Osho Rajneesh Book "Sat Chit Anand"

Sat Chit Anand

I have found my people
24 November 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Question 1

BELOVED OSHO,

SITTING WITH YOU IN DISCOURSE A FEELING OF MAGNIFICENCE AND UTTER

LUXURIOUSNESS, WHICH FEELS SO DIFFERENT FROM MATERIAL LUXURY, KEEPS ON

ARISING IN ME.MOST PRECIOUS MASTER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE LUXURIOUSNESS OF BEING WITH A LIVING MASTER?

Sadhan, there are two worlds side by side: the world of matter and the world of consciousness.

The world of matter is known to the mind but the world of consciousness is only known when mind

disappears.

We are all born as a mind and existence gives us every opportunity and every challenge to go

beyond it. Very few dare, but those who dare, only they are the people who have known life in its

immense beauty, its luxury, its joy, its music, its harmony, its eternal silence and peace. Only those

few people have really lived; the others are only somehow dragging themselves from the cradle to

the grave.

Mind can never know what authentic luxury is. It cannot know anything of the real; it knows only

about the unreal, about the world that is made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. Mind has

its own limitations.

There is no question of condemning the mind. Your eyes can see but your eyes cannot hear. There

is no reason to condemn the eyes because you cannot hear the music. Why can you not hear the

sound of the running water? Why can you not hear the songs of the birds and the tremendous

silence of the stars? Eyes can only see. And there is no question of any condemnation.

Ears can only hear. It is absolutely absurd to condemn the ears because they cannot see the light

of the sun and the moon, because they cannot see the rainbow and its colors and the flowers and

their tremendous beauty.

All our five senses have their own windows into existence. And all our five senses combined is our

mind. These five senses are five doors or windows of the mind into existence. But because all these

five senses can go only outwards, you can see what is outside you but not what is inside you. You

can touch what is outside you but not what is inside you.

All senses are doors opening to the outside world. And the world of consciousness is within. Mind

has no way even to have a glimpse of the world that is hidden inside you. They are just side by

side. There is not a difference of miles or even a few steps. They meet on a boundary line, they are

running parallel. And just as parallel lines never meet, they never meet. You will have to jump from

one line to another line.

The mind hankers for luxury, for comfort, for joy, for love, and it tries also to make things that it longs

for, but they are bound to be just outward things: a beautiful house, beautiful furniture, a beautiful

garden. Everything that you can think of, the mind can manage – but only on the outside.

It is only a very faraway echo of the inner beauty, of the inner luxury, of the inner richness. But the

inner, which is so close, remains almost closed to millions of people. Their whole lives they are

playing with toys and never come to know the real.

And the real was not far away. It was just a change of gestalt. This word ‘gestalt’ is German. No other

language has exactly the same word, hence it is used in all the languages without being translated.

But it can be explained so that you can see what it indicates.

Just thirty or forty years ago a psychology came into being and became very fashionable. It was

gestalt psychology. It has faded now. But there is some significant meaning in the very word ‘gestalt’.

The psychology may prove true or untrue – that is not my interest. My interest is in the simple word

‘gestalt’. That psychology has contributed a tremendously beautiful word.

In gestalt psychology books you will always find a picture to explain the meaning of gestalt and

sometimes you will find that kind of picture in children’s books: a beautiful young woman – it is just

a line drawing. And what is expected of you is to go on staring, without blinking, at the beautiful face

of the woman. And suddenly you see something has changed. Nothing has changed: you are the

same, the book is the same, the picture is the same. But in a strange moment, in a strange way,

something has transpired between your vision and the lines of the picture. Instead of a beautiful

young woman, you see a very ugly old woman. You cannot believe it when it happens for the first

time. Then go on staring – it will happen again. The old woman will disappear and the young woman

is there. You cannot see both together.

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