Until the Hour of Separation
Talk #4 from Reflections On Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
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"Khalil Gibran, in the name of Almustafa, is giving the very essence of mysticism. He is not preaching any religion, he is preaching religion as such.
"In fact, the very existence of three hundred religions..."
"In fact, the very existence of three hundred religions..."
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"Khalil Gibran, in the name of Almustafa, is giving the very essence of mysticism. He is not preaching any religion, he is preaching religion as such.
"In fact, the very existence of three hundred religions..."
Osho continues:
"In fact, the very existence of three hundred religions..."
"I will not even call it a religion for the simple reason that the moment you use a noun, growth has stopped. 'Religion' means something has come to a stop. 'Religiousness' means something continuously growing, flowering, bringing new spaces and new secrets unrevealed to you, undreamed of.
"Religion is the very river of existence. It knows no beginning, it knows no end.
"All the religions are against me for the simple reason that I am exposing their falsity, their fakeness, their masks.
"For this reason, Khalil Gibran has chosen a name, Almustafa, so that he can put all the experiences of all the mystics of the world – past, present and future – into this name. Man has limitations because he is born in a limited society, conditioned by his parents as Hindu, as Mohammedan, as Christian. Almustafa is not born of any parents. He is not born at all, he does not exist. Almustafa is simply a symbol of all those flames that have become awakened while we have remained asleep.
"Almustafa represents the very central core of pure religiousness. Remember this: he is not preaching any religion. And this is one of the reasons he was not understood before the time of his departure. Everybody suspected… Because he is not a Hindu, Hindus cannot accept him. He is not a Mohammedan, Mohammedans cannot accept him. He does not belong to any organized religion.
"Khalil Gibran has such great insight that rather than choosing a historical person he has chosen a fictitious name, vast and big, which need not belong to anybody. Yet everybody can belong to him.
"And this is my position too – of course, more difficult than Almustafa's. Almustafa cannot be jailed, Almustafa cannot be poisoned, Almustafa cannot be shot. Almustafa cannot be crucified, because Almustafa is just an idea. But even though he was the purest expression of the innermost experiences possible, he was not condemned. He was not stoned, but ignored – he is a dreamer.
"But when the time of departure came and when his dream appeared as reality, everything changed.
"Religion is the very river of existence. It knows no beginning, it knows no end.
"All the religions are against me for the simple reason that I am exposing their falsity, their fakeness, their masks.
"For this reason, Khalil Gibran has chosen a name, Almustafa, so that he can put all the experiences of all the mystics of the world – past, present and future – into this name. Man has limitations because he is born in a limited society, conditioned by his parents as Hindu, as Mohammedan, as Christian. Almustafa is not born of any parents. He is not born at all, he does not exist. Almustafa is simply a symbol of all those flames that have become awakened while we have remained asleep.
"Almustafa represents the very central core of pure religiousness. Remember this: he is not preaching any religion. And this is one of the reasons he was not understood before the time of his departure. Everybody suspected… Because he is not a Hindu, Hindus cannot accept him. He is not a Mohammedan, Mohammedans cannot accept him. He does not belong to any organized religion.
"Khalil Gibran has such great insight that rather than choosing a historical person he has chosen a fictitious name, vast and big, which need not belong to anybody. Yet everybody can belong to him.
"And this is my position too – of course, more difficult than Almustafa's. Almustafa cannot be jailed, Almustafa cannot be poisoned, Almustafa cannot be shot. Almustafa cannot be crucified, because Almustafa is just an idea. But even though he was the purest expression of the innermost experiences possible, he was not condemned. He was not stoned, but ignored – he is a dreamer.
"But when the time of departure came and when his dream appeared as reality, everything changed.
And when he entered into the city all the people came to meet him…"All the people – without bothering about their ideologies, theologies, philosophies; without their trivial differences."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 123 mins |
| File Size | 30.38 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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