[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]
Prem means love, and Ulrich means wolf. And you are a German wolf -- no ordinary wolf! And your beard suits you perfectly well! But now, a little bit of love will also be good!
The wolf is a beautiful animal but dangerous too. It has certain tremendously valuable qualities.
The most important thing about a wolf is, it is wild -- so is love. Love cannot be tamed, and the moment you tame it you kill it. Humanity has lost love because of this whole process of taming. You can tame a wolf, but then it is no more the real thing; it is just a wolf in a circus. It only appears to be the wolf, but its inner soul is killed. It is alive only in its wildness, in its freedom.
So is love. We kill love through marriage. Marriage has been one of the greatest calamities that humanity has suffered from, and we are still suffering from it. And there is a danger that it will take still more time to get rid of it because it is the base of all our social institutions. Unless we are ready to get rid of nations we cannot get rid of family; they are interconnected. The family is the smallest unit, the brick out of which the whole edifice of the nation is built. Unless we are ready to get rid of the church we cannot get rid of marriage and the family, because the church depends on the family and marriage; these are great vested interests. No politician would like the nations to disappear from the world. No priest, no pope would like the churches to be gone because with them all their business is gone.
Hence all the politicians and all the priests are against me. They have understood what I am saying. They have smelled that there is real danger because I am hitting at the very roots. I am for love, against marriage -- because marriage is a poor substitute, a toy, not the real thing. But it has deceived people for millions of years so it has become almost part of our conditioned mind.
Why did society prefer marriage to love? -- because love is wild, untamable, and society wants obedient slaves. And you cannot find a more obedient slave than a husband; in fact he is the perfect slave. People always want married servants because a married servant knows how to obey; an unmarried person is a little bit rebellious. And hippies are right when they say that people die nearabout the age of thirty; it is the age when they get married. Marriage means a funeral procession. Finished, the full stop has come -- now there is no more life.
Love is beautiful but wild. It is not like an English garden, it is like an African jungle -- dangerous, but wherever danger is there is life.
So be a wolf in the sense of being alive, wild, untamable, rebellious. Never compromise in your life, whatsoever the cost. Even if life has to be lost it is better to lose life than to compromise, because if you die for a certain cause that you loved you die joyously, you die a death of dignity. If you compromise you live a life of indignity.
The second thing to be remembered about the wolf is: once the wolf is in love with someone his trust is absolute, he never deceives. His commitment is categorical, he never looks back. Once he becomes friendly with anybody, any man, then you can trust him, you can rely on him; he will never deceive you. Hence in many countries the wolf has become the symbol of love and trust. He knows how to love.
Something of the wolf is in dogs too because dogs belong to the same species. They also know how to trust and how to be friendly and how to risk everything.
I have heard about a dog.... Somewhere in Japan on a railway station there is a statue of a dog. His master used to go to work every day by train and the dog would come to give him a send-off every day. And when the man would return by the evening train the dog would always be there waiting on the platform to receive him. This was a routine thing, year in, year out. Whether it was raining or it was hot or cold or snow was falling, there was no difference; the dog was there exactly on time.
One day the dog came to receive his master but the master didn't turn up. He had died in an accident. After that for two years the dog continued to come at exactly the same time, tears rolling down from his eyes, waiting at the same spot where he used to wait for the master. And he died waiting there.
So they have made a statue on that platform in memory of the dog. Such love, such trust, such an unwavering relationship! The same is true about wolves.
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. If these two things are made available your life immediately starts blossoming as if suddenly spring has come.
And my sannyas means spring, that's why I have chosen this colour -- this is the colour of spring. It represents many things, but the most prominent thing that I love about this colour is that in the East it represents spring, it is the colour of the spring. In Hindi spring is called vasant and this colour (indicating Ulrich's robe) is called vasanti -- the colour of vasant.
[He doesn't tell us to love because it's moral or will earn us merit or to make someone else feel good. Love, says Osho, because it's going to do something for you.]
Love brings a natural nobleness. One need not practise nobleness, one need not cultivate it, because a cultivated nobleness is not true. It is just a facade, it is just a mask; it is not even skin-deep. Scratch any so-called noble person and immediately you will find a totally different person hidden behind him. All his beauty disappears and he appears in all his ugliness. So that was just social formality, etiquette, manner. Because it pays to be honest he was honest, because it pays to be smiling he was smiling. It is good salesmanship. So he was friendly but there was nothing in his heart. His heart was full of antagonism, negativity, hatred, jealousy, anger, violence. All those scorpions and snakes and animals and monsters were hidden behind a very thin facade of nobleness.
