Birthday of Great Musician Wolfgang Mozart 27th January is the birthday of the greatest classical composers of all times, Wolfgang Mozart. Born in 1756 in Salzburg Austria, he was a prodigious child, who started composing music at the age of 5! In his short life of 35 years, he composed over 600 works, many of which are recognised as pinnacles of symphony, opera and concerto music.&nbsp; Osho has spoken on Mozart in His discourses. Osho says Religion is the highest luxury in human existence. The poor cannot understand the music of Mozart, that does not mean that the music of Mozart should not exist. It only means that the poor should be raised to a situation where he can understand Mozart. I am not saying that a poor man cannot become religious. Individuals can be exceptions - a Kabir, a Nanak - but poor societies cannot be religious till their basic needs are fulfilled. Religion is a very high need. It is as if you are hungry and you are expected to think of listening to beautiful music? When you are hungry you need bread, you don't need music. Beethoven won't do and Mozart would be meaningless! When you are hungry, starved, naked, what to do with Picasso and Shakespeare? When your basic needs are fulfilled - your body is healthy, you have a hygienic world to live in, a good house, good clothes, good food, nourished - suddenly you feel that you need something of the aesthetic world - music, art, poetry. You become interested in Picasso and Dali - and a thousand doors open. When your aesthetic needs are also fulfilled, when you are getting bored by Beethoven &amp; Mozart too, then suddenly another door opens - the door of the Buddha, Krishna, Christ. That is the highest need. When every lower need is fulfilled then spirituality arises.<div class="raw-html-embed"><div style="width:100%;height:1px;background:#00000036;margin:10px 0;"></div></div>When will is perfect, when mind is wholly arrowed, will dies, the will disappears -- because perfection is the point of evaporation, just like water evaporates at a hundred degrees heat. The hundred-degree limit is the perfection. As far as water is concerned, the heat has come to the peak. Now if heat continues to be, water will not be there. And if water wants to be there, then heat must not come up to the peak. So when you are a hundred percent will, you are on the verge of explosion, you will die, your ‘will’ will die. The very phenomenon of will disappears. And when will disappears, you come to the same point where one who begins with will-lessness comes. Now it is will-lessness. So either zero or perfection: both go to the same end. It will depend on you, on your type of mind. If you can conceive of will-lessness, then there is no question. But that is difficult -- not only difficult: in a certain way it is impossible. It is inconceivable. It happens, sometimes it happens. But that happening also has a long, long effort of will. Many, many lives lived according to the will give you the experience that you have been dreaming of. One who has willed for a long time and yet reaches nowhere may come to a point where suddenly he becomes aware that he is working with something which is not. A Buddha, for example: he reaches the Ultimate through will-lessness. But he worked very arduously on the path of will for six years in this life. He went to every teacher, inquired about every path, endeavoured his best, tried everything that was taught and said. He did everything that a human being can do, and with every teacher he worked hard. No teacher was able to say, "You are not achieving because you are not working," because he was working even more than the teacher. So every teacher had to say to him, "I cannot say that you are not working -- you are working hard, impossibly hard -- but now this is all I can teach you. You must go somewhere else." So he went around to every teacher, worked on every method. And Bihar was a very potential place in those times. Only twice have such great peaks happened. Once it was in Athens, in the Greek civilization. Athens was a very potential city, and a very potential situation happened in Athens. And another time was in Bihar: it happened that Bihar became the peak of all that mind can do. And in Bihar, in Buddha's time, every method had been evolved and every method had its own teacher, its own Master And Buddha worked with everyone. He worked so hard and so sincerely that every teacher had to ask him to leave, because he had worked totally and nothing was coming out. Really, he was not the man meant for the path of will. Mahavir, a contemporary of Buddha, reached through the path of will and achieved. But Buddha could not achieve. After working hard in every way, in a sudden moment of helplessness he became frustrated. He felt helpless. He had done everything and nothing was achieved, and he remained the same with no transformation. A total frustration set in, and one day he left everything. Previously, he had left the world: that was the first renunciation. But the second one, which is not mentioned in the scriptures, was greater. The Buddhists don't talk about it. A second, greater renunciation happened: after six years of tortuous effort, Buddha left the path of will. He said, "I feel helpless -- and it seems that nothing is possible, nothing can be done, so I leave all efforts." That was a full-moon night and he was sitting under a tree. The world he had left; now all religions, all philosophies, all techniques, he left on that evening. He relaxed under the tree. For the first time he could relax after lives and lives -- because somehow or other we are always working, doing, achieving. But on that evening there was no achieving mind in him. He was so totally helpless that time ceased, future dropped, desires became meaningless. Effort was not possible; will was not found at all. So he was really dead -- psychologically dead. He was alive only in the sense that a tree is alive -- with no desires, with no future, with no possibility. He was just like the tree he was lying under. Conceive of it. Try to conceive of it! If there are no desires and no future and no morning to follow, and nothing is to be achieved and everything has been just absurd, and the thought that "I cannot do" penetrates deep, then what is the difference between you and the tree? No difference! He was as relaxed as the tree. He was as relaxed as the river flowing by. He slept. This sleep was strange. There was not even a dream, because dreams belong to desires, effort, will. He slept as trees sleep. The sleep was total. It was just like death -- no movement of the mind, no motivation inside. Everything stopped. Time stopped. In the morning at five o'clock he opened his eyes. Rather, it would be good to say that eyes opened, because there was no motivation. As the eyes dropped in the evening, in the morning they opened. Refreshed by the night, refreshed by relaxation, refreshed by a deep desirelessness, Buddha opened his eyes. The last star was disappearing in the sky, and it is said that just by seeing the last star disappear Buddha became Awakened. He Realized! What happened? It was because there was no effort; effort had ceased. There was not even desire. Now there was not even frustration -- because frustration is part of desire and expectation. If really expectations cease, there is no frustration. He was not asking, he was not praying, he was not meditating, he was not doing at all. He was just there -- empty. When the last star disappeared, something disappeared in him also. He became just space, he became just nothingness. This is surrender, with no feeling of surrender -- because who is to surrender to whom? But this also happened as a culminating peak of long efforts.