What is the touchstone for the ultimate peak of our love for Krishna?

Osho, what would be the touchstone for the ultimate peak of our love for Krishna?

As I said, devotion has no method, and love has no touchstone. If love is, that is enough—why worry about a touchstone? When love is not, one worries about the touchstone. Be concerned with love. What need is there of a touchstone? Because love is not, you think, “If only I had a touchstone, I could test it.” But if it isn’t there, what is there to test? You already know it isn’t there. Is there love? Care about that. And when love is, it is true; there is no such thing as false love. “False love” is a wrong phrase. Either it is, or it is not. Therefore there is no need for a touchstone. Yes, to assay gold a touchstone is needed, because counterfeit gold exists. Love is never false. It either is or is not. And when it is, you know it just as you know when…

Questioner: what is the test of one's highest devotion to krishna?

As I said, there is no discipline of devotion, and there is no test for love. Love is enough unto itself; why bother about testing it? You think of testing it only when love is not there. Care for love, not for its test. Why do you need a test? You think of testing only when there is no love. So be concerned with love. Be loving. And when there is love, it is always true love. There is nothing like false love; it is a wrong term. Love is or it is not; the question of test does not arise. There is a test for gold because there is false gold too. Love is never false; it is or it is not. And when love is, you know it the way you know when the shoe pinches. It is painful when the shoe pinches, pain is the test of…

Osho, more or less all saints have praised love. But you have enthroned love upon Gaurishankar, the highest peak! Is love truly worthy of such a supreme place? And does love really occupy as much of existence as you give it?

So your fugitive sannyasin flees sorrow, but does not attain bliss. In your monks’ lives you will not find sorrow perhaps; they have withdrawn from the entire arrangement that produces sorrow. But have you found happiness in them? Have you seen streams of peace flowing in their eyes? Have you seen ecstasy in their hearts? Have you heard songs of joy upon their lips? Have you seen them dance? And until a renunciate can dance, there remains something lacking in his renunciation. He left the world, but did not find the divine. Those who live in the world sometimes dance; but your renunciate never dances. Those in the world sometimes get a fleeting glimpse of happiness; if they did not, they would never remain in the world. It comes for a moment—true. But it does come. Your renunciate does not get even that fleeting moment. Sometimes a little light spreads…

Osho, what is the real meaning of bhakti-bhava—the spirit of devotion?

Good sir! Ever fallen in love and such? Bhakti is simply the culmination of love. If you’ve never loved, I won’t be able to make you understand. If you have, the point can begin to land. These things are of experience; some taste in that direction is needed. A man once came to Nagarjuna and said, “Take me too on the journey to That.” He was a poor man. Nagarjuna asked, “Have you ever loved anyone?” He said, “Love? Well, why hide it from you—there’s a buffalo I own; it’s her that I love. I’m a poor man, I have nothing else, but I’m very attached to her. If she ever goes missing in the forest, it feels like my life is in danger. If she falls ill, I can’t find peace.” He must have been a simple, straightforward man—otherwise how could he have spoken so truly? People usually talk…

There is no greater attainment on earth than to know and realize oneself fully. Hence Krishna says, ‘Doubt destroys, Arjuna!’ And Arjuna is full of doubt. He is utterly saturated with indecision—what to do, what not to do. His mind is greatly wavering. Even the word Arjuna implies wavering. Riju means straight, simple; a-riju—crooked, oblique. One who wavers becomes crooked; he walks like a drunkard—one foot here, one there; now left, now right. His movement is not straight. The undoubting mind moves straight. The doubting mind always staggers—puts down the foot, then does not want to; picks it up; puts it down again; then again wants to pull back. Arjuna is in such a state. And then Krishna adds: ‘one who attains Bhagavatprem.’ There are three kinds of love in the world. First, love of things—this is what we all know; mostly we know only the love of things.