Osho –
Anand means bliss, mahbuba means beloved. God creates the world out of his
love. The world flows out of his love – it is an expression of his love, an
explosion of his love. He loves every creature… from stones to stars. We are
all protected by his love, we are all continuously showered on by his love.
Everyone has to consciously become a beloved of god. Once this recognition penetrates
the heart, it transforms your whole being. It is as if suddenly a light comes
into darkness and darkness is gone.
Just
the idea ’God loves me’, just the feel of it – ’He surrounds me like a caress,
his lips are on my lips, his heart is in my heart. I am not abandoned by
existence; I am loved, cherished by existence. I am not worthless, I am not
unworthy…’ and the dignity and the splendour starts growing in one.
And
remember a great paradox: the real dignity has no ego in it; the real splendour
has no idea of any superiority. In fact, the ego is just a cover-up for our
worthlessness. Because we think ourselves worthless, we try to prove in every
way that we are not worthless. That effort is our ego trip – ’I am a president
of a country, I am not worthless. I have so much education; I am not
worthless.’ ’Look, I have got so many lovers; I am not worthless.’ But deep
down we are constantly nagged by our worthlessness. Deep down we know we are
worthless, dust unto dust.
That
has been taught to us down the centuries. Our souls have been corrupted and
poisoned. The priests and the politicians have conspired against the whole of
humanity. This is their whole conspiracy: to create the feeling of
worthlessness in human beings. If they feel worthless they can be dominated by
the politician, they can be dominated by the priest. If they feel worthless
they will seek some authority figures to depend on. If they feel worthless they
cannot not be independent. That is the secret trick in it. If they feel worth, if
they feel loved by god, if they are nourished and cherished by existence, they
will not look up to any father-figure, to any authority – political, religious,
or any other.
So the
basic conspiracy has been created in every child – the idea that you are absolutely
worthless, that you are not up to the standard, that you are not as intelligent
as you should be, that you are not as beautiful as you are supposed to be, that
your behaviour is ugly, to improve yourself, to prove yourself. That’s what
improvement is: an effort to prove ’I am somebody.’ The ego is nothing but an
effort to cover this inner worthlessness that has been created by the society.
My effort here is to give back the dignity that really belongs to you.
Everyone
is utterly essential. This existence needs you – without you it would not be
the same existence. And not only does it need you: it needs everybody in the
same way, so there is no question of superiority. It needs even a small blade
of grass as much as it needs the sun and the moon. As far as the whole is
concerned, everything is absolutely essential – the great oceans and the small
dewdrops. It will miss the small dewdrop if it is not there; it will not be so
beautiful. There will remain a hole in it which cannot be filled by the great
oceans; they can only be filled by small dewdrops.
As far
as the whole is concerned, there is absolute equality. In asserting one’s own
dignity, one asserts the dignity of the whole of existence of animals, of
trees, of people, of mountains, of rivers, of all. So it does not create any
superiority complex, because a superiority complex is nothing but an
inferiority complex standing on its head, doing sirshasan, a headstand; that’s
all it is. And it has nothing to do with ego. Ego simply shows a poor person
who has not yet become aware of his inner splendour and the gifts that god has
given to him.
Source
– Osho Book “Don’t Look Before You Leap”
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