Deva Erna. Deva means divine, erna has three meanings. One is retiring. Sannyas is a retirement, and it is early too, an early retirement! Sannyas is retirement from all that is nonsense, all that is stupid... the foolish games of life that people are involved in. This is the right time to retire; why waste unnecessary energy in it? Sooner or later one has to get out of it, and the sooner it is, the better.
The second meaning is sincerity; that too is a beautiful meaning. One should not be serious but one should be sincere. Sincerity means authenticity. One should be true to oneself. One should not have any pseudo mask: one should simply be what one is. Sometimes it may be difficult, but in the long run it pays. A sincere person is bound to attain to God.
And the third meaning is eagle. That too is a beautiful symbol -- the symbol of flight, a flight towards the heights. Sannyas is a flight of the alone to the alone. It is an effort to reach to the peak of existence. One has to be an eagle. One has to learn how to grow wings, and two wings are there: one is meditation, another is love.
Deva Avinash. Deva means divine, avinash means immortality. Yes, that's what you are and what everyone is. Nothing ever dies; death is the greatest lie. Only the form changes, only the garments change. The inner continues; only the outer changes. Death is a renewal, a rebirth. It is not the end but a new beginning.
To know this in deep meditation is to know the most fundamental law of life. But it has to be known in deep meditation, not intellectually. When the mind has ceased completely and there is no stirring of thought, in that silence one starts feeling that whatsoever is, is eternal. The feeling comes so loud and so total that there i6 no possibility of any doubt ever arising. The feeling is so self-evident that no other proof is ever needed. But it has to be known in deep meditation.
So this is going to be your work: you have to find your immortality. That is the whole work of sannyas -- the search for the deathless, the timeless.
In time there is misery, with death there is misery. When we know that we are eternal, all fear disappears. When we know we are eternal, all clinging disappears. When we know we are eternal, we stop closing ourselves. There is no need, because there is no fear. We open up to all that is. In that opening is celebration.
One becomes a hundred times more sensitive, a hundred times more alive, a hundred times more loving. And it is not only a change of quantity: even the quality of one's being changes. One for the first time knows who one is. But it has to be known in deep meditation, not intellectually.
My message here is not verbal; it is not a dogma to be believed in. It is a challenge to be experienced. It is an invitation to the ultimate pilgrimage.
Sat Isabella. Sat means being. Man has three layers. One is that of the body, the very peripheral; the second is that of the mind, the middle; and the third, the deepest, the core, is that of being. Very few people become aware of their being. The majority live in the body. They may believe in the soul but they know nothing of it. And very few become freed from the body, from the physical, and enter into the psychic, the psychological. The poets, the painters, the musicians, the philosophers -- they have glimpses of the second. But only the mystic enters into the third.
To attain to being is the goal of all life. To know the deepest core of your existence is to know what truth is, is to know what consciousness is, is to know what bliss is.
Isabella comes from a Hebrew root; it means God. Your full name will mean God of being -- not of the body, not of the mind, but of being. The body is just a temple, mind is just decoration, interior decoration, but the deity is the being, God is the being.
I am not against the body. Love it, respect it, care for it, but don't be confined by it; don't let it become your definition. Use your mind but don't become a slave of your mind. Remember that you are beyond all this -- the body, the mind. Remember that you are a witness, that you are pure consciousness. And this remembering slowly slowly deepens, digs a well within you, and one day suddenly the being starts arising in you. It starts welling up. That is the experience of God.
God is not encountered outside: the meeting happens inside. The guest is hidden in the host.
Paul Anand. Paul means little, small; anand means bliss. Your full name will mean the bliss of being small. There is tremendous bliss in being nobody. The more one tries to become somebody, the more tense one becomes, because the effort to become somebody is an ego-trip. The ego brings all kinds of miseries in its wake. The ego is the beginning of hell, the very door. To know oneself as small, to know oneself as nobody and to live that nobodyness, is the real art of being blissful. That is the door to paradise.
