[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
All you need is love, Osho told us tonight.
Love is the flower of consciousness. A consciousness without love is like a desert, a barren land where nothing grows, not even grass. The moment you sow the seeds of love your consciousness becomes a garden -- thousands of roses and great fragrance naturally arise out of it. And only that fragrance fulfils man's life. It makes one feel meaningful, significant, it makes one feel worthy of existence, it makes one feel worthy of being offered to god. My whole message is love and love and all else follows of its own accord.'
[Then he turned to Bernd from Germany and told him why he named him Premhari.]
Jesus says god is love. It was a tremendous leap; he left Moses far behind. The god of Moses is very primitive. The god of Moses says "I am a very jealous god. Those who go against my will have to suffer eternally. He is very revengeful. He says "I am so jealous that he cannot tolerate any other gods, I am the only god. Worship me! If you worship somebody else you cannot be forgiven. The god of Moses is a very non-forgiving god. The idea is primitive, it is bound to be so. Moses was a pioneer. he was just breaking the ice.
Jesus took a quantum leap. Three thousand years after Moses he said god is love. He had to be crucified because he was sabotaging the whole Jewish religion. To make god love means to destroy the whole old idea, and the whole Judaic religion depended on it.
Through a single statement Jesus brought a transformation and since then the idea of god has never been the same. Now even Jews feel a little embarrassed to talk about their god; even they have started talking about the god of Jesus as if they had always believed god to be love, compassion.
If you read Martin Buber then whatsoever he says about god is not truly Jewish. It is Christian camouflaged in Jewish terminology. And he could not deceive the Jews; the Jews thought him a traitor. Christians praised him very much -- he was loved all over the world -- but by the Christians, remember, not by the Jews.
He remained a Jew his whole life but he wanted Jesus to be absorbed back, he should not be rejected; that they should feel apologetic that they crucified him, that they should apologise and take him back. This looked like a very destructive idea to the Jews, and they condemned Martin Buber as a traitor. But I would agree with the Jews that Martin Buber was doing something non-Jewish. If he wanted to change the idea of god he should have done it openly rather than in an indirect way.
Now two thousand years have passed since Jesus and humanity needs a quantum leap again. It is just a slight change: Jesus says god is love, I say love is god. That miracle is possible. When you say god is love you make god more important than love. God may be many more things too, love may be only one aspect. God can be wise, god can be omnipotent, god can be omniscient, god can be omnipresent. God can be thousands of other things; out of those thousands of qualities. Love is only one quality.
But my experience is totally different -- love is god; god is secondary, love is primary. In fact godliness is only one of the aspects of love, not vice versa. We can even drop the idea of god and nothing is lost. If one loves, that's enough, because love automatically brings a quality of godliness to your being, something of the beyond and the divine. That is the meaning of your name: love is god.
And it is time that we took a step further than Jesus. Two thousand years is enough! And if Jesus can take a step ahead of Moses, we should take a step ahead of Jesus. In fact by taking that step we are respecting Jesus because we are doing the same thing that he did.
Of course Christians will be angry -- that is natural. Jews were angry with Jesus, Christians will be angry with me. Now there are articles and books written against me saying that my idea of Christ is not a Christian idea. But I have never said that it is a Christian idea. I don't belong to any religion, I am an absolutely free man. Whatsoever I say I say on my own authority, not on any traditional, conventional authority. What I say is my total responsibility; I don't shirk my responsibility. I will not say I say it because it is in the Bible or it is in the Old Testament or it is in the Koran or it is in the Gita; I say it because it is in my heart, and except for that nothing is decisive.
And this is my message to my sannyasins too: live according to your heart, live according to your love, let love be your light and you will never go wrong.
[Which is just the way Saint Augustine saw it too, Osho went on to point out.]
Saint Augustine was once asked "Can you tell us in a single word the whole essence of religion?" Augustine was at a loss, for a moment he could not find what to say in a single word. He closed his eyes and meditated, then he said "If you insist on a single word then except love there is no other word that can contain the whole essence of religion. Love and then whatsoever you do is right. Love and you will be surprised that you are loved by the whole existence, and a thousandfold."
The moment you start loving, love starts showering on you from all sides. Life becomes just an overflow of love. That should be the only religion. There is no need for Hindus, Christians, Mohammedans, Buddhists -- we need lovers on the earth.
