Question to Osho – OSHO, YOU HAVE OFTEN MENTIONED IN YOUR LECTURES, “DON’T THINK THAT YOU HAVE COME ON YOUR OWN. I HAVE CAST THE NET AND HAVE SELECTED YOU.”
I KNOW IT IS TRUE, BUT HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO KNOW THAT THE PERSON IS READY TO RECEIVE WHAT YOU COMPASSIONATELY WANT TO SHARE?
I HAD BEEN PINING FOR SELF-REALIZATION FROM THE VERY YOUNG AGE OF FIFTEEN AND WAS IN SEARCH OF A MASTER, WHICH TOOK ME TO SWAMI SIVANAND OF DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY, SANT LILASHAH, AND SADHU VASWANI, FROM WHOM I PICKED UP A FEW JEWELS, BUT THE KOHINOOR OF SELF-REALIZATION WAS NOT THERE. I HEARD RADHA SOAMI, CHINMAYANAND, DONGRE MAHARAJ, AND SWAMI AKHANDANAND, BUT SELF-REALIZATION WAS NOT THERE.
I HAD EVEN HEARD YOU IN BOMBAY FOUR OR FIVE YEARS BACK FOR A FEW TIMES, DID SOME MEDITATIONS WITH YOUR SANNYASINS ON JUHU BEACH, AND APPRECIATED THEM, BUT WAS NOT FULLY DRAWN TO YOU, UNTIL IT HAPPENED LAST YEAR. I HAD COME AS A CRITIC, BUT A FEW MEDITATIONS AND TWO OR THREE LECTURES CONVINCED AND CONVERTED ME. IT HAPPENED… I SURRENDERED.
I AM FULLY CONVINCED THAT I AM IN THE SAFE HANDS OF THE MASTER, WHO IS EVERY MOMENT GUIDING PROPERLY.
I AM EXPERIENCING ECSTASY, OR RATHER JOY, BUT NOT THE FINAL STAGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. I AM LIVING THE MOMENT, NOT CARING FOR THE PAST OR THE FUTURE.
AM I ON THE RIGHT TRACK? KINDLY ENLIGHTEN.
You are on the right track, but even the track has to be dropped because in the world of the ultimate, all tracks are wrong. Track as such is wrong. No way leads to it. All ways help you go astray. The very idea to reach God is wrong. God has already reached you; you have just to start living it. So the whole effort is in a way futile.
You are here with me. Now allow me to take all tracks away from you. Allow me to take not only the jewels, but the kohinoor also. Allow me to empty you. Don’t try to fill yourself with me, because then I will become the barrier. Beware of me. No need to cling to me. All clinging is dangerous. You have to attain a state of mind which is of no clinging. Be with me, but don’t cling to me. Listen to me, but don’t make knowledge out of it. Listen to my gossips, but don’t make gospels out of them. Enjoy being with me, but don’t depend on it. Don’t make it a dependence; otherwise I am not your friend.
I am already an enemy then.
So what have you to do? You have been to Sant Lilashah, to Swami Sivanand, to Swami Akhandanand. You have left all of them behind you. You have to leave me, also behind. If I cannot help you in that, then I am going to be a barrier on your path.
So love me, be close to me, feel my presence, but don’t depend on it.
And why do you ask whether you are on the right track or not? The mind would like to cling. So if everything is certain and the track is right, you would say, “Now, okay. So I can blindfold my eyes. Now there is no need to go anywhere.” There is no need to go anywhere – not because you have to cling to me. There is no need to go anywhere because you are already there where you want to go.
Let me help you to know yourself.
It is delicate, subtle, very subtle, because what I say, if it appeals to you, there is a possibility you will make a philosophy out of it. What I say, if it convinces you – as the questioner says that “I became convinced”…. I am not arguing with you, and I am not giving any arguments. I am completely absurd, irrational. I am trying to drop argumentation from your mind so that you can be left behind, pure, unpolluted, uncontaminated by words, theories, dogmas, scriptures – so that you can attain to your pure, crystal-like quality of consciousness, just an emptiness, a great space.
What I am trying is to give you the goal and not the path. My effort is to deliver you the whole, the all. I am not giving you means. I am giving you the end, the very end. That’s where the mind feels boggled. The mind wants to know about the means so it can reach the end. The mind wants to know the method. The mind wants to know the path. The mind wants to be convinced and converted. I want to destroy it, not to convince it. So if you are really convinced with me, drop the mind. If you have seen and heard me and if you have loved me, then don’t allow a relationship with me as a relationship of ideology. Let it be just pure love, with no ideology. You simply love me and let me love you, for no reason whatsoever. Let this love be unconditioned.
If you love me because what I say appears to be true to you, then this love is not going to last very long; or even if it lasts it is not going to give you that love which is God. It will remain a conviction, an argument in the mind. And I am a dangerous man in that way because today I will say something and you are convinced, and tomorrow I will say just the opposite, and then what will you do? Then you will be confused.
You can remain with me only if you are not trying to convince your mind; then I can never confuse you because you never cling to any idea. I will go on saying a thousand and one things, this way and that. These are all devices to destroy the mind.
And this difference you have to understand. If you go to some Master, he has a certain discipline, a certain scripture, a certain ideology. There are even Masters whose ideology is no ideology, but they have a very, very strict ideology of no ideology – that is their scripture. I don’t have any ideology, not even the ideology of no ideology.
