Preparation

Question: Osho, you once said that within fifty years, if there are not people like Krishna, Christ, Buddha, and Mahavira on the earth, the whole of humanity could be destroyed. And, like Vivekananda, you said that you are searching for a hundred individuals who can courageously experiment and rise to the highest peaks of the soul; then it will be possible to save this land and all humanity. For this you go from village to village, looking for eyes that can become a flame. You said, I am ready to make the total effort. On my side, the preparation is complete to take one inward. Let me not, at the time of dying, have to say that I was looking for a hundred people and I did not find them. If your readiness is there, come. Please clarify the meaning of “my preparation” and “your preparation.” What preparations are needed?

The real seeker has to become just like a womb ready to receive the seed from God. It comes, the moment you open it comes. It inevitably comes and then it grows inside you. Once the seed has reached your heart it starts growing. Soon there will be great greenery in your heart and roses will start opening. But truth, the seed of truth, comes from God himself. We cannot arrive at it through any effort of our own. It is not an achievment, it is a gift. It is very difficult to be ready to receive the gift because it goes against the ego. Ego wants to achieve, ego wants to conquer; hence ego can only achieve that which is not true, it can achieve only fictitious phenomena. The ego can become the president of a country -- which is a fiction.

Question: OSHO, WHAT ARE YOU PREPARING US, YOUR SANNYASINS, FOR? You start feeling a separation slowly growing between you and your personality. You start watching how your personality changes its face. Meeting a poor man, watch your response; meeting a rich man, watch your response -- and you will see there is a difference. From where does the difference come? Both are persons of equal value; poverty or richness don't make the man. But you have been taught that there is a difference, and your personality, without your knowing, immediately changes. When you are standing before your boss, just be aware of your tail, which will be wagging. Just try to search for your tail and you will see it is wagging When you are facing your boss, you are always smiling Why? That is your tail wagging. You have seen dogs.

Truth is a flowering of your being. It is coming to a blossoming state, when all the petals of your inner lotus open up. We in the East have called the ultimate opening of our consciousness the one-thousand petalled lotus -- One thousand simply represents infinity. Man is an infinity. Man is not the body, not the mind, these are limitations. Man is consciousness -- which is unlimited, unbounded, in fact there is no possibility to define it, no way to express it, no word is adequate to contain it. It can be communicated only in silence, hence the discovery of the master-disciple relationship. It is something absolutely Eastern, it has not happened in the West. The West still thinks in terms of a teacher-student relationship. Nothing parallel to it has happened in the West.