I would like my sannyasins to be known as lovers; not as Christians, not as Buddhists, not as Hindus, simply lovers.
[Lovers ... and poets too, he told Anand Kavito.]
Life can be a calculation. Then it is 'rose' then it is mundane, then it is arithmetic, then it is logic. But everything is dry -- no flowers, no dances, no songs. One does not live but only drags. But life can also be lived as poetry, as love, as music, as celebration. And it is our choice, how to live it. Both alternatives are always open.
Man is born as freedom. Man is not born with a fate. If there were a fate then there would be no freedom, if there were a fate then man would be a machine. A car cannot be an aeroplane, an aeroplane cannot be a computer, a computer cannot be an oven. They have their fates, everything is determined, predetermined; they have to follow a certain programme.
But man is not born like a machine, man is born as absolute freedom. At each step he has to choose. And this is the most fundamental choice: whether to live as prose or as poetry, as logic or as love, as mathematics or as music, as matter or as consciousness, to live a mundane life or to live a sacred blissfulness.
Become aware of it and choose diligently, choose intelligently. Let your life become poetry, only then do you know what god is. God is known only by the poets, mystics, painters, singers, dancers -- and only in those moments when the painter forgets that he i8 a painter, only in those moments when the musician forgets that he is a musician, only in those rare space, when the dancer disappears into his dance. Poetry is the way of my sannyasins.
[Her name, Gerda, means garden, Osho told the Austrian woman who was next in line for sannyas. By prefixing it with "anand" it became paradise.]
Paradise comes from a Persian word "firdaus". In Persian mythology firdaus is the place where god lives. An enclosed garden -- that's the literal meaning of firdaus. From firdaus comes paradise; paradise means a garden.
The garden is very significant. The whole history of humanity begins with the garden of Eden: man has been expelled from the garden and since then man has been wandering in a desertlike life. He somehow remembers the glory of that garden, those days, those timeless days, before he was expelled.
The Biblical story is not just a story, it contains a great truth. Every man feels that something is missing, that he is not where he should be, that he is not what he should be. He may not be very clear about what is missing, but this much is felt by everyone, a vague feeling that something is wrong, that "I am in the wrong place, in the wrong situation," that "I am not supposed to be like this," that "I was not meant to be like this. Something has gone wrong."
Man was expelled from the garden of god. The reason for his expulsion was that he tried to be knowledgeable, he ate the fruits of knowledge from the "Tree of Knowledge".
The moment one starts becoming knowledgeable one loses contact with one's heart -- and that is the real garden. We are carrying it within ourselves. We are not really expelled, we have simply forgotten it, we have ignored it. We have become hung up in the head, we have become too attached to knowledge. Instead of growing in being, flowering in being, we are simply collecting information -- sheerly futile information. It may help you to be an egoist but it can't help you to be blissful.
Bliss has nothing to do with the head, it is not a function of the head. Bliss is the flowering of the heart. The heart is the garden of Eden, the paradise, the firdaus. And my whole effort here is to help you in some way to enter the garden again. Even if you have to be smuggled in, it's okay, I don't bother about that -- even from the backdoor.... But once you have reached the garden, once you have tasted it again, you will be transformed.
And this much I can assure you, that god will forgive you even if you enter from the backdoor, even if you are smuggled in or you jump the fence or you bribe the guards -- whatsoever you do... I allow my sannyasins freedom to enter god's garden. It is our garden!
[We can enter the garden -- we can be a garden, Osho said to the next sannyasin.]
Green represents life, aliveness, freshness. It is the colour of the trees. For thousands of years the so-called religions have destroyed all greenery in man's being. They have left man almost like a dead trees no foliage, no flowers, no juice flows any more. Hence humanity seems to be so sad and bored. I want to bring a dance back to humanity. I want human beings to be rooted in the earth again so that juices can start flowing again, so that great foliage, great greenery, can happen again.
Unless one blossoms, one remain discontented. A tree is fulfilled when there are flowers, and in the same way is man fulfilled. The flowers of love, of bliss, of freedom, of intelligence, of godliness -- only these flowers can give you the sense of fulfilment. And the fulfilled person is never sad.
