Osho nothing thrills me more than when you speak about nirvana
how mysterious it is that I can long for something so much that I don't know and you can't say
the word itself is still unpolluted and so wondrous
on the other hand I noticed the other week that we now have enlightened insurance policies
Would you please thrill my heart once more?
This must be Kavisha
because the question can come only from California.
In California you have enlightened insurance policy
in California everything is possible
but there is no insurance
no guarantee
for enlightenment you have to earn it
you have to deserve it
nobody can give it to you it is not a
commodity
and I can see
why the world nirvana
thrills you
into ecstasies
it is certainly one of the words which is unpolluted
there is a reason why it remained unpolluted
the first reason that it remained unpolluted was
its meaning
unless you have come to a deep understanding of yourself and existence
the world nirvana
will create fear in you
it is a negative word
literally it means blowing off the candle Gautam Buddha used the word
for the ultimate state of consciousness he could have chosen some positive word
and in India there were many positive words for it moksha freedom
liberation,
kaivalya,
aloneness,
absolute aloneness
brahman
the experience of the ultimate
but he chose a strange word
which has never been used
in a spiritual
context blowing off the candle
how can you relate it with a spiritual experience
but buddha says your so-called self
is nothing but a flame
and it is being kept
burning through your desires
when all desires disappear
the candle has disappeared now the flame cannot exist anymore
the flame also disappears disappears into the vast universe
leaving no trace behind it
you cannot find it again
it is there but it is gone forever from any identity from any limitation
hence he chose the word nirvana
rather than realization
because realization still can give you
some egoistic superiority that you are a realized person
that you are a liberated being that you are enlightened that you are illuminated
that you have found it
but you remain
and buddha is saying you are lost who is going to find it
you disperse
you are only a combination
now each element goes to its original source
the identity
of the individual is no more yes you will exist as the universe
so he avoided any positive world
knowing human tendency because each positive world can give you a feeling of ego
no negative word can do that that's why it remains unpolluted
you cannot pollute something which is
not
and
people were very much afraid to use the word deep inner trembling nirvana
thousands of times buddha was asked
that your word in nirvana does not create in us
an excitement does not create in us a desire to achieve it
the ultimate truth the self-realization the realization of god
all those create
a desire a great desire your worship
creates no desire
and buddha said again and again that is the beauty of the world
all those words which create desire in you
are not going to help you because desire itself is the root cause of your misery
longing for something
is your tension
nirvana makes you absolutely free from tension there is nothing to desire
on the contrary you have to prepare yourself to accept a dissolution
in dissolution you cannot claim the ego
hence the word remains unpolluted no other world has remained unpolluted its negativity
is the reason and only a great master
can contribute to humanity something
which even if you want you cannot pollute it
25 centuries
but there is no way
nirvana is going to dissolve you you cannot do anything to nirvana
it is certainly the purest word
even its sound
whether you understand the meaning or not
is soothing
gives a deep serenity and silence
which no other words god realization the absolute the ultimate
no other word gives that feeling of silence
the moment to you who hear the word nirvana it seems as if time has stopped
as if there is nowhere to go in this very moment you can melt
dissolve disappear
without any trace behind