Mulla Nasrudin stopped his wife from jumping off a bridge. "If you jump in," he pleaded, "I will have to jump in after you. It's awfully cold and while we are waiting for the ambulance we will both get pneumonia and die. NOW, PLEASE, BE A GOOD WIFE AND COME
COME AND HANG YOURSELF."
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Pythagoras is a whole man. It
should be so with everybody else too, says Osho in this
insight on the inner geometry of consciousness.
OSHO,
AS WELL AS BEING SOMEONE LIKE YOU, PYTHAGORAS WAS ALSO A GREAT
MATHEMATICIAN. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
MAN IS NOT ONLY THE OUTER, and he is not only the inner either
-- he is both. And more: he is inner, he is outer, and he is
transcendental too. Man is a three dimensional being. Those
three dimensions are represented by Christianity as the
Trinity, and by Hinduism as TRIMURTI -- three faces of God.
And the man who lives only in one dimension lives a partial
life. He will never know the beauty of the whole and the joy
of the whole.
To live a partial life is to live in sickness, because the
parts that are not allowed go on fighting with you. They want
to express themselves. The denied being will take revenge on
you. it will sabotage your life. It will not allow you to live
peacefully; you will be in a constant civil war.
If you deny the body, the body will be angry with you. If you
deny the soul, the soul will be angry with you. And d house
divided against itself cannot be whole, cannot be at peace,
cannot be at ease.
That's why you see millions of people in such great misery.
The misery is caused because they live a fragmentary life.
They accept only a part of their being and the major parts are
rejected. It is like a tree rejecting its roots because they
are invisible -- the tree will start dying, the roots will be
angry. Or it is like the tree denying its flowers, foliage,
branches, and accepting only the roots, then it will have no
meaning.
Man has lived in a partial way, hence the question.
The total man will be rooted in the body like a tree rooted in
the soil, and he will be growing into the sky like the
branches of a tree -- he will be moving into the inner sky.
And he will have something more too, something transcendental
to this duality, a third dimension.
The first dimension is very visible, it is material. It can be
measured: it is the world of mathematics, the world of
science. The second, the inner, is not so visible -- it is
vague, cloudy, mysterious. It is a twilight zone, neither day
nor night, just in the middle between both. It exists on the
boundaries of the material and the ultimate, of this and that.
That is the world of poetry, art.
And the third is absolutely invisible. Nobody has ever seen
it, nobody can ever see it, because it is the very being of
the seer itself. You cannot reduce it to an object: it is your
very subjectivity. It is always the witness and never the
witnessed. It is always the observer and never the observed.
That is the world of the mystic: the transcendental.
And a whole man will be a scientist, a poet and a mystic.
Pythagoras was a whole man, a holy man.
When I say this, that the whole man will be all the three
together, please don't take me literally. One need not be
literally a scientist and yet one can be whole -- but his
approach will be scientific. He may not be an Albert Einstein,
or a Newton, or an Edison. Buddha is not an Albert Einstein,
but still his scientific approach is there: he is utterly
scientific in his approach. He will not allow any
superstition. He will not allow any illogical approaches. He
will be very logical -- although he will lead you beyond
logic! but he will lead you very logically, step by step, with
a method.
Buddha is as much a scientist as Albert Einstein; you can look
into his words. He says, "Don't believe what I say unless
you have experienced it. Unless it has become your own
understanding, don't believe in me." This can be said
only by an utterly scientific mind. He says, "Don't
believe anything because it is written in the scriptures. The
scriptures may be wrong -- who knows? Unless you have become a
witness to it there is no guarantee of its truth." It may
be in the Vedas, in the Upanishads -- there is no need to
believe or disbelieve. Experiment, experience! Become a lab --
your own lab. And unless you have concluded, all beliefs are
just prejudices, superstitious, illogical, unfounded. And
truth believed is a lie. Truth experienced is a totally
different phenomenon. Truth believed is a lie.
This is the approach of a scientific mind.
Buddha is not a poet either in the ordinary sense -- he never
composed poetry. But he is a poet! The way he walks is poetry,
the way he looks at life is poetry. The way he showers his
compassion is poetry. He may not be a poet in the ordinary,
literal sense, but he is sheer poetry. His very existence is
poetic. The tremendous grace that surrounds him, the infinite
beauty that he lives, and the splendour that he has brought to
the earth -- the earth has never been the same again. It was
something else before Buddha, it is totally something else
after Buddha.
What difference has Buddha made to the world? He walked on the
earth, and he belonged to the beyond. He was embodied just
like you and me, but he had come from the ultimate source. He
lived here and now, but AS the ultimate source. His fragrance
is still there in the winds. Those who are alert will still
feel his presence. That preSence is eternal.
So is Jesus, so is Pythagoras... they are all mystics, poets,
scientists. The real man is bound to be a total man. And
that's my teaching too: I would not like you to be partial, I
would not like you to be lopsided. I would not like you to
live only in the body, or only in the soul. People have tried
that! And because of those efforts, man has not become what he
has the birthright to become. Man has not bloomed, has not
flowered. He cannot. Unless all the three dimensions are
together, something will be missing. And that missing part
will go on haunting you, will go on creating misery for you.
The missing part will not allow you to be really contented.
The missing part will not allow you to be grateful to God. The
missing part will not allow you to release the fragrance in
tremendous gratefulness, thankfulness -- to be prayerful. It
will not allow you prayer. Only a fulfilled man can pray. Only
a contented man can pray: contentment is prayer. Prayer is the
perfume of absolute contentment.
Live in the body as Epicurus lived in the body. Live in the
soul as all the mystics have always tried to live in the soul,
but don't deny Epicurus. My vision of the whole man implies
Epicurus too, as much as Jesus, as much as Zarathustra. And
the poet is just between the two, the meeting-point of the
mystic and the scientist in you. It is there that the poet
exists -- on the boundaries, on the frontiers. Let your poet
also have its say. Dance, sing, create music. Live a life
which is rooted in scientific outlook, and has the grace and
the beauty of poetry, and the depth of mysticism.
Pythagoras is a whole man. It should be so with everybody else
too.
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. '
OSHO,
AS WELL AS BEING SOMEONE LIKE YOU, PYTHAGORAS WAS ALSO A GREAT
MATHEMATICIAN. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
