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CHAPTER 1. THE DARKNESS INSIDE
Yoni means the nature. That’s why we call the woman, or the female element, prakriti or nature. The
woman gives birth to the body, she represents prakriti. And kala means the will to do. There is only
one art, and that is: the art of entering this world. And this comes through the will to do, to be a
doer.
Your body is made of two things: your will to do, your ego, and the physical form you have received
from the prakriti, the nature. If the will to do is present within you, then the nature will go on providing
you with an appropriate body. This is how you have been born again and again. Sometimes you
were an animal, sometimes a bird, a tree some other time, and sometimes a man. Whatsoever you
wished to achieve, it has happened. Your desire to achieve becomes the actuality; thoughts become
real things. So beware when you desire, because all desires are fulfilled – sooner or later.
If you are of the habit of watching the birds fly in the sky and wonder, ”How free the birds are, I wish
I were a bird.” it will not be long before you become a bird. You see dogs mating, and if that moment
a thought arises in you, ”What freedom! What happiness!” – soon you will become a dog. Whatever
desire you keep within you, it becomes a seed.
The nature only gives birth to the body. You are the artist, you are your own creator. So the meaning
of kala is: you have fashioned your own body. No one else gives you the body – it is your very desire
that gives it a form.
Has it ever occurred to you that the last thought before your falling asleep at night becomes the first
thought on waking up in the morning? All night long, while you remain asleep, the thought stays
within you in a seed form. And so, that which is the last thing at night becomes first in the morning.
At the moment of your death all your desires will come together and become a seed. That very seed
will consequently be the new life in the womb. You start fresh from where you left off.
Whatsoever you are is of your own making. Don’t blame others. As a matter of fact, there is no one
whom you can blame. Basically it is the cumulative effect of your own actions. Whatsoever you are
– beautiful or ugly, happy or unhappy, man or a woman – it is all a result of your actions. You are the
architect of your life. Don’t blame on your stars – you’ll be simply fooling yourself. This way you are
dumping the responsibility on to someone else.
No need to say God has sent you – don’t dump the responsibility on God. That’s just a strategy to
avoid your own responsibility. You alone are the cause for being imprisoned in this body. One who
understands perfectly that he himself is responsible for being in this world, a transformation takes
place in his life.
Shiva is saying: the body is a product of nature and your will to do. The nature is merely the source,
the womb. Your ego functions like a seed in it. Your will to do this or that, to achieve this or that, to
become this or that – acts like a seed. And the moment the art of your doing meets the womb of
nature, a body is formed.
Therefore, buddhas say: ”Give up all desires, only then will you be liberated.: If you desired for
heaven, you will become an angel, but that won’t be liberation either. Because as long as desires
persist, there can never be any liberation. All desires lead to the formation of bodies.
The Great Path 20 Osho