THE LAST MORNING STAR - Talks On The Enlightened Woman Mystic, Daya

Written words can carry a transforming message to the reader.


This book is the transcript of Osho’s talks on Dayabhai, a devotee, a poet and an enlightened mystic. Not much is known about her. Her master was Charandas who had two female disciples: Sahajo and Daya.They were uneducated. They came from the same region that Meera had come from. Osho has taken the title of this book from Sahajo’s verse: The world is like the last morning star.

Just as the last morning star does not remain for long, so the world is the star of the dawn .One moment it is here and then it is gone. “The world is like the last morning star”, Sahajo says: “It is fast disappearing like a pearl of dew, like water held in the hollow of your hands.”

Daya is an ardent devotee and her love is the ultimate love, ultimate love to the divine.There is no greater love than this. She has no desire for heaven, for salvation, for paradise, for bliss or for truth. Her desire is to enthrone her beloved in her heart. Daya says:
“I have no ascetic disciplines, no spiritual practices, have undertaken no pilgrimages, no vows, no charity, like an innocent child who relies on his mother, I depend wholly on you. Like a young child who relies on her mother, I rely on you.The child may make a million mistakes, yet his mother will never abandon him.”

Daya’s sutra tells us that the riches of this world cannot become worthless until we know the wealth of the divine. A sadhu knows the worthlessness of the riches of the three worlds. Experience the wealth of the divine, she says, and the entire wealth of this world will become worthless. Daya’s verses carry a transforming message to the reader. In her words,“Life in this world is but a one night’s stay at an inn” and “Like a pearl of dew, it is in a moment gone”. So "carry the divine in your heart"

Osho’s replies to questions from disciples and seekers on various topics appear in alternate chapters which include master-disciple relationship, devotion and witnessing, politics and education, life and death, character and individuality, doubt and trust, love and jealousy, sanyas and truth. Here are some of Osho’s observations found in this book:

Happiness is your self-nature. If it were possible to obtain happiness from others you would have found it by now.

We give others what we have; we ask for what we don’t have.

Everyone thinks that his way of seeing things is the correct way.

The ultimate realization of one’s own ignorance is also the ultimate moment of knowing.

What we call life is really nothing but a queue at the door of death.

In this book Osho sheds light on an ancient and little known woman mystic poet. It is rather unique on the part of Osho to dig out such little known personalities from the past and present them into the limelight. Osho gives a very good commentary on Dayabhai’s poems.