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ECSTASY: THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE

Chapter-4

The way of religion

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Question 1

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CRYSTALLIZED SELF AND A BIG, STRONG EGO?

THEY LOOK ALIKE, but they are as different as two things can be. Not only different, they are diametrically opposite. The crystallized self is not a self at all. It is called a crystallized "self," but it is not a self at all. And the big, strong ego is neither big nor strong. It is very hollow; how can it be strong? It is very empty; how can it be strong? And how can it be big? It is neither big nor strong, but it has the selfhood in it, the "I-amness," the feeling that "I am."

The ego is the self. The real self is not a self at all. We develop the ego just to hide the fact that we don't know who we are. It is very hard to see that we are so ignorant about ourselves, that we don't know. To hide this ignorance, we create the ego. Ego is a deception. It is a deception that you are giving to yourself. It is really difficult to live without self-knowing, so we create a false ego. It gives a little consolation. One starts feeling that one knows who one is.

It simply hides ignorance; that's why all the religions insist on dropping the ego. When you drop the ego and you face your inner being, the vastness of it is such that you cannot define it as "I am." The vastness is so much that it cannot be contained within any concept. You cannot call it "I." It is all; how can you call it "I"? The real self, the real inner being, is God himself; it is all.

But one has to face it. In the beginning, when you face it, it looks as if it is nothing. That is the fear. The all looks like nothing in the first encounter. If you get in tune with it, by and by the negativity disappears and you start feeling the positive existence of it. Then it becomes your soul call it "God," "being," or any word that you want to choose -- call it "enlightenment," "awareness." But one thing is certain: you are not there. Something is there -- tremendously vital, infinite -- but you are not there.

This will look like a paradox: when you come to know yourself you are not there; when you don't know yourself you are there. You exist only in your ignorance. When knowledge has happened -- when KNOWING has happened -- you disappear. You disappear like darkness -- just as when the sun rises the darkness disappears. You disappear like darkness when awareness arises. The awareness does not belong to you; it has nothing to do with you. In fact you are the barrier for it. It is because of you that it is not arising.

People come to me and they say, "Osho, I would like to become enlightened." I say to them, "It is very difficult, it is impossible. I cannot help you." They say, "Why? Why can't you help?" I say, "From the very beginning you are putting such a condition: you say, 'I want to become enlightened.' This 'I' is the barrier. This 'I' is not allowing you to know your enlightenment -- which is already there. The 'I' never becomes enlightened; the 'I' is the unenlightened state. The 'I' is the darkness."

Enlightenment is possible, but it will be possible only when you are ready to lose yourself. That is the meaning of Jesus' saying when he says, "If you lose, you will gain. If you don't lose, you will lose." In losing is the gain. In forgetting is the remembrance. In dissolving, you become crystallized.

The crystallized self is a no-self, it is all; and the big, strong ego is very tiny, not big at all. The tiniest thing in the world is the ego, and the hollowest thing in the world is the ego, and the weakest thing in the world is the ego; because it is the falsest thing possible. It exists not; it is a pretension.

 

Next: Chapter 4, The way of religion, Second Question

 

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Chapter 4

 

  • Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 1
    Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 1, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CRYSTALLIZED SELF AND A BIG, STRONG EGO? at energyenhancement.org

  • Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 2
    Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 2, PLEASE WILL YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT 'THE WAY OF RELIGION' MEANS? I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SO STRONGLY AGAINST RELIGION THAT I CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT IT MEANS. BUT, ANYHOW, I SUPPOSE IT IS THE WAY OF TOTAL ALONENESS. AND THIS MAKES ME A LITTLE UNEASY. SINCE YOU GAVE ME SANNYAS, I FEEL LIKE I AM IN AN ABYSS. OTHER PEOPLE ARE NOT REACHABLE FOR ME; I AM ONLY FIXED UP TO THE FIRE OF YOUR EYES -- A TREMENDOUS POONA FICTION STORY at energyenhancement.org

  • Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 3
    Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 3, IN YOUR LECTURES YOU TALK ABOUT GURDJIEFF, RAMAN, RAMAKRISHNA, BASHO, AND OTHERS WHO ARE PHYSICALLY NOT ALIVE, BUT WHY DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENED PERSONS WHO ARE PHYSICALLY ALIVE TODAY? at energyenhancement.org

  • Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 4
    Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 4, THERE WAS A LITTLE POLAR BEAR WHO ASKED HIS MOTHER, ' WAS MY DADDY ALSO A POLAR BEAR?' 'OF COURSE YOUR DADDY WAS A POLAR BEAR.' 'BUT,' GOES ON THE LITTLE ONE AFTER A WHILE, 'MOMMY, JUST TELL ME, WAS MY GRANDFATHER ALSO A POLAR BEAR?' ' YES, HE WAS ALSO A POLAR BEAR.' TIME GOES BY AND THE LITTLE ONE KEEPS ASKING HIS MOTHER, 'BUT WHAT ABOUT MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER? WAS HE A POLAR BEAR AS WELL?' ' YES, HE WAS. BUT WHY ARE YOU ASKING?' 'BECAUSE I AM FREEZING at energyenhancement.org

  • Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 5
    Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 5, I HAVE HEARD, A MAN IN AN ORANGE ROBE ENTERED THE VRINDAVAN JUICE BAR, BARGED UP TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE, AND DEMANDED TEA AND CAKE. HE PAID WITH A HUNDRED-RUPEE NOTE AND COMPLAINED ABOUT THE COST AND THE LONG LINEUP. AFTER CHOOSING THE BIGGEST PIECE OF CAKE AND THE BIGGEST CUP, HE TOOK OVER AN OLD LADY'S SEAT AND PROCEEDED TO GOBBLE THE FOOD. A BYSTANDER, PUZZLED BY HIS BEHAVIOR, ASKED THE MEANING OF IT. WHY, HE EXPLAINED, OSHO SAID THAT ONLY A CRYSTALLIZED EGO CAN BE DROPPED at energyenhancement.org

  • Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 6
    Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 6, THERE ARE MORE AND MORE NON-MOMENTS, PERIODS OF NO TIME, ESPECIALLY WHEN TALKING WITH OTHERS, WHEN SUDDENLY I AM NOT TALKING ANYMORE, TALKING IS JUST HAPPENING: THERE IS A FLOW, A SENSE OF POWER AND WHOLENESS, HANDS MOVE IN PERFECT SYNCHRONIZATION WITH THOUGHT FEELINGS, SPACE EXPANDS, AND THERE IS OPENNESS WITH NO SENSE OF SEPARATION -- AND NO 'I' THAT IS SEPARATE. THE FRONT OF THE BODY SEEMS TO BE NONEXISTENT AND I AM TALKING WITH MYSELF. ARE THESE THE HERE-AND-NOW-I MOMENTS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, OR IS THERE MORE, OR IS IT A MATTER OF MORE MORE,FREQUENTLY? at energyenhancement.org

  • Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 7
    Kabir, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language Chapter 4: The way of religion, Question 7, WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? PLEASE EXPLAIN at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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