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body; you become part of the great heart, the heart of the whole universe. You beat with it; its beat is your beat, its life is your life. You become oceanic: the dewdrop disappears in the ocean and becomes the ocean.
The warmth that arises in love is the beginning of the melting. The ego can exist only when you are frozen and cold. As you become warmer, the ego starts evaporating.
Let love happen, because that is true birth; and a sannyasin has to become pure love -- love for love's sake.
OSHO (TO BETH): It is only by becoming blissful that we become ready to receive the ultimate guest in our being. We can become God's houses, his temples, only through great bliss, not through small fragments and the momentary joys which come and go. The great bliss is when one remains, abides in it forever, when it becomes just like breathing: it is with you all the time with no effort. If effort is needed it is a small bliss, a momentary phenomenon. You are bound to lose it because you cannot remain in a strain twenty-four hours a day. It will become a tension on you.
Hence I don't teach that one should try to cultivate bliss; bliss cultivated is a false thing and takes too much toll, and unnecessary tension is created.
Bliss has to be a spontaneous happening. You cannot create it, you can only allow it to happen. So all the work that goes on here is not to create bliss but just to remove the obstacles in its path. The whole work consists in [text missing?] and in creating bridges. Once the walls are gone and the bridges have been made bliss comes dancing to you. And it does not come from the outside; the paradox is that it arises from your innermost core.
Ordinarily we are not bridged with ourselves. That's the whole problem of alienation: we have become outsiders to ourselves, strangers to ourselves. A gap has arisen between our real being and our so-called personality. The personality has to be dissolved, because the personality consists of walls and barriers and rocks. Once the personality is gone you explode in bliss.
That bliss is the great bliss, the real bliss -- anand. Then it remains, then it is simply your flavor, then
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