The Roots and the Flowers Are One-part 7.

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Because love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

 

Nobody can teach you the ways of love; you will have to live in close vicinity

of a lover. Nobody can teach you how to pray: you will have to live in close

vicinity of one who is in prayer. Watching him, feeling him, moving around him,

tasting the flavor of his being, will teach you what prayer is. Then prayer will

not become a ritual. Then prayer will be a flowering within you, a spontaneous

arising of a new vision.

 

 

Distill the sweetness

of the heart

and reach the treasures,

devoting yourself

to those wholly devoted.

 

 

That is the relationship between a Master and a disciple. Bauls move in search

of a Master. Whenever they find somebody whose song, whose dancing is

prayerful...and there is no intellectual criterion for knowing it; you have just

to be with someone. How do you know that a person is in love? What is the

criterion? Just be with him and see: see how he behaves, see how he responds.

See his tears and his songs. Watch his moods in different moments. By and by,

you will be able to feel what worship, what love, what prayer is. Yes, it cannot

be taught, but it can be caught.

 

 

Will the day ever dawn

when the treasured man of my heart

will become my own?

Though not cast in any shape,

the man is evidenced

in the ways of love.

 

 

There is no proof for God.

 

But there is enough proof in those people who have loved him. There is no proof

that God exists, but there is enough proof that a Meera existed, that Chaitanya

existed. There is enough proof because we have seen a transfiguration happening

in Meera, we have seen the transmutation happening in Chaitanya. We have seen.

They were ordinary metal suddenly becoming gold. We don't know God exists; there

is no proof -- but is it not enough proof? The Bauls say, "The man is evidenced

in the ways of love." That is the only evidence.

 

 

Vivekananda went to Ramkrishna. He wanted a proof for God, and Ramkrishna

started laughing in his mad way. And suddenly, he touched Vivekananda's heart

with his feet. Vivekananda fell into a swoon, a trance. The friends that had

come with Vivekananda were all worried: "What has happened?" And Vivekananda was

not the sort to fall easily into a trance. He was an intellectual, atheistic,

skeptical, well trained in logic and philosophy. What had happened? What had

this man done? And when Vivekananda came back, he was a totally different man.

Then Vivekananda tried in thousands of ways to escape from this man Ramkrishna,

but it was impossible. It was as if a great magnet was pulling him. He would

escape for a few days and then come back, almost against his will. One day he

would again find himself sitting before Ramkrishna, and he would tell

Ramkrishna, "Leave me alone. Why are you haunting me?" Ramkrishna said, "What

can I do? You asked, 'Is there any God, is there any proof?' I don't

know any proof. All that I know is that he is in me, so I allowed him to touch

you. What else can I do? Now it is for you to decide whether God is or not."

 

There is no proof, but there are enough proofs; no direct proof, but many

indirect evidences.

 

 

Will the day ever dawn

when the treasured man of my heart

will become my own?

Though not cast in any shape,

the man is evidenced

in the ways of love.

Those who are absorbed

by the flavours of feelings

and are wholly living

with the knowledge of death

have won their foes --

pride and envy,

lust and anger,

ignorance and greed.

If your life,

flowing with life,

longs for the man,

the man will come with kindly steps.

Look at the worlds of gods, demons and man --

all held in your body.

He is already there.

 

Osho: The Beloved, Vol 2

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Namaste Supraath,

 

What else can I say , beautiful are your posting.........................

 

Sri Ramakrishna use to say "Bhagawan ! Bhaktha ! Bhagavata!"

 

If you are not etasbalish him ( Bhagawan) then you will see Him is his pure

devotees(Bhaktha) and if you cannot find his devotees than through sciptures

(Bhagavatha) he would manifest Himslef for you

 

 

Jai Maa!!