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for god. And that is the only desire worthwhile. All other desires are very very trivial, meaningless and a sheer wastage of life. One has to gather all desires together and make one desire out of them: the desire for god. And only that desire gives dignity; it brings splendour to life. All other desires only disintegrate a person, make him divided into fragments. As many desires as you have, so you will be divided into one thousand parts, so you will have one thousand minds; you will be a crowd.
Each desire will create a small centre of its own, and there will be many centres in you. It will be very difficult to know exactly who you are. And each desire pretends to be the soul, the very centre. So a man of many desires remains in pieces, in fragments.
With lalasa, with a single desire for god, one becomes integrated because then there is only one desire and only one centre and only one self. And that brings joy, that brings strength and that brings an authenticity in life.
[The new sannyasin says: I've been in the Gurdjieff school in England with Mr. Bennett.]
Very good! That's exactly the meaning of the word 'lalasa'! That's what Gurdjieff says -- that man is a crowd, polypsychic, many minds together, and each part pretending to be the master of the house. And a divided house cannot stand long. That is the whole work of Gurdjieff: to create integration, to help you to crystallise.
[A sannyasin, returning to the West, said she had been in love with someone in the West, and since she had come to see Osho had received threatening letters from him. She is still in love with him, but afraid. She says: And it's very messy; I feel very unclear about it.]
Mm mm, this thing called love is always messy! I have never seen a clean love!...
Things are really messy! You are not the woman he used to know!...
Just go! Your love for me is so deep that nothing can distract you, and anything that tries to distract you will become meaningless for you. So I don't see there is any trouble; things just have to be cleared. Either he understands you -- either he loves you with your freedom, with your personality, without any kind
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