[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]
[Tonight Osho talked about different aspects of bliss. He began by saying that whereas misery is a state of absolute restlessness.]
People are aware only either of more misery or of less misery; what they can happiness is nothing but less misery. Compared to more misery it looks like happiness but if you observe deeply you will find an undercurrent. Even in your so-called most beautiful moments the restlessness remains.
It is like second nature to us because for been indoctrinated in the ways of misery. It is not a question of any particular individual, the collective consciousness has become restless because we are taught to be ambitious. How can you rest when there is ambition? Ambition means to run and to run with speed because there are other runners also, you are not alone; compete and compete by all possible means. It doesn't matter whether those means are good or bad, all that matters is success -- because we have been told again and again that nothing succeeds like success.
If you are successful whatsoever you have done will be thought good. If you fail even that which was good will be thought to be bad.
So we are being prepared for a political struggle -- for money, power, prestige, name, fame. Naturally all these things create a kind of feverishness, they don't allow you to rest; rest seems to be a waste of time. Again and again we are reminded from all nooks and corners, by the parents, by the priests, by the pedagogues, by the politicians, that it is better to do something than nothing. And rest means doing nothing...
They are even telling you that to do something stupid is good, but go on doing something so that you remain a doer, so you don't lose the quality of being a doer. They have condemned rest like anything. They say an empty mind is the devil's workshop.
Rest means emptiness. Rest means there is no thought, no desire, nowhere to go; one is simply relaxing within one's being. It is a tremendous contentment with the moment, in the moment, here, now. There is no future, no past, only this moment exists. There is no space to run anywhere, there is no space for a thought to even arise.
My whole teaching is just the opposite of all this nonsense that has been imposed on humanity. It has poisoned human consciousness. I way to you nothing is better than anything. Howsoever good that thing may be it can never be better than nothing. I say to you emptiness is not the devil's workshop; it is god's shrine.
Drop all those ideas that disturb your rest -- ambitions, desires, competitiveness, jealousies. Drop the whole idea that life is a struggle. Life is something to be rejoiced in, something to be celebrated. It is not a struggle, it is not what Charles Darwin says that it is -- a constant struggle, a tooth-and-nail struggle with everybody at everybody else's neck, that only those who are fittest survive.
That is a basic misunderstanding, but if a misunderstanding remains there and is taught continuously it becomes a fact. Fiction becomes fact if you go on hypnotising people about it.
People know so much about Charles Darwin because every school, every college, every university teaches his theory, but people don't know much about Prince Kropotkin. They have not even heard the name of a beautiful man who fought his whole life against the idea of struggle.
He said life is a co-operation, not a conflict. And he says the whole of life is a harmony, not a struggle. It is not the fittest who survive, it is the most cunning, the most cruel, the most violent, who survive in this struggle. They are not the fittest. In fact the fittest person will find it very difficult, almost impossible, to survive.
Jesus could not survive, Buddha could not survive, Krishna could not survive, Socrates could not survive -- and these were the fittest people, the most beautiful people the earth has ever produced. Genghis Khan survived, Tamerlain survived, Adolf Hitler survived -- they became leaders of men. Charles Darwin's whole idea supports something ugly.
Sannyas means dropping out of this rat-race. Sannyas is a totally different vision of life. It is so short -- don't waste it in struggling. And with whom are you struggling? They are the same people you can dance with, the same people you can sing with, the same people you can love -- and you are struggling with them.
My sannyasins have to learn rest, non-competitiveness, harmony, love, because life is so short, don't waste a moment in any stupid thing. Make it a joyous pilgrimage -- and it can be. When I say that I say it from my experience and through my experience of thousands of people who have entered into my world, my vision, who have become part of me.
Now you are also becoming part of me. Sannyas is falling into a deep love affair. But the word 'rest' is a key word, remember it!'
[Misery has become second nature to us, he'd told the first sannyasin. But bliss is our essential nature he went on to say.]
