What is the origin of untruth in relation to truth?

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, this verse is from the Mundaka Upanishad: Satyam eva jayate nānṛtam, satyena panthā vitato devayānaḥ; yenākramanti ṛṣayo hyāptakāmā, yatra tatra satyasya paramaṁ nidhānam. That is: Only truth is victorious, not untruth. The path by which the desireless seers go, and where the supreme treasure of truth abides—that divine path opens to us only through truth. Is truth both the goal and the means? Kindly grace us with direction.

Devayāna means the realization and proclamation of one’s own divinity; freedom from tradition; freedom from the past; the art of living in the present. “Satyena panthā vitato devayānaḥ”—this path of truth is Devayāna; it is the road of rebellion; it is revolt. It is not Pitṛyāna. You cannot say, “My father believed, therefore I believe.” No—you must know. Knowing comes first. And one who has known has no need to believe. For the believer, the blessing of knowing never arises. The believer dies. The day he believes, he dies—because the search ends, inquiry ceases. Belief means: What’s left to do? I have believed. And this is what you have been taught: believe, have faith. Thus the whole earth is filled with hollow “religious” people—believers, not truly religious. Belief is always hollow. What is not your own experience, how can it be truth for you? I may say it is my…

Question: Second question: Osho, why is untruth so influential? Understand this. To attain truth brings bliss—but truth will not come to your door saying, “I will give you bliss.” Truth says, “I am truth. Come, drown in me.” Bliss comes, but that is secondary; it happens of its own accord when you enter truth. The lie does not say, “I am truth.” It says, “Immerse in me; you will get happiness.” See the difference. Truth says only, “I am truth,” nothing more—no temptation. The lie won’t say what it is; it says, “Dive into me; you’ll get happiness—immense happiness. I’ll take you to a great heaven.” Your longing is not for truth; your longing is for happiness. People come to me and say, “We’ll meditate—what will be the benefit?” Even in meditation—benefit? Then your very question is wrong. You will enter meditation only when you leave profit and greed behind.

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…

Beloved Osho,sometimes while just sitting, the question comes up in the mind: what is truth? But by the time I come here I realize that I am not capable to ask. But may I ask what happens in those moments when the question arises so strongly that had you been nearby I would have asked it. Or if you had not replied, I would have caught hold of your beard or collar and asked, "what is truth, Osho?"

When you fall in love with a woman there is some truth -- if you have fallen absolutely unaware, if you have not 'done' it in any way, if you have not acted, managed, if you have not even thought about it. Suddenly you see a woman, you look into her eyes, she looks into your eyes, and something clicks. You are not the doer of it, you are simply possessed by it, you simply fall into it. It has nothing to do with you. Your ego is not involved, at least not in the very, very beginning, when love is virgin. In that moment there is truth, but there is no interpretation. That's why love remains indefinable. Soon the mind comes in, starts managing things, takes possession of you. You start thinking about the girl as your girlfriend, you start thinking of how to get married, you start thinking…