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happens in you suddenly you become aware of the fourth -- of which you have never been aware before. And that is you, the fourth. You can call it the soul, the self, god or whatsoever you want to call it, that is up to you; any name will do because it has no name of its own.
Lao Tzu says "Because it has no name I have chosen to call it tao." You can choose anything -- X Y Z, but to attain it is the ultimate goal of life. And in that moment all is light -- your inner eye has opened. It is only through that inner eye and that light that one becomes aware of the truth of existence, and that truth liberates.
Expanding on the subject of awareness Osho said that a man who hasn't meditated isn't really alive; all he does is vegetate.
He is a cabbage, or, if you don't like the word "cabbage", you can call him a cauliflower. A cauliflower is a cabbage with college education, but basically it is the same. Educated, uneducated, cultured, uncultured, civilised, uncivilised -- it is the same. A cabbage after all is a cabbage. It may be a M.A. or a Ph.D. or a D.Lit. -- it doesn't matter. Only with meditation do you start transcending your cabbage-like life. You start living for the first time, your life energies are released.
Everybody is born with those energies, but they are like a seed, a potential and very few people up to now have been able to actualise that potential. And the people who have actualised it have always actualised it through the same process. Jesus or Buddha, Zarathustra or Lao Tzu, Krishna or Mahavira, Mohammed or Kabira -- they have followed the same process with different names.
Jesus called it "becoming aware"; he used the word "beware" -- that simply means be aware. It is a word made of two words "be", "aware". Buddha called it right mindfulness. Kabira called it surati, remembrance, remembering who you are. Gurdjieff called it self -- remembering -- it is the same. Krishnamurti calls it, choiceless awareness. This is a difference of words but they all indicate towards the same moon; different fingers pointing to the same moon.
I call it meditation. Become aware and you will know the taste of real life. And to
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