Bliss is a flame at the very core of your being. It is already there, covered with many layers of thoughts, memories, desires, expectations, anger, hurts, wounds. The crowd of all these things is such that you cannot see the small flame. This crowd has to be dispersed -- that can be done very easily. That's what we are doing here: dispersing the crowd.
And once this crowd is gone, these clouds are gone, you will be surprised: you have an eternal light within you. And once clouds are no more there that light starts spreading inside you, it fills you totally -- not only that, it starts radiating outside you. Those who have eyes will be able to see it and those who have ears will be able to hear the music of it.
That's why all over the world in all ages we have always painted pictures of people like Jesus and Buddha with an aura. That aura is not anything physical but it has been seen by people who are deep in love with Christ or Buddha. Love opens their inner eyes, they have seen it, they have seen Buddha surrounded by light.
In India you will come across many Shiva temples ana you will see the Shivalinga. Ordinarily on the superficial level, it is thought to be a phallic symbol, but it has a double meaning! For the uninitiated it is a phallic symbol; for the initiated it is just the form of a flame, the inner flame, the inner light. It is exactly the form of the inner light. And why...?
(Words missing) ... really deeply in love they will be surrounded by a subtle glow. It can be seen, it has even been photographed. Although their energies are moving downwards, it triggers the inner flame too because the source is the same. Hence sex has something sacred about it. The whole science of Tantra was born out of this understanding -- that it is the same energy, the only question is that if it goes downwards it generates children; if it goes upwards it generates you, it regenerates you, it resurrects you.
That is the meaning of Jyoti -- flame. It is there, we just have to discover it.'
[A flame, a forgotten language -- bliss only has to be rediscovered he reiterated.]
The child knows bliss in the mother's womb because in the mother's womb he is in complete rest. For nine months there is no worry, no fear, no anxiety, no question of security; he is in the most comfortable position he will ever be. He is floating in the mother's womb in what is almost sea water. It is warm and he is in a total rest. He has nothing to do, nourishment is supplied; and he is in complete darkness -- no disturbance of any kind, no noise.
For nine months he tastes something tremendously blissful. And then comes birth and the disruption of his world. Then his whole world is shattered. Then he has to become acquainted with strange things, strange people, strange situations. Slowly slowly he has to be responsible. He starts worrying, anxiety always a question of whether to do this or that. He is always in a state of either/or, and then on and on.... Then he forgets everything of those nine months. But somewhere deep down that memory remains. It cannot be eradicated. It becomes burdened by other things, covered by other things, but it can be easily claimed.
Sannyas does not give you anything new -- there is nothing new under the heaven. And nothing is old either because if anything it new it can become old; if there is nothing new nothing can ever become old. The whole question is how to remember a forgotten language.
To become a sannyasin means to enter the womb of the master again. It is a subtler womb than your mother could have provided you. Your mother can give you a physical birth -- the master can give you a spiritual birth.'
[Just in case anyone had latched on to the idea that bliss didn't have to be achieved, striven for, Osho promptly told the next sannyasin that it could only be ours through concerted effort!]
Man may know many things but if he has not known bliss all his knowledge is futile. He has been simply collecting seashells and coloured stones on the shore of life; he has not been able to find a single mine of diamonds. It is only bliss that makes you aware for the first time that now you have known something worth knowing. Before knowing bliss don't deceive yourself that anything else is knowledge. Bliss is the only true knowledge. Let it become the goal, let all your energies be focussed on this single goal, that bliss has to be achieved. And it can be achieved. All that is needed is a total, intense effort.
It can be achieved in a single moment if you are ready to risk all for it. And it is so valuable that all can be risked for it. A single drop of bliss is enough because it transforms your whole being. You are no more part of time, you become part of eternity. You are no more a mortal, you become immortal. And that is the whole purpose of human life.
[And then he talked of innocence.]
