Kabir, Kabir, Where Are You Going?

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"Aristotle defines man as the rational animal; no definition can be more false than this. Man is the most irrational animal, because man is not yet conscious. Reason is possible only as a byproduct of..."
Kabir, Kabir, Where Are You Going?
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"Aristotle defines man as the rational animal; no definition can be more false than this. Man is the most irrational animal, because man is not yet conscious. Reason is possible only as a byproduct of..."

Osho continues:
"This confusion has to be dropped.

"One has to become intensely aware or intensely loving. These are the only two keys which can bring man out of the state he is in: either intense awareness – that is the path of meditation – or intense, total love – that is the path of devotion.

"Kabir is a devotee: he is on the path of love. He will talk of love again and again, but what he means by love has to be understood well. By love he means an intense desire to disappear into the whole. It is not the love you know of, that you talk about; it is a totally different phenomenon. Your love is an effort to dominate the other; it is a strategy to possess the other, to exploit the other. Kabir is not talking about that love. You cannot possess God, you can only be possessed by God.

"To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it burns you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not – the guest comes.

"This paradox has to be understood: the guest cannot come if the host is very much there; the guest can come only when the host is not there at all. In fact, that's what it really means to be a host: absent, utterly absent, with no ego, with no idea of 'I' within you; just an utter, pure emptiness, then you are a host. When the host is not there, then you are really a host. And then not even a split second is lost and the guest comes.

"The guest does not come from the outside, hence there is no time gap. The dying of the host is the resurrection of the guest. You are the host, you are the guest. If you live with the 'I' you remain a host, unacquainted with the guest. If you drop the 'I,' you are the guest.

"But before man can attain to such intensity, either of awareness or of love – the real thing is intensity; neither does awareness matter nor love; what matters is intensity, total intensity – before that total intensity can happen you have to be perfectly conscious of your unconsciousness."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 91 mins
File Size 23.77 MB
Type Conversa Individual