Whenever the Ego Gains, You Are the Loser

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"The question is from Vivek. I can understand her difficulty. The same will be the difficulty of all those who have come close to me, loved me, received me in their hearts as a master...."
Whenever the Ego Gains, You Are the Loser
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"The question is from Vivek. I can understand her difficulty. The same will be the difficulty of all those who have come close to me, loved me, received me in their hearts as a master...."

Osho continues:
"They also wanted to be spiritually powerful.

"They became sannyasins, they became disciples, but the distance between me and them remained the same. They could never become my intimate people. They could never become my people. Even though they were with me, deep down they were resentful, angry. I wanted them to drop their resentfulness, to drop their anger. It was not my problem, it was their problem, and I wanted to help them in every possible way.

"It was for this simple reason that I had said, 'I am your friend, you are my friend.' Those who were not really with me were immensely happy that now their status and my status was the same. And amongst these were people that you would never have imagined. Just the other day I had the message from a sannyasin that Teertha is saying to people that my state and his state are now the same – we are friends. For this he was hanging around for fifteen years. Rajen is saying to people, 'Now I am no longer a disciple but a friend, and I have the same status.'

"These were the people that I wanted to get rid of as peacefully, as lovingly as possible. But those who had loved me felt hurt – because they have loved me as a disciple, and to be a disciple is something so valuable that who cares to be a friend?

"There is a story in Gautam Buddha's life:

"One of his closest disciples, Sariputra, was found to be not meditating enough. Even people who had come after Sariputra had gone deeper into meditation, people of lesser genius and lesser intelligence. Buddha called Sariputra one morning and said, 'What is the matter?'

"He said, 'You know it. I never want to be enlightened while you are alive. I simply want to sit at your feet the way I have always been sitting. To be your disciple, to be showered with your lovewho cares about enlightenment? This is my enlightenment!'

"So I can understand Vivek's difficulty. She has been for sixteen years with me. When she came she was only twenty years old; now she is thirty-six, almost twice the age."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 87 mins
File Size 19.25 MB
Type Individual Talks