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CHAPTER 10. THE ETERNAL SPRING
external states of happiness and sorrow, and he achieves the ultimate aloneness. Now he is alone!
Now he is drunk with his own self; now he needs nothing ; all his wants, all his desires are now
dead, because happiness and sorrow are external. He neither longs for happiness nor wants to get
rid of sorrow. All his external ties are broken. Now he is stable, and fixed within his own self. He is
constantly in bliss; there are no further desires. Now he is absorbed in his own consciousness. His
satchitananda, his truth-consciousness-bliss, now flows constantly. It is in his every breath, in every
stomp of his being.
FREED FROM THESE HE ACHIEVES HIS ALONENESS.
THE YOGI WHO IS ESTABLISHED IN HIS ALONENESS CEASES TO DESIRE, AND THUS
ATTAINS FREEDOM FROM BIRTH AND DEATH.
Then there is no birth; then there is no death. Birth and death are necessary when we journey in
search of happiness. We desire happiness and happiness can only be attained through the body;
so we have no choice but to take on a body. The happiness we desire decides the kind of body that
we take on. The desire for happiness lingers at the moment of death and becomes the seed for the
next birth.
What does a tree do before it dies? It draws all its life-energy into its seeds. The seed is the desire
of the tree to exist after death. A seed is a wonderful phenomenon. The vast spreading giant of a
tree extracts its essence and deposits it in the seed, which i sends off on the journey of life. Its own
body will die, but the tree has already made arrangements for a new body to live once again. And
this explains the fact that although the tree is born from a single seed, it produces millions of seeds
in the course of its lifetime. The tree takes no chances. It has to take into account so many factors;
what if the seed falls onto rocks or barren ground? What if it gets no water? It may be eaten by
animals or crushed by someone. The tree cannot take a chance, so it produces millions of seeds,
and by various means scatters them far and wide, so that at least some of them find a suitable place
in which to grow.
In India there is the silk cotton tree. Nothing can grow beneath the tree, for its roots such up all the
water; so the tree has a wonderful way to scatter its seeds; it fills the seed pods with cotton so they
can fly away from the tree when the wind comes. It has arranged that the seeds don’t fall on the
ground below, for that would be certain death to them.
It is not easy for a plant to grow under a bog tree, almost impossible, therefore all trees have devised
their own ways to exist. Trees are clever and cunning in their own way; do not take them to be simple
and guileless. In this world nothing and no one is plain and simple; no one can be, for complexity
and cunningness are necessary qualifications for existence. As soon as he becomes simple and
guileless one has attained liberation.
Trees and plants have devised thousands of different ways to scatter their seeds. The sweet nectar
in flowers is only there for the bees and the butterflies. They settle on a flower to such the nectar,
thinking that it has been provided expressly for them, little knowing that while it sucks at the flower it
picks up hundreds of seeds on its legs in the form of pollen. Then the bees carry the seed to distant
places. When plants devise so many methods for survival, now many must you be inventing? You
cleverness has no limit.
The Great Path 188 Osho