Wo-man
Jesus says, God is love. Love is the nucleus of our existence. Anybody who thinks love has nothing to do with religion is not in tune with the spirit of life. Love is the ultimate bliss when it is universal. Love becomes imprisonment and misery when it is possessive.
Love needs to grow wings of freedom to attain heights of consciousness. Our society does not allow such freedom. Instead, it does everything to clip wings. So almost everybody is living a life of a cripple as far as love is concerned. And most of these crippled people grow into perverts when their energy is not allowed to express itself naturally, in a loving and creative way.
There’s not a single day when we don’t see news reports of rapes in Delhi and other parts of India. It is true that reporting crimes against women is creating huge awareness and people are offering all sorts of solutions. But most of these solutions are based on laws and morality. Of course, laws are needed and sound social morality. But there are important aspects of sex and love which we need to understand.
Sex is energy. It is a blessing when it is used creatively and it becomes a curse when it becomes suppressed. So what is the most effective way to deal with it? Meditation.
Meditation is the joy one can attain within oneself, without seeking the other. Meditation connects us with our inner woman, or the feminine, creative energy, and this inner union is a source of joy. But this phenomenon is not known to everybody — so there’s deep longing to connect with the outer man or outer woman. When this does not happen in a natural way, people become perverts, even rapists.
Osho says: “The very moment you have come in contact with your inner woman, you have met the perfect woman you have always been seeking and seeking and never finding.” And if you have met your inner man, you have found the perfect man. Yin and yang, together they become a circle. That is the theory of Ardhanarishwar in Hindu mythology. Shiva, who is said to be the greatest god, is half man, half woman. The same is true of Buddha. He is both: tremendously powerful and yet tremendously fragile, almost feminine. Osho illustrates this with a story from China: “When God first created man and woman, they were created together, joined together as a true couple. But this caused much inconvenience, because whenever there was any work to be done, they both had to go, two bodies together. So they prayed, ‘Let us be separated to make our lives easier and more convenient!’ So God separated them, but being separated for lives upon lives, they lost the other. Love is nothing but the search for that lost twin, the Chinese say, and that there can only be fulfillment only when you find him or her.”
Swami Chaitanya Keerti is the author of Osho Fragrance
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