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what else is there to do except to be grateful and to praise? So become blissful and praise god -- that's your worship!
This word 'upasana' is very significant. Literally it means: to sit close to god. The more blissful you are, the more close you are to god. When one is utterly blissful, one is in god and god is in one. Then the duality is gone: the worshipper becomes the worshipped, the knower is the known, and the observer is the observed. Then all dualities and distinctions disappear... and that is the ultimate. Keep an eye open for that ultimate...
[Osho gives a 'come close energy darshan' to a sannyasin who is leaving, and working for Osho in the West.]
Everything is beautiful. Go on forgetting yourself more and more in the work -- dissolve yourself completely into the work. The ego is the only problem there is, and all the work in the ashram is nothing but a device so that you can forget the ego. It is all meditation.
[Osho gives a name for a therapy centre in the West.]
Unmada. It means: ecstatic madness, the ultimate, delirious madness that happens when man meets god. It is the fragrance of samadhi. One dances in ecstasy, with abandon. There is no holding back -- there is nobody to hold it either; it is a state of utter let-go. Not that you dance, but god dances through you.
And certainly it is mad. Reason cannot explain it, because for that kind of joy there is no reason in existence at all. Unless it happens, it cannot even be believed that it is possible. And it is mad because the mind simply explodes. After that there is no mind. It is a state of no-mind. But it is not passive -- it is dynamic, it is exploding energy, expanding energy.
Will it be easy to pronounce? -- 'Unmada'. Good. Now let this be the name and let this be the goal. Growth in itself is not the goal: growth makes ecstasy possible. It is a means -- all meditations, all methods are means. And the goal should not be lost sight of. Otherwise sometimes it happens -- it is happening -- that growth in itself becomes the goal. One has to grow so that one can contain god. One hai to become huge, enormous, so that one can contain god. One has to
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