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Osho on Tantra:
Sex
is the most vital energy - the only energy, I say, which you have. Don't
fight with it; it will be a wastage of life and time - rather, transform
it. But how to do it? How to transform it? What can we do?
I
will give you a simple method:
While making love, three things have to be remembered. One is: before
you make love, meditate. Never make love without meditating, otherwise
the love will remain sexual. Before you meet the woman you should rise
higher in your consciousness because then the meeting will happen on a
higher plane. For at least forty minutes sit looking at the wall with
just a very dim light on so that it gives a mysteriousness.
Sit silently and don't move the body; remain like a statue. Then when
you make love, the body will move, so give it another extreme of first
being unmoving so the body gathers momentum to move deeply. Then the urge
becomes so vibrating that the whole body, every fiber is ready to have
a movement. Then only Tantric orgasm is possible. You can have some music
on - classical music will do; something that gives a very subtle rhythm
to the body.
Make the breathing as slow as possible because when you make love the
breathing will go deep and fast. So just go on slowing down, but don't
force it, otherwise it will go fast. Simply suggest that it slows down.
Both meditate together and when you are both feeling meditative, that
is the moment to love. Then you will never feel tension and energy will
be flowing. If you are not feeling meditative, don't make love. If meditation
is not happening that day, forget all about love.
People do simply the opposite. Almost always couples fight before they
make love. They become angry, nag each other and bring all sorts of conflict
- and then they make love. They fall very low in their consciousness,
so of course love cannot be very satisfying. It will be frustrating and
you will feel a tension.
The second thing is: when you are making love, before you start, worship
the partner and let the partner worship you. So after meditation, worship.
Face each other totally naked and worship each other, because Tantra cannot
be between man and woman. It can only be between a god and a goddess.
It is a gesture, but very significant. The whole attitude has to become
sublime so that you disappear. Touch each other's feet, put garlands of
flowers there.
The man becomes transformed into Shiva and the woman is transformed into
Shakti. Now your humanity is irrelevant, your form is irrelevant, your
name is irrelevant; you are just pure energy. Worship brings that energy
into focus. And don't pretend. The worship has to be true. It cannot be
just a ritual, otherwise you will miss. Tantra is not a ritual. There
is much ritual in it, but Tantra is not ritual.
You can repeat the ritual. You can bow down to her feet and touch them;
that won't help. Let it be a deeply meaningful gesture. Really look at
her. She is no more your wife, no more your girlfriend, no more woman,
no more body, but a configuration of energy. Let her first become divine,
then make love to her. Then love will change its quality. It will become
divine. That's the whole methodology of Tantra.
Then in the third step you make love. But let your making love be more
like a happening than like a making. The English expression "making
love" is ugly. How can you make love? It is not something like doing;
it is not an action. It is a state. You can be in it but you cannot make
it. You can move in it but you cannot do it. You can be loving but you
cannot manipulate it. The whole Western mind tries to manipulate everything.
Even if the Western mind comes to find God someday, God will be in trouble.
They will harness him in some way or other, manipulate him. They will
put him to some use, some utilitarian purpose. Even love has become a
sort of doing. No.
When you make love, be possessed. Move slowly, touch each other's bodies,
play with each other's bodies. The body is like a musical instrument.
Don't be in a hurry. Let things grow. If you move slowly, suddenly both
your energies will rise together, as if something has possessed you. It
will happen instantly and simultaneously together. Then only Tantra is
possible. Move now into love.
Just feel energy descending on you and let that energy have its movement.
Sometimes you will start shrieking, shriek; sometimes you will start saying
things, say. Sometimes only moans will be coming out, or some mudras,
gestures; allow them. It is going to be a maddening thing, but one has
to allow it. And don't be afraid, because it is through your allowing
that it is happening. The moment you want to stop it, it stops, so you
are never beyond control.
And when gods make love it is almost wild. There are no rules, no regulations.
One moves just on the spur of the moment. Nothing is taboo - nothing is
inhibited. Whatsoever happens in that moment is beautiful and holy; whatsoever,
I say, unconditionally. If you bring your mind into it you will destroy
it completely. If you suddenly feel like sucking her finger and you say
"What nonsense!" then you have brought in the mind. You may
feel like sucking her breast; nothing wrong in it.
