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CREATIVITY ::
THE
FRAGRANCE OF THE CREATOR
 “CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of
the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity
belongs to the creator, not to you. No man can ever
be creative. Yes, man can compose, construct, but
can never be a creator.”
When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent,
a new kind of presence enters his being -- the presence
of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside
you His light that starts falling around you is creativity.
The climate that arises around you because of the
presence of God within you is creativity.
Read on as Osho brings out the essence of living……..
It has nothing to do with awareness or love, although
the creative person is both. The creative person is
aware, the creative person is loving, but the creative
person is neither a meditator nor a lover -- loving
yes, but there is no lover; meditativeness yes, but
there is no meditator.
And when there is nobody inside you, that very nobodiness
brings creativity. It springs, it wells up, you become
full of it. Whatsoever you touch becomes gold. It
is not your touch, remember; the miracle is always
God's. It has nothing to do with the path of love
or with the path of awareness. The path of love and
the path of awareness bring you to God because they
help you to disappear.
When God is there, then creativity is simply a consequence
of His presence, just His presence. You can attain
to His presence through love or awareness, it doesn't
matter. How you annihilate yourself is irrelevant;
the only thing is that you should be annihilated,
that you should not be. Do it through love, that will
do. How you commit suicide does not matter, with what
kind of poison. Whether you jump from a cliff, or
you lie down in front of a railway train, or you shoot
yourself, or you hang yourself, it doesn't matter.
All that matters is that you should have committed
the suicide of the ego: through love, through awareness;
through Yoga, through Tantra, Taoism, Zen, Sufism,
Hassidism. It doesn't matter; these are different
ways of committing suicide. I don't mean the physical,
I mean the metaphysical. Once you are not there, all
that is left is God.
You ask me, "DOES IT CORRESPOND MORE TO THE PATH
OF AWARENESS OR TO THE PATH OF LOVE? OR IS IT A CHILD
OF BOTH?"
It has nothing to do with the path. Creativity is
possible only when the goal is achieved; it is a by-product
of the goal. And don't start thinking in terms of
a cross-breeding; cross-breeding is dangerous. You
are thinking, "Or is it a child of both?"
Just the other day I was reading...
A farmer was very fond of cross-breeding. First he
crossed a chicken with a goose and got a 'choose'.
Then he crossed a pheasant with an eagle and got 'pheagle'.
Then he crossed a road with a bicycle and got killed.
Beware of cross-breeding.
If you feel at home with love, it will do; or if you
feel at home with awareness it will do. Just remember
one thing: that somehow, manage to disappear.
There are people who need not even go on any path,
love or meditation. Just the sheer intelligence is
enough, just seeing the point is enough. Just seeing,
"How can I be? I cannot exist alone, separate.
I cannot exist as an island. I am continuously connected
with the whole. I am breathing from every pore of
my body; even if for a few seconds the breathing stops,
I will be no more."
You are continuously eating, drinking. What are you
eating? -- the universe, that's what you are eating.
What are you breathing? -- the universe, that's what
you are breathing. What are you drinking? -- the universe,
that's what you are drinking. Continuously, the universe
is going in and passing out. You are just a passage.
The breath comes in, refreshes you, rejuvenates you,
goes out, another breath comes in.... We are in a
continuous relationship with existence. In fact, to
say it is a relationship is not right: we are one
with existence.
If one is REALLY intelligent, then neither love nor
meditation -- just intelligence is enough. Just to
see the point that we are one with existence, hence
there is nobody separate, and the ego is gone. And
the going of the ego is the coming of God. In fact,
God is always there; just because of the ego you cannot
see Him.
And to see yourself as divine, as part of this immense
existence, is the beginning of creativity.
And this is not only the experience of the mystics.
Of course this is the experience of all the mystics
of the world: you can ask Kabir or Eckhart, you can
ask Farid or Mansoor, you can ask Lieh Tzu or Rinzai.
