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CHAPTER 8. THE FOURTH STATE<br />
HE WHO EXPERIENCES THE DIVINE ENERGY PERVADING ALL THINGS, VIEWS ALL THINGS<br />
AS EQUAL,<br />
AND HE ATTAINS TO SHIVAHOOD.<br />
When a person sees all things as equal he be<strong>com</strong>es like Shiva. <strong>The</strong>n he be<strong>com</strong>es God himself.<br />
You are the ”I” as long as you do not know your self. This seems very contradictory. You cry out ”I...<br />
I..I” as long as you do not know yourself. <strong>The</strong> day you know, the ”I” falls, the ”you” also falls, and<br />
you be<strong>com</strong>e like Shiva. You be<strong>com</strong>e God himself. That day the music of aham brahmasmi – I am<br />
God, will arise spontaneously within you. <strong>The</strong>n you will not be repeating ”Aham brahmasmi”; you will<br />
know! You will not have to understand it, it will be<strong>com</strong>e your very existence, your very experience.<br />
All around you the air will vibrate with this music, the music of the one. As the drop loses itself<br />
and be<strong>com</strong>es one with the ocean, so all boundaries fall and you be<strong>com</strong>e boundless – you reach<br />
Shivahood.<br />
Shiva’s efforts, and all those who have attained buddhahood, are directed towards you be<strong>com</strong>ing<br />
just like them. What they have known, the supreme bliss, should be your treasure also, for it is<br />
your possession also. You are still a seed; they have flowered into trees. <strong>The</strong>se trees keep calling,<br />
”Be<strong>com</strong>e trees! Do not remain seeds!” You will never attain peace until you reach Shivahood, for<br />
man cannot be contented with less; his soul will not be fulfilled. <strong>The</strong> thirst will continue no matter<br />
how much you try to quench it with the waters of the world. It will only be quenched when you drink<br />
from God’s vessel. <strong>The</strong>n the thirst is quenched forever; all desires, all ambitions, all hurry and scurry,<br />
all striving and struggling end, for you will then have be<strong>com</strong>e that which is the highest, the supreme.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is nothing higher.<br />
Keep pouring the oil of the fourth state into the three states, so that you are so filled with delight that<br />
you enter into self-awareness, so that you get tidings of the life force, so that you may know that it<br />
is the one that resides in all, so that you attain the vision of equality, so that you be<strong>com</strong>e like Shiva<br />
himself.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Great</strong> <strong>Path</strong> 156 Osho