... absolutely certain without any doubt that you cannot die. The body will go, the mind will go, but this power that you have felt is going to remain. It is going to expand; there is no way to destroy it. If you yourself don't waste it in desires, death cannot take it away from you. And when there is no death there is no fear. All fear is death-oriented, all fear is the shadow of death. When you don't possess...

... VANQUISHED ALL THINGS. HE SEES BY VIRTUE OF HIS PURITY. And when you are full of power, death disappears. Death appears only because you are so powerless. Death appears only because your desires are exploiting your power, they are sucking your power. Desires are suckers, parasites; they leave you empty. When you are overflowing with energy there is no death. That experience of overflowing power makes you...

... HIS PURITY. Now everything is pure. He does not see through any screen, he sees through purity. Now he regains the wonder of childhood again, the same awe, the same mystery. HE HAS COME TO THE END OF THE WAY, OVER THE RIVER OF HIS MANY LIVES, HIS MANY DEATHS. And this is the end. When the mind ends, the journey ends. Now there will be no birth anymore and no death anymore. You have been born...

... silver go with you when you die? If you want real wealth, give to charity, which will stand you in good stead after death." If you are a small-time miser you may perhaps feel; "We'll see what happens after death." If your greed is intense you will deliberate: "If these coins are useless after death, let me convert some into the currency that works there." So the greater the...

... place where you have centered your desires is perishable. So they say remove your desires from there and fix them on the eternal. Lao Tzu does not suggest changing the direction of your desires. He tells you to eradicate them. Understand this difference well. I am running after wealth. Somebody reasons with me, "What is this madness? What is there in wealth? Tomorrow you will die. And then? Death...

... carnal desires and have caught hold of spiritual desires. The authentic sannyasin is one who has no desires, neither worldly nor spiritual. Jesus' death was near at hand. He was going to be captured by the soldiers that night. In the last moment, as his disciples began to depart, one of them asked: "In the kingdom of God, you shall be seated beside God. Where shall we, your followers, be seated...

... will surely come; it is inevitable. If you must run, run after God who is the real wealth!" My greed totters. I begin to think, "I may amass wealth but death is a certainty. Money works everywhere but death accepts no bribes. I cannot escape death. Then what should I do? I shall run after God." The struggle continues; only the subject changes. The goal is changed; the desire is the...

... consciousness. That two percent reality, against ninety-eight percent, is nothing. And we think that two percent as if this is the whole of life. Things go upside-down life becomes a chaos. Buddhism has chosen the color yellow for the bhikkus - for the Buddhist monks and nuns - and you will be surprised why they have chosen the color yellow. They have chosen the color yellow to represent death - yellow is the...

... color of death. When a leaf dies, it becomes yellow; before falling to the ground to its grave it becomes yellow. When a person dies he starts becoming yellow. As you become older you start losing your redness, your aliveness, you start becoming pale. Yellow is the color of death. Buddhism's whole conclusion is that life is not worth living. The only purpose that life can be put to is: How to renounce...

... it? How to get out of it? All the three religions born in India - Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism - they talk about the wheel of life and death. Existence is looked as a wheel of life and death, and unless you drop out of this wheel you will go on moving in circles. All these three religions have made the goal of their search only one single thing: How not to be born again. Now, this life-negative...

... Ganges, all your sins are washed away." Now the Ganges is the most dirty river in India, the dirtiest maybe in the whole world, because it is the only river where dead bodies are thrown. It is thought to be a great privilege that if somebody's body is thrown into the Ganges, if somebody dies in the Ganges... If he cannot die in the Ganges, then at least throw the body - his benefit will be great...

... are not to ask any questions. You have simply to obey. And if your obedience is total you will be rewarded - not now, after death. All these religions are in that way clever. Their rewards will always be after death. That's a very simple device. Nobody comes to say whether he has been rewarded or not. At least people like Jesus should come back and tell the truth - whether they have been allowed...

... massacre! And the man, when making love, comes to an orgasm; millions of live cells will be released... They will live only two hours. Now he is the cause of their death. Millions of live cells... each live cell would have become a man or a woman given the right opportunity. Now normally this has been calculated, that a man will make love to a woman in his forty years' love-making life at least forty...

