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CHAPTER 3. MAXIMS OF YOGA: A SENSE OF WONDER
expensive that Krushchev wanted three pieces to be made. He took the cloth to London. There he
was told that he could easily get a three-piece suit for enough cloth left over to make something for
his child also.
Krushchev was shocked. He asked, how his own Russian tailor could be so dishonest? He said,
only two pieces can be made. The London tailor answered, ”Don’t be angry with him. In Russia you
are a very big man. Here in London you are next to nothing.”
When a man sets out to surround himself with pleasures of success and ambition, he will have
to endure suffering and hardship exactly equal to the pleasure he pursues, and this hardship and
suffering break him completely. Long before he can experience any feeling of success, he has
almost become unsuccessful. In this world no one can be successful because the price for success
is terrible madness, insanity. And by the time success knocks on your door, you are not in a position
to enjoy it.
The pleasure of samadhi is entirely different. You do not have to pay the price for it, for what you set
out to find is present now – at this very moment. It is not somewhere in the future, so that you have
to sat out on a quest and toil and labour. It is present here and now. You possess it already. This
treasure is your birthright, you don’t have to pay the price of suffering in order to get it. In that case
one wonders, what would be it like?
Whatever joy you have known cannot compare with, or even give you an inkling, of this joy, for all
your joys are mixed with sorrows. All the nectar you have known has been mixed with poison. With
the body this is bound to be; birth and death, nectar and poison are side by side. Each worldly joy
carries its counterpart of pain. But the soul is only immortal. There is no death for the soul; it is
eternal. There are no opposites; there is only existence, pure existence.
Perhaps, if you could visualize your physical pleasures without their pain and bitterness, just drop
the bitter taste lingering in your mouth and you might be able to imagine this happiness or something
like it; but this would be only a glimpse. It cannot give you a clear picture. The circumference can
only give you a glimpse. No matter how much you contemplate, you cannot imagine or conceptualize
that which you have never experienced. You have to experience it first.
These sutras are invaluable. Be filled with wonder. Turn towards the self. Become centered in your
being so that great energy will be at your disposal. Let life be yours – the supreme life. Attain selfknowledge
through intelligence – through awareness, the supreme awareness – and by breaking
through your slumber you shall enjoy the bliss of existence. The bliss of samadhi is yours for the
asking.
Something more about the bliss of samadhi: worldly joy depends on very many factors. It depends
in your capability and incapability, your education or non-education, your strength, your natural gifts,
your relations, your connections – it depends on all these and more. You are not alone there. If you
are born to a poor household you will take longer to achieve your goal, perhaps a whole life-time. If
you are born into a wealthy family it may take you less time. If you are clever, cunning, intelligent,
you will reach early. If you are dull and stupid you will wander a great deal; it is doubtful whether you
will reach at all. If the body is unhealthy or diseased it is difficult; if the body is healthy you are better
equipped. So everything is accidental and depends on a thousand and one things.
The Great Path 61 Osho