You can ask different kinds of mystics, born in different
times, to different races, in different countries,
unaware of each other's existence, and they will all
say one thing: "The moment I disappeared, God
came in. Or maybe He was already there; just my presence
was not allowing Him to express Himself, to become
manifest. I was obstructing the way."
But this is not only the experience of the mystics.
Even the poets, the musicians, the painters, have
a few glimpses of it -- of course only glimpses, then
they fall back to the ordinary world. They rise to
the sacred for a few moments.
Whenever Rabindranath would have the visitation, would
have creativity arising in him, he would not eat,
he would not drink, he would not sleep for days together.
He would lock himself in his room, he would not come
out. He would come out only when the glimpse had disappeared.
And those who saw him coming out after three, four
days of remaining in some other world all noted one
fact: he looked so different, so fragile, so unearthly,
so light, as if not made of matter, so subtle, nothing
gross in him, his eyes so clear and so deep and his
whole being so transparent. But after a few hours
he would be back again, settled in the gross body,
would be his old self again.
People used to ask him, "What happens when you
close yourself in?" He would say, "I close
myself in, I lock myself in, so that nobody disturbs
me, because I am no more here. Any disturbance can
be a very shattering experience. I am so fragile that
I would not like to be disturbed. Even a little sound
is enough to bring me back to the earth, and those
are the moments when I am flying high, when great
poetry arises in me."
That's how GITANJALI was born, the book for which
he got the Nobel Prize. Many, many people have been
given the Nobel Prize, I have seen almost all the
books for which a Nobel Prize has been given, but
there is no comparison with Rabindranath's GITANJALI.
'Gitanjali' means 'offering of songs'. It has some
totally different quality, not of this world. It echoes
something of the Upanishads. It has some reflections
of Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. But Rabindranath
was not a mystic, he was only a poet.
A poet is one who becomes a mystic once in a while,
who enters into the world of the mystic once in a
while but comes back because he has not yet become
capable of remaining there forever. He cannot abide
there, he can only have a visit. The poet is very
close to the mystic.
These three words have to be remembered. The scientist
is the farthest from the mystic because he lives with
the gross matter, he works with the gross matter.
The poet is closer to the mystic. The scientist functions
from the head, the poet from the heart, and the mystic
lives in the being. When you are in the being, creativity
is simply your nature.
You ask me, " WHAT IS CREATIVITY?"
For the mystic, his very existence is creativity.
He walks, and that is creativity. He talks, and that
is creativity. He remains silent, and that is creativity.
Buddha, sitting in silence, is far more creative than
Rabindranath writing poetry, far more creative than
Picasso doing his painting, far more creative than
Moore working on his sculpture... just sitting silently!
So creativity has nothing to do with creating something,
creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who
are fortunate enough to come in contact with a buddha's
silence will be transformed; they will know what creativity
is. He has not done a thing and miracles have happened.
He has not uttered a word and the message has been
heard. He has not moved, but he has transformed you.
He has not even touched you, and you are no longer
the same.
At the ultimate peak of being a mystic, creativity
is just a climate. Lower than that is the poet; then
creativity brings great songs, sculpture, architecture,
poetry, music, painting. And even the scientist, the
lowest in this categorization -- lowest because he
works with
the lowest form of existence, matter -- even the scientist,
when he is creative, has a few glimpses like the mystic.
For example, Albert Einstein: he has said many times
that "All my insights happened when I was not
working at all, in fact when I was not. All my great
insights came to me from some unknown source."
The great scientist, Eddington, has said, "When
I started working as a scientist I used to think of
the world as matter, as only matter. But the more
deeply I went into it, the more a few things started
happening to me which are incomprehensible in terms
of science, mathematics, calculation, measurement.
And those things have revealed one thing to me: now
I can say that the world resembles more a thought
than a thing."
All the great scientists... I am not talking about
the technicians: they are lower than the scientists,
the fourth category, the last, the SUDRAS, the untouchables.
I am not talking about the technician. The technician
has no flight, no insight, no visitation from the
beyond. He simply knows how to do a certain thing,
he is an adept in 'how-toism'. He turns everything
into a method. The technician is not a scientist.
