The advaita of life

Most of us, when we think about our lives, we think in parts and fragments. We start living our lives the way we think. This kind of thinking is dangerous as it creates split personality. A worldly man who goes through all sorts of struggle in the world thinks that later in his life he would renounce the world and become a sannyasi, and finally have peace one day. Some people who get fed up with the world very early in their lives become sannyasis prematurely, they also feel lack of worldly comforts. There is starvation of love and emotional nourishment in their lives.

Osho says: Love is a basic experience, which can help you become meditators. The old religions have been preventing it, and they have been preventing it for a certain reason. If people can transform their love into meditation, then the priests, churches and synagogues are no more needed; people are totally free. No spiritual leadership is needed. The enlightened master elaborates this with an example of a swimmer: Love is like entering a swimming pool. Step by step you are going towards deep water. A real meditator is also a real lover. A real lover is also a meditator. Lord Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Kabir, Guru Nanak, Meera, and many such mystics are real lovers of life, because they are the greatest meditators this world has known. After going very deep within themselves, they realised that humanity and the whole universe is one. That’s why they taught us love, compassion and reverence. Not only for human beings, but for animals, birds, trees and the whole existence. To them, totality of life is divine. Godliness permeates the whole existence. This is the real advaita of life.