Nobody knows what is going to happen. You are simply left in the divine
vortex. It will take you, and it will take you wherever it wants. You
are simply available, ready to move with it. You don't direct it - you
have simply become vehicles. Let energies meet in their own ways. The
man should be dropped out of it - just pure energy. You will not be making
love only through the genital organs; you will be making love through
your whole body.
That's the meaning of shivalingam: no face, no hands, no feet - just the
phallic symbol When Shiva made love he became just the phallus - the whole
of his body. It is very beautiful - no face, nothing. Everything has disappeared.
It is not that you are using your sexual organs only; the sex has spread
all over. Your head is as much a part of it as your feet. You have become
a phallus. You are no more man; you are just energy. She is also no more
a woman; just energy, a vulva. It is a very wild thing.
If you meditate before and then worship each other, there is no danger;
everything will move rightly. You will attain to a peak of orgasm that
you have never known. Sometimes you will achieve it: a very great orgasm
in which the whole body throbs and pulsates. By and by you reach a climax:
again you come down. It will cleanse your whole being, the whole system.
Sometimes there will be no ejaculation but orgasm will be there.
There are two types of orgasm: the peak orgasm and the valley orgasm.
In the peak orgasm you will have an ejaculation and she will have also
an ejaculation of some subtle energies. In the valley orgasm you will
not have any ejaculation. It will be a passive orgasm - very silent, very
subtle. The throb will be there but almost imperceptible. In the peak
orgasm you will feel very very blissful. In the valley orgasm you will
feel very very peaceful And both are needed; both are two aspects of Tantra.
Every peak has its valley and every valley has its peak. A peak cannot
exist without the valley or vice versa.
And when it has happened and you have both achieved to a deep orgasm,
don't pull yourself out of her. After the orgasm, remain inside her and
rest for a few moments. That rest is very very deep. After an orgasm a
rest is like a valley. You have reached to the very peak and now you have
come back to the valley. It is very cool and shady and you rest.
And really much happens after the orgasm - the merging, the melting. Bodies
are tired, exhausted, spent. The mind is shocked. It is almost like an
electric shock.
When you come out of your love state, again pray together; end with a
prayer. The difference is that when you meditate, you meditate separately
and she meditates separately, because meditation cannot be done together.
Meditation is a lonely effort. It is not a relationship. So you may be
meditating together but still you meditate alone; you are alone and she
is alone.
Then you worship each other. That's again different. The other becomes
the object of worship. Then you make love and you are completely lost.
You are not yourself, she is not herself. Nobody knows who is who. All
is lost in whirlpool of energy. The polarity of man and woman is no more
a polarity; boundaries merge, mingle. Sometimes you will feel like a woman
and she will feel like a man. Sometimes she comes on top of you. Sometimes
you become passive and she becomes active and the role changes. It is
a great drama of energies. All is lost, abandoned. Then you come out of
the innermost experience, pray together. That's the fourth thing.
Just thank God. And never complain. Whatsoever happens is right. Don't
say, "This has not happened. This should have happened." Who
are we? He knows better. So just thank him, whatsoever happens; thank
him with deep gratefulness. Bow down and put your head on the earth and
remain there for a few moments in deep gratefulness.
Meditation is alone. In worship, the other is important, and in prayer
you both pray to God. So these three things have to be involved. They
will create the ecology in which Tantra happens. And once a week will
do.
If you are moving in Tantra then no other love should be allowed, otherwise
it dissipates energy. But whenever you want to make love, make sure you
have enough time. It should not be done in a hurry. It should not be like
work. It is a game, play, and these energies are so subtle that if you
are in a hurry, nothing happens.
Before you move into love, just sit silently together for fifteen minutes
holding each other's hands crosswise. Sit in darkness or in a very dim
light and feel each other. Get in tune. The way to do that is to breathe
together. When you exhale, she exhales; when you inhale, she inhales.
Within two to three minutes you can get into it. Breathe as if you are
one organism - not two bodies but one. And look into each other's eyes,
not with an aggressive look but very softly. Take time to enjoy each other.
Play with each other's bodies.
Don't move into lovemaking unless the moment arises by itself. Not that
you make love, but suddenly you find yourself making love. Wait for that.
If it does not come, there is no need to force it. It is good. Go to sleep;
no need to make love. Wait for that moment for one, two, three days. It
will come one day. And when that moment comes, love will go very deep
and it will not create the madness it is creating now. It will be a very,
very silent, oceanic feeling. But wait for that moment; don't force it.
