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Question 6

OSHO, I SEE THAT THE PEOPLE HERE AROUND YOU ARE VERY MUCH EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING. BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT EXACTLY IT IS.

HENRY David Thoreau said 'Only that day dawns to which we are awake.' If you are fast asleep in the morning you will not see the sun rising and you will not hear the birds singing and you will miss all that celebration that goes on in the morning. If you are awake, only then does the day dawn for you.

For a blind man there are no rainbows, no colors. Unless you have eyes, rainbows don't exist. For a deaf person there is no music, no sound.

Remember, something is really happening here. And I can understand your question, and people around me ARE really excited. Something is happening to their innermost core. They are moving into a different dimension, they are opening something unknown in their being. They are discovering themselves, they are growing, they are feeling grounded and centered.

The trees grow only if their roots grow in the earth. With man it is just the reverse: man grows roots only if he grows. Trees grow only if they have roots, man can have roots only if he grows. And when you feel rooted in existence you feel it is your home. Then you don't feel an alien, you don't feel a foreigner, you don't feel an outsider. It is all yours -- all the stars and all the suns and all the moons, it is all yours. There is no need to possess anything because the whole universe is yours.

This I call real renunciation. Not that you renounce meaningless things: somebody renounces money and thinks he has done a great obligation to God, he has renounced money. What are your notes to God? What do they mean in the universal? They don't mean anything; they are very local. In fact that which seems money to you is not money in China.

You may be surprised that savages, down the ages, have been fighting for such things that you will not conceive how they did, and why. For feathers, savages have killed each other, or for seashells or for bones or bone ornaments. Now we laugh -- this is stupid. But what are your currency notes? A feather is far more valuable than your currency note because the feather has a beauty which nature has given to it. Your currency note is as valuable as you pretend it to be, or has as much value as you have agreed that it will have. It is an agreement, a contract.

And savages look foolish because they will fight for small things. For what have you been fighting? And it is not only that you fight for these small things, meaningless, utterly meaningless and ridiculous -- your so-called saints are valued very much because they renounce these stupid things. Either you cling to these but you value them, or you renounce them but you still value them. Otherwise what is the point of renouncing them?

I don't teach renunciation. I teach that the whole world is yours, so why possess? What is the point of possessing? You possess moons and stars, you possess God. What else do you need?

Something is happening to my people here. You must be new to this place and you will not know why they are so much excited. Let me tell you one anecdote.

A teacher asked the children in her art class to depict on the blackboard their impressions of the most exciting thing they could think of.

The first little boy went to the board and drew a long jagged line. 'What's that?' asked the teacher.

'Lightning' the boy replied. 'Every time I see lightning I get so excited I want to yell!'

'Fidel' said the teacher. 'That's a very vivid picture.'

The second child, a little girl, drew a wavy line with the broad side of the chalk. That was her idea of thunder, she explained, which always made her feel excited. The teacher said that her picture was excellent, too.

Then little Neal stepped to the board, drew a single dot, and sat down. 'What's that?' queried the teacher, a bit perplexed.

'It's a period,' replied Neal.

'Well, Neal, what's so exciting about a period?' 'I don't know, teacher' the boy answered. 'But my sister has missed two of them, and my whole family's excited!'

Now, the child cannot understand what is happening. The sister has missed two periods: it is beyond his comprehension. But the whole family is excited -- he can see that.

You must be new here, a child. Go orange and you will understand what is so exciting, what is going on here. You will have to participate in it to know it -- you will have to become part of this mad family. Go orange.