Jesus says "Unless you are like small children you will not enter into the kingdom of god." He has asserted there something very fundamental. In fact nobody had ever said it so clearly before him. Nobody had ever raised the child to such a pinnacle.
In the past all the societies and all the civilisations have praised the old man because the old man seemed to them wise, knowledgeable, experienced. In the East the old man has been almost worshipped. The older more he is worshipped. Hence in India you will find people claiming old age -- they are not that old. Somebody will claim that he is one-hundred-and-fifty years old, and ho will look only sixty or at the most seventy.
I have heard a famous story: a man in the Himalayas used to claim that he was seven hundred years old. And Indians are very gullible, they immediately believe. A visitor from the West was surprised because the man looked not more than seventy -- at the most seventy -- and he was claiming to be seven hundred years old? So he tried to rind out in some way how
The old man had a small boy, for small errands, to bring milk and his food to him. The boy was not more than fourteen or at the most fifteen. The visitor bribed the boy. When they became very friendly the westerner asked him "Just tell me one things what do you think about your master's age? Is he seven hundred years old?" The boy said "I cannot say anything because I have only been with him for three hundred years."
In the East old age has been praised so much for the simple reason because the old man gathers experience, knowledge, naturally -- he lives life. But to grow old does not necessarily mean to grow up. To have much knowledge does not necessarily mean wisdom.
You can find old fools. In fact if you are a fool the older you are, the greater fool you will be. Whatsoever you are your age is not going to change it; it is going to add something to it. So a young fool becomes an old fool. That does not mean that just by becoming old he becomes wise, otherwise things would have been very easy, every old man would have been enlightened.
I love Jesus for many reasons: he has many insight of tremendous value -- this is one of his great insights: "Unless you are like small children you will not enter into my kingdom of god." I agree absolutely. One has to become a child again, one has to drop all knowledge, all experience, because all knowledge, all experience, is nothing but dust collected on the mirror of your consciousness. If you are capable of cleaning your mirror and again becoming like a child, full of wonder and awe, knowing nothing but enquiring about everything, functioning out of a state of not-knowing, only then will you have your first glimpses of god, never before it. Only then will bliss start reaching you from all dimensions, from all planes of existence.
Innocence is the most significant religious quality. Become innocent and a child again -- that's what sannyas is all about.'
[From bliss he began talking of love -- and of wolves!]
The wolf is a very loyal animal, tremendously trustworthy; it can lose its life for the master. Its loyalty is unconditional and because of its loyalty it has a certain grace, a certain beauty. It is a wild animal but full of love and compassion.
All around the earth it has happened many times that wolves have raised human children. If they have found a human child abandoned somewhere, they have taken it to their caves and in every way they have helped the child to survive. These children have been found and these children have been studied. It is one of the strangest phenomena -- a wild animal like the wolf raising a human child whose parents were not compassionate enough, who abandoned him, who had thrown him away. They were more cruel.
The wolves provided milk for the child, protection for the child, shelter for the child and they have taken every care.
In 1920, near Calcutta two girls who had been raised by wolves were found. One was eleven, the other was thirteen. Just three years ago near Lucknow a child was found in a thick jungle living with wolves. He was fourteen years of age. He could not speak a single human word, he could not stand on two legs -- but what beauty and what strength! Nobody was capable of running like that child. Even our greatest runners would have been defeated by the child very easily. He was running on all fours and had tremendous energy, so powerful.
The wolf is a very compassionate and loving once it falls in love with a person it is a life-long love affair. Its remembrance is greats even if it loses track of his master for ten or twelve years, it will immediately recognise him after twelve years. Even human friends will forget all about the man, they may not be able to recognise him, but the wolf will recognise him.
So this name will mean to you your whole philosophy of lifes a loving, trusting heart. Love and trust -- these two words are enough. One need not believe in god, one need not believe in any other dogma or creed; if there is love and trust you are bound to find god. And that god will not be the god of the Christians or the Hindus or the Mohammedans, it will simply be a quality: godliness.
