Osho on inner light of consciousness – Let the divine discontent burn like a fire

1. Patanjali Yoga Sutra:

• “BY MASTERING IT, THE LIGHT OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS”.

• Those who attain to this trinity of concentration, meditation and samadhi, to them happens the light of higher consciousness.

• “Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky, your aim the star.” But the journey starts where you are. Step by step Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky, your aim the star. Unless you become as vast as the sky, don’t rest; the journey is not yet complete. Unless you reach and become an eternal light, the star, don’t become complacent, don’t feel contented. Let the divine discontent burn like a fire, so that one day, out of all your efforts the star is born and you become an eternal light.

• “By mastering it, the light of higher consciousness.” Once you master these three inner steps, the light becomes available to you. And when the inner light is available you always live in that light: “At dusk the cock announces dawn. At midnight, the bright sun.” Then even in the midnight there is bright sun available; then even at dusk the cock announces dawn. When you have the inner light there is no darkness. Wherever you go your inner light moves with you — you move in it, you are it.

• Remember that your mind always tries to make you satisfied wherever you are; the mind says there is nothing more to life. The mind goes on trying to convince you that you have arrived. The mind does not allow you to become divinely discontent. And it always can find rationalizations. Don’t listen to those rationalizations. They are not real reasons they are tricks of the mind, because the mind does not want to go, to move. Mind is basically lazy. Mind is a sort of entropy: the mind wants to settle, to make your home anywhere but make your home; just settle, don’t be a wanderer.

• To be a sannyasin means to become a wanderer in consciousness. To be a sannyasin means to become a vagabond — in consciousness — go on searching and wandering. “Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky, your aim the star.” And don’t listen to the mind.

• It happened one night: A policeman was watching a very drunken man vainly trying to fit his house key into a lamp post.

• “It is no use, old chap,” he said. “There is nobody at home.”

• “That is where you are wrong,” replied the fuddled man. “There is light upstairs.”

• The mind is very much fuddled and drunken. It goes on giving reasons. It says, “What more is there?” Just a few days before, a politician came to me. He said, “Now what more is there? I was born in a small village to a poor family, and now I have become a Cabinet Minister. What more is there to life?” Cabinet Minister? What more is there to life he asks, and he is satisfied. “Born in a village to a poor family, what more can one expect?” While the whole sky was available, he is satisfied in being a Cabinet Minister. Don’t get finished that way.

• Unless you become a god! Take rest sometimes by the way, but always remember: it is only a night’s rest; by the morning we go. There are a few people who are satisfied with their worldly achievements. There are a few more who are not satisfied with their worldly achievements but who are satisfied by the promises of the priests. Those, the second category, you call religious. They are also not religious — because religion is not a promise. It has to be attained. Nobody else can promise you; you have to attain it. All promises are consolations and all consolations are dangerous, because they are like opium. They drug you.

• It happened: At an examination of a class in first-aid, a priest was asked (he was also taking the training of first-aid), “What would you do if you found a man in a fainting condition?”

• “I would give him some brandy,” was the answer.

• “And if there was no brandy?”

• “I would promise him some.” said the priest.

• The priest has always been saying that. The priests are the great promisers — they go on issuing promissory notes. They go on saying, “Don’t be worried. Donate, make a church, give money to the poor, make a hospital, this and that, and we promise you.”

• Yoga is self-effort. Yoga has no priests. It has only Masters who have attained by their own effort — and in their light you have to learn how to attain yourself. Avoid the promises of the priests. They are the most dangerous people on earth, because they don’t allow you to become really discontent. They go on consoling you; and if you are consoled before you have attained, you are cheated, you are deceived. Yoga believes in effort, in tremendous effort. One has to become worthy. One has to EARN God; you have to pay the cost.

• Someone once asked the former Prince of Wales, “What is your idea of civilization?”

• “It is a good idea,” replied the prince. “Somebody ought to start it.

• The yoga is not just an idea it is a practice, it is abhyas, it is a discipline, it is a science of inner transformation. And remember, nobody can start it for you. You have to start it for yourself. Yoga teaches you to trust yourself; yoga teaches you to become confident of yourself. Yoga teaches you that the journey is alone. A Master can indicate the way, but you have to follow it. ~OSHO