When did you last experience a romantic relationship?

Osho, can you tell what was in front of the window? What were they seeing through that hole?

Whoever keeps repeating a lie becomes a lie. Whoever holds a lie in place becomes, little by little, a corpse—dead, a hypocrite. When there is no love, you have to say there is love, to proclaim there is love, to put on a show of love. A thousand devices are needed—because love is gone. If love is there, it is enough; no need to bring a sari, no need to bring bouquets or buy garlands—love is sufficient. Love has its own air, its own fragrance. But when love dies, then bring saris, bring jewelry, bring gifts; somehow make up for what has died, gather a few hollow contrivances to maintain the deception that love is there. Because once a promise was made—now how to break the promise! But what can you do? This fire is such that you cannot light it, you cannot put it out. You are helpless. Love…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, IN MY SIXTY-THREE YEARS OF LIFE YOU ARE THE FIRST LOVE RELATIONSHIP WHICH HAS MADE ME INDEPENDENT. HOW HAS THIS HAPPENED? And who cares about tomorrow? The people who care about tomorrow are the people who don't have today, who are miserable right now and try to hide it, try to ignore it in the hope, in the desire, in the dream for tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes, this is one of the difficulties. It is always today that comes. And you become accustomed to being miserable today, and hoping, desiring, dreaming for tomorrow. You have missed life. People have become so accustomed to tomorrows that they are not only thinking of tomorrows in this life, they are thinking of life after death. People used to ask me, "What will happen after life? What will happen after death?

Beloved Osho, I would like to be in synchronicity with you. Would you mind telling me what time it is, so that I can set my watch by yours?

Anand Vimal, it is not difficult for me to tell the time. But keeping your watch in synchronicity with my watch is not the real thing; your heart has to be in synchronicity with my heart. The watch will not help. Just for your consolation, on my watch it is eight-ten. But you have to synchronize with my heart, with my being. And I know you are coming along, slow but steady... and the moment will come when your heart will beat with the same rhythm as my heart. Your question is, in a way, significant. Superficially, it is stupid... but there have been many cases of enlightened people whose watches stopped when they died. Perhaps their disciples could not manage to synchronize with the master's heart, but their watch did. One famous Zen master, Bokuju even told the people that, "when my watch stops, you can understand I am…

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…

Osho, as you yourself say, the love of lovers can endure, but that of husband and wife does not. And yesterday you said Rama and Sita’s love was so complete in itself that they remained satisfied with each other for life. Is that really possible? Or is it merely an exception that proves the rule? And if it is possible, how does it become possible? And another thing: you have given sannyas initiation to householders. Many couples and pairs of lovers have entered your sannyas. Please guide us on how they can harmonize their sex and worldly life with sadhana and sannyas.

Rama arrives in Sita’s city, strolls in a garden, sees Sita, and falls in love. We cannot even think this. We would say, “Some vagabond boy might do that—see a girl and fall in love—but is this Rama’s way?” Yet Rama fell in love before marriage. Then marriage became the journey of that love’s fulfillment. Sita too fell in love seeing this young man. Two hearts met; society’s sanction would come later. The happening of two hearts meeting had already occurred. And I can say, even had Sita married someone else, it would have been only on the surface. The freshness, the virginity with which love was born between these two hearts—such virginity could not have come again in another love. That would have been borrowed, merely of the body. Even had Ravana abducted Sita, he could never have possessed her. That event had already occurred; someone else had already…