These two words 'love' and 'trust', are not really two separate things but two aspects of the same energy. Love is always trusting. If it is not trusting then something is missing in it, then it is not love. And trust is always loving, without love there can be no trust.
So this is in fact a criterion: if your love cannot trust then know perfectly well you think that you love, but it is something else. If your trust cannot love then it is not trust; it is only belief, a very superficial thing, without any roots. It is a mind phenomenon, it does not reach to your heart, if has no connection with your centre. It is something plastic.
So one can judge whether the love is true by trust and whether the trust is true by love. They are always together, they are inseparably together.
[Unless silence is based in meditation it is superficial, Osho said last night. Silence, peace, love, humility -- any quality you care to name can't be cultivated, it has to be based in meditation he constantly reminds us. It was on peace that he spoke now.]
Man can manage to have a certain peace without any help from god, but that will be only superficial. It can be disturbed very easily. It will not be even skin deep; just scratch a little bit and you will find the animal coming out with all its violence.
That's what millions of people have done through morality, through cultivating character.
This is a human kind of peace. But there is a totally different kind of peace, god's peace, that comes only through meditation, not through cultivating a certain character.
Meditation means a state of no-mind. When your mind stops functioning you open up towards god. Mind is a barrier, it is not a bridge, it is a wall. And the whole art of religion is how to put the mind aside. It can be put aside -- it is a mechanism.
It is just as when you are walking you use your legs but when you are sitting there is no need to go on moving your legs continuously, day in, day out. When you are walking you need them, when you are not walking you put them aside, you forget all about them.
Mind is also an inner mechanism; when you need it use it. For example, I am talking to you and I am using it, but when I am sitting in my room there is no need to use it. When I am alone the mind has to be put aside. Once the mind is put aside you are available to god, to the whole, and immediately a new quality of peace descends on you which goes to the very rock-bottom of your being, which is indestructible -- nothing can destroy it. You can be killed but your peace will not be disturbed.
That's why Jesus could pray on the cross, "Father, forgive these people because they know not what they do". This is divine peace, even crucifixion is not able to waver his inner centering.
Learn the art of meditation because that is the only thing in my sannyas to be learned -- everything else follows of its own accord.
[To the last initiate Osho spoke of prayer.]
Praise can happen in two ways, the right and the wrong. And ninety-nine per cent of people who are praising god in the churches, in temples, in the mosques, are doing it absolutely wrongly. It is not praise, rather it is a kind of bribe they are trying to persuade; to buttress god, to do something for them. They have certain desires, ambitions to be fulfilled and they are asking for his help. They are trying to exploit him.
These are not religious people, not at all. They want to use god -- that is one of the ugliest ideas. They want to use god as a means to their ends.
Real praise is totally different. It comes out of understanding how much existence has given to you. It comes out of the experience of the beauty that you are surrounded by -- the stars, the sun, the moon, the flowers, the rainbows, the clouds, the people. Your very own being, this whole miracle, this whole mysterious universe, has been given to you. You have not deserved pure gift, a sheer gift, but you have not even thanked god for it.
When you become aware of this tremendous gift a great praise arises in your heart. That praise asks nothing, in fact it is a thankfulness, a gratitude. It is prayer. Then it has tremendous beauty. Only such praise is religious, only such praise is prayer. You are in no way trying to use god, you are simply thanking him for all that he has already done. You are simply saying "I am not worthy of it. You have given me so much I cannot contain it. Your love is great!"
This praise arises in the heart like a perfume and starts rising towards the heavens. And this is the only prayer that is ever heard, no other prayer reaches god. And this is the miracle, that only such a man will be showered with more and more bliss -- although he had not asked for it. His gratitude makes him capable of receiving more. His openness makes him capable of absorbing more beauty, more joy, more music. His whole being becomes a garden full of flowers. And that's what I want my sannyasins to be, people of real prayer.
