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Veet Robert : Beyond fame.


OSHO: One has to go beyond it to become wise because name and fame are so momentary, just like soap bubbles: one moment they are there, another moment they are gone. It is like making sandcastles or writing your name on water; it is all futile. It is the extrovert mind which wants to be famous, well-known, which is afraid of being anonymous.


One has to go in to know oneself and once you know yourself, once you know who you are, there is no need to be worried whether anybody else knows you or not; it is all irrelevant.


Sannyas makes one anonymous; sannyas creates nobodies, nothingnesses, because it is only in nothingness that God is possible.


OSHO (to Frederico) : You are loving and yet unattached. You can dance yet there is no fever in your dance. You can sing but there is a distance between you and the song. You always remain a witness.


To be peaceful and blissful together is one of the fundamental teachings of my sannyas. Many have tried to be peaceful without bliss and many have done the reverse too, but all efforts up to now have failed because they have been partial.


My effort is to give you the totality of life. Unless one is total, whole, one cannot be holy.


OSHO (to Peter) : By denying love to people they have starved their souls and when a man is weak in the soul he is ready to become a slave. He is ready to become dependent. He can be manipulated, oppressed, exploited, forced to do ugly things that he would never have done if he had a strong spirit.


Hence my insistence on love: we want a new world, a new earth, a new humanity, based on love. Just strong bodies are not enough, a strong body makes you a strong animal, that's all. A strong spirit is needed, then you start feeling the presence of God. And once the presence of God is felt you start living authentically from your inner being, then you don't follow any outer commandment, then nobody can exploit you. Yes, they can crucify you but they cannot destroy your spirit. They can destroy your body but they cannot destroy you; and one can go to the gallows dancing and celebrating because one knows that the soul never dies.


But this can be known only when the soul is strong enough to know. And except for love, there is no nourishment for the soul. Be loving... be love!


OSHO (to Udana) : So you have come! That's good! This has been a long search, of many lives, but if one goes on and on, one day one arrives. Now this is your home... think of it as your home, your ultimate home!

Close your eyes.

SHE REMOVES HER SPECTACLES....


This is the right way - to remove spectacles when you are looking at me! All spectacles are barriers. Then you cannot see what is; you only see what your specs allow you to see.


Very few people are capable of seeing that which is. Before it reaches their being it is distorted. The mind plays all kinds of tricks. First it prevents the major part... almost ninety-eight per cent of reality is debarred, the mind only allows two per cent to enter in. Only that which fits with the mind is allowed. Only that which strengthens the mind and the ego is allowed, and then too the mind colors it, it gives it artificial flavors; it makes it adjust totally to itself. Hence it becomes an accumulation for the mind but not a revelation for the soul. Otherwise each moment is a revelation, and at each moment reality is available in its totality. But we are not available to reality.


All concepts, all philosophies, religions, theologies, ideologies are barriers. And the real has to pass through so many barriers that by the time it reaches you it is no more the same.


To be a sannyasin means removing all spectacles, removing everything that can distort, that can project; letting your eyes be naked. Being with a Master means being with naked eyes, a naked soul, with nothing to hide, with nothing to cover. When the disciple is totally nude before the Master, only then something of immense value and beauty transpires. It is a love affair. The greatest love affair that can happen on earth happens between the disciple and the Master.

This is your new name: Ma Prem Udana. Prem means love; Udana means richness.


Love really is the only thing that is valuable. Everything else is valueless. Yes, things have prices, but no value. Love has no price but it has value. It is not a commodity so it can't have any price. It is an experience, and the experience is so inner that it is not marketable. This is the only experience that is not available in the marketplace. This is the only experience which is not of the world and yet exists in the world; hence it becomes the bridge between God and man. It is the boat that belongs to the other shore but which can arrive on this shore. It needs great courage to be loving.


The original root of the word "courage" is very beautiful: it means of the heart. Mind is a coward. Courage is never of the mind, it is always of the heart. Minds are cowards; hearts are courageous. Minds are always conformist, conventional, because mind is nothing but the past-memories. It had no idea of anything new, unknown; it can't have. Only the heart can penetrate the unknown, only the heart can move into the uncharted. Hence the word "courage" is beautiful; if we go to its root, only then is it decoded: it means of the heart, a quality of the heart.


Love is the quality of the heart. Love is courage and love is richness. Logic is poor. However skilful one becomes in logic one remains poor: the scholars and the professors are the poorest people in the world. Only lovers know the richness of existence, the poetry, the music, the creativity of life. Love is the source of all that is good, all that is worthwhile, all that is meaningful, significant. Love gives dignity, glory, and opens the doors to the mysteries. Love is the key, the master key; it can unlock all the locks, it can help you to enter into the innermost shrine of God.


Let love become your life. The color orange is the color of the heart, the color of spring, the color of flowers, the color of the sunrise -- the color of life, the color of blood. So it is not only that you have to be in orange clothes, you have to become orange. And only love can do the miracle! It is going to happen because I can see you are ready... ready for the plunge, ready for the quantum leap.

How long will you be here? How long will you be staying?

Udana : Until the twenty-seventh.


The twenty-seventh? Then come back soon... and finally come back forever. Good Udana!


OSHO (to Margaretha) : If man lives unconsciously he is bound to live in anger, hate, jealousy, possessiveness, and so on and so forth. All that creates hell, he will have to live in it. Our unconscious way of life creates hell around ourselves. Hell is not somewhere else. If you are in sleep, unconscious, it is around you; it is not geographical, it is something psychological.


To be a sannyasin means a commitment, a decision that "Now I will try to come out of my sleep," that "Now I will transform my unconscious into conscious," that "Now I will live more and more in alertness and less and less in mechanicalness." Once this decision penetrates your heart, once this commitment grips you intensely, passionately, things start changing. Slowly slowly the sun rises out of the dark night of the soul.


And only when one is full of light.... The first child of light is love. And love contains all that is beautiful, all that is divine: compassion, prayer, creativity, grace. They all follow love, you need not think about them, they are by-products, consequences of love. But love itself happens only through light. All meditation techniques are devices to bring you out of your sleep, to help you wake up.


OSHO (to Aige) : Your heart starts pulsating in a different rhythm. The whole world remains the same but your eyes are no more the same; hence you start seeing things which you have never seen before and you stop seeing things which you have always been seeing. So in a sense the world remains the same and in another sense it is no more the same, because when the seer changes, the seen changes.


When love makes you beautiful it creates a beautiful world around you too. We are really living in such a beautiful world totally unaware of it, oblivious to the great treasures of life and existence. Love opens the doors, invites you in. Without love you remain an outsider to existence; with love you become and insider.


OSHO (to Layen) : A man who cannot love himself is always in conflict with himself, and to be in conflict is to be in misery. One who is in conflict with himself cannot be relaxed with existence either. So one step wrong, the first step wrong, and the whole of life goes wrong.


I teach you to be selfish. I teach you self-love because it is only through self-love that you will be capable of loving others. Self-love is not against altruistic love, in fact it is the beginning of it. To love oneself is the first step every sannyasin has to take. It goes against all the old teachings, traditions, conventions. But I can't help that, I have to say the truth; I am not here to confirm any tradition, I am not a respecter of traditions and conventions. I respect truth even if it goes against the whole of the human past. Love yourself: that will create the first harmony; then love others - which becomes easier - that creates the second harmony. If these two harmonies are there, there is no need of any religion. These two harmonies are really two aspects of one harmony.

And to be harmonious is to be religious. To be harmonious is to be blissful.
			

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