What is the meaning of love in the context of sharing and abundance?

Question: Second question: Osho, is love life itself? Is it aliveness? These are now scientific findings; not poetry or stories. Many laboratories in the world have reached decisive conclusions: love increases life. The rose you love will produce larger flowers—of course it will, because you have given it dignity. The life of the plant is thrilled; it wants to delight you because you delighted it. You gave to it; it wants to return. What more can it do but blossom into a larger flower? Under the love of true Masters, disciples have attained the Divine—sometimes without any doing at all. And at other times, after doing much, if the Master’s loving shade is not there, nothing happens. That is why surrender has such value. Surrender simply means: do not be a wall to the stream of love flowing from the Master’s life—be a door.

The ordinary love binds, it creates a bondage. Of course, the chains are golden But chains are chains, and golden chains Are far more dangerous than ordinary chains Because you become attached to them. You think they are very precious You think they are ornaments, not chains. The ordinary love is a relationship The real love is a state of being. That's exactly the meaning of a lover A love not addressed to anybody in particular But addressed to the whole. So whatsoever you touch You touch with deep love. And whatsoever you see, you see with deep love. Wherever you are, you go on radiating love. Then there is no need to go To any church, to any temple Because the whole existence becomes your temple. And then there is no need to bother about The Bible and the Koran and the Vedas; The whole existence becomes your Bible.

Question: YOU, THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE, OUR SOURCE IS IN THEE. LOVING THY WILL OUR SPIRIT IS FREE. THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY THAT ALL OF US SEE. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD IS LOVE. LOVE is not only the hope af the world, but the only hope. Up to now man has lived an absolutely loveless life. All the societies and the cultures and the religions that have existed on the earth have talked about love, but lived a very loveless existence. Much talk about love has happened in the past, but the structure that societies have created is basically against love. The society is geared for war, and a society that is geared for war can only talk about love but cannot live it. We have come now to the peak of this ugly, stupid structure of hatred.

Osho, as I feel, love has been very confusing. Personally, sir, I feel society has confused the term “love” with attachments. To me, attachment is the outcome or by-product of human need. May I ask you what love actually is?

Love liberates, makes the other free, allows the other to be a person. Attachment turns the other into an object and possesses so totally that it refuses to recognize that the other has a soul: If I say yes, then yes; if I say no, then no; if I say day, day; if I say night, night! Attachment says, “Only I am; you be erased.” Husbands have made wives into objects, wives have made husbands into objects. Lovers make each other into objects, and the moment an object shows a little movement, a little independence, attachment turns into enmity and pain. Love is a state of consciousness, not a relationship. Attachment is a relationship. And wherever there is relationship, there is need; we relate in order to fulfill a need. Love will, of course, relate—but it is not a relationship. As I said, the lamp’s light falls; if you pass…

OSHO (to Charlotte) : Charlotte also means of noble spirit. Love brings a new nobility into your being; a new spirituality is born. Love is the seed of all that is beautiful, divine. Love is the only proof of God. If you know what love is, you know what God is; there is no other way to know God. OSHO (to Tim) : God may not even be mentioned in it, but God enters into it, God becomes the very heart of such rejoicing. Real worship is playful. It is sincere but not serious, sincere but not sad. The real worship never asks for anything; on the contrary it offers one to the service of the whole. It is an offering, not a demand, not a desire, but a thankfulness, a gratitude expressed.