Osho's Commentary
[Tonight Osho talked about different aspects of bliss. He began by saying that whereas misery is a state of absolute restlessness.]
People are aware only either of more misery or of less misery; what they can happiness is nothing but less misery. Compared to more misery it looks like happiness but if you observe deeply you will find an undercurrent. Even in your so-called most beautiful moments the restlessness remains.
It is like second nature to us because for been indoctrinated in the ways of misery. It is not a question of any particular individual, the collective consciousness has become restless because we are taught to be ambitious. How can you rest when there is ambition? Ambition means to run and to run with speed because there are other runners also, you are not alone; compete and compete by all possible means. It doesn't matter whether those means are good or bad, all that matters is success -- because we have been told again and again that nothing succeeds like success.
If you are successful whatsoever you have done will be thought good. If you fail even that which was good will be thought to be bad.
So we are being prepared for a political struggle -- for money, power, prestige, name, fame. Naturally all these things create a kind of feverishness, they don't allow you to rest; rest seems to be a waste of time. Again and again we are reminded from all nooks and corners, by the parents, by the priests, by the pedagogues, by the politicians, that it is better to do something than nothing. And rest means doing nothing...
They are even telling you that to do something stupid is good, but go on doing something so that you remain a doer, so you don't lose the quality of being a doer. They have condemned rest like anything. They say an empty mind is the devil's workshop.
Rest means emptiness. Rest means there is no thought, no desire, nowhere to go; one is simply relaxing within one's being. It is a tremendous contentment with the moment, in the moment, here, now. There is no future, no past, only this moment exists. There is no space to run anywhere, there is no space for a thought to even arise.
My whole teaching is just the opposite of all this nonsense that has been imposed on humanity. It has poisoned human consciousness. I way to you nothing is better than anything. Howsoever good that thing may be it can never be better than nothing. I say to you emptiness is not the devil's workshop; it is god's shrine.
Drop all those ideas that disturb your rest -- ambitions, desires, competitiveness, jealousies. Drop the whole idea that life is a struggle. Life is something to be rejoiced in, something to be celebrated. It is not a struggle, it is not what Charles Darwin says that it is -- a constant struggle, a tooth-and-nail struggle with everybody at everybody else's neck, that only those who are fittest survive.
That is a basic misunderstanding, but if a misunderstanding remains there and is taught continuously it becomes a fact. Fiction becomes fact if you go on hypnotising people about it.
People know so much about Charles Darwin because every school, every college, every university teaches his theory, but people don't know much about Prince Kropotkin. They have not even heard the name of a beautiful man who fought his whole life against the idea of struggle.
He said life is a co-operation, not a conflict. And he says the whole of life is a harmony, not a struggle. It is not the fittest who survive, it is the most cunning, the most cruel, the most violent, who survive in this struggle. They are not the fittest. In fact the fittest person will find it very difficult, almost impossible, to survive.
Jesus could not survive, Buddha could not survive, Krishna could not survive, Socrates could not survive -- and these were the fittest people, the most beautiful people the earth has ever produced. Genghis Khan survived, Tamerlain survived, Adolf Hitler survived -- they became leaders of men.
Charles Darwin's whole idea supports something ugly.
Sannyas means dropping out of this rat-race. Sannyas is a totally different vision of life. It is so short -- don't waste it in struggling. And with whom are you struggling? They are the same people you can dance with, the same people you can sing with, the same people you can love -- and you are struggling with them.
My sannyasins have to learn rest, non-competitiveness, harmony, love, because life is so short, don't waste a moment in any stupid thing. Make it a joyous pilgrimage -- and it can be. When I say that I say it from my experience and through my experience of thousands of people who have entered into my world, my vision, who have become part of me.
Now you are also becoming part of me. Sannyas is falling into a deep love affair. But the word 'rest' is a key word, remember it!'
[Misery has become second nature to us, he'd told the first sannyasin. But bliss is our essential nature he went on to say.]
