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ENERGY
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GAIN ENERGY
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MASTERY
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TANTRA
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SufismVOL. 2, SUFIS: THE PEOPLE OF THE PATHChapter-10Out of the Mud and the MireNinth Question
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The ninth question: Question 9 OSHO, I LIKE MY NAME BUT I LIKE WOMEN TOO. The questioner is Swami Prabhu Anuragi. The name means: lover of God -- hence the question. He says: I LIKE MY NAME BUT I LIKE WOMEN TOO. But who has told you that God is against women, or that God is not in women? In fact, God is far more in women than in men. Men. have gone further astray than women have; women are still closer to nature, closer to feeling, closer to God. When you love a woman, what do you really love in her? It will be different with different people and it will be different at different times. If love really grows, this is the way: first you fall in love with the woman because her body is beautiful. That is the first available beauty -- her face, her eyes, her proportion, her elegance, her dancing, pulsating energy. Her body is beautiful. That is the first approach. You fall in love. Then after a few days you start going deeper into the woman. You start loving her heart. Now a far more beautiful revelation is coming to you. The body becomes secondary; the heart becomes primary. A new vision has arisen, a new peak. If you go on loving the woman, sooner or later you will find there are peaks beyond peaks, depths beyond depths. Then you start loving the soul of the woman. Then it is not only her heart -- now that has become secondary. Now it is the very person, the very presence, the very radiance, the aliveness, that unknown phenomenon of her being -- that she is. The body is very far away, the heart has also gone away -- now the being is. And then one day this particular woman's being becomes far away. Now you start loving womanhood in her, the femininity, the feminineness, that receptivity. Now she is not a particular woman at all, she simply reflects womanhood, a particular form of womanhood. Now it is no longer individual, it is becoming more and more universal. And one day that womanhood has also disappeared -- you love the humanity in her. Now she is not just a representative of woman, she is also a representative of man as much. The sky is becoming bigger and bigger. Then one day it is not humanity, but existence. That she exists, that's all that you want -- that she exists. You are coming very close to God. Then the last point comes -- all formulations and all forms disappear and there is God. You have found God through your woman, through your man. Each love is an echo of God's love. So no need to be worried, Prabhu Anuragi. I have given you the name lover of God, but that does not mean you have to destroy your love for women, that does not mean you have to destroy your love for anything. It simply means you have to deepen it, you have to go on deepening it. Dig more and more, dig deeper, and one day you will find your beloved has disappeared and God is standing there -- because God is hiding in every being, in every form. He is dwelling in every house. Your woman is a house, is a temple; so is your man. I am for love. Even when you fall in love with the body, I am not against it. It is the farthest from God, but still it is related to God. It is a very faraway echo but still it is an echo -- the original is still there somewhere. Never let your love stop anywhere. |
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