Love is something which has to be done like meditation. It is something
which has to be cherished, tasted very slowly, so it suffuses deeply into
your being and it becomes such a possessing experience that you are no
more there. It is not that you are making love - you are love. Love becomes
a bigger energy around you. It transcends you both - you are both lost
in it. But for that you will have to wait.
Wait for the moment and soon you will have the knack of it. Let the energy
accumulate and let it happen on its own. By and by, you will become aware
when the moment arises. You will start seeing the symptoms of it, the
pre-symptoms, and there will be no difficulty.
Love is like God - you cannot manipulate it. It happens when it happens.
If it is not happening, there is nothing to be worried about.
The Orange Book
Don't
take the sex act as going anywhere. Don't take it as a means - it is the
end in itself. There is no end to it; it is not a means. Secondly, don't
think of the future; remain with the present. And if you cannot remain
in the present in the beginning part of a sexual act, then you can never
remain in the present - because the very nature of the act is such that
you are thrown to the present.
Remain in the present. Enjoy the meeting of two bodies, two souls, and
merge into each other - melt into each other. Forget that you are going
anywhere. Remain in the moment going nowhere, and melt. Warmth, love,
should be made a situation to melt into each other.
That's why, if there is no love, the sex act is a hurried act. You are
using the other; the other is just a means. And the other is using you.
You are exploiting each other, not merging into each other. With love
you can merge. This merging, in the beginning, will give many new insights.
If you are not in a hurry to finish the act, the act by and by becomes
less and less sexual and more and more spiritual. Sex organs also melt
into each other. A deep, silent communion happens between two body energies,
and then you can remain for hours together. This togetherness moves deeper
and deeper as time passes. But don't think. Remain with the moment, deeply
merged. It becomes an ecstasy, a samadhi. And if you can know this, if
you can feel and realize this, your sexual mind will become non-sexual.
Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra, Vol. I
When there is no anxiety, ejaculation can be postponed for hours - even
for days. And there is no need of it. If the love is deep, both parties
can invigorate each other. Then ejaculation completely ceases, and for
years two lovers can meet with each other without any ejaculation, without
any wastage of energy. They can just relax with each other. Their bodies
meet and relax; they enter sex and relax. And sooner or later, sex will
not be an excitement. It is an excitement right now. Then it is not an
excitement: it is a relaxation - a deep let-go.
But that can happen only if you have first surrendered inside to the life
energy, the life force. Only then can you surrender to your lover or beloved.
Tantra says this happens, and it arranges HOW it can happen.
Tantra says never make love while you are excited. This seems very absurd
because you want to make love when you are excited. And, normally, both
partners excite each other in order that they can make love. But tantra
says that in excitement you are wasting energy. Make love while you are
calm, serene, meditative. First meditate, then make love, and when making
love do not go beyond the limit. What do I mean by "do not go beyond
the limit"? Do not become excited and violent, in order that your
energy will not be dispersed.
If you see two persons making love you will feel that they are fighting.
If small children sometimes see their father and mother, they think the
father is going to kill the mother. It looks violent; it looks like a
fight. It is not beautiful; it looks ugly.
It must be more musical, harmonious. The two partners must be as if they
are dancing - not fighting - as if singing one harmonious melody, just
creating an atmosphere in which both may dissolve and become one. And
then they relax. This is what tantra means. Tantra is not sexual at all.
Tantra is the least sexual thing and yet it has so much concern with sex.
And if through this relaxation and let-go nature reveals to you its secrets,
it is no wonder. Then you begin to be aware of what is happening. And
in that awareness of what is happening many secrets come to your mind.
Firstly, sex becomes life-giving. As it is now, it is death-giving. You
are simply dying through it, wasting yourself, deteriorating. Secondly,
it becomes the deepest natural meditation. Your thoughts cease completely.
When you are totally relaxed with your lover, your thoughts cease. The
mind is not there; only your heart beats. It becomes a natural meditation.
And if love cannot help you into meditation, nothing will help because
everything else is just superfluous, superficial. If love cannot help,
NOTHING WILL HELP!
Love has its own meditation. But you do not know love; you know only sex
and you know the misery of wasting energy. Then you get depressed after
it. Then you decide to take a vow of brahmacharya (celibacy). And this
vow is taken in depression, this vow is taken in anger, this vow is taken
in frustration. It is not going to help.