If you try to understand me through the mind, I will mess you up; you will become more and more confused. Just listen to me. Let it be just an excuse to be with me, and forget all about it, what I say. Don’t gather it, don’t accumulate it. Mind is an accumulation. If you don’t accumulate, the mind drops by and by. And listening to me from various standpoints, diametrically opposite to each other, by and by you will be able to see that all standpoints are just games.
And no standpoint can lead you to the truth. When you drop all standpoints, suddenly you find the truth is there. You were too worried about the standpoints; that’s why you couldn’t see it. Truth is that which is. Buddha called it tathata; it means “suchness”: it is already there – such is the case.
So when you have come somehow, don’t miss this opportunity, this door.
And you have asked, “How do you manage it – How do you manage to know that the person is ready to receive what you compassionately want to share?” These things are not managed; they happen.
If you are thirsty, you will seek a source of water. And if there is a source of water, the source of water will send messages for you – through the wind, the coolness. Hmm?… If there is a stream it sends messages through the winds, all around; and some thirsty traveller, tired, comes across a cool breeze; he knows, now, this is the direction.
Neither does the stream know about the traveller, whether he is there or not, nor is the traveller exactly certain whether the river is there or not; but it happens: the message is received, in a very vague way, and the traveller starts finding from where this cool breeze is coming. Sometimes he stumbles, goes wrong, but then there is no cool breeze; then he again tries. Through trial and error he finds that if he moves in a certain direction the breeze becomes cooler and cooler. And the stream has sent the message unaddressed. It is not for anybody in particular. Any tired traveller who is thirsty.
Things are happening that way. It is not that I am managing. That will be almost maddening. How can I manage? It is not the law of cause and effect; it is the law of synchronicity. I am here; certain cool breezes are spreading all over the world. Wherever somebody is thirsty he will start feeling a certain desire to move towards me. That’s how you all have come.
And when you come here it is up to you, to drink or not to drink. Your mind may create troubles for you because if you want to drink you will have to lean down, to surrender and submit. You will have to fold your hands, cup your hands and go down to the river; only then does the river become available to you. Otherwise you can stand on the bank. Many of you who come new stand for months on the bank – thirsty, feverishly thirsty – but the ego says, “Don’t. Don’t submit. Don’t sacrifice yourself.” Then the river goes on flowing by your side and you remain thirsty. It is up to you.
There is no management about it. Many people think as if I send some astral message to you, then you come. No, the message is going, but it is unaddressed. It is not for anybody in particular – it cannot be – but whosoever is ready anywhere in the world will come by and by. He will start moving in this direction. He may not even be aware where he is moving. He may be just coming to India, not to me. Then from Bombay airport his direction may change; he will start moving towards Poona.
Or he may be just coming to see some friend of his who is in Poona and he may not be coming to see me. Things happen in a mysterious way, not in a mathematical way.
But don’t be bothered about these things. Whether managing or happening, you need not be concerned. You are here. Don’t miss the opportunity.
And I am ready to give you the very goal. Don’t ask for – the way. And I am ready to reveal the truth to you. Don’t ask for the argument.
Questions to Osho – BELOVED OSHO, I WISH TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT THERE ARE NOW THREE CROOKS RUNNING THE AFFAIRS OF YOUR ASHRAM, AND MASQUERADING UNDER THE GUISE OF BEAUTIFUL AND SIMPLE WOMEN. IN CASE THIS QUESTION INCURS YOUR DISPLEASURE, I WISH TO USE THE NOM DE PLUME – NEMO.
Nothing offends me, nothing incurs my displeasure. And remember, even God has to take the help of the devil to run the affairs of the world. Without the devil even he cannot run the affairs. So I had to choose devils, Beelzebubs. And then I thought, why not with style? – Let them be women. Why not with taste? Devils they are going to be. I decided for women – more are wanted.
And there is no need to be anonymous, no need. You can just say who you are; there is no need to hide the name.
Let me tell you one anecdote:
A priest and a rabbi were discussing the finances of their respective parishes.
“We do very well out of envelope collection,” said the priest.
“Envelope collections – what are they?” asked the rabbi.
“We hand out little envelopes to each household, and each member of that family puts in a few pence each day; then on Sunday they put the envelope into the collection plate. The envelopes are not marked or numbered in any way, so it is completely anonymous.”
“A lovely idea!” exclaimed the rabbi. “I will try that myself.”
A week later the priest bumped into the rabbi and asked him how the envelope scheme was progressing.
“Fair, fair,” said the rabbi. “I have collected six hundred pounds – anonymous cheques.”
“Anonymous cheques?” queried the priest.
“Yes – unsigned!”
Jews are Jews. Don’t be a Jew with me; you can sign.
And remember again, more devils are needed. If you find any, particularly in the beautiful guise, masquerading as women, bring them – fetch them immediately. I need more.
In the Western mind there is a division between god and devil, not in the Eastern mind. The polarity is one. So if you look at the lives of Eastern gods, you will be puzzled; they are both – godly and devilish. They are more whole, more holy. The Western god seems to be almost dead, because his whole life has gone to the devil. The Western god seems to be a very uptight gentleman. You can call him almost an English gentleman – very uptight, needs psychoanalysis. And the devil of course is much too alive. That too is dangerous.
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