?” And the one who asks “why” has already begun to search. “Why” itself is the search. Why? Whenever a person asks “why?” the search has begun. And it is hard to find a person who never asks “why.” Can there be a person who has never, even for a single moment, asked, “Why am I?” “If I were not, what loss would there be?” “Why is all this?” “Why these stars and moon?” “Why this earth?” “Why these trees?” “Why do these flowers bloom?” “Why do the winds blow? And if they didn’t, what harm?” It is difficult to find anyone…

God is not anybody's real longing. People seek and search for god because they have been told that unless you find god you will not find bliss. Otherwise there is no natural desire in man to search for god, the natural desire is to search for bliss, hence bliss is really our goal. And if you can find bliss, god is found, because bliss is the most divine experience in life. It is the only proof that life is not meaningless. And to know that life is meaningful is to know god. The moment you are delighted, just for the sheer act of being, joyous moment to moment, celebrating, your existence becomes godly, God is not some person that someday you are to have an interview with, god is only a quality of your own growth. It is your own flowering.

Osho, what is the definition of God?

Words are very small. If you say God is light, then what of darkness? The scriptures have said that God is light. Suppose we accept this as a definition—then what about darkness? Where will darkness go? Darkness is too; in fact it is far more than light. Light sometimes is and sometimes is not; darkness is always, eternal. Where will you place darkness? If you say God is light, darkness is left out. If you say God is darkness, then light is left out. If you say God is both darkness and light, a contradiction arises: they cannot be together. Try to have both darkness and light in the same room. If you bring in light, darkness disappears; if you preserve darkness, you cannot have light. Then how can both be together? That becomes an impossibility. So you cannot say “both” either. Then the fourth device is to say: it…