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God. It means 'all-seeing.' There is no way to hide from God but man goes on trying. Not that he succeeds, he cannot succeed in the very nature of things. But in the effort he wastes his life and becomes alienated from God, starts believing he has deceived God.
Start meditating on the all-seeing quality of God, on the fact that He is everywhere, that you are never alone, that you cannot be alone, that He sees inside you. You cannot escape from Him, there is nowhere to go. Wherever you are, He is. You are in Him, you are Him. He is not seeing you from the outside. If He were seeing you from the outside there may have been ways to avoid Him but He is seeing you through your own consciousness so it is impossible to get rid of Him.
Surrender and open up to God. Be nude before Him. This is the meaning of authenticity. And when a person is authentic, he is religious. This is the idea behind the sufi name: it is just a device to make you authentic.
[Osho gives sannyasin to a seeker who has been initiated by the Anand Marga movement.]
You have been on a path of shakti -- of power, energy -- and that's a dangerous trip. Very few people reach through power. It is very appealing, magnifying, gratifying, but dangerous, because the ego can ride on it. One should never search for power. Power comes of its own accord but that's another matter. One should search for peace. One's goal should remain peace-oriented, then a power comes, a great power, but it is just a by-product; you don't take much note of it.
Hence the ego can't ride on it. It comes like a shadow, it is not the main thing. The main thing is peace and peace is against the ego. One is as peaceful as one is egoless. So the ego cannot absorb, exploit the peace that arises in one's being, but it can exploit power very easily.
The people who seek power are more, because that is a natural instinct. We seek power through money, we seek power through politics, we seek power even through God. That's why we say that God is omnipotent, all-powerful. But the search is basically wrong. The search should be for silence, for stillness, for utter annihilation. The search should be to cease...
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