Real prayer is when God talks to you, false prayer is when you talk to God.
This book is the transcribed version of Osho’s talks on Kabir, a mystic poet and singer and above all an ordinary householder doing his day to day work as a weaver. Kabir does not believe in temples, churches or in mosques but he believes in the living reality. To him Nature is God. Kabir says: “All the gods sculpted of wood and ivory can’t say a word.”
According to Osho, people go far away places like Himalayas and Tibet as if God is sitting there.They look into the scriptures and search in the past-in the Vedas and in the Bible and in the Koran -as if God is no longer a contemporary, as if for God one always has to go into the past.Kabir says:“All the Scriptures of the East are nothing but words.” In one of Kabir’s poems God wonders: “Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat: your shoulder is against mine.”
Osho says: “God comes to you, you need not go to him. He has always been coming to you. He goes on knocking on your door, but you don’t listen, you are so full of your inner noise. He is everywhere, but you don’t see - you are blind because of your beliefs.”
Kabir is the poet of man’s dream of becoming God. He says, be innocent, spontaneous and totality will follow. He also says, become a silent listener first and only then one will be able to say something to God. To him the real prayer is a desireless silence and trust is the real key that opens all the doors of heaven. Life and death both are one and the same for Kabir and no effort is there on the part of him to choose between the two . Love and Death too according to Kabir are two aspects of the same energy. In Osho’s words: “ He creates the greatest synthesis that has ever been tried. How can love and death be one? He says God is both, Love and Death - They are one. Here is his revolution.”
Osho’s replies to questions from seekers and disciples on various topics including love and hate, prayer and meditation, acceptance and rejection, marriage and sanyas, frustration and happiness and contentment, loneliness and aloneness, love and revolution appear in alternate chapters. Here are some of his observations:
Seriousness is part of ignorance, seriousness is a shadow of the ego.
God is always the God of love and laughter and light.
People are not together because of love, people are together because of the common enemy.
Man has created a culture, a society, which has not taken any note of the woman.
In this book Osho gives a beautiful commentary on Kabir’s selected poems. The commentary is unique and it sheds light on almost all the aspects of love, life and death.
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