Am currently listening to Osho’s discourses on the Bauls. They are compiled into two volumes titled The Beloved Vol 1 & 2. The following excerpt is from the second discourse in Volume 1. For the complete transcript, click Am Just A Midwife.
The pattern of Osho’s discourses are, that one day he speaks on the topic and the next day Sannyasin’s get to ask questions. Sometimes related to the discourse the previous day and sometimes totally unrelated. This was the “question” day discourse.
“…….There is a beautiful parable:
When God created the world, He used to live here on this Earth, but there was great trouble for Him. He was not even able to sleep, because complaints and complaints. And the whole day He was trying to solve people’s problems, and in the night also they were knocking on His door.
And there were so many suggestions to improve upon the world that He started becoming almost insane. It looked as if nothing was going right — millions of advisers — and He was fed up. If He listened to one man’s advice, there were a thousand and one against it.
It was very difficult to do anything. He asked His counsellors, His advisers, “What to do?” He said, “I would like to hide somewhere.”
Somebody suggested, “Why don’t you go to GOURISHANKAR, Everest. Nobody will ever be able to come there; you can make your abode there.”
He said, “You don’t know the future. Just within few minutes — for God it is only few minutes, our centuries are seconds for Him — just within a few minutes, this man Hilary will reach, and then the same trouble will start.”
And somebody said, “Why not the moon?”He said, “That too is only a question of few minutes. Soon, man will be walking on the moon. It will not solve anything. It will at the most postpone a little.”
Then one old counsellor came close to Him and told Him something in His ear. And He was very happy, and He said, “Right! This appears to be the perfect solution.”
The old man suggested, “You hide in man himself. There he will never find you. And even if he finds, a man who is so wise to find you within himself will not create any trouble for you. Hilarys can create trouble, but Buddhas cannot — because by the time they find you inside themselves they will be almost like you. They will not have any complaints, they will not have any question. They will be as silent as you are, they will be as deep as you are. By the time they reach you inside themselves, they will have been transformed. The very journey will become a mutation.”
God is hiding within you, but you cannot see God there directly because you don’t know how to go there.
One method, one way, is of meditation: start dropping your thoughts. One day when there is no thinking, no ripple, and you are a no-mind, you will reach there; the conversion will happen. Another way is of prayer.
What a beautiful parable !!! No one finds God because he is hidden inside each one of us. This also hints at the other truth which is each of us has the potential to be God.
No one says it better than the Master of Masters!
Do read – Osho on the Bauls.
God is everywhere. This is my version, learned in kindergarten, before the age of six. I’m glad Osho agrees.
After reading this full post, after finding the beginning of it on WordPress, I’m more impressed than ever with your ability to synopsize Indian words and wisdom in a format I can understand. You have helped me before to understand points of view from the other side of the planet.
God is indeed everywhere, even in the mosquitoes I slap on my arm, when I can get to them before they fly off.
Thanks Katharine. 🙂