But love brings a totally new kind of nobleness. It changes your innermost core first and then slowly slowly it spreads towards the circumference. A cultivated nobleness begins with the circumference and never reaches the centre.
This is one of the most fundamental things to remember: the circumference cannot transform the centre, but the centre can always change the circumference because the centre is the essential core. It is in the centre that your roots exist, on the circumference only leaves. You can prune them, you can colour them, you can cut them, but it is not a fundamental change. But once you have changed your roots then certainly you are a totally new being.
And love is the art of changing one's being. It has nothing to do with the so-called ordinary love in which the other is the focus, the object of love. When I talk about love I mean the quality of loving I am not concerned about the object of love. You may love a rock, a tree, a dog, a man, a woman, a book, you may love music; any object will do. It is almost irrelevant, it is only an excuse to hang your coat on. But the real thing is the quality of lovingness.
So don't miss any opportunity in which you can be loving. And remember, you are not obliging anybody. In fact, when somebody allows himself to be loved by you, be thankful because he has given you an impetus to grow, he has given you a situation in which to flow. He has made you available a certain opportunity in which your love can be enriched.
Love has to be something inner, and then one can go on loving -- the whole existence is there. And it is such a beautiful existence, it cannot be improved upon. It is the most perfect world that can ever be. If it does not look perfect to us that is only because we don't know how to love. To loving eyes the whole world changes, it becomes divine. To loving eyes even pebbles are diamonds. The mundane becomes sacred and the whole of life becomes holy. To me love is god, love is prayer, love is all in all.
[Her new name, Anand Navanito, means the very essence of bliss, Osho told a Dutch woman. And then he revealed to her how to go about discovering it.]
If you collect a thousand rose flowers and then make perfume out of them only a few drops, the very essence, will be left; all that is non-essential will be gone. That's what bliss is.
Man lives surrounded by too many non-essentials. In fact, ninety-nine point nine percent of his life is occupied by non-essentials. To become aware of what is essential and what is non-essential is the first step of every sannyasin. And the miracle is that when you know what is non-essential it starts dropping of its own accord because you can see the stupidity of carrying it, worrying about it, wasting your energy. And when only the essential is left, and that is very small, then you have enough time and enough energy to help the essential grow.
The seed is there, but we are occupied with other things and the seed remains neglected. We go on collecting seashells and coloured stones, and the seed of bliss is within us but it needs nourishment. It needs energy but our energies are not available. So one has to go on becoming more and more aware of the non-essential, and then automatically the essential becomes nourished and that very nourishment helps it to grow. Soon your whole being becomes a flowering, a fulfilment.
In that fulfilment is bliss, in that fulfilment is contentment. Another name of the fulfilment is god. God is not a person but the experience of coming home, of being at ease with existence.
[Osho interweaves the three meanings of Maria's name.]
The first meaning of Maria is bitterness, hence I am giving you the name Veet Maria -- go beyond bitterness. All kinds of bitterness have to be dropped, all grudges against life, all complaints against existence. And it is only a question of dropping them. They are not clinging to you, we cling to them. Just let go of all grudges. It is very natural in life to collect many grudges, complaints, but all those grudges and complaints make you bitter and in bitterness there is no possibility of god happening. So the first thing is to drop all bitterness.
And then comes the second meaning of Maria, the second meaning is rebellion. When all bitterness is dropped you go through a revolution. It is real conversion. You are no more the same old person, you are reborn. That's exactly what rebellion means, a rebirth.
And the third meaning is fragrance. Maria is really a tremendously significant word with strange meanings, but they are all interconnected. Drop bitterness and you go through a revolution, and then the same energy that was bitterness in you becomes fragrance. Your life becomes a perfume, a joy, a celebration.
[We usually live in a state of endarkenment, not knowing who or why or where we are. Meditation throws some light on our lives Osho told Dhyan Lukas.]
Man goes on doing a thousand and one things, but nothing ever brings contentment -- it cannot, because the most fundamental thing has been completely forgotten.
