Mediumship

What is the difference between waiting for godot and waiting for god?

It is as if the sun has risen in the morning and you are sitting in your room with closed doors and windows, in darkness. Open the doors, you become available to the sun. The sun was already available -- just the meeting happens. You cannot wait for God. All waiting is for Godot. Godot means the one who never comes, who CANNOT come, whose arrival is impossible. And the only impossible thing is that which has already happened -- how can it happen again? You are alive, and you are waiting for life, Now, this is ridiculous. The real man of religion does not think in terms of God. He thinks in terms of life or, even better, of living -- because life can again become an abstract idea. Living, moment-to-moment living. In that very living, one knows what God is, because one knows who one is. Your idea…

Osho, how does entry happen in mediums?

You ask how entry happens in those who are mediums. In fact, this entry and that entry are opposites. In one kind of entry, the one who is entering goes into someone else’s body. In the case of a medium, the medium is the one who allows someone else to enter. There is a difference between the two. If I were to leave my own body and enter another’s body, that is a different process. One could call it a masculine process: you have to enter some body. The medium’s process is, one could say, feminine. The medium is simply receptive, inviting someone within. The medium’s case is very simple, not very difficult. And those whom the medium will call are generally disembodied souls; embodied souls, rarely. There are souls without bodies moving all around us. Right now it is not only we who are sitting here; others are also…

The bioelectrical difference between man and woman persists until the fourth body. Does this mean that the effect of a male medium or a female medium is different on male and female meditators? Also, please explain why.

After Buddha and Mahavira, India lost its aggressive instinct and became receptive. So with whoever came we made it a point to be-come receptive; whoever came we absorbed them within us. The question of segregating them never occurred to us, let alone attacking them. That question was lost forever because our personality had become feminine. India became one large womb that harbored all who came to her. We denied no one; we never tried to remove any of these aggressors from among us, because the warlike quality that was required in order to fight was no longer within us. With the great men it became lost, and the ordinary masses followed the great men. And the masses had to remain dominated by them. The ordinary man heard the great men talk on nonviolence, compassion, and saw them living accordingly, so he accepted their word and remained silent. He could have…

Even things like leaving the body and entering another body—all these things?

Yes, yes—absolutely; there is not the slightest difficulty in it. Not the slightest difficulty. In fact, making the body like Ramamurti’s is a bit more difficult. Because the body is a very gross medium. With it you have to work harder. The mind is a very subtle medium. With it you have to work less.