... thousand times. Now, each time millions of cells will die - just calculate how many people you have killed! And is there any hope for you? This sexual abstinence creates all kinds of side-effects. It is basically repressive - repressive of joy, repressive of intelligence, repressive of life and all that helps life to become a dance, a celebration. Devaraj, this earth will remain miserable unless we get...

... again. And death and life are not in the hands of man, they are decided by fate. If she's going to die, she will die whether I call the physician or not. Why waste money? If she is going to live, she will live. Either way, a physician is absolutely unnecessary." The friends said, "We have never thought that you are so greedy. We have always heard that you are greedy -- but so much! Do you...

... decisive factor. The sutras: THE ESSENCE OF THE WAY IS DETACHMENT. It is true. All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which will be taken away by the time of death, or even perhaps before. You may be very much attached to money but you can go bankrupt tomorrow. You may be...

.... Greed is an aggressive attitude towards existence: grab as much as you can and go on grabbing more and more and more. Waste your whole life and your whole intelligence in grabbing more and more and what is the point? Death will not be late, not even for a single minute. It always comes at the right time, and all that you have grabbed and wasted your life for, you will have to leave here. Bodhidharma...

... think you are going to take all your money with you when you die?" He said, "Of course. I have a plan." They could not believe him. They said, "What plan?" He said, "Before I die I will take all the money in a boat, go deep into the ocean and jump with all my money, into the ocean." The friends could not believe their ears. They said, "Are you mad or something...

... invests, Osho spends." I like that. What is the point of saving? Jesus seems to be like a banker. And of course, Moses invests. For Moses, everything is business. And for me, certainly, everything is going to be taken away. Before it is taken away, use it, spend it, enjoy it. Why wait for death to snatch it away? Certainly it is absolutely right. A one-hour religion, or even a Mohammedan who prays...

... of the whole. TO TRANSCEND MOTION AND STILLNESS IS THE HIGHEST MEDITATION. Whether you are sitting silently, or you are walking silently, you have to transcend all form, motion and stillness, action and inaction, day and night, life and death. Transcend all, and you will have the highest fragrance of meditation in you. MORTALS KEEP MOVING -- and again he comes to his prejudice -- WHILE ARHATS STAY...

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... even managed to dominate after death! Certainly his mind must have been really full of hate. It happened only once.... Where I used to live in Jabalpur, there is a junction railway station, Katni, a hundred miles away, where - just by chance - Gandhi was traveling in one train and Haridas was traveling in another train from another direction. Both trains had to wait at Katni for another train from a...

... more urgent that we create people who have no inferiority complex, people who have a certain serenity, silence, people who have a deep contentment within themselves, people who are no longer ambitious. We need a non-ambitious humanity; only then can the cloud of death that is looming on the horizon be avoided. My people can do it! There is nobody else to whom this great responsibility can be given...

... emotion. It is just pure silence: in one sense utterly empty, because there is no feeling, no thinking, and in another sense overflowing with bliss, with benediction. Meditation is the way from the head to the heart, from the heart to the being. I would like all the scientists to listen to the heart. That will change the very character of science. It won't be in the service of death, it won't create...

... only of emperors. And we have to expand the red empire as quickly and as fast as possible, because the forces of death are coming closer every moment. But I have every hope and certainty that life cannot be defeated by death. My people are the first people in the whole of history who are life-affirmative. All other religions are life-negative. Their function is finished, they are no longer of any use...

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... the men and their God and their priests to die with AIDS! Now it is very dangerous to love a man, it is risky. He can be a carrier of ultimate death from a disease which knows no cure. If the women are intelligent, this will be the step they should take. They should simply say, "We are finished with you!" Yes, there are men who are not suffering from AIDS; their semen can be collected in...

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... tuberculosis and all the diseases, he cannot dodge death; that is going to come anyway. Death, disease, weakness, the unknown universe create so much fear - and nobody to protect.... It was a simple step to give God the father as the protector. And man's inner space was in such a need, he accepted it. He was not capable of doubting it, because to doubt means to live almost on the verge of a nervous breakdown...