The real journey of life begins by knowing oneself, and then whatsoever you do is right because it becomes out of an understanding, a clarity; it is born out of light. Meditation is nothing but a deep understanding of one's own being.
And Lukas is a beautiful word; it can also mean the enlightened one. Meditation begins with a small light, just a small flame, but as it deepens the whole being becomes aflame. A moment comes when there is not a single nook or corner in your being which is dark. When you are full of light, so full that you are overflowing with light, that you have become light, then you are enlightened.
That is the state of Christ-consciousness, or Buddhahood, and that is the ultimate goal of sannyas. Sannyas begins in meditation and ends in Buddhahood.
[I don't believe in a person god, declared Osho to Dhyan Ritam. And then he explained why not.]
That is a very childish idea, It is good for explaining to children but not good for grown-ups. To talk about a father in heaven is good if you are explaining to a child because he can only understand that kind of language. If you talk about ritam, tao, the child will not be able to understand it at all. But when an old man, a grown-up person, talks about a heavenly father he is talking nonsense.
There is no father -- that is a male chauvinist idea. Why not mother? Why father? And how can there be a father without a mother?
Two small boys, both Catholics, were playing on the street. It was evening and darkness was just descending. The priest passed by. One child said "Good evening, father."
The other child, who was a little older, told him "Stop that nonsense. He is no father -- he has a wife and children too. He is a Protestant. He is no father," he said, "because he has a wife and children too."
The Catholic idea of the father is one who has no wife, no children. What kind of a father is this Catholic father? But the whole idea is derived from the idea of god. God also has no wife, not even a concubine! (laughter) But he has a son. It is strange -- how did he make the son? Either he himself was pregnant or the Holy Ghost was He must have played some trick on the Holy Ghost, he must have deceived this holy ghost, because this whole company is gay, (laughter) all are male members. It is a gay club, the whole Christian trinity But this is all nonsense, there is no need to be worried about it.
The Eastern, the mystic approach is totally different; it is a very grown up approach, mature. It says the whole existence is certainly rooted in a cosmic law, in a logos, in a tao, in a ritam. Certainly it is not a chaos, it is a cosmos; and to be a fundamental law that keeps things together.
Meditation makes you aware of this fundamental law, ritam -- not only aware but it helps you to surrender to it. The moment you surrender yourself to the fundamental law of existence, the moment you are in a let-go and start flowing with the flow of existence, you know for the first time the beauty and the benediction of life, the bliss and the eternity of it. There is no need to fight, struggle, because the whole existence is one organic unity and we are part of it. And the part can never win ,against the whole, the part can win only with the whole. The whole's victory is the part's victory.
That's my message to my sannyasins: let go, surrender ... a relaxed relationship with existence.
[His work is to decipher the songs in the hearts of his sannyasins Osho disclosed towards the end of the evening.]
Every man is born with a song in his heart and unless it is sung one remains restless. Every person is born with a dance and unless it is danced you cannot feel any meaning and significance in your life. You can do a thousand and one things but all will be in vain. Unless you fulfil your inner potential nothing is going to make you blissful.
My work here consists in helping you to find your inner potential. Once it has been found the work is not difficult; then it can be actualised. We have enough energies, we have enough intelligence, but we go on putting our energies and intelligence in wrong directions, not knowing in what direction our destiny is.
The function of the master is to find your destiny. And it is possible only when there transpires a deep sympathy between the master and the disciple because it is a very delicate phenomenon to feel your potential. Unless you are totally available with no conditions, with no strings attached, It is not possible.
Hence disciplehood, sannyas, means a total surrender. It is a love affair. You drop your ego and you simply become a part of the master's world. You start merging and melting and disappearing. And then things are very simple; things start happening of their own accord. Nothing is said, nothing is heard, but things start happening. Great miracles transpire between the master and the disciple. The master says not a single word, the disciple hears not a single word, but both know that something has happened, something which is inexpressible, for which there can only be a silent gratitude. Even to say thank you will look profane, will look very ordinary.
The song is there -- just a little bit of effort, a little bit of awareness, and it c an explode. And when your inner song explodes not only do you feel blessed, you become capable of blessing the whole existence. That is the glory of man, the ultimate hidden splendour. But it has to be brought into the light.
