Bliss is a fragrance

Bliss is a fragrance

   8:27 PM       shrikant rathod

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Bliss is a fragrance. 

You cannot achieve it directly. 

You have to grow rose bushes; 

when the roses arrive 

there will be fragrance automatically. 

Bliss is a fragrance of meditation. 

Meditation means 

become more and more silent. 

The noisy person cannot be blissful

one needs the music of silence. 

And our minds are too noisy. 

We are carrying 

almost a whole marketplace in our heads, 

all kinds of rubbish. 

And we are not one, 

we are a crowd inside, many people, 

and they are constantly quarrelling, 

fighting with each other, trying to dominate. 

Each fragment of our mind 

wants to become the most powerful one. 

There is constant inner politics. 

You cannot find bliss 

in this constant inner war. 

Bliss is possible 

only if this continuous war ceases. 

And it can cease; 

it is not very difficult to get beyond it. 

All that is needed is awareness. 

We are not aware 

of this whole phenomenon that goes on. 

It goes on inside like an under-current. 

We are almost oblivious of it. 

It is always there, day in, day out, 

but we are not conscious of it. 

Bring conciousness to it. 

Slowly, watch the subtle layers of noisiness, 

and slowly slowly you will become aware 

of so much chattering that it appears almost 

as if a madhouse is inside the head. 

And we are living in this nightmare.

Through watching a miracle happens: 

whatsoever you can watch 

starts evaporating. 

And the moment it evaporates 

you are left with a deep silence. 

In the beginning there are only intervals, 

small gaps when thoughts cease, 

when you can look through small windows 

into reality. 

But slowly those gaps become bigger; 

they start coming more often, 

then they start staying longer. 

It has been calculated by the ancienct mystics

- and I totally agree with them -

that if a person can remain totally silent 

for forty-eight minutes 

he attains to enlightenment, 

he becomes absolutely blissful. 

And then it lasts forever, 

then there is no going back. 

You have gone into the beyond, 

you have reached beyond time 

and its constant shifting sands. 

You have reached the rock of eternity. 

That's where one comes to realize 

one's immortality. 

That is the ultimate target of sannyas. 

Beloved Osho 

The Golden Wind 

Via Dharma Safi