Inspirational quotes by Osho on Krishna, Brahman, and God

"There is no difficulty about it; there is no difficulty at all. Nobody need do anything; it will happen on its own." Osho (Kundalini, p152)

“When we practice this alertness…it soon brings awareness that we each contain an unchanging, undisturbed, and eternal center of watchfulness- a center that has the capacity to see life as a great adventure, a play, a mystery school, and, finally, a blissful journey with no purpose other than to delight in every step along the way.” Ma Deva Sarito. Intro to Osho Zen Tarot. Newleaf, Dublin. 1994.

“This vast expanse of our world was born out of emptiness, which is without form, and it will return to the same emptiness. Everything appears and disappears, but the source is the same emptiness, the immense void. And the whole is hidden in that emptiness which by its nature cannot have a name, a shape, and an adjective. …In this sense, self-nature, like everything else, has two states: the manifest and the unmanifest. While the manifest has a name and form, attributes, the unmanifest has none whatsoever… The day the manifest and the unmanifest meet and merge into each other, the ultimate truth comes into being.”  Osho (Krishna, p266-7)

“It is significant that in Sanskrit the word Brahman or the supreme energy of God, is categorized as neuter gender. Is Brahman male or female? No, it is neutral. …How can the supreme be male or female? That would make Brahman partial. No, the ultimate being is impartial [ie. synonymous, and also not, with indifference, detachment, and dispassion](my brackets). This impartiality is possible only if the proportion of male and female is fifty-fifty.

            The concept of ardhanarisvara is the symbol of Brahman, the supreme, because the proportion of male and female in Brahman is fifty-fifty. Brahman is both man and woman, or it is neither.

            …ardhanarisvara depicts a great psychological truth… …this ancient symbol is a blend of male and female energies… One of its sides is feminine and the other is masculine, or you can say it is a blending or the combination of the two. It can also be said to be beyond the two…

            Jesus has used a weird phrase, “eunuchs of God” to point to the same phenomenon. He says those who want to find God should become eunuchs of God, which really sounds outlandish. But Jesus is right; those who want to find God should become like God: neither male nor female.*(my footnote) And if you look attentively at men like Buddha and Krishna, who reflect godliness on this earth at its highest, you will find that they too are neither male nor female. Seen in their full glory and grandeur they are both or neither, or a blending of the two. In a way they reflect transcendental sex, they have gone beyond the duality of the sexes…

            The concept of God as Ardhanarisvara says that the primeval source of creation is neither male nor female or it is both…

            …God is the presence, the affirmation of yin and yang…

            Jesus does not say that we should become eunuchs to attain to God, all he means to say is that we should neither remain men nor women, and then we will be both together.” Osho (from the book, Krishna)

“The witness, the observer, divides the world into subject and object, into the witness and the witnessed. Therefore as long as there is a witness, duality will continue. Witnessing is the last frontier of the dual world, after which the non-dual begins. But one cannot reach the non-dual without being a witness. To be a witness means that I now give up dividing the world into many. Instead I will divide it two- the witness and the witnessed. And when I have reduced the many fragments of the world to two, it will not be difficult to come to the complete unity of existence when duality will disappear, when the observer and the observed will become one and the same. If one succeeds in becoming a witness he will soon have glimpses of the one without the other, when there is neither witness nor witnessed, but only witnessing.” Osho (Krishna, p748)

“And when this state achieves its fullness it will abide forever, and then even witnessing will disappear. Then…one is whole. He is the awakened one.” Osho (Krishna, p749)

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.