Creation

What is this urge to create?

THE URGE TO CREATE is the first stirring of the divine within you. The urge to create is the presence of God. You have the first message, the first ripple has reached to you. It is the beginning and the birth of prayer. Follow it. To be creative is to be religious. What you create is not the point -- you create. In that very creativity something starts happening which is not of the world. When you create you are lost into your creation. For example, if you are painting or singing or playing on an instrument or dancing, you start disappearing. The dance is really when the dancer is no more. If the dancer is still there then it is not a creative act, then it is at the most a skill. The technician is there but not the dancer -- one who knows how to dance is there…

Osho, in the Puranas there is a tale that at the time of pralaya, the great dissolution, the whole creation is submerged under water, and a small patch of land remains. There, on a banyan leaf, the tiny Bal-Mukund is found sucking his big toe; and from him the entire creation is re-created. Even when a seeker goes to a Sadguru, a similar pralaya occurs within, and after that his spiritual rebirth happens. Is this story a symbol of that event? Please describe it.

Einstein—if we could hold on to him, he seems immensely useful. Centuries will pass before such a man may be born again. And if we could keep Einstein for a hundred years more, who can say what he would not do? For just when his intelligence was becoming completely mature, his time to depart came. If we could preserve him another hundred years, new edifices could be raised upon that intelligence. And Einstein could give something which children—how will they give? So this effort is on. You may not know that thousands have insured that after their death their corpses be preserved, because there is a suspicion that by the end of this century the art of reanimating individuals will be in our hands. In America, at several places, deep-freezing arrangements have been made where some corpses have been secured. It is expensive; only millionaires can do it. It costs…

Another pundit has asked: Osho, I felt very hurt when, in your reply to Pandit Mansaram Shastri, you said this is not a Dharma Chakra Pravartan but a fair of fun and frolic, a tavern. To bring about creation and revolution, is merriment required, or tireless sadhana and toil? How will the new human being arrive?

The questioner is Narendra Vachaspati. Do you think joy and celebration are easy? Joy and celebration come through tireless sadhana and labor. If you want to be gloomy, you need neither labor nor sadhana. A priest was instructing newly ordained priests—about to go out and preach—giving them final advice: “When you speak of the Kingdom of God, look toward the sky. Let your eyes fill with wonder. Let your face glow. A smile on your lips. Let nothing but bliss shine forth! When you utter the word ‘heaven,’ display such expressions—then people will understand.” One priest stood up and asked, “And when we have to speak of hell?” He replied, “In that case, just stand exactly as you are. Seeing you, they’ll understand hell!” Narendra Vachaspati, for me, joy and celebration are the Dharma Chakra Pravartan. For me, to make people drink the divine—to pour God like wine and have…

Beloved master, there is a question I have never been able to get an answer to. It is a stupid question and yet I feel that I want so much to know the answer. Can you tell us what is the purpose of creation, why life exists, why everything exists? I don't believe in accidents.

Maulingaputta said, "Otherwise why should I have come to you? I have traveled at least one thousand miles to see you." And remember, in those days, one thousand miles was really one thousand miles! It was not hopping in a plane and reaching within minutes or within hours. One thousand miles was one thousand miles. It was with great longing, with great hope that he had come. He was tired, weary from the journey, and he must have followed Buddha because Buddha himself was traveling continuously. He must have reached one place and people said, "Yes, he was here three months ago. He has gone to the north" -- so he must have traveled north. Slowly slowly, he was coming closer and closer and then the day came, the great day, when people said, "Just yesterday morning he left; he must have reached only the next village. If you rush,…