Dussehra&nbsp;We have watched Rama defeat Ravana year after year. We have celebrated the victory, watched the flames rise, and gone home.But have we ever wondered: Who is watching?Osho takes us behind the familiar Ramleela and into a mystery that is far more intimate. Rama and Sita are not merely characters from an ancient story, they are playing their roles within us. Earth and sky, body and consciousness, matter and spirit… their meeting is happening here, now.And yet, Osho asks us to look even deeper.If Rama and Sita are part of the play, then who are we?Perhaps the real Dussehra begins when you stop being a character, and awaken as the witness.Read Osho’s discourse on Ramleela and discover what happens when the stage finally becomes empty.&nbsp;Osho, there is a unique episode in King Janaka’s life—the Sita born of the earth, and the Ramleela that unfolded around Sita. Please explain Ramleela to us today.&nbsp;In the context of Ashtavakra and all that I have been saying to you, the meaning of that story is very simple and direct. Sita is the earth; Rama is the sky. Their union is Ramleela—the meeting of earth and sky. And Ramleela is taking place within each of us. Your body is Sita; your soul, Rama. Within you the union has already happened—the meeting of earth and sky, of the mortal and the immortal. Within you this union has taken place. Whatever is happening in all of that is Ramleela. &nbsp;Read the Ram-katha within yourself. And the day you recognize that you are neither Rama nor Sita, that you are the witness, the seer of Ramleela—on that very day the Ramleela ceases. One has to go beyond Rama and Sita.&nbsp;People go to watch Ramleela; what on earth will you gain there? The Ramleela is going on inside—sit there and watch; become the one who sees. They say that watching Ramleela brings great benefit, merit. That merit, if you understand what I am saying, does happen. This union of Sita and Rama within you, this meeting of earth and sky, this confluence of matter and consciousness—make it your stage, let it unfold. Sit as a spectator, become the seer, become the witness. The moment you become a witness, you are beyond the play.&nbsp;There is nowhere else to go to watch Ramleela. In everyone Ramleela is born. And as long as the Ramleela continues, the world continues. The day your witnessing awakens and the Ramleela stops, that very day the world disappears.&nbsp;You have watched Ramleela for many days; but there is a small mistake in the way you have watched. That mistake is that while watching Ramleela you forget that you are the seer. This happens every day. You go to a film; you forget you are the one watching; you become part of the film.&nbsp;When the first three-dimensional film was made and shown in London, people realized how much we forget. In a three-dimensional film it seems exactly as if a living person is coming. A horseman rides in on a horse with a spear, and right up at the screen he throws the spear. The whole hall ducked—half to this side, half to that—to avoid the spear. For a moment the false became true. This becoming-true of the false is called maya.&nbsp;In Bengal there was a famous thinker, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. He was watching a Ramleela—or some other play; all plays are Ramleela. And in the play there is a character attempting to rape a woman. He is behaving so crudely and harshly that Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, who was sitting right there in the front row, forgot it was a play. He took off his shoe, climbed onto the stage, and began beating the actor. The actor showed even greater presence of mind. He began to laugh. He took the shoe like an award and held it to his chest. Standing at the mic he said, “Blessed is my fortune! I never imagined I could be such a skilled actor that Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar would be deceived. Such a wise man was fooled! So I will not return this shoe; it has become my prize; I will keep it now as a memento. I have received many certificates, medals; but none greater than this.” Ishwar Chandra felt deeply embarrassed as soon as he came to his senses—what have I done? A man as intelligent as Ishwar Chandra got lost in the play! All the intelligent have been lost like this.&nbsp;When you watch a play, you forget that you are the seer. That play of light and shadow upon the stage, upon the screen, becomes everything. The same is happening within. This Ramleela that has unfolded in your life—through the union of Sita and Rama, of earth and sky—you have become completely lost in it, absorbed; you have forgotten that you are only the seer. Remember—wake up now. The moment you awaken, you will find the screen has become empty. There is neither Rama there nor Sita. The play is over. The ending of this play is what we call liberation, moksha, nirvana!&nbsp;Hari Om Tatsat!Maha Geeta #12QUESTION 4 &nbsp;&nbsp;