Friday, December 19, 2008

Only a Living Master Can Liberate


A master is not like a husband that if you changed from one to another you have betrayed him or you are dishonest towards him. Remember one thing that a Master is for liberating you not for tying you in imprisonment. Anybody who traps you is not a master. You yourself should run away from him. We are on the path of liberation, moksha, which means the ultimate freedom, but we are caught up in small issues. Somebody gets tied to a Master, somebody to religious books or Holy Scriptures or a temple, mosque in the search for salvation. Get up; be aware that a Master is not for holding you back but for liberating you. Neither a master should trap you up, nor a disciple should be ready to be trapped. You should be revolutionary, seeking and searching the truth but always ready to learn. Anybody who can teach you something you should be ready to learn fromhim. So I shall only request you this much, since you are being blissful here, you are enjoying here. You are here for some days, then you must learn it fully. Do it completely.

Your question is like – a disease has infected me 20 years ago and I got operated from a doctor. Now that doctor is no more but the disease is still troubling me so should I take treatment from you or not? If you would go to a doctor and say this, what will he do to you? Either he will show the way to get out or else he will tell you to follow the prescribed dosage offered by him. You had been operated 20 years ago. That did not work out; that’s why you are here. If you would have been fine then what was the need to be here. And you are saying that just in few days you are enjoying here, you are feeling blissful and want to go deeper into meditation. Is this not enough proof that your condition is improving. Now move ahead on this path.

Now forget about what happened in the past and think of your future. Now leave all those old Gurus, forget about them, they are not holding you but you are getting caught in your trap. Think sensibly that a person who is no more, how he could help you anymore. How can a doctor who does not exist do your treatment? Our ego is very subtle. In case of physical treatment we will go to the doctor who actually is present but in case of spiritual guide, we always worship those who are no more. We regard the dead as higher and ill treat the living ones.

I would like to shake you, wake you up from your sleep and say be alive. Be here and now. Be aware towards what is happening right now. You are saying it you are being blissful in few days then go ahead and dive in it fully. You may also dive in it with the remembrance of your master but then it would be half-hearted. Then your past will be hanging in you. Live in the present moment and search for a living Master. This is one of the most important teachings of Osho. Only then we can be of any help to you.

1 comment:

यात्री said...

Living Master dead Master...how sensible?? A Master is the Master,just because he has gone beyond time and space, do you have a single measurement to measure him that weather he is in body or out of body. Osho has himself said..the day i will be gone, i m going to be more available to you, the body creates the limitation itself too. Osho has advocate everything weather one prefer his journey with guru without guru.then why so much fuss around guru and Living guru. Is it due to "Gurudum" policy? those who can get attached to a dead guru...wont they stick to a living guru? why u people say osho is not a living master, its just few days back he left..his fragrance still alive...its not something like after 100 years or 500 years after Osho.