Osho's Commentary
Prem means love, and Ulrich means wolf. And you are a German wolf -- no ordinary wolf! And your beard suits you perfectly well! But now, a little bit of love will also be good!
The wolf is a beautiful animal but dangerous too. It has certain tremendously valuable qualities.
The most important thing about a wolf is, it is wild -- so is love. Love cannot be tamed, and the moment you tame it you kill it. Humanity has lost love because of this whole process of taming. You can tame a wolf, but then it is no more the real thing; it is just a wolf in a circus. It only appears to be the wolf, but its inner soul is killed. It is alive only in its wildness, in its freedom.
So is love. We kill love through marriage. Marriage has been one of the greatest calamities that humanity has suffered from, and we are still suffering from it. And there is a danger that it will take still more time to get rid of it because it is the base of all our social institutions. Unless we are ready to get rid of nations we cannot get rid of family; they are interconnected. The family is the smallest unit, the brick out of which the whole edifice of the nation is built. Unless we are ready to get rid of the church we cannot get rid of marriage and the family, because the church depends on the family and marriage; these are great vested interests. No politician would like the nations to disappear from the world. No priest, no pope would like the churches to be gone because with them all their business is gone.
Hence all the politicians and all the priests are against me. They have understood what I am saying. They have smelled that there is real danger because I am hitting at the very roots. I am for love, against marriage -- because marriage is a poor substitute, a toy, not the real thing. But it has deceived people for millions of years so it has become almost part of our conditioned mind.
Why did society prefer marriage to love? -- because love is wild, untamable, and society wants obedient slaves. And you cannot find a more obedient slave than a husband; in fact he is the perfect slave. People always want married servants because a married servant knows how to obey; an unmarried person is a little bit rebellious. And hippies are right when they say that people die nearabout the age of thirty; it is the age when they get married. Marriage means a funeral procession. Finished, the full stop has come -- now there is no more life.
Love is beautiful but wild. It is not like an English garden, it is like an African jungle -- dangerous, but wherever danger is there is life.
So be a wolf in the sense of being alive, wild, untamable, rebellious. Never compromise in your life, whatsoever the cost. Even if life has to be lost it is better to lose life than to compromise, because if you die for a certain cause that you loved you die joyously, you die a death of dignity. If you compromise you live a life of indignity.
The second thing to be remembered about the wolf is: once the wolf is in love with someone his trust is absolute, he never deceives. His commitment is categorical, he never looks back. Once he becomes friendly with anybody, any man, then you can trust him, you can rely on him; he will never deceive you. Hence in many countries the wolf has become the symbol of love and trust. He knows how to love.
Something of the wolf is in dogs too because dogs belong to the same species. They also know how to trust and how to be friendly and how to risk everything.
I have heard about a dog.... Somewhere in Japan on a railway station there is a statue of a dog. His master used to go to work every day by train and the dog would come to give him a send-off every day. And when the man would return by the evening train the dog would always be there waiting on the platform to receive him. This was a routine thing, year in, year out. Whether it was raining or it was hot or cold or snow was falling, there was no difference; the dog was there exactly on time.
One day the dog came to receive his master but the master didn't turn up. He had died in an accident. After that for two years the dog continued to come at exactly the same time, tears rolling down from his eyes, waiting at the same spot where he used to wait for the master. And he died waiting there.
So they have made a statue on that platform in memory of the dog. Such love, such trust, such an unwavering relationship! The same is true about wolves.
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. If these two things are made available your life immediately starts blossoming as if suddenly spring has come.
And my sannyas means spring, that's why I have chosen this colour -- this is the colour of spring. It represents many things, but the most prominent thing that I love about this colour is that in the East it represents spring, it is the colour of the spring. In Hindi spring is called vasant and this colour (indicating Ulrich's robe) is called vasanti -- the colour of vasant.
[He doesn't tell us to love because it's moral or will earn us merit or to make someone else feel good. Love, says Osho, because it's going to do something for you.]
Love brings a natural nobleness. One need not practise nobleness, one need not cultivate it, because a cultivated nobleness is not true. It is just a facade, it is just a mask; it is not even skin-deep. Scratch any so-called noble person and immediately you will find a totally different person hidden behind him. All his beauty disappears and he appears in all his ugliness. So that was just social formality, etiquette, manner. Because it pays to be honest he was honest, because it pays to be smiling he was smiling. It is good salesmanship. So he was friendly but there was nothing in his heart. His heart was full of antagonism, negativity, hatred, jealousy, anger, violence. All those scorpions and snakes and animals and monsters were hidden behind a very thin facade of nobleness.
