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Osho
... cross. The flute reminds you of love, life, songs. The flute reminds you of the beauties and the wonders and the mysteries of life. It is a very life-oriented symbol. The cross is a death-oriented symbol. Hence, around Krishna there is always dance; he is playing on the flute, and his female lovers are dancing around him. Many things are wrong in Krishna's philosophy, but I cannot say that his...
... celebration is wrong, that his dance is wrong, that his flute is not the right symbol. Have you ever hear of apostles dancing around Jesus, and Jesus playing the flute? That is inconceivable. His whole attitude is death-oriented. Just the other day I said to you that his own disciple - who was the most intelligent amongst all of his disciples, perhaps more intelligent than Jesus himself.... When he saw that...
... Jesus was bent upon dying, Judas went ahead of him, just like a Jew: "He is going to die, he cannot be prevented; crucifixion seems to be his goal - why not do some business in between?" For thirty silver pieces Judas sold Jesus to the enemies. It is just Jewish - nothing was wrong with Judas. He was an intelligent man, he used the opportunity. In other circumstances, can you sell a dead...
... woman? She has in one of her hands a freshly-cut head of a man, blood dripping, and in another hand, a sword ready for anybody she comes across. And she is dancing on the chest of her husband! Twelve skulls of human beings make her garland. She is ferocious, blood-thirsty. She seems to be more representative of death than life. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali and he got almost in a frenzy...
... be no further additions, impressions, no editing, nothing has to be added. He has given the essential and basic and the most profound, final message to the world. He cannot die in an ordinary way. When he died, he flew with his horse upwards. People saw him going beyond the clouds, and then he disappeared. Even the horse went with him. It was no ordinary horse, it was Prophet Hazrat Mohammed's...
... for. This was a golden poverty, golden death. But it was not alive. Remember that: it depends on you, it is your touch that keeps things alive or dead. The gachchhamis have to be understood. The first thing: they are not prayers, because there is no God to whom you can pray. The gachchhamis are your decision. And because you are so asleep, you have to go on reminding yourself. The first is, buddham...
... with us, he is sitting higher - and don't be deceived that he is humble. He is just waiting. When you die, he will be sitting where you are sitting. He is just waiting for your death." And I said to the man, "If you have any sense of dignity, come down from that platform and sit with everybody." And I told the shankaracharya also, "It is not a meeting which you are going to...
... belief you feel empty, just a driftwood going nowhere. Without belief you feel empty, so utterly empty that you can't even dare to live. Look withinwards; that emptiness looks like death. It is your psychological need that somebody should give you a hope, a belief, some kind of opium, so you can go to sleep. At least for the time being you can put aside all your fears. You have the messiah with you...
... will eat my whole life." You don't take the vow that "I will go on breathing till I die." This will look foolish! You enjoy love - there is no need to take the vow. People take vows for celibacy, not for love - why? Because celibacy is unnatural, imposed. When celibacy is also natural, spontaneous, no vow is taken. Now this man, Professor Bhansali - I knew the man - took a vow of...
... another person as a means! - because each person is an end unto himself. Parents are cruel because they have ideas: they want their children to be this and that. They would like their children to be rich, famous, respected; they would like their children to fulfill their unfulfilled egos. Their children are going to be their journeys. The father wanted to be rich but could not succeed, and now death is...
... approaching; sooner or later he will be cut off from life. He feels frustrated: he has not yet arrived. He was still searching and seeking... and now comes death - this looks so unjust. He would like his son to carry on the work, because his son represents him. He is his blood, he is his projection, his part - he is his immortality. Who knows about the soul? Nobody is definite about it. People believe, but...
... thousand rupees after death. He is depositing in God's bank. But the interest rate seems to be absolutely absurd! People give just a little to make sure that in the other world they will get much. And in this world, they will get recognition, respectability; people will think of them as religious people. One of the successors of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, went around the country asking people to...
... first day of each month, the money order was there but there was no name, no address. Only when the person died... and he was no one other than the founder of the university in which I was a student. I went to his home. His wife said, "I am worried - not because my husband has died; everybody has to die. My concern is, from where am I going to get two hundred rupees to send you?" I said...
... NOW... Death will take everything away. Hence, never be worried about giving. Life has given to you, life will take it away. Why miss the chance of the joy of giving? Why miss the chance of becoming the hands of God, and the eyes of God? ... THAT THE SEASON OF GIVING MAY BE YOURS AND NOT YOUR INHERITORS'. People collect for their inheritors. This is wrong for two reasons: one, you miss the chance of...
