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This word "seeing" is misleading. It gives an impression as if God is a person who will be seen. Similarly the word "God" also creates the illusion of a person, a personality. There is no God, there is only godliness. God is not a person, only energy. God is an infinite ocean of energy, an infinite ocean of consciousness which is mani¬festing itself in all forms. God is not separate as some creator, it is the creation, it is creativity, it is life.
Surrounded by the ego, we create the illusion that we are separate from this life. This is our distance, our separation from godliness. In actual¬ity, there is no distance or separation. The illusion created by the "I" is the distance. This distance is ignorance. In fact, there is no distance as such, ignorance itself is the distance.
Once the "I" dissolves, an infinite, boundless, creative life force is realized and that is "God." The experience one has at the death of "I" is the seeing of God. What you see is that the "I" is nowhere and that which is in the waves of the ocean is in you; that which is in the fresh spring shoots is in you; that which is in autumn's falling leaves is in you. You are nowhere discontinuous and separate from the universal isness, you are in it; you are it. This experience is called "seeing God."
A seer has said, "Tattvamasi svetaketu"That are thou. The day you feel and experience this, you have realized God. Anything less then this, different from this, is all imagination.
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What vision of God can you have? One has to become God oneself. What vision of the ocean can a dewdrop have? but it can lose its identity and become the ocean itself. As long as it is a dewdrop there is a vast gap between it and the ocean, but once it loses its identity and dissolves in the ocean, it is itself the ocean.
Do you search for God? Seek how to become God. And the path of this search is the same as the dewdrop in its search for the ocean. <...>
A man once asked a mystic the way to attain God. The mystic looked into his eyes and saw thirst. The mystic was on his way to the river so he asked the man to accompany him and promised to show him the way to attain God after they had bathed.
They arrived at the river, as soon as the man plunged into the water the mystic grabbed the man's head and pushed it down into the water with great force. The man began to struggle to free himself from the mystic's grip. His life was in danger. He was much weaker than the mystic but his latent strength gradually began to stir and soon it became impossible for the mystic to hold him down. The man pushed himself to the limits and was eventually able to surface up. He was shocked. It was almost impossible for him to understand the mystic's strange behavior: Was the mystic mad? And the mystic was laughing loudly as well.
After the man could catch his breath the mystic asked him, "Friend, when you were under the water what desires did you have in your mind?" The man said, "Desires! there weren't desires, there was just one desire to get a breath of air." The mystic said, "This is the secret of attaining God. This is will. And your will awakened all your latent powers."
It is in such a moment of intense will that great strength is generated, and man transits from the world into the truth. It is through will that the transition from the world into truth and from the dream into truth, takes place.
* excerpt from OSHO. The Perfect Way.
Updated on 24-08-2015 |