But love brings a totally new kind of nobleness. It changes your innermost core first and then slowly slowly it spreads towards the circumference. A cultivated nobleness begins with the circumference and never reaches the centre.
This is one of the most fundamental things to remember: the circumference cannot transform the centre, but the centre can always change the circumference because the centre is the essential core. It is in the centre that your roots exist, on the circumference only leaves. You can prune them, you can colour them, you can cut them, but it is not a fundamental change. But once you have changed your roots then certainly you are a totally new being.
And love is the art of changing one's being. It has nothing to do with the so-called ordinary love in which the other is the focus, the object of love. When I talk about love I mean the quality of loving I am not concerned about the object of love. You may love a rock, a tree, a dog, a man, a woman, a book, you may love music; any object will do. It is almost irrelevant, it is only an excuse to hang your coat on. But the real thing is the quality of lovingness.
So don't miss any opportunity in which you can be loving. And remember, you are not obliging anybody. In fact, when somebody allows himself to be loved by you, be thankful because he has given you an impetus to grow, he has given you a situation in which to flow. He has made you available a certain opportunity in which your love can be enriched.
Love has to be something inner, and then one can go on loving -- the whole existence is there. And it is such a beautiful existence, it cannot be improved upon. It is the most perfect world that can ever be. If it does not look perfect to us that is only because we don't know how to love. To loving eyes the whole world changes, it becomes divine. To loving eyes even pebbles are diamonds. The mundane becomes sacred and the whole of life becomes holy.
To me love is god, love is prayer, love is all in all.
[Her new name, Anand Navanito, means the very essence of bliss, Osho told a Dutch woman. And then he revealed to her how to go about discovering it.]
If you collect a thousand rose flowers and then make perfume out of them only a few drops, the very essence, will be left; all that is non-essential will be gone. That's what bliss is.
Man lives surrounded by too many non-essentials. In fact, ninety-nine point nine percent of his life is occupied by non-essentials. To become aware of what is essential and what is non-essential is the first step of every sannyasin. And the miracle is that when you know what is non-essential it starts dropping of its own accord because you can see the stupidity of carrying it, worrying about it, wasting your energy. And when only the essential is left, and that is very small, then you have enough time and enough energy to help the essential grow.
The seed is there, but we are occupied with other things and the seed remains neglected. We go on collecting seashells and coloured stones, and the seed of bliss is within us but it needs nourishment. It needs energy but our energies are not available. So one has to go on becoming more and more aware of the non-essential, and then automatically the essential becomes nourished and that very nourishment helps it to grow. Soon your whole being becomes a flowering, a fulfilment.
In that fulfilment is bliss, in that fulfilment is contentment. Another name of the fulfilment is god. God is not a person but the experience of coming home, of being at ease with existence.
[Osho interweaves the three meanings of Maria's name.]
The first meaning of Maria is bitterness, hence I am giving you the name Veet Maria -- go beyond bitterness. All kinds of bitterness have to be dropped, all grudges against life, all complaints against existence. And it is only a question of dropping them. They are not clinging to you, we cling to them. Just let go of all grudges. It is very natural in life to collect many grudges, complaints, but all those grudges and complaints make you bitter and in bitterness there is no possibility of god happening. So the first thing is to drop all bitterness.
And then comes the second meaning of Maria, the second meaning is rebellion. When all bitterness is dropped you go through a revolution. It is real conversion. You are no more the same old person, you are reborn. That's exactly what rebellion means, a rebirth.
And the third meaning is fragrance. Maria is really a tremendously significant word with strange meanings, but they are all interconnected. Drop bitterness and you go through a revolution, and then the same energy that was bitterness in you becomes fragrance. Your life becomes a perfume, a joy, a celebration.
[We usually live in a state of endarkenment, not knowing who or why or where we are. Meditation throws some light on our lives Osho told Dhyan Lukas.]
Man goes on doing a thousand and one things, but nothing ever brings contentment -- it cannot, because the most fundamental thing has been completely forgotten.