A vow can be helpful if taken in a very relaxed, deeply meditative mood.
Otherwise you are simply showing your anger, your frustration, and nothing
else, and you will forget the vow within twenty-four hours. The energy
will have come again, and just as an old routine you will have to release
it.
Tantra says sex is very deep because it is life, but you can be interested
in it for the wrong reasons. Do not be interested in tantra for wrong
reasons, and then you will not feel that tantra is dangerous. Then tantra
is life transforming.
Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra, Vol. I
And
the difference is always complementary. Whatsoever is positive in the
male body will be negative in the female body; and whatsoever is positive
in the female body will be negative in the male body. That's why when
they meet in deep orgasm, they become one organism. The positive meets
the negative, and the negative meets the positive, and both become one
- one circle of electricity. Hence, so much attraction for sex, so much
appeal. This appeal is not because man is a sinner or immoral, this appeal
is not because this modern world has become too licentious, it is not
because of bad, obscene films and literature - it is very deep-rooted,
very cosmic.
The attraction is because both male and female are half circuits, and
there is an inherent tendency in existence to transcend whatsoever is
incomplete and to become complete. This is one of the ultimate laws -
the tendency towards completion. Wherever you feel something is lacking,
you feel that you would like to fill it, to make it complete. Nature abhors
incompleteness, any type of incompleteness. The male is incomplete, the
female is incomplete, and they can have only one moment of completion
- when their electric circuits become one, when the two are dissolved.
When I say a man and woman are two counterparts of one whole, I mean they
are complementary. And the complementariness is possible only when their
opposite poles meet. Look at it in this way: the vagina is the negative
pole in the feminine body and the breasts are the positive pole. This
is the rod of magnetism: the positive pole near the breasts, the negative
pole near the vagina. For man the negative pole is at the breasts, and
the positive pole is at the penis. So when breasts meet - male and female
- negative and positive are meeting; and when sex centers meet in coitus,
negative and positive are meeting. Now both magnetic rods are meeting
at their opposite poles, now a circle is there - the energy can flow,
now the energy can move. But this circle will happen only when a man and
woman are in love. If they are not in love, then only their sex centers
will meet - one positive pole will meet with one negative pole. There
will be an exchange of energy, but linear. A circle cannot be made. That's
why without love you never feel satisfied.
When the two poles of man and woman meet, negative is in the upper part
of man, positive is in the lower; and negative is in the lower part of
woman and positive in the upper. These two poles of positive and negative
meet and a circle is created. That circle is blissful, but it is not ordinary.
In ordinary sexual acts, the circle does not happen - that is why you
feel so attracted towards sex, and so repelled also. You feel so much
for it, you need it so much, you ask for it so much, but when it is given,
when it is there, you feel frustration - nothing happens. It is possible
only when both the bodies are very relaxed and very open to each other
without any fear, without any resistance. Then the let-go is so complete
that the electricities can merge and meet and become a circle.
Then there is a very strange phenomenon.... Tantra has recorded it but
you may not have heard of it. This phenomenon is a very strange one. When
two lovers really meet and become a circle then a flickering happens.
For a moment the lover becomes the beloved and the beloved becomes the
lover, and the next moment, again the lover is lover and the beloved is
beloved. The male becomes the female for a moment, then the female becomes
the male for the moment - because the energy is moving and it has become
one circle.
So it will happen that the male will be active for a few minutes and then
he will relax and the female will become active. That means now the male
energy has passed to the feminine body and she will act and the male will
remain passive. And this will go on. Ordinarily you are man, woman. In
deep love, in deep orgasm, it will happen that for moments you will become
woman, and the woman will become man. And this will be felt, absolutely
felt and recognized, that the passivity changes.
In life there is rhythm; in everything there is rhythm. You take a breath,
the breath goes in - then for a few seconds it stops, there is no movement.
Then again it moves, out it goes - then again there is a stop, a gap,
no movement. Your heart is beating, one beat, gap, another beat, gap.
The beat means activity, the gap means passivity. The beat means male,
the nonbeat gap means female.
Life is rhythm. While two persons meet, male and female, it becomes a
circle: there will be gaps for both. You will be a woman and suddenly
there will be a gap and you are no longer a woman, you have become a man.