... it is not going to be religious, then it is going to be in the service of politics, in the service of war, in the service of death. If science becomes religious, then it will be in the service of life, in the service of love, in the service of rejoicings. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

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... created much improved arrangements. And they start working from the moment you are born; they don't miss a single moment. In Hinduism, the brahmin gets hold of the child the moment he is born, and the first thing he does is make a birth chart; and he will follow the child his whole life. On every important occasion he is there to guide him: about marriage he will decide, in death he will decide. After...

... death he will be the first to be the guest of the family... because in Hinduism, after a death, on the third day there is a feast. So all the brahmins and all the relatives and all the friends come to the feast just to give solace to the soul of the departed. The priest gets your neck in his hands, and he does not leave go even when you are dead. In Hinduism, every year after a death there is a...

... brahmin does it. And the mantras have to be recited - the brahmin has to do it. In death, who is going to recite the mantras when the fire is given to the body? - the brahmin has to do it. So finally the whole rebellion disappeared, and Jainism became just a sub-caste, a sub-religion, a branch of Hinduism - but philosophically they are enemies. Deep down, Jainas think they are higher and that they are...

... simply hiring these brahmins for certain works as they hire other servants. Brahmins think that they are higher - "Because without us you cannot even be born, you cannot die." These pseudo-religions have created a chaos in you - that is very necessary for them. I have heard: One politician, one advocate, and one priest - three old friends - all had passed their seventieth year, but they used...

... Middle Ages remained concerned about the question. It was a great religious problem - of great urgency. I don't know what urgency there could have been. Perhaps they were thinking that after they die, they would become angels and they would have to stand on the point of a pin or the point of a needle. What was the trouble? But that is the situation in all the theologies. Mahavira believed in seven...

... too much so that he simply escapes from you or jumps into the ocean and finishes himself That will not be good business. It is just like the slaves in the old days. They were given food - not enough that they become too strong and revolt, and not too little either so that they die; otherwise you make a loss. You give them a certain percentage so they are just hanging in the middle between life and...

... death, and they go on living and working for you. Only that much food is given, not more than that; otherwise there will be energy left after work, and that energy can become revolution. They can start revolting, they can start joining together, because they can start seeing what is being done to them. The same has been done by the religions. Every religion has taken a different segment of man and...

... highest expression of spirit. In the death of Socrates starts the decline of a tremendously beautiful and great civilization which has given to the world people like Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Epicurus, Plotinus and many more. The whole Western civilization owes its origins to the Greek genius. To understand why it has become poor - not only outwardly but inwardly too - you will have to understand that...

... when a civilization kills a man like Socrates, Socrates is not killed, that very civilization is killed. Socrates' death has to be understood because without understanding it, Greece and its intelligence cannot come back to the heights it has already known. Democracy was born in Greece but unfortunately we have not been able, up to now, to tolerate or forgive the giants amongst us. Their very...

... our ego very deeply. And the masses are powerful as a crowd. Men like Socrates are alone; they are a majority of one. The crowd could not prove anything against Socrates. Still, he was poisoned and killed. Even in his death he was great, and the people who killed him, even in their life proved to be very ugly, mean and small. But it creates a situation in which no other man will try to become a...

.... They say it is all corruption, to make people go astray from virtue. It is a strange fact that Hindus have succeeded in destroying Gautam Buddha far more successfully than the Jews with Jesus, or the people who killed Socrates. They have all failed. A time came just three hundred years after Gautam Buddha's death... Three hundred years afterwards, Alexander the Great from Greece came to India. His...

...: Keep the Measure. Remain balanced. The outer and the inner should be like two wings: with one wing you cannot fly like an eagle into the sky; you need both the wings. Science alone is going to lead humanity to suicide, and religion alone is going to lead humanity to the same goal - suicide, starvation. Just by the end of this century, in this country alone five hundred million people are going to die...

... because there is not going to be any food. Already half of the country is starved, undernourished. We have just seen in Ethiopia, one thousand people dying per day, and now there is another famine - and this is going to be a bigger famine than the last one. Perhaps two thousand, three thousand people will die every day. This is forgetting the immense, the significant balance: Keep the Measure. These...

