Divine Experience

Osho, with reference to “Raso Vai Sah,” can taste too be made a means to the experience of the Divine?

Brahman means “the expanding one”—that which keeps spreading, which is ever extending. That which does not stand still anywhere, which never makes any boundary into a boundary, which always flows beyond. If you would know the Divine, then—even on a small scale—do not make boundaries. Expand, keep expanding! If you have fragrance, share it with the winds! If you have light, give it to the paths! If you have awareness, give it to others! Whatever you have! And who is there who has nothing? There is no such human being. The Divine is within everyone; therefore something or other will surely be there. Search. You cannot be without purpose. Through you he wishes to sing some song. Through you he wishes to dance some dance. Through you he wishes to bloom some flower. You cannot be in vain. You have a destiny. There is a secret hidden within you. Open…

Osho, people listen to discourses with their eyes closed. But I’m afraid to close my eyes even for a moment. I want to keep looking at you—only looking. When the light of your eyes enters mine, the divine experience that happens is beyond description. In that experience I can hear only half the discourse. What kind of thirst is this? Can it be quenched?

This is a sacred thirst—the longing of love and devotion. Do not be afraid of it. - Don’t imitate others. If your eyes want to remain open, let them; follow your own truth. - Words are secondary; the essential transmission is silent, through presence and the meeting of eyes. Missing some words is not a loss. - Allow the thirst to deepen; it purifies and burns the ego. When separation drops, the longing transforms. - In one sense, desire is never “quenched” by objects; in another, it fulfills itself when you dissolve into the beloved—the seeker and the sought become one. - Open or closed eyes are not the point; totality is. Let the experience take you beyond seeing the other to simply being. Shanta has asked: There are two kinds of people in the world—those who live through the ear, and those who live through the eye. Everything in…

First, a friend has asked: The experience of the Divine—its grace, its bliss—sometimes arrives suddenly in a few moments and then is lost again. Then, even with much effort, that glimpse does not appear. So what should we do?

In a human being’s life, certainly, at times some hidden spring of joy opens unbidden; an inner resonance begins to be heard; a music seems to surround one’s very life-breath. Everyone will have a few such moments in memory. Then our mind longs to have that experience again—and just then, it is as if the doors to that experience close. Two things need to be understood here. First, whatever is truly important and supreme in life never becomes available through human effort. Man is very small, limited. His boundaries are tight—and joy has no boundary. Only when man is absent do the doors of joy open; and when, through great effort, man becomes very present, those doors close. No one has ever found God by effort—only by effortlessness. Not through effort, but in effortlessness does His presence become apparent and is He realized. If I give love to someone, and…

Osho, while listening to your discourse my eyes start closing, my ears begin to go deaf, and even if I try I can’t manage the situation. My heart longs that, when the Divine is before me, I keep gazing at you and drink the nectar of your words. But it just doesn’t happen. Please tell me how I can listen to you consciously.

When the eyes close, the whole outward journey ends; all the energy turns inward. The Ganges flows back toward Gangotri, toward the source. Open eyes—perhaps the Shvetambaras found Mahavira’s eyes so beautiful that they wished to go on looking at them. With closed eyes, what will you see? So they kept Mahavira’s eyes open. That those eyes were worthy of seeing is true; that they were very beautiful is true; that worship and adoration arose toward those eyes is true. But this is a human weakness. Mahavira’s eyes would have been closed when he knew himself. And only when he knew himself did he become Mahavira; before that he was not Mahavira. Your eyes too will close. The ears too will close. All the senses will close—because the senses are the doors through which energy moves outward. When all the senses close, all the energy returns within. Mahavira called this…