You will be man and woman and man. When these gaps are felt you can feel
that you have achieved a circle. This circle is represented in Shiva's
symbol - the shivalinga. This circle is represented by the yoni of Devi
and linga of Shiva. It is a circle. It is one of the peak phenomena of
two highest energies meeting.
Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra, Vol. II
This
has to be understood very carefully, this is the inner chemistry. The
moon and the sun are symbols of the inner alchemy. The moon means the
feminine inside you, and the sun means the masculine inside you. Moon
is intuition; sun is reason. Moon is yin; sun is yang. This is the Indian
terminology for yin and yang. Moon is peace, silence; sun is energy, vitality.
Moon is death, sleep, dream, imagination; sun is awakening, life, logic.
When moon and sun meet within you, there is a great experience. That experience
is of unity, of oneness, unio mystica. That is the goal of all the mystics
- when the sun and the moon meet within you. This is the real meeting
of man and woman.
And once this meeting has happened, then there is brahmacharya, then there
is celibacy, not before it. If your inner woman has not met with your
inner man, you will need some outer woman, or outer man. That's just a
substitute. Hence it is never totally satisfying, something always seems
missing. You can find the most beautiful woman of the world, or the most
beautiful man of the world, and still you will feel something does not
fit, something goes on missing. Nothing is wrong with the man or the woman,
nothing is wrong. That feeling that something is missing is coming from
somewhere else, and you have not been able to understand from where.
When you fall in love with a woman, what actually happens is that you
have an inner woman, and the outer woman somehow reflects the inner woman.
That's what falling in love means. For no reason at all. You shrug your
shoulders. If somebody asks, "Why have you fallen in love with this
woman?" you find rationalizations, that her nose is such or her hair,
or the way she walks - all foolish things. Hmm? What does a nose have
to do with love, or the color of the hair or the way she walks? No, these
are nothing. But something fits with your inner woman, with your inner
moon. She somehow reflects your inner moon, in some way. It can never
be a hundred percent, it cannot be. Because your inner woman is your inner
woman, it cannot be found in the outside. Only reflections can be found
in the outside.
Ecstasy,
the Forgotten Language
Ordinarily
what we call love is not real love. We are demanding, we are asking. The
ordinary love is a kind of begging - "Give me, give me more."
The real love says "Take out of me, take out of me more." When
love gives, it is true; when it hankers to get, it is false. And when
love gives, it radiates, it pulsates.
Don't Look Before You Leap Relationship means something complete, finished,
closed. Love is never a relationship: love is relating. It is always a
river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop: the honeymoon begins
but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point
and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon.
Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we
in such a hurry? Because to relate is insecure, and relationship is a
security, relationship has a certainty. Relating is just a meeting of
two strangers, maybe just an overnight stay and in the morning we say
goodbye. Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow? And we are so afraid
that we want to make it certain, we want to make it predictable. We would
like tomorrow to be according to our ideas; we don't allow it freedom
to have its own say. So we immediately reduce every verb to a noun.
In a better world, with more meditative people, with a little more enlightenment
spread over the earth, people will love, love immensely, but their love
will remain a relating, not a relationship. And I am not saying that their
love will be only momentary. There is every possibility their love may
go deeper than your love, may have a higher quality of intimacy, may have
something more of poetry and more of God in it. And there is every possibility
their love may last longer than your so-called relationship ever lasts.
But it will not be guaranteed by the law, by the court, by the policeman.
The guarantee will be inner. It will be a commitment from the heart, it
will be a silent communion. If you enjoy being with somebody, you would
like to enjoy it more and more. If you enjoy the intimacy, you would like
to explore the intimacy more and more.
And there are a few flowers of love which bloom only after long intimacies.
There are seasonal flowers too: within six weeks they are there in the
sun, but within six weeks again they are gone forever. There are flowers
which take years to come. The longer it takes, the deeper it goes.
But it has to be a commitment from one heart to another heart. It has
not even to be verbalized, because to verbalize it is to profane it. It
has to be a silent commitment: eye to eye, heart to heart, being to being.
It has to be understood, not said.
It is so ugly seeing people going to the church or the court to get married.
It is so ugly, so inhuman. It simply shows they can't trust themselves,
they trust the policeman more that they trust their own inner voice. It
shows they can't trust their love, they trust the law.