To me only the fulfilled person is a saint; others are only pretenders. I want my sannyasins to be saints in the real senses alive, rejoicing, singing, dancing, making life a festival.
[It's a very strange name' Osho began, showing Marlies her sew name, Anama, 'because it means the nameless one.]
We are born without any name. All names are arbitrary. The rose is not a rose and the lotus is not a lotus. They don't know their names, we have imposed names on them. It is a necessity, but we should not forget the truth, that our innermost being is nameless, and so is god, absolutely nameless. You can call him God, Jehovah, Allah, Ram; millions of names all over the world have been used for god but no name is true -- it is utilitarian.
We have to fall into an inner space which is nameless, we have to forget the identity that has been given to us -- that you are this, that you are that, that you are intelligent, that you are beautiful, that you are not intelligent. We have to forget all that others have said about us, only then is there a possibility of discovering who we are. And that discovery is the goal of sannyas.
Once you know who you are life has a totally different meaning; a different beauty, a different joy follows you like a shadow. But first you have to discover the nameless space within you. And the only way to discover it is to become conscious are not what others have said about you.
So all that has been said about you, good and bad, has to be eliminated. Meditation is a process of elimination -- neither this nor that. One goes on eliminating, eliminating, just as one peels an onion: you peel one layer, another layer is there; you peel that too, another layer is there. Go on peeling the onion of your mind and then one day suddenly there is emptiness in your hands, there is no more onion left.
That is the day of great celebration. One has arrived home, one has reached the nameless. And that i8 the world of god, the world of truth, the world of bliss, the real world.'
[The loveliest song is the singerless one, Osho began, and then went on to explain himself.]
The song is beautiful when you are not the singer, when god is the singer, when you are just a hollow bamboo, a flute, when you simply allow god to flow through you, when you don't obstruct -- that's all. On our part all that is needed to be done is not to obstruct, not to interfere. If we can allow god to flow through us then life is such a splendour, such a glory, that one cannot think it can be improved upon. One cannot even dream that there is any possibility of making it more ecstatic. It is impossible to imagine anything better once you are no more in the way and god is allowed to flow.
But we come in the way in many ways. We have our likes and dislikes, we have our prejudices, opinions, ideologies. We impose our ideas even on god. If god comes to a Christian in the form of Krishna he will not recognise him. Or if god comes as Christ to a Hindu, he will not recognise him.
We have a certain idea of god; he has to fit with our idea. Look at the stupidity of man! Even god has to fit with your idea.
A sannyasin has to learn to fit with god, to be in a state of let-go, to allow him.
I love Jesus, last words on the cross, "Let thy kingdom come, let thy will be done. That precisely defines sannyas.
[Dying to live -- that's just what meditation is, Osho reiterated tonight. Then he continued:]
To live in the present is the only way to live at all. And when you live in the present with no past dragging you backwards and no future dragging you forwards, when your total energy is concentrated in the moment, life takes on a tremendous intensity; it becomes a passionate love affair. You become aflame with your own energy, you become full of light because at a certain intensity fire becomes life, intensity becomes light.
And that's the only way to be rich, to be prosperous. All others are poor. They may have all the money of the world but they are poor people.
There are two kinds of poor people in the world -- the poor poor and the rich poor. My sannyasins don't belong to either category; they are simply rich. Whether they have anything or not, that doesn't matter. Richness has nothing to do with possessions, it has something to do with how you live, the quality of your life, the music of your life, the poetry of your life. And all these things happen only through meditation. There has never been any other way, there is none and there will never be.
[Wolfs or Wolfgang, but a bear tonight! His name, Bernar, means bear which represents resurrection, Osho told the last sannyasin.]
... hence no coward can take the step, not even a single step towards it. He wants insurance, guarantees, security, he wants evidence, proofs -- and in a way he i5 logical. All cowards are always logical. It is only for the courageous ones to be illogical.
Logic is very protective. It always keeps you within the bounds of the known. It never gives you any support for any rebellion. It forces you, convinces you, to be with the crowd, to be with the mob, to be with tradition, to be with convention. It tries to convince you that this is the most comfortable way to be. It makes you a sheep, not a bear.
To be in the real sense first one has to die. In the unreal sense, that we have become accustomed to thinking, to believing, we assume logic to be the real way. One has to die as a personality, then only is one resurrected as an individual. Individuality is only for those who are ready to co it suicide as a person. But this is risky -- one never knows....