Bliss is a flame at the very core of your being. It is already there, covered with many layers of thoughts, memories, desires, expectations, anger, hurts, wounds. The crowd of all these things is such that you cannot see the small flame. This crowd has to be dispersed -- that can be done very easily. That's what we are doing here: dispersing the crowd.
And once this crowd is gone, these clouds are gone, you will be surprised: you have an eternal light within you. And once clouds are no more there that light starts spreading inside you, it fills you totally -- not only that, it starts radiating outside you. Those who have eyes will be able to see it and those who have ears will be able to hear the music of it.
That's why all over the world in all ages we have always painted pictures of people like Jesus and Buddha with an aura. That aura is not anything physical but it has been seen by people who are deep in love with Christ or Buddha. Love opens their inner eyes, they have seen it, they have seen Buddha surrounded by light.
In India you will come across many Shiva temples ana you will see the Shivalinga. Ordinarily on the superficial level, it is thought to be a phallic symbol, but it has a double meaning! For the uninitiated it is a phallic symbol; for the initiated it is just the form of a flame, the inner flame, the inner light. It is exactly the form of the inner light.
And why...?
(Words missing) ... really deeply in love they will be surrounded by a subtle glow. It can be seen, it has even been photographed. Although their energies are moving downwards, it triggers the inner flame too because the source is the same. Hence sex has something sacred about it. The whole science of Tantra was born out of this understanding -- that it is the same energy, the only question is that if it goes downwards it generates children; if it goes upwards it generates you, it regenerates you, it resurrects you.
That is the meaning of Jyoti -- flame. It is there, we just have to discover it.'
[A flame, a forgotten language -- bliss only has to be rediscovered he reiterated.]
The child knows bliss in the mother's womb because in the mother's womb he is in complete rest. For nine months there is no worry, no fear, no anxiety, no question of security; he is in the most comfortable position he will ever be. He is floating in the mother's womb in what is almost sea water. It is warm and he is in a total rest. He has nothing to do, nourishment is supplied; and he is in complete darkness -- no disturbance of any kind, no noise.
For nine months he tastes something tremendously blissful. And then comes birth and the disruption of his world. Then his whole world is shattered. Then he has to become acquainted with strange things, strange people, strange situations. Slowly slowly he has to be responsible. He starts worrying, anxiety always a question of whether to do this or that. He is always in a state of either/or, and then on and on.... Then he forgets everything of those nine months. But somewhere deep down that memory remains. It cannot be eradicated. It becomes burdened by other things, covered by other things, but it can be easily claimed.
Sannyas does not give you anything new -- there is nothing new under the heaven. And nothing is old either because if anything it new it can become old; if there is nothing new nothing can ever become old. The whole question is how to remember a forgotten language.
To become a sannyasin means to enter the womb of the master again. It is a subtler womb than your mother could have provided you. Your mother can give you a physical birth -- the master can give you a spiritual birth.'
[Just in case anyone had latched on to the idea that bliss didn't have to be achieved, striven for, Osho promptly told the next sannyasin that it could only be ours through concerted effort!]
Man may know many things but if he has not known bliss all his knowledge is futile. He has been simply collecting seashells and coloured stones on the shore of life; he has not been able to find a single mine of diamonds. It is only bliss that makes you aware for the first time that now you have known something worth knowing. Before knowing bliss don't deceive yourself that anything else is knowledge. Bliss is the only true knowledge. Let it become the goal, let all your energies be focussed on this single goal, that bliss has to be achieved. And it can be achieved. All that is needed is a total, intense effort.
It can be achieved in a single moment if you are ready to risk all for it. And it is so valuable that all can be risked for it. A single drop of bliss is enough because it transforms your whole being. You are no more part of time, you become part of eternity. You are no more a mortal, you become immortal. And that is the whole purpose of human life.
[And then he talked of innocence.]
