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deep, and the conscious is a tiny thing, helpless, but once the conscious is drowned in the unconscious two things happen. One: you are no more divided, you are no more schizophrenic. You become one, integrated. The second thing that happens: the conscious, once it is drowned in the unconscious, imparts its quality of consciousness to the unconscious. It is just like a sugar cube being drowned in water -- the whole of the water becomes sweet. Once the unconscious takes the conscious into itself, its light, the light of the conscious, spreads all over. It illuminates the unconscious. And both are great steps towards realisation.
Allow it. Relax, be in a let-go....
The Madman's Guide to Enlightenment
Chapter #3
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3 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7806035
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[Osho gives a fourteen-year-old boy the name Swami Prem Ajita -- unconquerable love]
And love is the only power that cannot be conquered. There is no way to conquer it. The only way to approach it is to surrender -- not through conflict, not through conquering. The only way to attain to love is to bow down to it. If one starts fighting for it, one goes on missing it. And that's why millions of people in the world live a loveless life. They have been trying to do the impossible: they have been trying to conquer it; they want to possess it. Just as they possess money, other kinds of power, they want to possess love too. And it cannot be possessed; it is bigger than we are. We can be possessed by it but we cannot possess it. So one has to surrender to love.
And that's the way to god too; god cannot be conquered. One has not to be aggressive towards god. One has not to become a soldier; one has to become a sannyasin. And that's the difference between a soldier and a sannyasin: the soldier is trying to conquer; the sannyasin is trying to be conquered. The sannyasin is praying to god: 'Conquer me. I am available -- possess me. Take me away from myself. Destroy my will, my ego. Let your will be done.'
And this is the time -- if one starts
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