When Jesus was crucified there was no insurance that after three days he would certificates. If he would not be resurrected, then what? And who knows whether he was resurrected or not? just a story to convince the cowards "Don't be afraid -- after three days you will be resurrected."
But the courageous person does not care about what happens. He knows even dying to the past is of tremendous beauty; whether resurrection happens or not is besides the point. If it happens -- good; if it doesn't happen -- so what. But it is bound to happen.
When the false is dropped the true is inevitably revealed. And meditation is the process of dropping the false. All "as if's" have to be dropped so that we can know that which is. And that is resurrection, that is the beginning of a new life, the life divine.
Meditation brings rebellion in life. Rebellion against all traditions, conventions, dogmas, creeds, rebellion against the whole past, because unless you are completely clean of the past you cannot be totally herenow. And unless you are totally herenow you will never know what the true is.
Truth is never in the past, never in the future; truth is always here and now. Truth means that which is. You cannot use the word 'was' for truth or 'will be' for truth; truth is always 'is', isness is truth.
Our mind goes on moving from the past to the future. It is like a pendulum moving from one extreme to another extreme. It never stays in the middle, and the middle is the truth. From the past to the future, from the future to the past, we go on shuttling like a goods train. We never stay in the now, and the now is the nature of the existence. Existence knows only one tense, the present tense.
That is the greatest rebellion in life, to drop all the traditions and all conventions -- Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism, the Koran, the Bible, the Gita -- to drop them all in toto. It needs guts, needs courage, it needs a man, not a child, it needs some integrity, some growth. And my whole work here is to help you to become more mature so that you can pass through this rebellion.
Once you have passed through this rebellion Christ is born in you, Buddha is born in you; they are different names for the same experience. But all this happens through meditation, hence sannyas revolves around the idea of meditation.
I don't give you any other thing, no character, no ordinary life style. I just tell you a simple and single thing: be meditative. In meditation is my whole philosophy of life. Out of it thousands of flowers bloom and blossom. Out of it everything that is needed comes by itself -- you need not search for it.
Osho's Commentary
All you need is love, Osho told us tonight.
Love is the flower of consciousness. A consciousness without love is like a desert, a barren land where nothing grows, not even grass. The moment you sow the seeds of love your consciousness becomes a garden -- thousands of roses and great fragrance naturally arise out of it. And only that fragrance fulfils man's life. It makes one feel meaningful, significant, it makes one feel worthy of existence, it makes one feel worthy of being offered to god.
My whole message is love and love and all else follows of its own accord.'
[Then he turned to Bernd from Germany and told him why he named him Premhari.]
Jesus says god is love. It was a tremendous leap; he left Moses far behind. The god of Moses is very primitive. The god of Moses says "I am a very jealous god. Those who go against my will have to suffer eternally. He is very revengeful. He says "I am so jealous that he cannot tolerate any other gods, I am the only god. Worship me! If you worship somebody else you cannot be forgiven. The god of Moses is a very non-forgiving god. The idea is primitive, it is bound to be so. Moses was a pioneer. he was just breaking the ice.
Jesus took a quantum leap. Three thousand years after Moses he said god is love. He had to be crucified because he was sabotaging the whole Jewish religion. To make god love means to destroy the whole old idea, and the whole Judaic religion depended on it.
Through a single statement Jesus brought a transformation and since then the idea of god has never been the same. Now even Jews feel a little embarrassed to talk about their god; even they have started talking about the god of Jesus as if they had always believed god to be love, compassion.
If you read Martin Buber then whatsoever he says about god is not truly Jewish. It is Christian camouflaged in Jewish terminology. And he could not deceive the Jews; the Jews thought him a traitor. Christians praised him very much -- he was loved all over the world -- but by the Christians, remember, not by the Jews.
He remained a Jew his whole life but he wanted Jesus to be absorbed back, he should not be rejected; that they should feel apologetic that they crucified him, that they should apologise and take him back. This looked like a very destructive idea to the Jews, and they condemned Martin Buber as a traitor. But I would agree with the Jews that Martin Buber was doing something non-Jewish. If he wanted to change the idea of god he should have done it openly rather than in an indirect way.
