According to Osho, the conflict between world and God is an illusion born of ignorance and centuries of priestly conditioning. If God opposed the world, nothing could exist; the world breathes by God's energy. Religion's trade invented opposition to make itself needed. True insight doesn't reject the world; it awakens to the ever-present divine thread, turning sleep into conscious participation in God.
We only think God and the world fight because we're misled and asleep; when we wake up, we see this same world is made of God.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, why does there seem to be so much conflict between the world and God?
It is as if someone were sleeping deeply in this garden. The cuckoo comes and sings, birds are chattering, the sun rises, breezes dance through the trees; but someone is fast asleep. The breezes touch him, the birds’ songs echo at his ears, the sun’s rays play on his face, but he knows nothing. Then someone comes and shakes him awake. His eyes open—the glory of the sun is revealed, the song of the passing breeze is heard, suddenly the cuckoo’s call, the fragrance of flowers. Do you think something new has happened? Everything was already there, just as it is. Only this man has become new—nothing else has changed. The same garden, the same sun, the same flowers, the same birds—everything the same; only a small difference: he was asleep; he is awake. The meaning of “world” is: you are asleep in God. The meaning of “God” is: you…
One of the sannyasins has asked a question: WHAT IS MISSING IN COMMUNISM?
If you really want celibate people, then they need a brain operation. The center of sex should be removed. But then you will be simply impotent -- not celibate. Karl Marx was right, that such religions should be finished. They are against humanity. They protect poverty and they protect the rich. They are against revolution, they are against any change -- obviously, he was right to call them the opium of the people, the hope of the hopeless. If Christianity and Judaism were the only religions, then the Soviet Union would not have any need, any urge to find the inner world! But just think about it. You cannot have the outside world without having the inside world; they exist together like two sides of the coin. And there are scientific methods available. Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into…
Beloved Osho, why is communication so difficult, particularly between lovers?
Premda, communication as such is difficult. Of course it is more difficult between lovers. But first you have to understand the general difficulty of communication. Each mind has been conditioned by different parents, different teachers, different priests, different politicians. It is a different world in itself. And when two minds try to communicate, as far as the ordinary mundane things are concerned, there is no difficulty. But the moment they start moving beyond things into the world of concepts, communication starts becoming more and more difficult. For example, Gautam the Buddha does not have any God in his philosophy. He is far more free from God than even Frederick Nietzsche. At least Frederick Nietzsche states that God is dead. The implication is clear that it used to be alive, now it is dead. Gautam Buddha does not talk about God at all. It is so irrelevant that he does not…
Osho, Lord, I have broken my ties with the world and joined my tie with You. Wherever You seat me, I will sit. Whatever You give, I will eat. Whatever You clothe me in, I will wear. Wherever You lay me down, I will sleep. Lord, I have broken my ties with the world!
Arya! The world is His too. The world is also given by Him. There is no need to break ties with it; simply join your tie with Him! Do not break your tie with anyone; do make sure to join your tie with Him. Once your tie with Him is joined, that is enough. Then you will suddenly find that He pervades everything—He pervades the world too. This entire expanse is His. There is no flaw anywhere in this expanse. The flaw is in our ego. The flaw is in our mind. Maya is not the name of the world; maya is the projection of our mind. The world is His. But the mind has spun out an expansion that is false. It has seen what is not, and overlooked what is. It has grasped the insubstantial and let go of the essence. Do not break your tie with the…
Beloved Osho, why is the world so sick today? Why are misery and tension increasing?
It is the outcome of all the idiotic ideas that have dominated humanity in the past. It was bound to happen. All the religions are responsible for it. What they have done, whether knowingly or unknowingly, is the cause of the misery, suffering and anguish of the whole of humanity. Let us think of the most fundamental causes one by one. The first: All the religions have been imposing the idea that God has created the world and God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. He knows all, he is all-powerful, he is everywhere. This idea prevented man from doing anything to life to make it better, beautiful. When somebody all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere present, is looking after the world, then what can you do? How far can you see? What can be your contribution? If God is the creator of the world, you cannot improve upon it. If you do anything you…