The Book of Wisdom, Vol. I
The
first thing: fear is the other side of love. If you are in love, fear
disappears. If you are not in love, fear arises, tremendous fear. Only
lovers are fearless. Only in a deep moment of love there is no fear. In
a deep moment of love, existence becomes a home - you are not a stranger,
you are not an outsider, you are accepted. If even by a single human being
you are accepted, something in the depth opens - a flower-like phenomenon
in the innermost being. You are accepted by someone, you are valued, you
are not futile. You have a significance, a meaning. If in your life there
is no love, then you will become afraid. Then there will be fear everywhere
because everywhere there are enemies, no friends, and the whole existence
seems to be alien; you seem to be accidental, not rooted, not at home.
If even a single human being can give you such deep at-homeness in love,
what to think about when a person achieves to prayer?
Prayer is the highest love; love with the total, with the whole. And those
who have not loved cannot attain to prayer. Love is the first step and
prayer is the last. Prayer means you love the whole and the whole loves
you. When even through a single individual such deep flowering can happen
within you, what to think about when the whole is felt as loving you?
Prayer is when you love God and God loves you. And if love and prayer
are not in your love, then only fear....
So fear in fact is the absence of love. And if fear is a problem for you,
that shows to me that you are looking at the wrong side. Love should be
the problem, not fear. If fear is the problem, that means you should seek
love. If fear is the problem, the problem, in fact, is that you should
be more loving so somebody can be more loving to you. You should be more
open towards love.
But this is the trouble: when you are in fear you are closed. You start
feeling so fearful that you stop moving towards a human being. You would
like to be alone. Whenever there is somebody you feel nervous, because
the other looks like an enemy. And if you are so fear-obsessed, it is
a vicious circle. Absence of love creates fear in you, and now, because
of fear, you become closed. You become like a closed cell with no windows,
afraid anybody can come through the windows, and there are all over enemies
- afraid to open the door, because when you open the door anything is
possible. So even when love knocks at your door, you don't trust.
A man or a woman who is so deep-rooted in fear is always afraid to fall
in love, because then the doors of the heart will be open and the other
will enter you, and the other is the enemy. Says Sartre: "The other
is hell."
Remember: love is the problem, never fear. You are looking at the wrong
side. And you can look at the wrong side for many lives and you will not
be able to solve it. Always remember absence should not be made a problem,
because nothing can be done about it. Only presence should be made a problem,
because then something can be done and it can be solved.
If fear is felt, then love is the problem. Become more loving. Take a
few steps towards the other.
Don't be afraid of love. There is only one thing one should be afraid
of, and that is fear. Be afraid of fear and never be afraid of anything
else, because fear cripples. It is poisonous, it is suicidal. Move! Jump
out of it! Do whatsoever you would like, but don't get settled with the
fear because that is a negative situation. And if you miss love....
To me, love is not a great problem because I look farther ahead than you.
If you miss love you will miss prayer, and that is the real problem for
me. To you it may not be yet a problem, because if fear is the problem,
then to you even love is not yet a problem, how can you think about prayer?
But I see the whole sequence of life, how it moves. If love is missed
you can never pray, because prayer is cosmic love. You cannot bypass love
and reach to prayer. Many people have tried; they are dead in monasteries.
All over the world many people have tried. Because of fear, they have
tried to avoid love completely, and they have been trying to find a short-cut
direct from their fear to prayer.
Be loving, vital, unafraid - and move. Life has much to give to you if
you are unafraid. And love has more to give you than life can give, because
love is the very center of this life, and from that very center you can
pass to the other shore.
I call these three steps life, love and light. Life is already there.
Love you have to attain. You can miss it because it is not given: one
has to create it. Life is a given phenomenon; you are already alive. There
stops natural evolution. Love you have to find. Of course there are dangers,
hazards, but they all make it beautiful.
You have to find love. And when you find love, only then you can find
light. Then the prayer arises. In fact deeply in love, the persons, the
lovers, by and by start moving unconsciously towards prayer. Because the
highest moments of love are the lowest moments of prayer. Just near the
boundary is prayer.
It has happened to many lovers. But lovers are very rare that while they
are deep in love, suddenly they have started praying. Just sitting by
each other's side in silence, holding hands, or lying together on a beach,
suddenly they have felt an urge, an urge to move beyond. So don't pay
much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention
to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow. Turn your back to the fear
and move towards love.
Yoga,
The Science of the Soul, Vol. III
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