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Part V : Examples of letters Osho wrote
Last night when lamps and lamps were lit up all over town I thought:
My Sohan* too, must have lit lamps and a few among them must surely
be for me! And then I began to see the lamps you had lit, and
also those your love has kept lit always. I shall stay here another
day. I have talked of you to everybody and they are eager to meet
you. teacup01
*Note:Osho wrote many letters to Sohan, and for rest of his
life referred to her in discourses as one of his most devoted
disciples
I received your letter. How lovingly you insist on my writing
something, and here am I, drowned in a deep silence! I speak,
I work, but I am steeped in emptiness within. There, there is
no movement. Thus I seem to be living two lives at one time.
What a drama! But perhaps all of life is a drama and becoming
aware of this opens the door to a unique freedom. That which is
inaction in action, stillness in motion, eternity in change -
that is truth and that is existence. Real life lies in this eternity
- everything else is just the stream of dreams. In truth the world
is just a dream and the question is not whether to leave these
dreams or not, one just has to be aware of them. With this awareness,
everything changes. The centre moves. A shift takes place from
body to soul.
And what is there? It cannot be told. It has never been told
and it never will be! There is no other way but to know it for
oneself. Death is known only through dying and truth is known
only through diving deep within oneself. May God drown you in
this truth! teacup01
I have received your letter. You long for the peace I have within
me. It is yours any time. It is the deepest possibility in everyone,
it only has to be uncovered. As springs of water lie hidden under
layers of earth so does bliss lie hidden within us. The possibility
is there for everyone but only those who dig for it can redeem
it. The excavation of these hidden treasures lies through religion.
Digging with it one reaches the well of light within. I have shown
you how to dig and what with, but the digging has to be done by
you. I know your soil is absolutely ready, with very little effort
the infinite streams can be reached. This state of mind is attained
with the greatest good fortune so don't waste it or miss this
opportunity. Fill yourself with determination and leave the rest
to God. Truth runs alongside will.
Don't hesitate to write, I have lots of time for you. I am for
those who need me - nothing in my life is for myself. teacup01
I want to make everyone aware of this thirst. I want to convert
everyone's life into a waiting. The life that has turned into
a waiting for God is the true life. All other ways of life are
just a waste, a disaster. teacup01
I am pleased with your progress. Your letter was received long
back but as I was busy there was delay in replying, but my memory
of you is always there, along with all those eager for the light.
My good wishes flow for ever towards them. We have to keep going.
Many times one becomes disheartened on the path but ultimately
the thirsty pilgrim reaches the spring. In fact the water is there
before the thirst. My kind regards to all. teacup01
I have only just arrived here, the train was five hours late.
You wanted me to write as soon as I got here so I am doing so.
Throughout the journey I thought of you and of the tears falling
from your eyes. Nothing in the world is more sacred than tears
of love and joy. Such tears, so pure, are not of this world. Though
part of the body, they express something which is not. Whatever
can I give you in return. teacup01
I looked for your letter as soon as I got here yesterday. Though
it was Sunday, I kept waiting for it. It came this evening - how
much you write in so few words! When the heart is full it pours
into the words and so few are needed. An ocean of love can be
contained in just a jug! As for scriptures on love - it is
enough to know the four letters of the word! Do you know how many
times I read through your letters? teacup01
I arrived here yesterday and have been thinking of writing ever
since but it didn't happen until now. Forgive the delay though
even a single day's delay is no small delay!
What shall I say about the return journey? It was very blissful.
I kept sleeping, and you were with me. It appeared I had left
you behind but actually you were still with me. This is the being-together
that is so real that it cannot be divided. Physical nearness is
not nearness, there can be no union on that level, only an unbridgeable
gulf, but there is another nearness which is not of the body,
and its name is love. Once gained it is never lost.
Then no separation exists despite vast distances in the visible
world. If you can arrive at this distancelessness with even one
other it can be found with everybody. One is the door, the all,
the goal. The beginning of love is through one, the end is all.
The love that unites you with everything, with nothing excluded,
I call religion, and the love that stops anywhere I call sin.
teacup01
It was just this time of night, two days ago that I left you
at Chittor. I can see now the love and bliss filling your eyes.
The secret of all prayer and worship is hidden in the overflow
of those tears. They are sacred. God fills the heart of those
he blesses with tears of love, and what to say about the calamity
of those whose hearts are filled instead with thorns of hate?
Tears flowing in love are offerings of flowers at the feet of
God and the eyes from which they flow are blessed with divine
vision. Only eyes filled with love can see God. Love is the only
energy that transcends the inertia of nature and takes one to
the shores of ultimate awareness. I think that by the time this
letter reaches you you will already have left for Kashidham. I
don't know how your journey was but I hope it passed in song and
laughter. Give my kind respects to everyone there. I am waiting,
for your promised letters. teacup01
Love. Your letter has come. Love has not to be asked for - it
is never obtained by asking; love comes through giving - it
is our own echo.
You feel my love pouring on you because you have become a river
of love flowing towards me, and when your love flows like this
towards all you will find the whole world flowing in love towards
you.
To respond with unconditional love towards all, towards that which
is, is the God-experience. teacup02
Where to find truth?
Well, it has to be sought within one's own self,
within one's own self
within one's own self
within one's own self
It is definitely there.
One who seeks it elsewhere loses it. teacup02
Love, so much love. I received your letter when I got back. I
could feel the ardour of your heart through your words.
I well know the fervour that stirs your soul and the thirst that
turns into tears within you. I was once there too, I too have
suffered it. I can well understand your heart because I have travelled
those same paths you now have to take in the quest for God. I
too have experienced the longing that one day turns into a raging
fire in which one has to consume oneself. But this burning brings
the birth of a new life. The drop can only become the ocean when
it ceases to exist.
Continue your efforts in meditation; you have to go deeper and
deeper into it-it is the only way. Through it and it alone can
one reach life's truth.
Remember: lf you become absorbed in sadhana, fully committed and
surrendered, you are bound to reach the truth. This is an eternal
law. No step taken towards God is ever wasted. teacup01
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