Osho Rajneesh Book "Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot"

Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot

9 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Veeto means transcendence; and that’s the secret of all meditation. It is the very foundation of all

religion. That which we know as the world is only the periphery; the centre is hidden. The centre is

transcendental. It cannot be seen by the eyes, it cannot be heard by the ears, it cannot be touched

by the hands, yet it is, yet it can be experienced.

The way you experience it is not through the senses; hence it is called the transcendental. We seek

the world through the eyes, through the ears, but god comes to us not through the eyes, not through

the ears. In fact he does not come from anywhere: he arises in our being. He is felt there at the very

core.

God is like the silence in the heart of a rose flower: it is already there. Even when the flower is

closed, is a bud, it is there. It does not come from anywhere; it is your nature. Hence senses cannot

help. That’s why the mind is impotent to know god, because the mind is nothing but the super-sense.

The mind is nothing but the accumulated experiences of all the senses. Each of your senses goes

on pouring its information into the mind. The mind is a coordinator. it cannot know anything that is

beyond senses, hence the mind has to become silent, utterly silent. It has to cease to be, then the

transcendental is felt, experienced, realised. It is not an object: it is your very being.

Sampurno means absolute perfection. It is not a goal. If it is a goal it creates neurosis. I am not

saying to you to become a perfectionist. All perfectionists are bound to go neurotic because they

are trying to do something which cannot be done.

Giving you the name ’absolute perfection’ means you are already perfect. It is not a goal to be

achieved, it is a reality to be recognised; it is already the case, because all is god, all is perfect. All

is perfect as it is, no improvement is needed at all; all programmes of improving man are dangerous.

They have been a kind of paralysing, crippling, poisoning. They have created great ideals to improve

man, and all those ideals have done only one thing: they have created hypocrites.

I don’t give you any ideal; all ideals are nonsense. I want you to become aware of reality as it is: all

is good, beautiful, perfect. To live in this feeling is to be religious. To live with this feeling is to be

prayerful. When all is perfect, gratitude is natural. And when you know you are perfect you know

that everything else is perfect too. Then there is no question of feeling superior, inferior. The person

who feels inferior suffers; the person who feels superior suffers. Only the person who does not feel

any inferiority, any superiority, does not suffer. He enjoys the bliss of existence.

Navino means the absolutely new. Existence is new every moment. Only man’s mind becomes old

because it accumulates memories and those accumulated memories in the mind create a burden,

heaviness. One should live like a mirror: one should never accumulate any dust.

So think of each day as new and forget the past, never remember the days that have gone. And if

you can do it from right now, you will have a totally different life. You will have a life of benediction

and beauty. People are missing because they have been taught to accumulate the past. Forget the

day that is gone; it is no more. Live in the moment and don’t think of the future either. If one can live

here and now, god becomes available. And children can live in the here and now more easily than

grown-up people. The so-called grown-up people are already poisoned.

So this is my message to you: don’t lose your innocence, your childhood, ever. Always remain like a

child: fresh, young, fresh like dewdrops, fresh like the morning sun, fresh like the stars. This is what

I call religion. Religion has nothing to do with the church and the Bible. It is a way of living life so

lovingly, so consciously, that each moment becomes joyful.

So sing, dance, celebrate!

Prem means love, dhyano means meditation love meditation. Love without meditation is blind, love

without meditation is a dark night. One gropes, one stumbles; one hurts oneself, one hurts others.

It is natural in darkness, it is natural in blindness. And because love is blind without meditation it is

frustrating too. Because it is blind it cannot soar very high: it remains crawling and creeping on the

earth. It is afraid to soar high. A blind man cannot go climbing the mountains; he is even afraid to

walk on plain ground. To go to the mountains, to climb the peaks, is going to be suicidal.

Meditation without love is lame, dull, cold. Meditation without love creates the ugly phenomenon of

the monk and the nun. They are ugly because they don’t live at all. They are ugly because their

lives are loveless. They are ugly because love is the only phenomenon that gives you beauty and

grace.

Love without meditation is full of juice but blind. Meditation without love has eyes but has no juice; it

is dry, it is a wasteland. Love without meditation is hot, passionate, but it knows nothing of silence.

Hence it is a kind of turmoil, a feverish state of consciousness. It is a restless state. Meditation

without love is silent, but the silence is that of the cemetery, the silence of death, not the silence of

life, because the silence of life is a song. Meditation without love is empty silence. It is not full, it is

not overflowing.

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