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THE REVOLUTION

This is the revolution that explodes out of total silence. Osho, the enlightened mystic of the twenty-first century, has given revolution its true meaning: the rotation of any body around an axis. The movement is never-ending. The revolution is ongoing, as each moment opens into the total spontaneity of life as it is happening, not as we are thinking about how it should happen.

We have heard the word revolution many times in our lives; one group with one belief system wanting to remove the existing system that is power, only to replace it with theirs. History has shown us that most often the new system turns out to be worse than the one they threw out.

The revolution of which Osho is speaking is the one to destroy all systems. It is the revolution that allows us to remember our inner innocence, the unprogrammed being within. It is the inner revolution: the only revolution that can bring about a total transformation so that we can once again see the world through eyes free of all the judgments and conditionings that have been put there from the outside.

“You have been programmed in such a way that you cannot live joyously…all joy has been condemned…. It has become a very ingrained idea in you that there is something wrong in being joyous.” As children, haven’t we all been told to stop laughing or to stop playing simply because it didn’t fit into someone’s schedule or because it was too threatening to someone’s investment in the lie they were living. In our schoolbooks what we mostly read was to obey and to fear God.

Osho speaks of the world being full of godliness, in contrast to a world that is run by God. He tells us there is no one to punish us. And every word he speaks is like a burning of all the old ideas which have made us live in fear and sickness for most of our lives.

“Man is aware of two things which no animal is: one is laughter, another is death. Then a new synthesis is possible. It is only man who can die laughing- he can join the consciousness of death and the capacity to laugh.” Such revolutionary words – words that can only be born out of the highest intelligence.

Kabir says, “tudent, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.” When reading Osho speaking on the sutras of Kabir, one becomes aware of the oneness of it all, the oneness of the source from which all awakened ones speak, and the great symphony of life as experienced by two beings living hundreds of years apart in the same moment.

Ma Satya Priya

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