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CHAPTER 1. THE DARKNESS INSIDE
People come to me and say, ”We make the effort but nothing happens.” I look at their faces and I find
that either they make no effort at all, or even when they do it is always so lukewarm. Their efforts
are spiritless, that’s why nothing happens. But they come to me complaining as if they are doing a
favor to God and yet nothing is happening. They feel something is wrong, otherwise why is it that
things happen to others, but never to them? They think it to be unjust.
No injustice ever takes place in this universe. Whatsoever happens is always just and right, for there
is no human being sitting up there doing either justice or injustice. The universe is ruled by certain
laws, and these laws constitute religion. If you walked around scatterbrained, you are bound to fall
and break your leg. In that case you won’t be able to blame the law of gravitation for it in the courts.
Gravity is neither interested in causing you to fall, nor in guarding you from falling. When you walk
straight it guards you from falling; when you don’t, it brings you down. As such, the gravity has no
vested interest of its own either to see you fall down, or saving you from falling.
The universal law is always neutral. Religion is the name of this neutral law. The Hindus call it ’rita’
– its the supreme law. It shows no favoritism – making someone fall, lifting someone else – nothing
of the sort. When you walk correctly, the law protects you; when you wish to fall down, it helps you
to fall. The law works under all conditions. The law is always available. You can use it whichever
you like, its doors are always open to you. If you want to hit your head against the closed door, it will
not stop you. If you want to walk through the door, it will let you. The law is absolutely neutral.
So UDYAMA IS BHAIRAVA. A great effort is needed. udyama means: an intense effort. An effort
that would require you to involve your total being is udyama. Then your becoming a bhairava will not
take too long.
The fifth sutra is: ONE WHO APPLIES HIS TOTAL ENERGY, FOR HIM THE WORLD EXISTS NO
MORE.
And if you have made the right effort, if you have harnessed your total energy into searching the
truth, God, or soul, then the circuit of your energy becomes complete. Right now it is not a whole –
it is torn and split.
Scientists say that even the most intelligent person in the world does not use more than fifteen
percent of his intellect – the remaining eighty-five percent goes to rot. If this is true about the genius,
imagine what it must be in case of a fool. Perhaps he never uses his intellect at all. Even our physical
energy we don’t use more than five percent. So if you live an apathetic, spiritless life, whose fault
is it? You never live totally. You are afraid lest the flame of life might engulf you. Hence you live
apprehensively, scared, so the energy circuit within you never completes.
Your life is like a car which moves sometimes with jerks caused by the dirt in its gas as if it has
hiccups. That’s ordinarily how you live – piecemeal. Your energy moves in fits and starts, bit by bit,
it never comes to an integrated whole. It’s a matter of utilizing your full energy – in anything. For
example, if you are a painter and if you were to devote your entire energy into painting a picture –
without holding back even a bit – you will attain liberation there and then. Such application of total
energy is udyama. As soon as the circuit is complete, you become bhairava. If you are a sculptor
and have poured into your sculpture all that you have – so much so that only the sculpture remains,
you disappear – the energy circuit completes. So when you use your total energy in any work – it
becomes meditation. Then the bhairava is close, the temple is nearby.
The Great Path 22 Osho