Now two thousand years have passed since Jesus and humanity needs a quantum leap again. It is just a slight change: Jesus says god is love, I say love is god. That miracle is possible. When you say god is love you make god more important than love. God may be many more things too, love may be only one aspect. God can be wise, god can be omnipotent, god can be omniscient, god can be omnipresent. God can be thousands of other things; out of those thousands of qualities. Love is only one quality.
But my experience is totally different -- love is god; god is secondary, love is primary. In fact godliness is only one of the aspects of love, not vice versa. We can even drop the idea of god and nothing is lost. If one loves, that's enough, because love automatically brings a quality of godliness to your being, something of the beyond and the divine. That is the meaning of your name: love is god.
And it is time that we took a step further than Jesus. Two thousand years is enough! And if Jesus can take a step ahead of Moses, we should take a step ahead of Jesus. In fact by taking that step we are respecting Jesus because we are doing the same thing that he did.
Of course Christians will be angry -- that is natural. Jews were angry with Jesus, Christians will be angry with me. Now there are articles and books written against me saying that my idea of Christ is not a Christian idea. But I have never said that it is a Christian idea. I don't belong to any religion, I am an absolutely free man. Whatsoever I say I say on my own authority, not on any traditional, conventional authority. What I say is my total responsibility; I don't shirk my responsibility. I will not say I say it because it is in the Bible or it is in the Old Testament or it is in the Koran or it is in the Gita; I say it because it is in my heart, and except for that nothing is decisive.
And this is my message to my sannyasins too: live according to your heart, live according to your love, let love be your light and you will never go wrong.
[Which is just the way Saint Augustine saw it too, Osho went on to point out.]
Saint Augustine was once asked "Can you tell us in a single word the whole essence of religion?" Augustine was at a loss, for a moment he could not find what to say in a single word. He closed his eyes and meditated, then he said "If you insist on a single word then except love there is no other word that can contain the whole essence of religion. Love and then whatsoever you do is right. Love and you will be surprised that you are loved by the whole existence, and a thousandfold."
The moment you start loving, love starts showering on you from all sides. Life becomes just an overflow of love. That should be the only religion. There is no need for Hindus, Christians, Mohammedans, Buddhists -- we need lovers on the earth.
I would like my sannyasins to be known as lovers; not as Christians, not as Buddhists, not as Hindus, simply lovers.
[Lovers ... and poets too, he told Anand Kavito.]
Life can be a calculation. Then it is 'rose' then it is mundane, then it is arithmetic, then it is logic. But everything is dry -- no flowers, no dances, no songs. One does not live but only drags. But life can also be lived as poetry, as love, as music, as celebration. And it is our choice, how to live it. Both alternatives are always open.
Man is born as freedom. Man is not born with a fate. If there were a fate then there would be no freedom, if there were a fate then man would be a machine. A car cannot be an aeroplane, an aeroplane cannot be a computer, a computer cannot be an oven. They have their fates, everything is determined, predetermined; they have to follow a certain programme.
But man is not born like a machine, man is born as absolute freedom. At each step he has to choose. And this is the most fundamental choice: whether to live as prose or as poetry, as logic or as love, as mathematics or as music, as matter or as consciousness, to live a mundane life or to live a sacred blissfulness.
Become aware of it and choose diligently, choose intelligently. Let your life become poetry, only then do you know what god is. God is known only by the poets, mystics, painters, singers, dancers -- and only in those moments when the painter forgets that he i8 a painter, only in those moments when the musician forgets that he is a musician, only in those rare space, when the dancer disappears into his dance.
Poetry is the way of my sannyasins.
[Her name, Gerda, means garden, Osho told the Austrian woman who was next in line for sannyas. By prefixing it with "anand" it became paradise.]
Paradise comes from a Persian word "firdaus". In Persian mythology firdaus is the place where god lives. An enclosed garden -- that's the literal meaning of firdaus. From firdaus comes paradise; paradise means a garden.
The garden is very significant. The whole history of humanity begins with the garden of Eden: man has been expelled from the garden and since then man has been wandering in a desertlike life. He somehow remembers the glory of that garden, those days, those timeless days, before he was expelled.
