Osho on Mystic Rose<div class="raw-html-embed"><div style="width:100%;height:1px;background:#00000036;margin:10px 0;"></div></div>Evolution needs to be not of the body but of consciousness; then it becomes a spiritual progress. But Darwin had no idea of any spirit in man. To him, man was just the body and nothing more. I propound a theory of spiritual evolution, and that has been the basic of all mysticism in the world.&nbsp; Man is born as a seed. To accept the seed as your life is the greatest mistake one can commit. Millions of people are born as seeds, fresh, young, with tremendous potential of growth. But because they accept the seed as their very life, they die as a rotten seed; nothing happens in their life. The symbol of the mystic rose is that if man takes care of the seed that he is born with, gives it the right soil, gives it the right atmosphere and the right vibrations, moves on a right path where the seed can start growing, then the ultimate growth is symbolized as the mystic rose -- when your being blossoms and opens all its petals and releases the beautiful fragrance.&nbsp; Unless you blossom into a mystic rose, your life is nothing but an exercise in utter futility. You are born unnecessarily, you are living unnecessarily, and you will die unnecessarily. Your whole biography can be reduced to a single word: unnecessary. But if you can blossom and release that which is hidden in you, you have fulfilled the longing of existence. You have given back to existence the fragrance that was hidden in your seed. You have come to fulfill your destiny. The mystics have never accepted man as the ultimate product. Man is only a beginning and one should not die as a beginning; that is ugly, insulting, damaging to your dignity. Man should reach to the absolute fulfillment -- not only for his own contentment, but for the contentment of the cosmos. That is the secret of the mystic rose. Yes, in a few traditions the mystic rose is also called the magic rose. Both words are meaningful. It is certainly magic when you see within yourself the blossoming of the rose, the beauty of it, and the divinity of it, and the truth of it. Satyam, Shivam, Sundram. You cannot believe your own eyes. You have never dreamed that you contain so much, that your potential is so valuable, that your interiority is a treasure inexhaustible, that you need not be in debt to existence forever. You can return to existence a million fold what existence has given to you. That moment is of great joy, not only on your side but on the side of the whole cosmos. The experience is such a mystery that there is no way to demystify it. You can experience it but you cannot explain it -- that is the meaning of the word `mystic' -- you can have it, but you become almost dumb. You cannot utter a single word that may carry something of that rose, its beauty, its fragrance, its dance, its music -- nothing can be carried through any word. The word `magic' is also meaningful. Things like this only happen in magic. Unbelievable... you see with your own eyes things which should not be happening but they are happening… Magic simply means something unbelievable, so absurd, so irrational that you cannot find a way to figure it out. That's why both the words have been used, the mystic rose or the magic rose. But even the rope trick is nothing compared to your inner flowering. Because you don't think you have anything inner, just hollowness... but in that hollowness is the possibility and the potentiality of a rose blossoming. And this is no ordinary rose; it does not die. It is not that in the morning it blossoms, dances the whole day, sings songs, plays with the wind and the rain and with the sun, and by the evening all the petals are fallen to the ground and tomorrow you will not find even a trace of it. This inner rose is eternal. Once you have found it, it will be always within you. Source: Listen to complete discourse at mentioned below link.&nbsp; Discourse Series: <a href="/satyam-shivam-sundaram-18" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Satyam Shivam Sundram, Chapter #18</a> Question 1 Chapter title: The mystic rose 15 November 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium References: Osho has also spoken on ‘man, consciousness, being, mysticrose’ in many of His discourses. Some of these can be referred to in the following books/discourses: 1. YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose 2. This, This, A Thousand Times This: The Very Essence of Zen 3. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha 4. The Book of Wisdom 5. From Darkness to Light 6. The Path of the Mystic 7. Sat Chit Anand 8. Sermons in Stones 9. That Art Thou 10. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra 11. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega 12. Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt 13. The Ultimate Alchemy &nbsp;