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Moments of
Separation
We all have to leave at some time or another – the
only truth about birth and life is death. It cannot be denied – the causal body
takes birth and dies – but there is something within that is permanent, indestructible!
All of us mortals come to grief when someone near and dear passes away – but Osho,
when he merged with universal consciousness told his disciples to rejoice and
celebrate because on leaving the causal body, he will be with each and every one
of them.
When we even leave any meditation camp in the
proximity of the living Master, we feel sad, we feel that these days should
never end, because we are in the presence of a powerful aura which radiates joy
and bliss. But we need to remember that every parting is the beginning of
something new. Parting is inherent in coming together again – they are the two
sides of the same coin.
Although they appear to be different, they always
go together. Because they show up separately and on different occasions, we are
deluded into the false belief that they are not connected. But if we go a
little deeper, we will find that meeting is itself a parting, that happiness is
also grief and that even birth itself is death. Indeed, there is hardly any
difference between coming and going – or rather, there is no difference at all.
It is the same in life. We have hardly come when the process of going begins,
and what appears to our minds to be staying on is merely a preparation for
leaving.
Really, what is the distance between birth and
death? The distance between them can be endless. In life, if this distance
between birth and death, becomes a pursuit for self-realisation, this distance
can have no end to it at all. If life becomes a sadhana, a journey to
self-realisation, death can become moksha, liberation. While there is not much
distance between birth and death, the span between moksha and death is infinite.
That distance is as great as the one between body and soul, between a dream and
the truth. That distance is much greater than all other distances put together.
No two points are greater apart than moksha and death.
The illusion that “I am the body” is death; the
realisation that “I am the soul” is liberation, salvation, moksha, nirvana. And
our life is an opportunity for the realisation of truth. If this opportunity
for the realisation of truth is used properly and not wasted in vain, the
distance between birth and death becomes infinite.
After attending Swamiji’s shibir, some of us feel
a tremendous change within us. This change needs to be made permanent through
determination, commitment and meditation with complete, unconditional surrender,
and soon the destination will be reached.
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