Osho's perspective on Path
When Osho Spoke About Path
Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.
Beloved Osho, with each new step into the unknown, how can I be sure that I am on the right path?
The indications that you are on the right path are very simple: your tensions will start disappearing, you will become more and more cool, you will become more and more calm, you will find beauty in things in which you have never, ever conceived could be beautiful. The smallest things will start having tremendous significance. The whole world will become more and more mysterious every day; you will become less and less knowledgeable, more and more innocent -- just like a child running after butterflies or collecting seashells on the beach. You will feel life not as a problem but as a gift, as a blessing, as a benediction. These indications will go on growing if you are on the right track. If you are on the wrong track, just the opposite will happen.
Osho, does it then mean that this state called moksha—where the soul has gone and become absorbed in the whole existence—how can any relationship be established with that soul?
Hmm, hmm—this needs a bit of understanding. Let me explain it a little. Let me complete the whole point, then I will tell you. The twenty-three Tirthankaras for this very reason seem to have become completely non-historical. There is no other reason for their appearing non-historical; they were absolutely historical persons. But because even the final thread of connection with them in the spiritual realm has grown attenuated, no relationship can now be established with them. With Mahavira, a connection can still be established. And therefore, being the last, Mahavira has become the most important—in that current. A connection can still be established with Buddha. A connection can still be established with Jesus. A connection can still be established with Krishna. To us, twenty-five hundred years seem very long because our measure of time is very small. Once free of the body, twenty-five hundred years are as if a moment…
प्रश्न: ओशो, तो इसका अर्थ यह हुआ कि यह जो मोक्ष कहलाता है, जहां आत्मा चली गई है और सारे जगत में लीन हो गई है, फिर उस आत्मा से कैसे संबंध स्थापित हो?
तेईस तीर्थंकर इसीलिए एकदम गैर-ऐतिहासिक हो गए मालूम पड़ते हैं। उनके गैर-ऐतिहासिक हो जाने का और कोई कारण नहीं है, वे बिलकुल ऐतिहासिक व्यक्ति थे। लेकिन आध्यात्मिक लोक में उनके अंतिम संबंध का सूत्र भी क्षीण हो जाने के कारण अब उनसे लौट कर कोई संबंध स्थापित नहीं किया जा सकता। महावीर से अभी भी संबंध स्थापित हो सकता है। और इसलिए महावीर अंतिम होते हुए सर्वाधिक महत्वपूर्ण हो गए--उस धारा में। बुद्ध से अभी भी संबंध स्थापित किया जा सकता है। जीसस से अभी भी संबंध स्थापित किया जा सकता है। कृष्ण से अभी भी संबंध स्थापित किया जा सकता है। हमें पच्चीस सौ वर्ष बहुत लंबे मालूम पड़ते हैं, क्योंकि हमारा कालमान बहुत छोटा है। शरीर से छूट जाने पर पच्चीस सौ वर्ष ऐसे हैं, जैसे क्षण गुजरा हो। मोहम्मद से अभी भी संबंध स्थापित हो सकता है।
What should I do? -- follow the path of action, the path of knowledge, or the path of devotion?
Follow all three. Act with love and awareness. Love with awareness, and let your love be creative. Bring awareness not against love, but full of the juice of love. And let your awareness participate in existence, let it be creative. These three are part of your being. This is the real trinity. And if you avoid one then something in you will be denied and will remain stuck. And remember that you can grow only as a total being. If you want to come to me you can come only if your whole being comes here. Your one hand cannot come, your one leg cannot come. I have heard about a villager. He went to the capital city of his country for the first time and he asked the taxi-driver to take him to a certain place. Now it was a big place. The taxi-driver asked, "Which part?" And the…
What is your path, the path that you reveal to us?
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