Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

not transform you. You can carry the belief for your whole life: it will be a part ofyour junkyard; it won't change you.Trust, faith, is different. Belief is intellectual; trust is existential. But how can youcome to trust unless you come close to a man who can bear witness, who can sayfrom his very depths of being that "Yes, God is"? If you allow yourself to becomevulnerable to him, and his being stirs something within you, then a trust is born.THE SAME CAME FOR A WITNESS -- John became a witness -- TO BEARWITNESS OF THE LIGHT.... He has known the Light, he is coming from theLight. And remember, whosoever knows the Light also knows that he is comingfrom the Light, because there is no other way of being here.You may not be knowing it, but you also come from the Light. That is the verysource -- the seed and the source of all life. You may be unaware, you may haveforgotten, you may have become completely oblivious of the fact of where youcome from -- the source is so far away that you don't remember at all -- butwhosoever within you will become aware of the Light will immediately becomeaware that "I am coming from Him." In fact he will immediately become awarethat "I am Him; I am He. My father and I are one."As above, so below. He will claim, just as the seers of the Upanishads haveclaimed: "AHAM BRAHMASMI... I am that." Or he will say, like Mansoor:"ANALAHAK... I am the truth." Or like Jesus: "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE."Jesus says, "If you trust me, you have trusted Him who has sent me; if you loveme, you have loved the one that you know not."THE SAME CAME FOR A WITNESS, TO BEAR WITNESS OF THE LIGHT,THAT ALL MEN THROUGH HIM MIGHT BELIEVE. John is a door, a window,from whom you can have a glimpse of the faraway Himalayan peaks.HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS SENT TO BEAR WITNESS OF THATLIGHT.This has to be understood, this is one of the really significant things. Whenever aman like Jesus comes, he is always preceded by someone who prepares theground. It has to be so because a ready ground is needed. Life is a deepcontinuity; everything is related, it is one whole. John came to prepare theground because many weeds were there. Grass was growing, a thousand andone types of trees trespassed the whole land. They had to be cut -- weedsremoved, the soil changed. Only then could the gardener come and sow the newseeds.Whenever there is a man like Jesus, he is always preceded. So the gospel says:HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS SENT TO BEAR WITNESS OF THATLIGHT -- he had come to prepare the ground.HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN, BUT HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.He has come to help; he has come to fulfill the aspiration of ages. He has comeunto his own... BUT HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT. This is something veryironical, but it has always happened. Jesus is born a Jew: Jews will not acceptCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho