| | | In ancient India, and even now in the South of India, the temples are nothing but whorehouses. It was a custom that everybody should donate his eldest daughter to God, but God is just a stone statue; the priest exploits the poor woman sexually, in the name of God. Then so many women start gathering in the temple, and rich people start coming to the temple. These women are called devadasis, servants of God, but their actual function is to attract the rich people to the temple. They function as religious prostitutes, and because of them the temple goes on becoming richer and richer. You will be surprised to know that just a few days ago, in Bombay, a survey was made of the prostitutes. Thirty percent were found to be devadasis from the temples of South India, because if the priest finds someone beautiful enough, then it is better to sell her in the Bombay market rather than keep her in the temple. That way the priest can get a lump sum of money. So the prostitutes that were offered to God had reached the market of the prostitutes in Bombay. And no Hindu has objected to it — not even today. The government takes no notice. It continues because nobody wants to irritate anybody, nobody wants to annoy anybody. Everybody is trying to look good in other people's eyes. - Osho | | 13. The energy field | | The enlightened person spreads his illumination all around. Wherever he is, he carries a certain energy field, and whoever is receptive will be pulled into the energy field. | | 14. The last breath of your life | | Even if you become enlightened at the last breath of your life, it is perfectly good. You have not lost anything. | | 15. Totally free… | | The moment you can see your whole life as a dream, it has lost all its impact on you. Totally free you have become — | | 16. The limitless consciousness… | | Free from all bondage of the body and the mind, free from all limitations, you are ready to enter into the limitless consciousness of existence itself. | | 17. | | There is immense silence and peace. It is nirvana, it is no-mind. | | 18. | | All this effort of finding yourself, meditating, going beyond the mind, realizing your being and ending up in desert of nothingness... no, there must be something more to it… | | 19. The whole pilgrimage | | A seeker does not study the path, a seeker gets involved. He participates in the whole pilgrimage. A pilgrim is he, not a student. | | 20. | | Existence always needs a polarity. Birth is polarized by death, love is polarized by hate, compassion is polarized by cruelty. Look around life. | | 21. | | All thoughts have to be removed from your mind so the screen of the mind is completely empty, so you have a vast sky open and nothing moves in the mind. | | 22. Stand out of your mind… | | You have to get out of the mental energy, out of the mess of mental energy; pull yourself out you have to. Stand out of your mind you have to, as a watcher. | | 23. | | Whatever is going on in the mind, you don't even interfere. You simply watch. You simply go on seeing it, as if it is somebody else's mind, and you have nothing to do with it — none of your business. | | 24. | | With thoughts disappearing there is no mind, because mind is nothing but a collective name of thoughts. | | | | It happened one night... Socrates did not return to his home. His wife was very much disturbed, the whole neighborhood was disturbed. They looked all around — where has he gone? He was not a man to go anywhere; from the school where he used to teach, he used to come directly home. It had never happened before, it was unprecedented. Snow was falling, and they were very much concerned whether he had got lost somewhere in the forest. By the morning they found him. He was standing by the side of a tree, supporting his back with the tree, and looking at the sky. When they reached him he was almost frozen, because there was snow up to his knees. They shook him — "What are you doing here?" He said, "What am I doing here? The night was so wonderful and the stars were so mysterious that I just went on gazing and gazing and gazing. Many times the thought came that it is getting late, but I was almost hypnotized by the stars and their beauty. I knew that snow was falling, I was shivering — but I could not move." Now this man is a man of wisdom. There are millions of people in the world who go on running here and there, never looking at the sky. It is just on top of them — no fee, no ticket, no standing in the queue before a movie house — and such a splendor! And you own it, because nobody else owns it. A full moon night, and nothing stirs in your heart? A rosebud opens, and nothing opens in your being? A cuckoo starts singing its song, and you don't get cuckoo? - Osho | | 25. The nature of your being | | Intelligence alone is not able to conceive the nature of your being. It falls short. | | 26. This realm of the unknowable | | Knowledge is not possible. To enter into this realm of the unknowable is wisdom. Wisdom is not knowledge. | | 27. So mysterious… | | Wisdom is innocence and a deep feeling of the miraculous. A wise man's eyes are full of