The Biblical story is not just a story, it contains a great truth. Every man feels that something is missing, that he is not where he should be, that he is not what he should be. He may not be very clear about what is missing, but this much is felt by everyone, a vague feeling that something is wrong, that "I am in the wrong place, in the wrong situation," that "I am not supposed to be like this," that "I was not meant to be like this. Something has gone wrong."
Man was expelled from the garden of god. The reason for his expulsion was that he tried to be knowledgeable, he ate the fruits of knowledge from the "Tree of Knowledge".
The moment one starts becoming knowledgeable one loses contact with one's heart -- and that is the real garden. We are carrying it within ourselves. We are not really expelled, we have simply forgotten it, we have ignored it. We have become hung up in the head, we have become too attached to knowledge. Instead of growing in being, flowering in being, we are simply collecting information -- sheerly futile information. It may help you to be an egoist but it can't help you to be blissful.
Bliss has nothing to do with the head, it is not a function of the head. Bliss is the flowering of the heart. The heart is the garden of Eden, the paradise, the firdaus. And my whole effort here is to help you in some way to enter the garden again. Even if you have to be smuggled in, it's okay, I don't bother about that -- even from the backdoor.... But once you have reached the garden, once you have tasted it again, you will be transformed.
And this much I can assure you, that god will forgive you even if you enter from the backdoor, even if you are smuggled in or you jump the fence or you bribe the guards -- whatsoever you do... I allow my sannyasins freedom to enter god's garden. It is our garden!
[We can enter the garden -- we can be a garden, Osho said to the next sannyasin.]
Green represents life, aliveness, freshness. It is the colour of the trees. For thousands of years the so-called religions have destroyed all greenery in man's being. They have left man almost like a dead trees no foliage, no flowers, no juice flows any more. Hence humanity seems to be so sad and bored. I want to bring a dance back to humanity. I want human beings to be rooted in the earth again so that juices can start flowing again, so that great foliage, great greenery, can happen again.
Unless one blossoms, one remain discontented. A tree is fulfilled when there are flowers, and in the same way is man fulfilled. The flowers of love, of bliss, of freedom, of intelligence, of godliness -- only these flowers can give you the sense of fulfilment. And the fulfilled person is never sad.
To me only the fulfilled person is a saint; others are only pretenders. I want my sannyasins to be saints in the real senses alive, rejoicing, singing, dancing, making life a festival.
[It's a very strange name' Osho began, showing Marlies her sew name, Anama, 'because it means the nameless one.]
We are born without any name. All names are arbitrary. The rose is not a rose and the lotus is not a lotus. They don't know their names, we have imposed names on them. It is a necessity, but we should not forget the truth, that our innermost being is nameless, and so is god, absolutely nameless. You can call him God, Jehovah, Allah, Ram; millions of names all over the world have been used for god but no name is true -- it is utilitarian.
We have to fall into an inner space which is nameless, we have to forget the identity that has been given to us -- that you are this, that you are that, that you are intelligent, that you are beautiful, that you are not intelligent. We have to forget all that others have said about us, only then is there a possibility of discovering who we are. And that discovery is the goal of sannyas.
Once you know who you are life has a totally different meaning; a different beauty, a different joy follows you like a shadow. But first you have to discover the nameless space within you. And the only way to discover it is to become conscious are not what others have said about you.
So all that has been said about you, good and bad, has to be eliminated. Meditation is a process of elimination -- neither this nor that. One goes on eliminating, eliminating, just as one peels an onion: you peel one layer, another layer is there; you peel that too, another layer is there. Go on peeling the onion of your mind and then one day suddenly there is emptiness in your hands, there is no more onion left.
That is the day of great celebration. One has arrived home, one has reached the nameless. And that i8 the world of god, the world of truth, the world of bliss, the real world.'
[The loveliest song is the singerless one, Osho began, and then went on to explain himself.]
The song is beautiful when you are not the singer, when god is the singer, when you are just a hollow bamboo, a flute, when you simply allow god to flow through you, when you don't obstruct -- that's all. On our part all that is needed to be done is not to obstruct, not to interfere. If we can allow god to flow through us then life is such a splendour, such a glory, that one cannot think it can be improved upon. One cannot even dream that there is any possibility of making it more ecstatic. It is impossible to imagine anything better once you are no more in the way and god is allowed to flow.
