Pratibha

Osho, what is the first experience of samadhi like?

You will know only when it happens. It cannot be said; at most a few hints can be given. It is as if, in the dark, a lamp is suddenly lit. Or as if a dying patient, right at the edge of death, suddenly finds a medicine that works; life’s wave, life’s thrill spreads again—so it is. As if a corpse becomes alive—such is the first experience of samadhi. It is the taste of nectar. The experience of the ultimate music. But it will be only when it happens; and only then will you understand. You will not understand by my saying it. It is as with love. How can anyone explain it? To someone who has never loved, never known love, no matter how many explanations you offer—he will hear it all and still ask, “I haven’t understood; please explain a little more.” It is like explaining light to…

Kindly explain the relative importance of intellect, intuition, and pratibha in their proper perspective. Pray, specially explain why and how life should be pratibha-oriented and how only such an orientation is adequate for life and life's evolution at its highest and best.

The intellect is the lowest functioning of your being, but because it is the lowest, it is the most efficient. Because it is the lowest, it is the most developed. Because it is the lowest, it can be educated, disciplined. Because it is the lowest, all the universities, colleges, schools, exist for it. And every man has it more or less. It is tremendously useful in the outer world. Without intellect it will be difficult for you to be of any utility. That's why Lao Tzu says to his disciples, "Become useless." Unless you are ready to become useless you will not be ready to leave intellect behind, because intellect gives you utility. You become a doctor -- you become useful to the society. You become an engineer, you become a professor -- this and that. It is through intellect that you become somebody and the society can use you…

33. By performing samyama on the light under the crown of the head comes the ability to contact all perfected beings.

34. THROUGH PRATIBHA, INTUITION, KNOWLEDGE OF EVERYTHING. 35. PERFORMING SAMYAMA ON THE HEART BRINGS AWARENESS OF THE NATURE OF MIND. Women are exhibitionists -- they would like to be seen. But that's perfectly okay because that's how men and women fit: man wants to see, woman wants to show. They fit, perfectly. It is absolutely okay. If women don't want to exhibit, then they will create trouble, and if man is not a voyeur, for whom will women prepare so much -- for whom? -- Nobody will look at them. Everything fits in nature in a perfect way. It synchronizes. But to reach to sahasrar you have to drop this duality of functioning. You cannot reach God as man or woman. You have to reach God as a simple, pure being. "By performing samyama on the light under the crown of the head comes the ability to contact all perfected…

The other is a child of light, which means a child of god, because god is light. Down the ages light has been the metaphor for god. Both meanings are joined together, both come from Persian. To be a child of light, to be a child of god, is to be precious, 'Without god there is no value in life. Unless we are related to god, unless there is god, there is no significance in life. Without god life is only accidental, a mundane affair: a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing. But if god is there then everything becomes meaningful; god becomes the context in which everything gains meaning, becomes precious. Without god we are orphans, the whole existence is an orphan. With god existence is a home. Then we are children of god.