Jesus says "Unless you are like small children you will not enter into the kingdom of god." He has asserted there something very fundamental. In fact nobody had ever said it so clearly before him. Nobody had ever raised the child to such a pinnacle.
In the past all the societies and all the civilisations have praised the old man because the old man seemed to them wise, knowledgeable, experienced. In the East the old man has been almost worshipped. The older more he is worshipped. Hence in India you will find people claiming old age -- they are not that old. Somebody will claim that he is one-hundred-and-fifty years old, and ho will look only sixty or at the most seventy.
I have heard a famous story: a man in the Himalayas used to claim that he was seven hundred years old. And Indians are very gullible, they immediately believe. A visitor from the West was surprised because the man looked not more than seventy -- at the most seventy -- and he was claiming to be seven hundred years old? So he tried to rind out in some way how
The old man had a small boy, for small errands, to bring milk and his food to him. The boy was not more than fourteen or at the most fifteen. The visitor bribed the boy. When they became very friendly the westerner asked him "Just tell me one things what do you think about your master's age? Is he seven hundred years old?" The boy said "I cannot say anything because I have only been with him for three hundred years."
In the East old age has been praised so much for the simple reason because the old man gathers experience, knowledge, naturally -- he lives life. But to grow old does not necessarily mean to grow up. To have much knowledge does not necessarily mean wisdom.
You can find old fools. In fact if you are a fool the older you are, the greater fool you will be. Whatsoever you are your age is not going to change it; it is going to add something to it. So a young fool becomes an old fool. That does not mean that just by becoming old he becomes wise, otherwise things would have been very easy, every old man would have been enlightened.
I love Jesus for many reasons: he has many insight of tremendous value -- this is one of his great insights: "Unless you are like small children you will not enter into my kingdom of god." I agree absolutely. One has to become a child again, one has to drop all knowledge, all experience, because all knowledge, all experience, is nothing but dust collected on the mirror of your consciousness. If you are capable of cleaning your mirror and again becoming like a child, full of wonder and awe, knowing nothing but enquiring about everything, functioning out of a state of not-knowing, only then will you have your first glimpses of god, never before it. Only then will bliss start reaching you from all dimensions, from all planes of existence.
Innocence is the most significant religious quality. Become innocent and a child again -- that's what sannyas is all about.'
[From bliss he began talking of love -- and of wolves!]
The wolf is a very loyal animal, tremendously trustworthy; it can lose its life for the master. Its loyalty is unconditional and because of its loyalty it has a certain grace, a certain beauty. It is a wild animal but full of love and compassion.
All around the earth it has happened many times that wolves have raised human children. If they have found a human child abandoned somewhere, they have taken it to their caves and in every way they have helped the child to survive. These children have been found and these children have been studied. It is one of the strangest phenomena -- a wild animal like the wolf raising a human child whose parents were not compassionate enough, who abandoned him, who had thrown him away. They were more cruel.
The wolves provided milk for the child, protection for the child, shelter for the child and they have taken every care.
In 1920, near Calcutta two girls who had been raised by wolves were found. One was eleven, the other was thirteen. Just three years ago near Lucknow a child was found in a thick jungle living with wolves. He was fourteen years of age. He could not speak a single human word, he could not stand on two legs -- but what beauty and what strength! Nobody was capable of running like that child. Even our greatest runners would have been defeated by the child very easily. He was running on all fours and had tremendous energy, so powerful.
The wolf is a very compassionate and loving once it falls in love with a person it is a life-long love affair. Its remembrance is greats even if it loses track of his master for ten or twelve years, it will immediately recognise him after twelve years. Even human friends will forget all about the man, they may not be able to recognise him, but the wolf will recognise him.
So this name will mean to you your whole philosophy of lifes a loving, trusting heart. Love and trust -- these two words are enough. One need not believe in god, one need not believe in any other dogma or creed; if there is love and trust you are bound to find god. And that god will not be the god of the Christians or the Hindus or the Mohammedans, it will simply be a quality: godliness.