But we come in the way in many ways. We have our likes and dislikes, we have our prejudices, opinions, ideologies. We impose our ideas even on god. If god comes to a Christian in the form of Krishna he will not recognise him. Or if god comes as Christ to a Hindu, he will not recognise him.
We have a certain idea of god; he has to fit with our idea. Look at the stupidity of man! Even god has to fit with your idea.
A sannyasin has to learn to fit with god, to be in a state of let-go, to allow him.
I love Jesus, last words on the cross, "Let thy kingdom come, let thy will be done. That precisely defines sannyas.
[Dying to live -- that's just what meditation is, Osho reiterated tonight. Then he continued:]
To live in the present is the only way to live at all. And when you live in the present with no past dragging you backwards and no future dragging you forwards, when your total energy is concentrated in the moment, life takes on a tremendous intensity; it becomes a passionate love affair. You become aflame with your own energy, you become full of light because at a certain intensity fire becomes life, intensity becomes light.
And that's the only way to be rich, to be prosperous. All others are poor. They may have all the money of the world but they are poor people.
There are two kinds of poor people in the world -- the poor poor and the rich poor. My sannyasins don't belong to either category; they are simply rich. Whether they have anything or not, that doesn't matter. Richness has nothing to do with possessions, it has something to do with how you live, the quality of your life, the music of your life, the poetry of your life. And all these things happen only through meditation. There has never been any other way, there is none and there will never be.
[Wolfs or Wolfgang, but a bear tonight! His name, Bernar, means bear which represents resurrection, Osho told the last sannyasin.]
... hence no coward can take the step, not even a single step towards it. He wants insurance, guarantees, security, he wants evidence, proofs -- and in a way he i5 logical. All cowards are always logical. It is only for the courageous ones to be illogical.
Logic is very protective. It always keeps you within the bounds of the known. It never gives you any support for any rebellion. It forces you, convinces you, to be with the crowd, to be with the mob, to be with tradition, to be with convention. It tries to convince you that this is the most comfortable way to be. It makes you a sheep, not a bear.
To be in the real sense first one has to die. In the unreal sense, that we have become accustomed to thinking, to believing, we assume logic to be the real way. One has to die as a personality, then only is one resurrected as an individual. Individuality is only for those who are ready to co it suicide as a person. But this is risky -- one never knows....
When Jesus was crucified there was no insurance that after three days he would certificates. If he would not be resurrected, then what? And who knows whether he was resurrected or not? just a story to convince the cowards "Don't be afraid -- after three days you will be resurrected."
But the courageous person does not care about what happens. He knows even dying to the past is of tremendous beauty; whether resurrection happens or not is besides the point. If it happens -- good; if it doesn't happen -- so what. But it is bound to happen.
When the false is dropped the true is inevitably revealed. And meditation is the process of dropping the false. All "as if's" have to be dropped so that we can know that which is. And that is resurrection, that is the beginning of a new life, the life divine.
Meditation brings rebellion in life. Rebellion against all traditions, conventions, dogmas, creeds, rebellion against the whole past, because unless you are completely clean of the past you cannot be totally herenow. And unless you are totally herenow you will never know what the true is.
Truth is never in the past, never in the future; truth is always here and now. Truth means that which is. You cannot use the word 'was' for truth or 'will be' for truth; truth is always 'is', isness is truth.
Our mind goes on moving from the past to the future. It is like a pendulum moving from one extreme to another extreme. It never stays in the middle, and the middle is the truth. From the past to the future, from the future to the past, we go on shuttling like a goods train. We never stay in the now, and the now is the nature of the existence. Existence knows only one tense, the present tense.
That is the greatest rebellion in life, to drop all the traditions and all conventions -- Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism, the Koran, the Bible, the Gita -- to drop them all in toto. It needs guts, needs courage, it needs a man, not a child, it needs some integrity, some growth. And my whole work here is to help you to become more mature so that you can pass through this rebellion.
Once you have passed through this rebellion Christ is born in you, Buddha is born in you; they are different names for the same experience. But all this happens through meditation, hence sannyas revolves around the idea of meditation.
I don't give you any other thing, no character, no ordinary life style. I just tell you a simple and single thing: be meditative. In meditation is my whole philosophy of life. Out of it thousands of flowers bloom and blossom. Out of it everything that is needed comes by itself -- you need not search for it.