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CHAPTER 1. A MEETING WITH THE GUESTSosya –and that is not happening, not tomillions of people. They are all trying to be somebody else, something else; rejecting their beings theygo on rushing towards some idea of becoming. They remain in confusion because they remain induality, and they remain in misery because it is not possible; they are trying the s and you want it to happen. You want two plus two to be five: you will be miserable unless yousee the point that two plus two CANNOT be five. You may even believe for a few moments that they arefive, but sooner or later the truth will reveal itself –they are four. How long can you deceive, and whatis the point of deceiving? You are simply wasting your life.Don’ttrytheimpossible –and becoming is trying the impossible. You cannot be anybody other thanyou are; let this idea sink deep into your heart. Let me repeat: you cannot be anybody other than youare, there is no becoming. All becoming is the world. Not to be a part of becoming is to be asannyasin.Who is a sannyasin? –one who is no more worried about becoming somebody because he isabsolutely attuned with his being, he knows who he is and he is happy in being that; one who isgrateful in being that. Misery comes whenever you try the impossible, so whenever you are miserableremember: you must be trying something impossible.Bliss is an outcome of simply being the natural. Bliss is not an achievement, it is a by-product ofrelaxing with yourself, of simply being that which you are. Then THIS very moment all misery candisappear, and THIS very moment there is bliss, and THIS very moment there is benediction. andthe heavens open up and God starts showering. And suddenly, a great stirring is felt in the heart: onewho has been asleep becomes awake.Becoming is your sleep. Being is your Buddhahood, being is your awakening. And becoming createsanguish because you have to find ways and means, and everything fails, nothing ever succeeds.Nothing can ever succeed. Hence great anguish arises: your life, which could have bloomed inflowers, becomes only a bed of thorns.But you are responsible and nobody else; it is your life, it is your responsibility. You have to take careabout your being. And the greatest thing that can be said to you is: just be yourself. Carry no ideaabout how you should be – drop all’hows’,drop allideas,drop allideologies,drop allconcepts,images of how you should be. You are already that! Start enjoying that which you are, and then thisvery ordinary life suddenly becomes extraordinary. Then these ordinary days have such tremendouspoetry, then these ordinary moments are full of dance. Then these ordinary people are no moreordinary people; they turn into gods and goddesses. The moment you accept your being you accepteverybody’sbeing.The Guest6Osho

CHAPTER 1. A MEETING WITH THE GUESTWhy has this happened at all in the first place? And why only to man? Why not to the trees and thebirds and the animals? Why are the Himalayan peaks so beautiful, and why are the birds on the wingso enchanting, aredfrom man’slife?There is a reason, and it has to be understood.Man is the only conscious being on the earth; that is his glory and that is his agony too. It depends onyou whether it will be agony or glory. Consciousness is a double-edged sword. You have been withit;itisalmostlikeaswordinthehandsof achild. The sword can be used rightly, can protect, but the sword can harm too. Anything that canbecome a blessing can also become a curse; it depends how you use it.Man is the only conscious being, and consciousness has two possibilities: either it can become Godconsciousness –then it is a benediction, or it can become self-consciousness –then it is a curse. Andwe have made it a curse. We have changed our consciousness into self-consciousness, we havecreated an ego out of being conscious. Rather than becoming aware of the organic unity of existence,rather than becoming aware of the orgasmic joy of existence, rather than becoming part of theuniversal, we have used our consciousness in separating ourselves from the universe, fromexistence, from life. Rather than making a bridge out of consciousness we have made a venmodernpsychologygoesonteachingaverynonsense thing: that ego needs to be strengthened, that a man needs a strong ego because he has tofight in the struggle of life; if he has not got a strong ego he will be defeated by other strong egos. egoyoucannotbeapolitician,ifyoudon’thaveastrong ego you cannot become very rich. You will have to fight tooth and nail for these things, you willhave to fight madly, neurotically, fanatically. You will have to fight, utterly blind to what is happening.You have to go on rushing into the crowd, you have to risk everything; only then can you have muchmoney, much power. But what is the point of having much money and much power?In the first place they are not really needed to be happy, they are not really needed to be contented.Modern psychology goes on teaching people to have strong egos. Modern psychology in fact is stillnot yet modern, not modern enough; it is still persisting in the old ideology, the old ideas. It has a verylong heritage; it has not been yet able to disconnect itself from the past. What the priests were sayingin the past, now the psychologist is saying. He is simply repeating the same, with a new jargon ofcourse, with more scientific terminology, which is dangerous. The priest is exposed now, the priest nolonger has any power; the power has moved to the psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, psychologist. Thepsychologist is the modern priest, and he is doing the same stupid thing as the priests have ofeducationisbasedingivingyouastrongego.And the problem is that the more strong an ego you have the more you are disconnected withexistence, because the more you feel you are separate, the more you ARE separate. And to remainseparate from existence creates fear, creates paranoia.Why are people so afraid of death? Do you think they are really afraid of death? You may not havemeditated over it. Nobody is afraid of death –because how can you be afraid of something which youhave not seen yet? You cannot be afraid of something which is unknown, you can only be afraid ofsomething which is known. A child is not afraid of catching hold of a snake, a child is not afraid ofThe Guest7Osho

