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but not intensely alive, not passionately alive, not totally alive.
I believe in totality, intensity.
God isn't a person he told the next sannyasin, so if you imagine you are praying to god you're only paying homage to your own imagination.
... and people have created as many gods as they want. But godliness is a truth. Godliness means a quality, aliveness. The whole existence is full of aliveness. It is a dance a celebration. It is not just matter, it is consciousness.
The people who believe in god are believing in a superstition. The people who really want to find out the truth about god have not to believe but to meditate. Meditation requires no a priori belief; it simply means watching your mind and becoming silent. Slowly slowly mind starts disappearing and silence becomes more and more profound. When the mind completely disappears and there is only a peace pervading you, you become aware of godliness. Then the whole existence is transformed. It becomes luminous, with the tremendously beautiful presence of something mysterious. That mystery is god, that luminosity is god, that bliss is god, that benediction is god.
[This Osho followed by talking about the two kinds of silence that one can experience.]
One is a very superficial silence. Everybody experiences it once in a while -- the silence that you feel when you wake up in the morning just for a few seconds. There is no worry, no thought. Just for a few seconds there is a gap, night is over, the dreams are finished and the day with all its worries and troubles has not yet started. But it is a superficial silence; it is a by-product of sleep. Sleep is rest but it is not a deep rest, hence it cannot give you a deep silence.
Meditation is a deep deep rest, as deep as possible. And it goes on deepening every day. A moment comes in meditation when the depth is such, abysmal, that you cannot see any bottom anywhere; it is infinite. Then you go on falling and falling into that deep abyss; there is nowhere to stop. But the deeper you go, the more bliss arises.
Superficial silence can be disturbed very easily by any silly thing. If you get up out of your bed and
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