Timeless-ness

 

 

Nobody is new, all are very ancient pilgrims. We have always been here - in different forms, in different bodies, doing different things, but we have been here and we are going to be here forever. There is no way for us to disappear from existence. Nothing can be destroyed and nothing can be added to existence. Existence is always exactly the same.

 

Now even science accepts that we cannot destroy anything and we cannot add anything; only forms change. The river goes on, only waves change. Sometimes there are big waves, sometimes small, sometimes no waves, but it is the same river. With waves, big waves, small waves, no waves, it is the same river.

 

This insight takes you beyond time -- and to go beyond time is to go beyond misery. To know the timeless is to enter into the world of bliss. Your name will remind you again and again that you are the ancient one, the timeless one, the eternal one. So no need to be worried about small things, no need to be too concerned about mundane things; they come and go, you abide. Remember that which abides, which never comes, never goes. That is god, and that is within you as it is within everybody else.

 

-Osho, “Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters, #1”

 

 

 

 

Death cannot wake you up, Pratima, because you have died many times before and it has not awakened you yet. You are not new here -- nobody is new. You are all ancient pilgrims, very ancient. You have seen Buddhas, Christs, Zarathustras, Lao Tzus. You have seen the whole evolution of human consciousness, you have been part of it. You have been here many times and death has happened again and again. It has not helped in any way. It can't help, because death has a natural mechanism: before you die you become nconscious. It is as if death used anesthesia; so does birth. Birth also happens in unconsciousness.

 

Just think. One thing is certain: that you were born. You may not be so certain about your past lives -- maybe it is just a theory -- but one thing is absolutely certain: that you were born one day. At least this life is there. Do you remember anything of your birth? And birth and death are not separate, they are two aspects of the same coin. On one side it is birth, on another side it is death; on one side it is death, on another side it is birth. It is the same coin. Heads or tails, it makes no difference; it is the same coin.

 

You see one person dying: here he is dying, somewhere else he has started being born. The moment he is dead here he will have entered another womb somewhere. It takes seconds, only seconds, to enter another womb. Millions of foolish people are always making love, twenty-four hours. You will not have to search long, you will not have to search and wait, you will not even have to stand in a queue, remember.

 

That's why it happens again and again that if a person dies in India he is born again in India. It happens more or less that way, because who cares to go far away? Just in the neighborhood some foolish couple is ready to receive you.

 

There was birth, but you were unconscious. Birth also happens in unconsciousness, because that too is a very painful process -- it is a kind of death. You lived in the womb for nine motnhs, it was your life for nine months, and the nine months in the womb are not nine months for the child; for the child it is almost an eternity, because he has no sense of time. And then suddenly one day the womb is ready to expel you. To the child it looks like death, he is dying. His world is disappearing, his way of life, to which he has become accustomed, is being taken away from him. All that he knows about life is going to be destroyed. Without the womb he cannot conceive what life there can be. The womb is all that that he knows; beyond the womb all is unknown.

 

-Osho, “The White Lotus, #6, Q2”