CHAPTER 1. A MEETING WITH THE GUESTputting his hand into the fire. Why is he not afraid?because he does not know! How can he be afraid ofthe snake? He has no past experience, no bitter experience. How can he be afraid of the flame? eath?Youdon’tknowanythingaboutdeath.Who knows? It may be a beautiful rest. Who knows? It may take you to a higher plane of life. Whoknows? It may give you freedom from your body. Who knows? How can you be afraid of death? No,nobody is afraid of death; let me say it clearly.But you will say everybody IS afraid of death, I know. There is something else in it: people are NOTafraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once youstart feeling separate from existence the fear of death arises because then death seems to bedangerous. You will no longer be separate; what will happen to your ego, your personality? And youhave cultivated the personality with such care, with such great effort; you have polished it your wholelife, and death will come and destroy it.If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence,that you are one with it, all fear of death disappears because there is nobody to die inside you. In thefirst place there is nobody at all, existence lives through hey are expressing their non-separation, they are declaring that they are one with existence.Once you know that you are one with existence there is no death possible. For death to be possiblefirst you have to create a private, personal life; then death becomes possible. YOU MAKE DEATHPOSSIBLE by creating the ego; and the stronger the ego, the more will be the fear of death. Hencethe most egoistic person is very very prone. deep down, trembling, afraid of death. The less the egothe less the fear of ��their egos are not yet born. Animals are not afraid ofdeath, they simply die; when death comes they die. When birth comes they are here, when deathcomes they are gone.A person of true consciousness will come like the wind and will go like the wind. He will not leave anytraces anywhere. He will not struggle with death, because he will not struggle with life itself. He willallow life to flow through him and he will allow death also to flow anifestation,deathisarest.And remember, if the fear of death disappears then all other fears disappear automatically, because allother fears are nothing but by-products of the main, basic fear –the fear of death. Go into any of yourfears and ultimately you will come to the rock-bottom, and that will be the fear of death. You are afraid oflosing money? Go deep into it and you will find that money somehow gives you a feeling that you aremore protected, that you can resist death more than the poor man; hence you are afraid of losingmoney. If you are powerful, politically powerful, it gives you an appearance, as if you have �slives,itcreates an illusion that you are powerfulover your life too. It is a SHEER illusion, but it is maintained by your high post: you are the president, theprime minister, and millions of people look up to you –you are so important, how can existence affordto lose you? You are so important, how can life continue without you? You are so important that youwill be needed; that gives you the feeling. Also, because you are so powerful over people, you can killthousands of people.The Guest8Osho

CHAPTER 1. A MEETING WITH THE GUESTAdolf Hitler killed millions of people, and those who have looked deeply into his mind are all convincedof one fact: that he was very much afraid of death. He was afraid of death, so much so that he neverallowed anybody to be in his room in the night, not even the woman that he had fallen in love withonce. Nobody was ever allowed to stay in the same room. He would lock the room, check everything,because while he was asleep somebody could kill him. Who knows? –the woman he had fallen in lovewith may be just a spy. He never allowed anybody to come close to him, too close, he was so muchafraid.He got married only three hours before he was going to commit suicide; there was not even a chancefor the honeymoon. In fact that was his honeymoon –suicide. In the middle of the night the priest wascalled to marry him to the woman he had been in a kind of relationship with –it could not have beenof love, because a man like Hitler cannot love. They were married, and the next thing they did aftermarriage was that they killed themselves. Now there was no fear, he could allow the woman to comeclose –he was going to commit suicide anyway. All was lost, the game was lost, the enemy hadentered into the capital. He could hear the bombs exploding just close by; now there was no hope, hehad failed. Now he could get married. For what? For twenty years he had been waiting, for twentyyears the woman had been waiting, but he was so afraid of bringing anybody too close.This man killed millions of people for stupid reasons. He killed Jews, MILLIONS of Jews, with thisstupid idea: that it was because of the Jews that Germany –the race, the country, the nation –hadfallen low; because of Jews the First World War had been lost. Now these are all stupid reasons, withno logic, no relevance. Jews had nothing to do with the First World War, they had nothing to do withthe fall of the German race. Really, they had given the greatest geniuses that Germany has everknown: Karl Marx was a Jew, Sigmund Freud was a Jew, Albert Einstein was a Jew. In fact it was theJews who were the cream, but he killed millions of Jews.Deep down, it seems he was suffering from an inferiority complex. And deep down he was sufferingfrom lfthat”IfIkillsomanypeople, if I cankillmillionsofpeople,thenIam beyonddeath.Iam sopowerful.”A man who is afraid of death is dangerous, dangerous to himself and to others. And the fear arisesout of a very fallacious beginning; the fallacy is that we think we are separate. But consciousness hasthat possibility. Man has been given such a potential power of being conscious that he has to be verycareful how he uses it. Remember, if you move on plain ground there is no danger of falling; if youmove in the mountains, if you go towards the peaks, there is great danger of falling. The higher youmove, the danger becomesmore and more acute. Man is the only animal who is moving higher, at the peaks, towards the peaks.Consciousness is the mountain and we have to be very alert.And that is the whole teaching of all the Buddhas and all the Krishnas and all the Christs, and that is udon’tcreatetheself,besoalertthattheself is not created at all. Self-consciousness is a dis-ease. Just consciousness is great freedom,liberation. By being just conscious, sooner or later you will become God-conscious. By becoming selfconscious, sooner or later you will lose even that small consciousness that lingers behind the self like asmall tail; that consciousness will also disappear.The Guest9Osho

