What is the need to attain truth in life?

Osho, what need is there to attain truth in life? Life is so short—why take on the labor of attaining truth? If one can find so much delight just by watching films and listening to music, what is wrong with spending life that way?

By forgetting darkness one does not get light. If this room is full of darkness and I sit with closed eyes and forget the darkness, the room remains dark. But if I light a lamp, the darkness vanishes. Forgetting sorrow does not bring bliss; attaining bliss makes sorrow vanish. So I don’t think you will ask, What need is there to seek bliss? You can ask only because you imagine truth and bliss to be two different things. No—truth, bliss, the divine are not different. They are different names for one experience. When one attains it, call it bliss if you wish, call it truth if you wish. One thing is certain: as we are, we are not fulfilled. Therefore there is a need to seek. One who is fulfilled has no need to search. We are not content with what we are, nor with where we are. There is…

One who is surrendered to god need not say anything, the very surrender will transform his life. All that is needed on the part of the seeker is to drop the ego because ego is the only cause of all our misery and sadness. Ego is the only wall between us and god. And it is not made of very substantial bricks either; it is just an idea, just hot air. Just a pinprick and the balloon can burst. It does not need much work; it only needs intelligence, a little understanding, and seeing the whole stupidity of it one can put aside the ego -- because it has never brought you anything except hell. Just watch and see what the ego brings misery and misery and misery...

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.

Bliss and truth are synonymous, they are inseparable, just like two sides of the same coin. Everybody is interested in bliss, naturally -- who wants to be miserable? -- but nobody is ready to pay the price. Everybody wants it cheap, and if possible, then free. Nobody wants to travel; one wants to find a short-cut, or is it is possible, not to take even a single step -- that would be the best thing. That's why people go on boiling in their misery; their whole life is nothing but hell. One has to pay for truth, for bliss, and the only way is to become committed. Sannyas is a commitment, a commitment to the search. It is not just curiosity, it is going on a long pilgrimage -- not seeking any short-cut, not asking that it should be cheap or without any cost.

truth cannot be achieved by human efforts because all human efforts are bound to originate in the mind and mind is the barrier between truth and consciousness the mind has to be put aside that's what man is capable of doing not using the mind, putting the mind aside by-passing the mind, transcending the mind and the moment the mind is not functioning consciousness immediately becomes connected with the truth the barrier is no more there hence the bridge happens and that is the greatest blessing in existence when truth showers on you only with the experience of truth life becomes meaningful, significant a celebration a man without truth is a beggar a man without truth is not yet really alive he is simply living in a kind of dream he is not awakened not awakened to the tremendous beauty of existence to the immense ecstasy of life not aware…