&nbsp; This is what I mean to say: one has to begin with will. Begin with will! If you are the type who can reach to perfect will, you will just disappear from that peak. If you are not the type then you will reach a perfection of frustration, and from that peace of frustration you will disappear. If the first is the case, ‘will’ will be known as the path; if the second is the case, then surrender. But begin with will. You cannot begin with surrender, because surrender cannot have any beginning. Action can have a beginning -- but how can a happening have a beginning? You can begin with action; you cannot begin with happening -- that is the difference. You can begin with something to do, but how can you begin with surrender? So begin with will and put your whole being into it. Only then will you be able to know whether this path can work for you or not. If it can work, then it is okay. Then you reach to the most perfect ego. And when the ego is perfect the bubble bursts. Or, if you are not of that type, then you will go round and round and round and round... and frustration and frustration. Then you reach another peak -- the peak of frustration -- and surrender happens. So even for surrender don't think that you have not to do anything -- remember this! Don't think -- because mind is very cunning and the mind can say. "Surrender is our way. That means I am not going to do anything. Surrender is my way!" This is a cunning deception. If surrender is your way, then surrender can happen this very moment -- because surrender needs no time. There is no tomorrow necessary for it. If you say, "Surrender is my way," then don't wait for tomorrow, because surrender can come just here and now. No effort is needed in surrender so no time is necessary. If it is not coming just this moment, then know very well surrender is not your way.&nbsp; Mind is deceiving; mind is just trying to postpone effort. And mind can do everything. Mind can rationalize: "There is no need to will because there is no will, so I am ready to be on the path of will lessness." But remember well that your "readiness" will not do. Your readiness is not really a readiness: your preparedness is not really a qualification for surrender. Your total helplessness is the qualification. Really, are you totally helpless? Have you felt it, that nothing can be done, If you feel it, then surrender can happen this very moment. Surrender cannot be postponed; will can be postponed. So with will you can take time, lives, and you can go on working slowly. But with surrender there is no go, and you cannot think of the future -- future is not allowed. So if you say, "Surrender is my way and someday it will happen," you are deceiving yourself. If surrender is your way, then surrender would have happened already. Someone asked Mozart, "Who is your teacher? From whom have you learned your music?" Mozart said, "No one is my teacher. I have learned it myself, alone." So the questioner said, "Then tell me, can I also learn it myself?" Mozart said, "But I never asked this question to anybody. Even to know this you have come to ask me, so it will be difficult for you to learn music by yourself. Even this you have to ask someone else -- whether you can learn music without any teacher. A teacher is even needed to decide this! So you will not be able." The man persisted. He said, "Why? When you are able, why am I not?" Mozart said, "If you were capable of it you would have done it already." So if surrender can happen and if you are really ready for it, it would have happened. You cannot choose it. Choose will, because with choice will has an affinity. With surrender choice has no affinity. Choice needs will. So choose will, work hard. And there are only two types. Either you succeed or you fail; but work so hard that if you succeed you succeed totally, or if you fail you fail totally, and that totality will decide. Mild efforts and mediocre efforts lead nowhere, because you can never decide what your type is with mediocre efforts. With mild, lukewarm efforts you can never decide what your type is. You can never know. Work hard! Either succeed totally or fail totally. Both the ways you will reach the same point. If you succeed totally, then will disappears. Being perfect, it dies. If you totally fail, then will-lessness becomes a recognition and surrender follows. All efforts are on paths of the will. When someone tries with his whole heart and fails, then the other path opens. It is a sudden path! It is like an emergency door. In any air crash you have emergency doors. You may not even be aware of them. You need not be. Ordinarily, you open, you enter and you come out of the common, usual door. The emergency door opens only when there is an emergency and total failure. Now the usual door will not do. Surrender is an emergency door. You begin with the usual -- the will. When will fails totally, the emergency door opens and you are out of it. And if you succeed, then there is no need for the emergency door to be opened. You may not even become aware of it. You may reach your destination without the awareness that there was a door, an emergency door, which could have opened any moment. So you cannot begin with surrender -- no one can. Everyone has to begin with will. The only point to remember is: be total in it so that you can decide either way. Source: Listen to complete discourse at mentioned below link. Discourse series: <a href="/the-ultimate-alchemy-vol-1-10">The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 1, Chapter #10</a> Chapter title: The Secret of Totality 24 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India References: Osho has spoken extensively on ‘art, music, painting, poetry, dance,’ and creative geniuses like Picasso, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart, Wagner, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Taansen, Byron, Bhavabhuti, Coleridge, Dinkar, D.H. Lawrence, Ghalib, John Ruskin, Kalidas, Kahlil Gibran, Keats, Milton, Nijinsky, Omar Khayyam, Shelley, Tagore, Yeats and many more in the course of His talks. More on this subject can be referred to in the following books/discourse titles: 1. Ah This 2. Be Still and Know 3. Beyond Psychology 4. Come Follow to You Vol.1-4 5. The Guest 6. Going All the Way 7. This Is It 8. The Book of Wisdom 9. The Path of the Mystic 10. A Sudden Clash of Thunder 11. Just the Tip of the Iceberg 12. Wont You Join the Dance? &nbsp;