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JIGYASA, WHO WAS RECENTLY VERY ILL, WILL BE LEAVING TOMORROW, SHE TELLS OSHO.


OSHO: Everything will go well. When will you be back.

JIGYASA: AS SOON AS I CAN.


You will be back within three months... you will be perfectly okay. You have come back from the other world, so it is good. I was afraid sometimes whether you would survive or not, but you managed to. Just go and rest and come back!

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GERMAN FOR SANNYAS


OSHO: Come here, Andreas!
Sit, close your eyes... REALLY hard!

VEET AMO, HIS FATHER, INTERPRETS.


Mm, he is doing perfectly well.... (TO ANDREAS) It was a great ordeal but you passed through it!

PREM ANDREAS: LOVE IS THE MOST COURAGEOUS PHENOMENON IN LIFE.


It really needs guts to be in love, because to be in love is to disappear as an ego. To be in love is to disappear as an ego. To be in love is to be nothing, nobody. Unless one is ready to be nothing love is not possible. Love grows out of your inner nothingness, it is the flowering of nothingness. It is not an ego trip -- hence whatsoever goes on happening in the world in the name of love is not love. It is just the opposite of it because the basic requirement is not yet fulfilled. The basic requirement is to experience yourself as nothing. That's what meditation is all about: the method of destroying the ego. Once the ego collapses you come face to face with yourself and that experience blooms into love. You start overflowing with grace, with compassion.


Help him from the very beginning to be more and more loving, and the only way to help him is to be loving. Become nothing. Children almost always fall into the trap of the parents. If the parents were wrong somewhere, the children are bound to repeat it -- sooner or later it is going to happen. If the parents are absolutely in a right state of inner being the children will catch hold of it -- it is infectious.


Help him to be courageous and to be loving -- that's all parents can give to a child, the greatest of gifts.

ZAREEN, WIFE OF LOCAL DENTIST, DR. MODY.


OSHO: Hello, Zareen! I have been waiting and waiting for you, but I was absolutely certain that you were coming!
What is the meaning of your name?

ZAREEN: GOLDEN LIGHT....


Prem means love. And love is my message, my whole gospel, the very core of what I have been teaching and doing. As far as I am concerned humanity is suffering from lack of love. All other problems arise out of this problem. Poverty can disappear within minutes, poverty is not really a problem -- it is just that love is missing! We have the technology to make the whole Earth a paradise but nobody has that heart that can share, that can make an effort to make the Earth a paradise. On the contrary the whole scientific growth and technology is being used to destroy. Seventy percent of every nation's income is being is being used to destroy. Seventy percent of every nation's income is being wasted on the army, defense. Although the governments call their armies defense, it is a false name: they are all meant to be aggressive and attacking. The defense ministries of all the world are really attack ministries, not defense at all.


Man can be immensely happy. Nothing is missing, the world is full of all that is needed -- the stars and the trees and the rivers and the mountains. It is just that somehow inside man something very essential is lost. Man has forgotten the language of love. He lives through competition, conflict, anger, jealousy, possessiveness -- and these are the enemies of love. All these poisons destroy the nectar of love.


A sannyasin has to drop all that is against love, that goes against love. Slowly slowly, as the barriers are removed love starts flowing, because it is our very nature. It is not something to be brought in from the outside, it is already there. There are just a few obstructions which we have to unlearn. Once that happens love becomes a golden light. Then your name will become a reality to you.


It is a light that not only lights your path, but can light many other people's path. And it is a light by which one becomes aware of God's presence. We are living in darkness; hence we can't see God. We have eyes and God is present but the light which can become the bridge is missing. And love is the only light. It is love that becomes a prayer, it is love that one day becomes the realization, the ultimate realization of God! And certainly when love explodes.... Kabir says, "it is as if a thousand and one suns have arisen suddenly in your being." There is so much light and it is golden. But the alchemy is through love, the transformation is through love.


I teach meditation only as a help towards love, as a means -- love is the goal.
Would you like to say something to me?


ZAREEN: YOU SAY TO BE IN THE WORLD AND NOT OF THE WORLD. THAT'S MY BIGGEST PROBLEM, BECAUSE I AM IN THE WORLD.


Now you will be able to be there and yet not there. From this moment I will reside in you. In fact I entered long ago. I am a thief!


You will soon be able to be in the world and not of the world, and that is that is the real art of sannyas. Yes, there will be problems and challenges, but each problem can be transformed into an opportunity for growth, and each challenge brings a new sharpness to your intelligence. Yes, sometimes one feels very shaken, scared, afraid that one may fall, afraid that one may not be able to cope with the reality of the ugly world. But my experience is: as your love grows, as meditation grows, as your understanding grows, all those problems become very small, very tiny. You will see it happen soon.


And finally you are to end up with me here in my commune. That day is not far away.


OSHO (TO SHIGERU): Anything that brings bliss to you is a nourishment to the soul. And it is not only that people's bodies are starving, their souls are starving far more.


So from this moment be alert: choose bliss as much as possible. Avoid misery; never cooperate with any misery that surrounds you sometimes. It's bound to surround you, just like clouds come one day and another day it is very sunny. Watch the clouds, watch the sun, and remember that you are separate from both. Dark moments come, light moments come -- we are moving on a wheel of day and night, birth and death, summer and winter -- but if we can remember that we are not any of these then bliss arises. Then one is suddenly at peace with oneself and at peace with existence. That is bliss -- that harmony, that accord, that attunement.


And once you have learned how to be blissful your soul starts growing. Otherwise it remains a seed, it never becomes a tree, and unless the seed becomes a tree and the tree blooms and brings much fruit, life is a wastage.


OSHO (TO WILLEM): The whole attempt to force nature, existence, is futile, because there are secrets which can be revealed only when you are in a nonaggressive mood. There are secrets which are revealed only to the sannyasins and not to the soldiers. There are secrets which can only be revealed to you when you are absolutely absent -- just a nothingness, a prayer, a love, with all the doors and all the windows of your being open... just an awaiting, a receptivity, a womb. Then one becomes pregnant with the unknown and the unknowable God.


That's what the meaning of your name, Satyam, is. Be receptive, be loving, and trust nature that has given birth to you. You are its extension, you are not separate from it. It cares for you; it protects you, in life and in death. It is your security, the only security there is. Feel secure, at ease, relaxed, and one day when the mind is completely silent truth happens. It simply comes like a ray of light into the darkness of your existence, and all is revealed.

DHYAN KIRTI'S FIRST VISIT TO POONA
KIRTI: I WRITE POETRY, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF CONFUSION IN THE WAY; A LOT OF ANGER COMES THROUGH.


OSHO: That will be gone. Just pass through a few groups, mm? You will be exhausted of all anger!

KIRTI: OKAY! (GRINS BROADLY)
			

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