wonder; just a small flower makes him wonder. It is so mysterious — why is it there? | | 28. | | Wisdom is a totally different thing than knowledge. Knowledge de-mystifies existence; wisdom mystifies it. Wisdom belongs to the mystics; knowledge belongs to scientists, to philosophers… | | 29. Remain aloof… | | When your consciousness starts getting involved in the mind, pull it back. Remain aloof, stand aside. | | 30. | | Between your self and the mind keep a distance... and to do anything else there is no need. | | 31. A wholesome ripening | | You simply pull your consciousness out of the world of thoughts, out of the area and the territory of the mind... then gradually a wholesome ripening will take place of itself. | | 32. | | Being aware is not examining yourself. Being aware is simply being aloof, but alert. | | 33. | | Whatever the mind is doing, let it do; whatever is going on in the mind, let it be. You simply be out of it. You should not be a participant — | | 34. | | Mind is such a subtle phenomenon — the moment you enter into it, it starts exploiting your energy for its own purposes. | | 35. To kill the mind… | | You don't have to examine, you don't have to control, you don't have to dispel anything. You don't have to do anything at all — just pure awareness is enough to kill the mind. | | 36. The greatest danger… | | Your consciousness is so small; that is the greatest danger in the world, because any moment slip into unconsciousness you can. | | | | People are living in such misery. But even if they have been miserable with the wife or the husband, they will not separate. They will not allow freedom to each other. But why go on suffering? There is no reason at all. This life is to rejoice. If you can rejoice together — good. If you can rejoice separately — even better. - Osho | | 37. | | Out of silence all the flowers blossom. | | 38. | | You came into the world without anything, and you will have to go from the world without anything; so you can use things — but you cannot possess them. | | 39. Whatever life gives you… | | Whatever life gives to you — use it, but don't become the owner. Don't cling to it, and then when it goes out of your hands, you are not sad, you are not frustrated. | | 40. | | All that is needed is a certain deepening of your consciousness, and that happens through meditation. Then all your actions, your behavior, your life starts changing on its own accord. | | 41. At the very source… | | You should be at the very source of your being, where you can feel these three things: goodness, beauty and truth. | | 42. | | Mind has no power of its own; it is given by you through identification. Because you identify yourself with it, powerful the mind becomes. Your power it is. | | 43. In a deep synchronicity | | The man of awareness does only good. In a deep synchronicity are his action and his awareness. Evil cannot enter into the lighted house of that man. | | 44. To find the truth… | | Thinking is not the way to find the truth. Non-thinking is the way. Thinking always creates more muddle. | | 45. The wild weeds | | Essentially good in itself is man's nature. You just have to remove the wild weeds that have grown in his nature. | | 46. The beauty of harmony | | Evil is going against nature's harmony. Creating discord it is. And only people who don't know the beauty of harmony and the joy of harmony can commit evil acts. | | 47. A deep strength | | The enlightened man is really a man of power — not power over others but simply a source of power, not a power that dominates, enslaves, but just a deep strength, stamina, courage. | | 48. | | The enlightened man cannot do wrong, cannot do evil. His every breath is in the service of good, his every act is in the service of the divine. | | | | In India we have called this religious experience the experience of SATCHIDANAND — that is one expression. The other expression of it is SATYAM, SHIVAM, SUNDARAM. I would like you to understand both statements, because they contain the very gist of the religious experience. Satchidanand is made of three words: SAT, which means ultimate truth; CHIT, which means ultimate consciousness; ANAND, which means ultimate bliss. That is one set which denotes the experience of enlightenment. But enlightenment is vast. There is another set: SATYAM, which means truth; SHIVAM, which means good; SUNDARAM, which means beautiful. Why is this difference there? — that too is significant to understand. The first statement comes from people who are of a philosophical bent: truth, consciousness, bliss. The second set comes from people who are basically poetic. Truth remains in both the sets, but the other two qualities change. To the poet, beauty is more important than anything else — and also the quality of goodness. So the first set comes from people who have become enlightened, but they have been of a philosophical mind. And the second group comes from people who have been poets. The only thing that joins them is truth — and truth is a vast sky — it contains all great experiences. You can choose any according to your own inclination. - Osho | | |
