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AKHIL, AND SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER PREMO:


OSHO (TO PREMO): When did you arrive?

NO RESPONSE. HE TURNS TO AKHIL.


And how long she will be staying?

AKHIL: Forever.

OSHO: That's good! Come here... come close to me!
People who stay forever, I have to change their minds!

ARIANO, AN OCCULT NAME GIVEN TO CHILDREN BORN IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.


OSHO: The age of Aquarius represents peace and brotherhood, it heralds the birth of a new man. The past has been very ugly; man has lived in a very aggressive, violent, inhuman way. The whole past history is worth destroying. It is better not to remember it. It is disgusting, nauseating. It seems almost impossible that man can do such things to other human beings.


War has been our way of life in the past. And because of war we have been taught to hate, to be ready to kill, to murder in beautiful names, behind beautiful slogans. The capacity to love has been destroyed, because a man of love cannot be reduced to a warrior. A man of love is bound to become a sannyasin. To be a sannyasin means to live at peace with existence, in deep love and joy and celebration. And that is going to be the way of life of the new man.


The new man has to change many things. First: all the nations have to disappear from the earth, all the churches, all the races, all that divides humanity has to disappear. The earth has to be transformed into one humanity, into one brotherhood, into one family. That is the task before us, and for the first time it is possible to make it a reality.


In the past it was impossible. Dreamers have always dreamed about it, poets and visionaries and mystics have always talked about it, but the basic science and technology needed to do it was missing. Now it is available; the vision can become a reality.


When the first man walked on the moon, the first thing that he realized was not that "I am an American or a Christian or this and that"; from the moon he could see the earth as one, and a great longing arose in his heart and he called it "My earth." Now, this was not possible before.


Means of communication, television, radio, satellites, airplanes, they have reduced the earth to a global village. Science has done its work, now religion is needed to fulfill its task. And that's what we are doing here.


Our effort is to create a new man who is simply a human being, with no adjectives attached to him, neither Christian nor Mohammedan, nor Hindu. He is NEITHER Italian, German, NOR French; he has dropped all those nonsensical concepts. He is neither black nor white, because he knows black and white is only a skin-thick phenomenon. The pigment that makes the difference is not worth more than one rupee, and what is one rupee worth? (LAUGHTER)


The new man has not only to drop these unnatural barriers but a few so-called natural barriers too: for example, the idea of being a man or woman. It seems to be biological and there is a truth in it: there is a difference between the physiology of man and woman, but that need not make them different species. That need not create any psychological superiority, inferiority. Spiritually they are not different at all. Just because their organs differ it makes no difference. It is not a difference to make much fuss about; it would be sheer stupidity. The new man will be simply man, neither man nor woman.


A great revolution is waiting for us, and it has been waiting for centuries. Now the right time has come, and if we miss it now then we will be responsible; if we miss it man cannot exist anymore. The old ways have come to the very end. Some new way, some new life-style, some new consciousness is needed to prolong life on the earth.


You have a beautiful name, with tremendous significance. Try to make it a reality -- at least in you, because that is the only way to transform the whole world. Begin with yourself; there is no other beginning.


OSHO (TO SAM): The spoken prayer cannot be heard because God understands no language except silence. Hence prayer has not to be verbal, it has to be existential. It is not something that you do, it is something that you are.


To be in prayer means to be prayerful... not praying, not saying something, not asking something, but just being totally in love with existence, feeling one with existence. When there is no separation between you and the whole it is the state of prayer. Prayer is the highest form of love, communion, meeting -- a meeting not of I and thou but a meeting in which I and thou both disappear.


That's where I differ from Martin Buber. He says that prayer is an I-thou dialog. That is utter nonsense. He has not known anything of prayer, he is philosophizing about prayer. He is a great thinker, no doubt, but he is not a man of prayer because what he is saying can be said only by a man who is not in prayer.


Those who have known prayer will not say that it is a dialog. It is not a dialog at all because the twoness, which is a must for a dialog, disappears. It is not an I and thou relationship. It is not a relationship at all, it is union, it is orgasmic union. The I is no more there, and when the I is no more there the thou cannot exist. They dissolve into each other, they melt into each other; all limits and all definitions disappear. One knows nothing in prayer, except that one is not.


That nothingness is nothingness from the side of the ego but from the other side it is plenitude, it is fullness, it is wholeness, it is holy.


OSHO (TO PATRICIA): Bliss is the climate I want to create for you -- that's what a Buddhafield means. Where so many people are soaring high, it is easier for you to soar. Even the newly born bird, seeing his parents flying into the sky, gathers courage, starts fluttering his wings, becomes aware of his potential. The flight of the mother, of the father in the sky is very seductive. Sooner or later the child-bird is bound to try it and with a few trials and errors he will be on the wing.


That's what sannyas is all about: it is calling you from the egg, calling you forth to come out, calling you out of your closedness. But it is possible only if you see many people who are open, flowing, joyous. Then suddenly a great inspiration happens, that "If it is possible for others, it is possible for me too," and that becomes the seed of great transformation, a new birth.


Patricia means of noble birth. Today you become Patricia, because this is the noblest birth possible! To be born as a disciple, to be born as a sannyasin, is the real birth. The first birth is only physical, this birth is metaphysical.


