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Place at God’s feet your flowers of feeling 
The Hindustan Times, New Delhi
4 October, 2003
MEDITATIONS/ Swami Chaitanya Keerti

The Baul mystics of Bengal always sing songs of love, full of reverence for the earth. They are deeply in love with life on earth and do not promise any imaginary heaven in the sky. They are the real people who sing real songs.

In one of the poems a Baul mystic sings: Commit yourself to the earth/ while on the earth, my heart/ If you wish to attain/ the unattainable man.

The ‘unattainable man’ means the God within us, who is the essential man. The Bengali name is Adhar Manush. The unattainable man is not to be attained somewhere in the Himalayas or the heavens but within us, in the deepest core of our being. It is to be discovered in our meditation and this process of meditation need not be something serious and grim. In fact, it is an outpouring of our gratefulness to the earth and the whole of existence. All the elements of this existence have created us. We have no reason to feel egoistic as we are not in any way separate from this existence. We are the organic manifestation of this existence. To feel one with it we simple need to come down from the clouds of our head to our heart and follow our feelings. 

The Baul mystics sing:
Place at his feet your flowers of feeling/ and the prayers of tears flooding your eyes.

Osho extols the nature of these mystics and says: They are real people. They say ‘the flowers of feelings’. Ordinary flowers won’t do. You can pick flowers from the trees and go to the God of your temple and put those flowers there, but the God is abstract, the flowers borrowed.

In fact they were more in tune with God on the trees. You have not made them closer to God, you have killed them. The Bauls say ‘your flowers of feelings place at his feet’, which means your love, compassion and understanding. 

In A Cup of Tea, his most famous book of letters written to the seekers, Osho reveals: The secret of all prayer and worship is hidden in the overflow of those tears. They are sacred. God fills the heart of those he blesses with tears of love, and what to say about the calamity of those whose hearts are filled instead with thorns of hate? Tears flowing in love are offerings of flowers at the feet of God and the eyes from which they flow are blessed with divine vision. Only eyes filled with love can see God. Love is the only energy that transcends the inertia of nature and takes one to the shores of ultimate awareness.