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is God. It is not a question of trusting some power called God. Trust itself is divine. So, good !
Above All Don't Wobble
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
18 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7601185
ShortTitle: WOBBLE03
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[A sannyasin says: When I was doing the Gourishankar (a meditation) I had a terrible feeling of death come over me, and I guess I immediately associated it with my mother. I've really been worrying about it, and I wonder if everything is okay back home.
Osho checks her energy.]
Mm, nothing to worry about your mother. It has something to do with you, not with your mother.
Everybody comes to a feeling of death some day or other in deep meditation. Whenever meditation touches your inner depth, the feeling of death comes -- because that very point where you touch yourself is the beginning of you and the end of your ego. So your ego goes through a sort of feeling of death; not exactly death, but... great panic.
Next time it happens don't be afraid; just move in it. Death is as beautiful as life. And the whole idea about death -- that it is something to be afraid of -- is based on absolutely wrong notions. Wrong notions about life too, because we think life is the life of the body -- that's why death seems to be so scaring.
If you come to understand that life is more than body -- body is just the surface of it, the form of it, and life itself is formless -- then death is nothing but a door; a door to the beyond, a door to yourself. It is a returning to the source.
Once you have fallen into your source, once you allow it to happen, you will become alive for the first time. Then you know that you are deathless; nothing can destroy you, not even death. Unless one experiences death, death remains. Once you accept it, death disappears -- it has been transcended. So the sooner it happens the better.
It was a good experience, but you have misunderstood it. It is just an indication that sooner or later you will have a deeper feeling of it coming again. Allow it, mm? And if you become really very much
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