CHAPTER 1. A MEETING WITH THE GUESTThe ego will make you more and more unconscious. The ego will enclose you like a prison wall. It willnot leave even windows in your being to look out through. It will make you a monad, a windowless,closed cell; you will be encapsulated by the ego. It is the ego that is the problem.And hence I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, youhave to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surrender. You have to learn how to melt intoexistence, how to become one with the rivers and the mountains and the clouds, how to feel affinity,attunement, at-onement. And then slowly, slowly you become a host. The day you are a host, theGuest comes.God is not a hypothesis; religion does not propose any hypotheses. The hypothesis is part of thescientific world. A hypothesis means just an assumption to explain a few facts which cannot beexplained without it. But a hypothesis is. always temporary: tomorrow we will find a better hypothesis,then we will discard this one. Hence science goes on discarding every day; better and betterhypotheses are found and older ones are discarded. Now Newton is discarded because of Einstein,Sooner or later we will find a better hypothesis to explain the facts of the world. A hypothesis is just away of explaining the facts; it is man-made. Facts are there and the mind wants to fix all those factsinto a certain system because unless they are put into a certain system the mind feels uneasy, restless.Unless they are systematized, categorized, the mind feels very restless.The mind is a great systematizer, it wants to systematize everything. Even when there is no systemavailable, it invents one. The hypothesis is an invention of the mind, but all the time you know that it isonly an assumption. You need not believe in a hypothesis, you only use the hypothesis.God is not a hypothesis.Then what is God? God is a hypostasis; it is an experience. It is not to explain anything, it is theexperience of the unexplainable. I call it hypostasis; it cannot be changed, it is absolute, and it is not abelief. Those who believe in God, their God is a hypothesis; those who know God, their God is not ahypothesis but a hypostasis.Kabir knows. What he is talking about is not an explanation, what he is talking about is an experience –he is sharing his joy, he is sharing something that he has known, he is singing the song about theunsung. Remember it, that whenever Kabir talks about God it is not a belief; he knows it, it is hisexperience. Hc is talking out of his experience, hence he can be of immense help to member,hecannot be of any help to you. He himself is ignorant, hence the belief Find a rience.”Andthemiracleis:ifyouknowGod,you are God. Knowing God, one becomes God. The old Upanishads say: Knowing God, onebecomes that.Kabir is talking as a God-realized man, utterly drunk. His songs are songs of a drunkard drunk on thedivine, small, but of immense beauty. They may not be great literature –they are not –because hedoes not bother about the meter and the grammar and the language. These are not composed songs,these are outpouringsofhisjoy;a drunkard dancing,singing.You can’texpectformalitiesto befulfilled. These songs are very small gems. The quantity is not the question, but the quality.The Guest10Osho

CHAPTER 1. A MEETING WITH THE GUESTThe original song begins:SAI BIN DARD KAREJE HOY.Without the beloved my heart aches, without the beloved my heart is nothing but pain, without thebeloved I am living in hell.SAI BIN DARD KAREJE HOY.Without the beloved we are empty, hollow: negatives. Unless God enters into our beings, unless Godblooms in our beings, we cannot be REALLY existential, we remain shadows. And it is painful, it aches,it hurts, it is like a wound.WHEN MY FRIEND IS AWAY FROM ME, I AM DEPRESSED;NOTHING IN THE DAYLIGHT DELIGHTS ME,SLEEP AT NIGHT GIVES NO REST.WHO CAN I TELL ABOUT THIS?The helplessness of the mystic! On the one hand he has tasted something of God, he has seen aglimpse; now he hankers for more, now he does not want to leave that experience, that space, evenfor a single moment. But one cannot take hold of that space in one go. The experience is sotremendous, so huge, so enormous, that you cannot swallow it. You have slowly, slowly to imbibe it,you have to chew it and digest it.God is an ocean –you cannot drink Him. You will have to slowly, slowly become one with it.Kabir knows, he has seen the face of the beloved. Now his heart is full of pain, the pain of separation.He has known the state of non-separation, maybe only for a few moments; for a few moments he hasbeen transported to another world, he has tasted the nectar. Now he is back in the world, back to theearth, and it is very painful. The world seems to be

The Guest 3 Osho. That’s what is happening now: many women are turning masculine, becoming more aggressive. In the . The way of Buddha is meditation, the way of Jesus is prayer, but these are simply different names for the same phenomenon. Meditation means bec