Saints
The saints that I criticise are not saints of love. They are all anti-love, anti-life, they are not life-affirmative. I don't condemn them because they are saints, I condemn them because they are anti-life. If somebody is full of life's joy and love for life then there is real saintliness.
Real saintliness cannot be against love and against life. It can't be against this celebration that goes on and on. Real saintliness will be a participation in existence as it is. The real sage or saint will not choose, he will accept whatsoever is given. The body is given, he will accept it. The world is given, he will accept it, and he will accept it in immense gratitude because it is God's gift.
So I am against the so-called saints -- I am trying to create real saints. And unless we can create real people the world is doomed. Religion has been condemnatory too long. It has crippled, paralysed people's lives. I want religion to give you freedom, not paralysis... a capacity to dance, to be fluid, to be liquid, a capacity to love, to relate, to communicate, not just to become a monk and close into yourself.
There are two things which are of the highest importance in life. One is meditation, another is love. Up to now the worldly person has chosen love and the other-worldly has chosen meditation and both have become lopsided. An inch's distinction and heaven and earth are set apart. It creates dichotomy and your being also becomes divided.
My effort here is to create individuals, not schizophrenic people -- unities, integrated persons, and the highest kind of synthesis happens only through love and meditation together. So when you are feeling like being alone, meditate; then forget everything else. Soon the desire will arise to relate, to be loved, to love. Then forget all about the inner. Move totally into the other and let that moment be as deep as possible. Go into the other deeply and y
you will be surprised that going deeply into the other helps you to go deeply into yourself. Then go deeply into yourself and you will be amazed that the deeper :you go into yourself, the more capable you become of loving.
That is my definition of a saint, so you need not be worried what I say about saints. I am creating a new kind of saint!
-Osho, "Let Go!, #18"