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that's all. Only renounce that which you have not got. Only renounce that which is not really there in your hands; you simply imagine it is there. Renounce your dreams and reality is available.
The struggle is going to be a little hard because the mind will not be so easily convinced -- because it is going to be the death of the mind. So that too is natural, that the mind will resist. The death of the mind is your life. And the life of the mind is your death. If you choose mind, you commit suicide as far as your inner being is concerned. If you choose your self, you will have to drop the mind.
And that is what meditation is all about.
Enough for today.
The Search
Chapter #5
Chapter title: Happiness Knows No Tomorrow
5 March 1976 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7603050
ShortTitle: SEARCH05
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 99 mins
The first question:
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
YOU SAY THAT MIND'S SUBSTANCE IS MEMORY AND INFORMATION.
DOES READING THEREFORE INFLATE AND INVIGORATE THE MIND?
It depends. It depends on you. You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life.
If you read the Gita not to collect information but to listen to the song of the divine -- which is not in the words but between the words, which is not in the lines but between the lines -- if you read the Bhagavad Gita as a song of the divine, if you listen to the music of it, then it has a tremendous beauty and it can be helpful. In certain moments of deep absorption you will become one with the divine.
This can happen listening to the song of a bird also, so the question is not of the Gita, Bible or Koran
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