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brings glory, honor. It brings tremendous beauty, incredible joy.
It makes life meaningful, significant, a song and a celebration.
OSHO (TO MARION): Man is a potentiality, a possibility. We can miss it millions miss it, and the reason why we miss is very simple: we think that we have already attained life. We make birth synonymous with life -- that is our fundamental misunderstanding. Birth is only an opportunity to be alive, it is not synonymous with life. One can live a very unalive life. One can go on dragging; one can go on moving through life in deep sleep, one can be a somnabulist.
In fact that's how man is: a machine. Man is not yet alive, has not yet been touched by God, has not allowed God to touch him, has not been available to God. Hence we carry great seeds which can become trees and can blossom, and a great fragrance can be released into existence. We can beautify existence, we can be a grace and a blessing to existence, but that rarely happens -- only once in a while is there a Jesus, a Buddha, a Zarathustra. But millions and millions of peopleare born and die without living at all.
To be a sannyasin means being aware of this basic misunderstanding. Once you are aware you start seeking and searching for a second birth; and the second birth becomes possible only through meditation; hence in old, ancient scriptures, meditation is called the real mother.
Jesus says to his disciples: Unless you are born again you will not enter into my kingdom of God. In the East, the person who has attained to God is called dwija, twice-born. The second birth releases the fragrance.
And by meditation, concentration is not what is meant. Concentration is of the mind. It has its own utility: it is needed in scientific work, in accumulating knowledge. It is useful -- I am not against concentration -- but it has its own limitations. It cannot take you beyond the mind; it is a mind effort.
Meditation is not contemplation either. Contemplation is a little higher than concentration. If concentration is at the very center of the mind, contemplation is at the very cirumference of the mind. It is more subtle. One has to be more artful,
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