Jesus says: Unless a man is born again he shall not enter into my kingdom of God. Feel blessed that you are born again. Feel blessed that you are on the gate of the kingdom of God: just a few steps, a little courage, and you will be able to enter into the temple.

NIYAZ WILL BE STAYING A MONTH.


OSHO: Do a few groups.
Anything to say to me?

NIYAZ HOLDS OUT TWO EMPTY PALMS AND SHAKES HIS HEAD.


Just be available to me... as open as humanly possible. And when I say "humanly possible" the impossible is included in it. That is the dignity of human consciousness: it can do the impossible. And the only impossible thing that is worth doing is the achievement of self-realization, of knowing "Who am I?" -- because in that knowing one knows all. You cannot know anything else before you have known yourself. Without knowing oneself all knowledge is false, remains futile, an exercise in futility. One gathers much information, but no transformation happens; and what use is it if there is no transformation happening?


Knowing is true only when it transforms you, when it takes you beyond yourself, when it helps you to transcend yourself. The greatest glory of man is to surpass himself -- in that glory the impossible becomes possible.


OSHO (TO PATRICK): Bliss is the name given  God by the poets and the mystics, and they know what they are doing.


When you say "God," the idea of a person arises in the mind, and with the idea of a person many things follow; one thing leads to another. Then God becomes a father-figure and you start depending on God. God does not bring freedom to you; on the contrary, he brings slavery. But change the name from God to bliss and there is no idea of any person.


You cannot depend on bliss, you have to create it. It is not ready-made, available somewhere. You have to live in such a way that you start attaining to blissfulness. Ordinarily we live in such a way that misery is created. We have to change our ways. We have to take a great radical turn, a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, because the way that creates misery is just the opposite of the way that creates bliss. One has to be very watchful about what one is doing, why one is creating misery, what the causes are, and why one gets caught in those causes again and again -- knowing perfectly well that they create misery, that they are destructive, that they bring darkness, that they create hell around one. Knowing it perfectly well, why does one get caught again and again? One has to be very alert and watchful.


Slowly slowly one catches oneself in the middle of being caught, pulls oneself out, stops cooperating with the misery pattern. This is the first step to destroy the grip of the misery pattern over you. Then the second step is not difficult; it is natural, spontaneous, simple. When the misery-creating pattern is dropped, naturally you start feeling a new kind of lightheartedness, a cheerfulness. You feel like singing, dancing, for no reason at all, and you start living in a new way. That life I call sannyas. Sannyas is not a formality, it is a radical change. It is a total change from misery to bliss.


Once you have become alert that misery is your own work, and once misery disappears, bliss arises in you of its own accord -- it is not your work. You can hinder it but you cannot bring it in. Negatively you are powerful; positively, no. Hence all the great masters of the world have been teaching negative techniques, how to remove the obstacles, that's all. Once the rocks are removed your consciousness becomes a stream, it starts flowing. It starts moving towards the ocean, towards the ultimate.


Remember, bliss is the goal. You can live blissfully without believing in God, but whether you believe in God or not, if you are searching for bliss you will find God too, because God is nothing but the vision of a blissful man. The whole world becomes divine for the man who has bliss in his heart. There is no God, but the whole world starts overflowing with godliness.


OSHO (TO SAT DEVO): The false gods are the gods that man has manufactured. The true God is the God that has to be discovered. You cannot believe in the true God -- all beliefs lead to false gods. The true God is an adventure: you have to seek and search and risk. It is an arduous pilgrimage but tremendously beautiful, risky but thrilling, dangerous but very alive.


The people who believe in gods remain as false as their gods. Their gods are dead and those people who believe in them are dead. It is not an ordinary thing to have the vision of God, it is bound to change you. If you cling to some false notion -- and all the notions given by others are false -- then you will remain false, pseudo. The whole world has been transformed into hypocrisy by the priests, by the so-called great religions, because they are all based on belief, and belief is blind.


One needs experience of one's own. Only trust your own experience, then you are on the right track. In trusting your own experience you will come closer and closer to truth. And when the trust in oneself becomes absolute, unwavering, God is revealed. God cannot be manufactured by the mind; it has to be lived and experienced through the heart. It is a love phenomenon, not a logical conclusion.


OSHO (TO PRAGITO): You are ready for many things! Just don't hold back! All that is needed her is flowing with the energy that is available; nonresistance is all that is needed.


Our mind naturally resists. The mind is a great no-sayer. It is very afraid to say yes because yes means its death. It lives through no, no is its nourishment. And we have lived with the no for so many lives that we have completely forgotten that there is a possibility of saying yes too: yes to existence, yes to yourself, yes to all that is.


To say yes is to be religious. It has nothing to do with belief in a god or belief in a church or belief in a dogma. To be religious you need not have a Bible, a Koran, a Gita: all that you need is a wholehearted yes, a total yes, so that not even a small fragment of no remains somewhere in the heart. When you can say a total yes the yes becomes a flame, a light into you, and it starts guiding your path. No outer guide is needed then; the outer guide is needed only to help you light the candle within.
I am ready to do it. From your side, only one thing is needed: cooperation.
			

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