What is the nature of truth as a secret?

Maneesha has asked a few questions. First: beloved Osho, to be told that truth is a secret, makes me feel that truth is an exclusive club to which one only gains entrance by having some inexplicable qualification. But I don't sense that you have some secret you are keeping from us; if anything my own secretiveness is what is in the way. Is there anything you can say that I might understand?

Every moment I am giving you the rose that Gautam Buddha gave to Mahakashyapa; with my whole being, with my presence. There is no secret at all, both my hands are open. I am not holding my fists closed. But there are investments which would like what you call `exclusive clubs'. The Hindu pundit thinks that truth is only in the Sanskrit scriptures. One very young and alert man, Swami Ramateertha, who had gone to the West and around the world, was loved by thousands of people. He was a man of rare quality. He thought that, coming back home, it would be right for him to first go to Kashi, the capital of Hinduism. But he was not aware that a great disaster was awaiting him. In Kashi, they have the secret council of Hindu scholars. He was asked to present himself before the council, and the first question…

Osho, is it true that truth cannot be hidden? It reveals itself in one way or another.

Sharananand! It is true that truth cannot be hidden. Truth is like light—how will you hide it? Even in the darkest darkness it will show itself. There is no way to conceal truth. We do try to hide it, but all our devices prove futile. Still we go on trying, hoping that perhaps this time we might succeed. All our lies are caught—sooner or later. It may take a little while, but they are all found out. Yet man keeps thinking, “Maybe this time I won’t be caught.” A lie has no legs; it cannot walk. And when it does walk, it walks by borrowing the legs of truth—remember that. That is why every liar has to prove that what he is saying is the truth. He has to shout and shout to establish that it is true. He is borrowing legs from truth. A lie cannot move by itself;…

First you have to become a little happier, you have to learn to be a little more love-full, joyful; your life has to have the color of a little happiness. Then go into the search for truth and you will be moving in the right direction, because then no lie can ever deceive you. You are no more interested in lies, because you are no more interested in consolation and comfort. Now you are ready to know the naked truth as it is. And to be a seeker of truth is the greatest thing in life. Satbodh One cannot find truth by mere thinking. Thinking is not the process that leads you to the truth. It leads only to inference. And inferences are just inferences, they are hypothetical. They may be true, they may not be true. They are just conjectures, not real conclusions.

Beloved Osho, what is truth? And whatever it is, why are most people not interested in it?

"Love God" -- I don't know how you are going to love God. You don't know what God looks like. You don't know from where to approach Him, which side is His face. The Indian god has three faces; from all the three sides you can approach him. The Hindu god has thousands of hands; you can hold any. But where are you going to meet these gods with thousands of hands, three heads ...? Just all junk. Nobody knows .... A small child was making a drawing. His father asked him, "What are you doing, so absorbed?" He said, "I am drawing a picture of God." The father said, "A picture of God? But nobody has seen Him, nobody knows how He looks. How can you make a picture of God?" The child said, "Just wait. Let me finish the picture and everybody will know how He looks." All…

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…