The scientist is one who very rarely, but still, reaches
to the peaks of the mystic. The poet is a visitor
there more often, and the mystic remains there. For
the mystic creativity is a climate, for the poet it
is great activity, for the scientist even moreso:
it is materialization of something which is immaterial,
great work. It took almost twenty years for Albert
Einstein to formulate the Theory of RelativitY --
GREAT work. The insight happens in a split second,
but then you have to work it out, you have to prove
it through experimentation.
The poet needs no proofs; you never ask for proof
The scientist is asked for proofs, experimental proofs,
and the experiments may take years. Sometimes it has
happened that the insight is there but the experimentation
has taken years and years. Still a few of Albert Einstein's
theories are not yet proved by experimentation. They
are just theories, with every possibility of being
proved true, but with no way to prove them this way
or that, for or against. Still no experiment is possible.
For example, Albert Einstein said that time is such
a relative phenomenon that if a passenger leaves the
earth on a spaceship at the speed of light -- the
speed of light is immense,'almost inconceivable: one
hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second...
if a spaceship leaves the earth at that speed, then
the person who is moving in that spaceship will never
age. If he is young, twenty-five years old, he will
remain twenty-five years old. Even if he comes back
after twenty-five years, all his friends on the earth
will be fifty years old, he will simply be twenty-five,
because at that speed time stops.
Now this is simply a theory, an insight; we have not
yet been able to devise a spaceship which can move
with that speed. But scientists say that theoretically
it seems right
-- but only theoretically. Now how did Einstein
arrive at it? -- because there is no possibility for
experimentation. Obviously, it is not the conclusion
of an experiment; you cannot do any experiment. No
spaceship is there which moves with such speed. In
fact, it may never be possible to have such a spaceship;
there are difficulties.
The most difficult thing is: whenever a thing moves
at that speed it turns into light. At that speed the
heat is so much that no spaceship can move at that
speed, because the heat would burn it out. Just the
friction -- one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles
per second -- the very friction would be enough, and
the spaceship and the passengers would all be reduced
to light, they would burn out. But maybe some day
we can find something which does not burn out, which
remains intact, and the passenger can move at that
speed.
Then scientists think that Einstein is right: at that
speed, time stops. And if time stops you cannot age,
so it is possible that a man may leave on a spaceship,
and when he comes back his children will be older
than him, or even his grandchildren will be older
than him. If he comes after eighty years, all his
children will be gone, his children's children will
be older than him, and he will have remained exactly
at the same age, with no change, with no difference,
as if not a single moment had passed.
Now this is a pure theory; they call it 'pure physics'.
How did Einstein arrive at it? It is an insight, it
is a mystical experience. Albert Einstein had a few
mystical experiences. All his other theories were
also conceived in the same way; they have all been
proved right, slowly slowly, by experiments. Maybe
this too is right.
Even the scientist comes to truth only when he is
not, the poet comes to beauty when he is not, and
the mystic comes to God when he is not. The scientist
can only be approximately true, because the moments
are very rare and very fleeting. The poet can be a
little more sure, on a more firm ground, because the
moments come often. But the mystic is absolutely certain,
hence his declarations.
The Upanishads say AHAM BRAHMASMI, I am God! Al Hillaj
Mansoor declares ANA EL HAQ! I am the Truth! These
are not conclusions, these are not arrived at through
thought processes. These are intuitions, experiences
of the ultimate revelation. Mansoor had become one
with truth; he was no more separate.
So creativity has three layers; the ultimate is the
mystic: he lives in a climate of creativity. The poet,
once in a while, brings some treasures from the beyond;
the scientist, also very rarely, but whenever he can
visit the ultimate he brings something precious to
the world. But one thing is certain -- mystic, scientist
or poet, whatsoever comes into this world comes from
the beyond.
To bring the beyond is creativity. To bring
the beyond into the known is creativity. To help God
to be manifested in some form is creativity.”
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On
the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept. of Posts.
Govt. of India launched a Special Day Cover at a special function
in the capital. 