These two words 'love' and 'trust', are not really two separate things but two aspects of the same energy. Love is always trusting. If it is not trusting then something is missing in it, then it is not love. And trust is always loving, without love there can be no trust.
So this is in fact a criterion: if your love cannot trust then know perfectly well you think that you love, but it is something else. If your trust cannot love then it is not trust; it is only belief, a very superficial thing, without any roots. It is a mind phenomenon, it does not reach to your heart, if has no connection with your centre. It is something plastic.
So one can judge whether the love is true by trust and whether the trust is true by love. They are always together, they are inseparably together.
[Unless silence is based in meditation it is superficial, Osho said last night. Silence, peace, love, humility -- any quality you care to name can't be cultivated, it has to be based in meditation he constantly reminds us. It was on peace that he spoke now.]
Man can manage to have a certain peace without any help from god, but that will be only superficial. It can be disturbed very easily. It will not be even skin deep; just scratch a little bit and you will find the animal coming out with all its violence.
That's what millions of people have done through morality, through cultivating character.
This is a human kind of peace. But there is a totally different kind of peace, god's peace, that comes only through meditation, not through cultivating a certain character.
Meditation means a state of no-mind. When your mind stops functioning you open up towards god. Mind is a barrier, it is not a bridge, it is a wall. And the whole art of religion is how to put the mind aside. It can be put aside -- it is a mechanism.
It is just as when you are walking you use your legs but when you are sitting there is no need to go on moving your legs continuously, day in, day out. When you are walking you need them, when you are not walking you put them aside, you forget all about them.
Mind is also an inner mechanism; when you need it use it. For example, I am talking to you and I am using it, but when I am sitting in my room there is no need to use it. When I am alone the mind has to be put aside. Once the mind is put aside you are available to god, to the whole, and immediately a new quality of peace descends on you which goes to the very rock-bottom of your being, which is indestructible -- nothing can destroy it. You can be killed but your peace will not be disturbed.
That's why Jesus could pray on the cross, "Father, forgive these people because they know not what they do". This is divine peace, even crucifixion is not able to waver his inner centering.
Learn the art of meditation because that is the only thing in my sannyas to be learned -- everything else follows of its own accord.
[To the last initiate Osho spoke of prayer.]
Praise can happen in two ways, the right and the wrong. And ninety-nine per cent of people who are praising god in the churches, in temples, in the mosques, are doing it absolutely wrongly. It is not praise, rather it is a kind of bribe they are trying to persuade; to buttress god, to do something for them. They have certain desires, ambitions to be fulfilled and they are asking for his help. They are trying to exploit him.
These are not religious people, not at all. They want to use god -- that is one of the ugliest ideas. They want to use god as a means to their ends.
Real praise is totally different. It comes out of understanding how much existence has given to you. It comes out of the experience of the beauty that you are surrounded by -- the stars, the sun, the moon, the flowers, the rainbows, the clouds, the people. Your very own being, this whole miracle, this whole mysterious universe, has been given to you. You have not deserved pure gift, a sheer gift, but you have not even thanked god for it.
When you become aware of this tremendous gift a great praise arises in your heart. That praise asks nothing, in fact it is a thankfulness, a gratitude. It is prayer. Then it has tremendous beauty. Only such praise is religious, only such praise is prayer. You are in no way trying to use god, you are simply thanking him for all that he has already done. You are simply saying "I am not worthy of it. You have given me so much I cannot contain it. Your love is great!"
This praise arises in the heart like a perfume and starts rising towards the heavens. And this is the only prayer that is ever heard, no other prayer reaches god. And this is the miracle, that only such a man will be showered with more and more bliss -- although he had not asked for it. His gratitude makes him capable of receiving more. His openness makes him capable of absorbing more beauty, more joy, more music. His whole being becomes a garden full of flowers. And that's what I want my sannyasins to be, people of real prayer.