Jesus says: Be like small children, only then will you be able to enter into my kingdom of God. Learn to be nobody, anonymous, and you have learned the greatest art that life can offer. The greatest thing in life is to become utterly absent. Not to be is the greatest thing in existence because one who is ready to disappear allows God to appear. Not to be becomes the ultimate foundation for being.
Osho's Commentary
The second meaning is sincerity; that too is a beautiful meaning. One should not be serious but one should be sincere. Sincerity means authenticity. One should be true to oneself. One should not have any pseudo mask: one should simply be what one is. Sometimes it may be difficult, but in the long run it pays. A sincere person is bound to attain to God.
And the third meaning is eagle. That too is a beautiful symbol -- the symbol of flight, a flight towards the heights. Sannyas is a flight of the alone to the alone. It is an effort to reach to the peak of existence. One has to be an eagle. One has to learn how to grow wings, and two wings are there: one is meditation, another is love.
Deva Avinash. Deva means divine, avinash means immortality. Yes, that's what you are and what everyone is. Nothing ever dies; death is the greatest lie. Only the form changes, only the garments change. The inner continues; only the outer changes. Death is a renewal, a rebirth. It is not the end but a new beginning.
To know this in deep meditation is to know the most fundamental law of life. But it has to be known in deep meditation, not intellectually. When the mind has ceased completely and there is no stirring of thought, in that silence one starts feeling that whatsoever is, is eternal. The feeling comes so loud and so total that there i6 no possibility of any doubt ever arising. The feeling is so self-evident that no other proof is ever needed. But it has to be known in deep meditation.
So this is going to be your work: you have to find your immortality. That is the whole work of sannyas -- the search for the deathless, the timeless.
In time there is misery, with death there is misery. When we know that we are eternal, all fear disappears. When we know we are eternal, all clinging disappears. When we know we are eternal, we stop closing ourselves. There is no need, because there is no fear. We open up to all that is. In that opening is celebration.
One becomes a hundred times more sensitive, a hundred times more alive, a hundred times more loving. And it is not only a change of quantity: even the quality of one's being changes. One for the first time knows who one is. But it has to be known in deep meditation, not intellectually.
My message here is not verbal; it is not a dogma to be believed in. It is a challenge to be experienced. It is an invitation to the ultimate pilgrimage.
Sat Isabella. Sat means being. Man has three layers. One is that of the body, the very peripheral; the second is that of the mind, the middle; and the third, the deepest, the core, is that of being. Very few people become aware of their being. The majority live in the body. They may believe in the soul but they know nothing of it. And very few become freed from the body, from the physical, and enter into the psychic, the psychological. The poets, the painters, the musicians, the philosophers -- they have glimpses of the second. But only the mystic enters into the third.
To attain to being is the goal of all life. To know the deepest core of your existence is to know what truth is, is to know what consciousness is, is to know what bliss is.
Isabella comes from a Hebrew root; it means God. Your full name will mean God of being -- not of the body, not of the mind, but of being. The body is just a temple, mind is just decoration, interior decoration, but the deity is the being, God is the being.
I am not against the body. Love it, respect it, care for it, but don't be confined by it; don't let it become your definition. Use your mind but don't become a slave of your mind. Remember that you are beyond all this -- the body, the mind. Remember that you are a witness, that you are pure consciousness. And this remembering slowly slowly deepens, digs a well within you, and one day suddenly the being starts arising in you. It starts welling up. That is the experience of God.
God is not encountered outside: the meeting happens inside. The guest is hidden in the host.
Paul Anand. Paul means little, small; anand means bliss. Your full name will mean the bliss of being small. There is tremendous bliss in being nobody. The more one tries to become somebody, the more tense one becomes, because the effort to become somebody is an ego-trip. The ego brings all kinds of miseries in its wake. The ego is the beginning of hell, the very door. To know oneself as small, to know oneself as nobody and to live that nobodyness, is the real art of being blissful. That is the door to paradise.
Jesus says: Be like small children, only then will you be able to enter into my kingdom of God. Learn to be nobody, anonymous, and you have learned the greatest art that life can offer. The greatest thing in life is to become utterly absent. Not to be is the greatest thing in existence because one who is ready to disappear allows God to appear. Not to be becomes the ultimate foundation for being.