... early death. It is strange that even in the twentieth century when we think we have become very cultured, cultivated, educated, evolved, education is still the same as it was in the most primitive times; it is still doing the same act of turning everybody into a robot, into a mechanical memory system. It does not sharpen your intelligence, it makes you only clever enough to remember things. But...
... anybody else. That"s its beauty and that"s its grandeur. You can find it yourself, but it will be always firsthand - young and fresh and alive. Knowledge is always dead; it stinks of death. Wisdom is fragrant of love, of life, of rejoicings. James, the eldest son of a respected Hollywood family, walked into his father"s study and made a shocking announcement that he now intended to live...
... had devoted almost his whole life to collecting all kinds of facts and figures. One afternoon he heard a shot behind his house. He ran - there was a crowd - a man was lying ... he had been shot. He was not yet dead, but he would die at any moment, so much blood had gone out of his body. And there was a crowd - they were all eyewitnesses. In front of them, the man had been shot and the murderer had...
... twenty years. If you want him to be released without trial then you have to accept at least two crimes. The choice is clear for you." For twelve days my attorneys had been running from one jail to another - because they were taking me from one jail to another every day, changing the jails, trying to find some indirect way to kill me. They put me in a cell with a man who was going to die of AIDS...
... does it mean?" I said, "It must mean ?David Washington.' And tomorrow you will see in the newspapers and on television... my signature is known all over the world." My attorneys were watching continuously, running from one city to another city, from one jail to another jail. They were worried that if they did not accept two crimes, the trial would mean my torture and perhaps my death...
... may raise the whole consciousness of humanity. So you have to be ready for your great celebration. And, Sarjano, it will be a good opportunity, so that I can teach you that you can die for truth - even dancing and singing; with joy, with no anger, just love and compassion. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT! ONE MINUTE I THINK I AM IN THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF SADNESS, THE BLACKEST FOG...
... relationship with him - neither for nor against. Why has this happened? Why has this phenomenon become so prominent in the modern mind - this indifference? We will have to seek the causes. The first cause is that we have always been thinking of God as a person. To think about God as a person is false, untrue, and that idea had to die. The idea that God is a person - controlling, managing, creating...
... force becomes a thing; the same force becomes a person. But the force itself is neither. God, taken as - a person, is dead. The concept is dead, and the concept had to die because as a person God cannot be proved. And taken as a person, he doesn't solve any problem. Rather, on the contrary, he creates more - because if God is a person then why is there evil in the world? He must be allowing evil, he...
... to deny that he exists. And the second is better. God as a person had to die because it became impossible to conceive him as good. But the concept was wrong; it was anthropocentric. We conceived of God as a supreme man, as a superman. God was conceived of as a magnified person like ourselves. We only magnified man. In The Bible it is said that God created man in his own image, but this is said by...
... become old. It will die, but somewhere else life will erupt. Now scientists say that at least there is a mathematical possibility of fifty thousand earths being alive in the whole of existence - fifty thousand planets alive! This is just a mathematical possibility. We have no contact with other living earths but when one earth dies another is born. Somewhere birth happens, somewhere death; somewhere...
... death happens, somewhere birth. Life goes on continuing. It is a continuity - an eternal continuity. Whatsoever we know is always a very small, atomic part. Backwards, it spreads to the beginningless beginning; forwards, it spreads to the endless end. We are always in the middle. Only a particle of existence is known. And this whole existence, so vast, is still a part. The whole is also a part because...
... ready to accept. I can die joyfully because I have loved you and I have watched how you are growing -- of course with a concern that you will be condemned by religions, by governments, by masses." But what about all your psychotherapists, your leaders, your teachers, your universities -- what is their function? Their function is to keep you within the fold; to keep you just a sheep amongst the...
... crowd of sheep and never allow you to be yourself. They are all angry with me for telling this to young people who have not yet died -- because people mostly die nearabout thirty years of age, that is average. And then they are buried when they are seventy. That is almost forty years that people live a posthumous life; they have died long before. The day you decide that it is better to be a hypocrite...
... to love; they have to meditate. They have to become enlightened before death knocks on their doors. Also remember that life is not the way it is lived in California! California is almost a vast crazy place where people are going from one master to another master, just like any fashion. Just as they change their toothpaste, they change their masters. Just as they change their soaps, they change...
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