... his death sentence by poison - he must have been a man of some compassion and some intelligence - he said, "Socrates, I am helpless, because the majority of the people of Athens want you to be killed. But I can suggest to you a few alternatives: you can leave Athens" - because in those days Greece was not one country, but every city was a state. So Athens was a state in itself, and once...

... you crossed the boundary of Athens, the constitution of Athens or the law of Athens became invalid. So the judge said, "I can manage. You simply get out of Athens. There is no need... I don't see the point in unnecessarily destroying yourself." Socrates said, "Death is going to come anyway, and moreover I have lived in Athens my whole life. This is the most civilized state in the...

... to give me poison, perhaps this is the way existence wants to take me back." A man of tremendous courage... but with him, Greece lost something very essential: the urge to seek the truth. In fact, unconsciously people must have become afraid even to mention the word 'truth'. If it leads to death, it is better not to bother about it and never to question the superstitions of the people. Just...

... reason that if the alternative is death, then it is better to be a slave. At least you are alive and there is a possibility someday you may get out of the slavery. But when you are dead, the possibility disappears. So it is not wrong to choose slavery when it is an alternative to death. Moses brought these people out of slavery, giving them all kinds of dreams, and slowly those dreams started turning...

... call these people religious. To me religion begins with psychological freedom. I cannot give you commandments, but I can give you a few requests. Nobody has done it before, so it may look a little outlandish, but what can I do? I can give you a few invitations. My first request or invitation is: Don't let your doubt die. That is the most precious thing you have got, because it is doubt that one day...

... experience? And again there was an explosion! And that was the end. After that, Freud never saw Jung. Freud was so afraid of death that you could not talk about death. His disciples were made aware, particularly the new ones, never to mention the word death. Twice it had happened, people had mentioned something about death and he fell on the ground in a fit, he became unconscious. He was so much afraid of...

... death, even the word death was enough to make him unconscious. And these people are giving you psychoanalysis, these are your great scientists of the mind! Jung was afraid of dead bodies. And this is the natural law: whatsoever you are afraid of you are fascinated by too. So he wanted to go to Egypt to see the ancient mummies, those dead bodies which have been preserved in the pyramids and now are in...

... religious mind says it is both; white is also black, and black is also white. It cannot be otherwise because religion sees so deeply that the opposites become one there. Life must be death also, and death life also, because somewhere the religious mind, religious consciousness comes to understand that they are meeting -- already they are meeting in you. Something is dying, something is being born. Each...

... there is no polarity. Even if there is polarity it is not polar and opposite, it is complementary, because existence is nondual; it is one. Life cannot be separate from death and night cannot be separate from day and summer cannot be separate from winter and old age- cannot be separate from childhood. Childhood grows into old age, night changes into day, day changes into night. No and yes are not a...

... needs weapons not worship. The society may not pay you, you may remain poor, but I tell you that poverty, that risk, is worth taking because inner riches will be overflowing towards you. You may die poor as far as your outside is concerned, but you will die an emperor as far as your inner being is concerned -- and ultimately only that is of any value. Question 5 MY BODY IS EXTRAORDINARILY ILL -- ROGI...

... was the name of the physician who constantly had to attend to Buddha. Shankara died when he was thirty-three; That shows the body was not in very good condition; otherwise he would have lived a little longer. Thirty-three is not the time to die. So don't be worried; don't make it a hindrance. Secondly, you say, "My mind is scientifically indulgent -- bhogi." If it is really scientifically...

... DIE? CAN YOU MAKE ME DIE TOO? I am ready right now to help you. Why wait that long? Why - postpone it? And if you miss me while I am alive, how can you get to me when I am dead? If you cannot flow with me while I am here with you, it will become very, very difficult for you when I am gone. Why postpone? You are thirsty and I am ready to quench it right now, then why say tomorrow? Why are you afraid...

...? And if you are afraid today, you will be afraid tomorrow. You will be more afraid tomorrow because today's fear will have gathered. Every day you will go on gathering fear. Drop it. The very readiness to die is the readiness to be reborn. I am reminded of a very beautiful story. I would like to share it with you: Three tortoises, aged 201, 135, and 97, decided to go on a pub-crawl in London. They...