Meera

Osho, compared to Meera’s saying “Peevat Meera hansi re,” the far more wondrous saying is “Mharo desh Marwar,” for which reason I honor Meera more than other awakened ones. What do you say?

Prafulla Bharti, Surely Meera must have said: “Mharo desh Marwar!” Seeing the state of Marwar, seeing the condition of the Marwaris—“Blessed be the land of Marwar!” Meera must have been astonished, startled: “In such a land, and I was born here!” That itself is a miracle. Take it as God’s grace that in Marwar Meera should be born! In Marwar, quite a different kind of people are usually born. What has Marwar to do with Meera? Elsewhere it would have fit; but she was born in Marwar! Startled, she must have exclaimed: “Mharo desh Marwar!” Prafulla Bharti, are you a Marwari, that this delights your heart so much? A certain poet arrived at the house of Seth Dhaniramji, a literature-loving Marwari merchant. He sent in his collection of poems and waited for the outcome. Dhaniramji read a few pages and ordered his servant, “Tell the accountant to give the poet…

And these deaths did one more fortunate task -- she was shown one thing, that everything in this universe is momentary. If the beloved is to be sought, seek in the eternal. Here nothing is yours. Don't go astray here, don't lead yourself astray. Here everything touched will go away. Here death, and death only, increases. This is a graveyard. Don't get any idea of dwelling here. No one has ever remained here. All that she'd seen with her own eyes... Thirty-three years old is not very old. She was young. So many deaths happened in her youth that the thorn of death showed her totally, clearly, that life is momentary. And then her mind turned away from all this. Turning away from this one can turn towards the divine. First Meera danced only at home, before her Krishna statue.

Osho! I set out to seek the Beloved; how is union with the Beloved attained?

Yog Neelam! The Beloved is not far. Not even so far that any meeting would be needed. There has only been forgetfulness, not separation. Separation cannot be. The Beloved abides within. He is the breath of our breath, the heartbeat of our heart. Without him we have no being. Because he is, we are. As the ocean is, so the waves are. The ocean can be without waves, but the waves cannot be without the ocean. Yet a wave can fall into a delusion—the delusion that “I am separate from the ocean.” In that very delusion, forgetfulness happens. Only forgetfulness happens; separation cannot. The whole search for the Beloved is nothing but remembrance—re-remembering. That is why the saints have called this search surati. Surati means remembrance, recollection. Surati is the folk form of the word smriti. What the Buddha called smriti, by the time of Kabir and Nanak became surati—dearer,…

Osho, you are my indwelling one. Will songs of love like Meera’s and Chaitanya’s burst forth in my heart? Will I be able to dance in mad ecstasy like them?

When I begged alms from the deity of silence, I received honey-brimming chalices of sound—resounding verse! He whose halo is lord of day and night— whenever I beheld him, my eyes closed of themselves. When the trident-bearer dances, mad with ecstasy, flowers of virtue, restraint, and sadhana shower down. Beads of sweat—science; the dust of his feet—the dignity of knowledge; servant, yogi, ascetic—each longs for him. Opposites reconciled—such are his two feet; their shade is a maya beyond even supreme knowing. Softer than clay is his tender heart; adamantine the cosmos, golden the radiance of his body. The two strings of breath are attraction and repulsion; in sleep he dreams the creation of a hundred universes; on motionless eyelids the play of worlds sports, in keen wakefulness roars the dread dissolution. Beg alms from such a god of silence, and you receive honey-brimming chalices of sound—resounding verse! He whose halo…