The real journey of life begins by knowing oneself, and then whatsoever you do is right because it becomes out of an understanding, a clarity; it is born out of light. Meditation is nothing but a deep understanding of one's own being.
And Lukas is a beautiful word; it can also mean the enlightened one. Meditation begins with a small light, just a small flame, but as it deepens the whole being becomes aflame. A moment comes when there is not a single nook or corner in your being which is dark. When you are full of light, so full that you are overflowing with light, that you have become light, then you are enlightened.
That is the state of Christ-consciousness, or Buddhahood, and that is the ultimate goal of sannyas. Sannyas begins in meditation and ends in Buddhahood.
[I don't believe in a person god, declared Osho to Dhyan Ritam. And then he explained why not.]
That is a very childish idea, It is good for explaining to children but not good for grown-ups. To talk about a father in heaven is good if you are explaining to a child because he can only understand that kind of language. If you talk about ritam, tao, the child will not be able to understand it at all. But when an old man, a grown-up person, talks about a heavenly father he is talking nonsense.
There is no father -- that is a male chauvinist idea. Why not mother? Why father? And how can there be a father without a mother?
Two small boys, both Catholics, were playing on the street. It was evening and darkness was just descending. The priest passed by. One child said "Good evening, father."
The other child, who was a little older, told him "Stop that nonsense. He is no father -- he has a wife and children too. He is a Protestant. He is no father," he said, "because he has a wife and children too."
The Catholic idea of the father is one who has no wife, no children. What kind of a father is this Catholic father? But the whole idea is derived from the idea of god. God also has no wife, not even a concubine! (laughter) But he has a son. It is strange -- how did he make the son? Either he himself was pregnant or the Holy Ghost was He must have played some trick on the Holy Ghost, he must have deceived this holy ghost, because this whole company is gay, (laughter) all are male members. It is a gay club, the whole Christian trinity But this is all nonsense, there is no need to be worried about it.
The Eastern, the mystic approach is totally different; it is a very grown up approach, mature. It says the whole existence is certainly rooted in a cosmic law, in a logos, in a tao, in a ritam. Certainly it is not a chaos, it is a cosmos; and to be a fundamental law that keeps things together.
Meditation makes you aware of this fundamental law, ritam -- not only aware but it helps you to surrender to it. The moment you surrender yourself to the fundamental law of existence, the moment you are in a let-go and start flowing with the flow of existence, you know for the first time the beauty and the benediction of life, the bliss and the eternity of it. There is no need to fight, struggle, because the whole existence is one organic unity and we are part of it. And the part can never win ,against the whole, the part can win only with the whole. The whole's victory is the part's victory.
That's my message to my sannyasins: let go, surrender ... a relaxed relationship with existence.
[His work is to decipher the songs in the hearts of his sannyasins Osho disclosed towards the end of the evening.]
Every man is born with a song in his heart and unless it is sung one remains restless. Every person is born with a dance and unless it is danced you cannot feel any meaning and significance in your life. You can do a thousand and one things but all will be in vain. Unless you fulfil your inner potential nothing is going to make you blissful.
My work here consists in helping you to find your inner potential. Once it has been found the work is not difficult; then it can be actualised. We have enough energies, we have enough intelligence, but we go on putting our energies and intelligence in wrong directions, not knowing in what direction our destiny is.
The function of the master is to find your destiny. And it is possible only when there transpires a deep sympathy between the master and the disciple because it is a very delicate phenomenon to feel your potential. Unless you are totally available with no conditions, with no strings attached, It is not possible.
Hence disciplehood, sannyas, means a total surrender. It is a love affair. You drop your ego and you simply become a part of the master's world. You start merging and melting and disappearing. And then things are very simple; things start happening of their own accord. Nothing is said, nothing is heard, but things start happening. Great miracles transpire between the master and the disciple. The master says not a single word, the disciple hears not a single word, but both know that something has happened, something which is inexpressible, for which there can only be a silent gratitude. Even to say thank you will look profane, will look very ordinary.
The song is there -- just a little bit of effort, a little bit of awareness, and it c an explode. And when your inner song explodes not only do you feel blessed, you become capable of blessing the whole existence. That is the glory of man, the ultimate hidden splendour. But it has to be brought into the light.