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looks sad, very sad. You are sad and a fragrance comes from the garden and itseems very sad. You look at the flowers: rather than making you happy, theymake you heavy.Then in another moment you are happy, alive, flowing, smiling -- the samefragrance comes and surrounds you, dances around you, and makes youtremendously happy. The same flower... and when you see it opening,something opens in you also. The same moon, and you cannot believe how muchsilence and how much beauty descends on you.There is a deep participation: you become partners in some deep mystery. But itdepends on you. The moon is the same, the flower is the same -- it depends onyou.Old languages are very flowing. In Sanskrit there are words.... One word canhave twelve meanings. You can go on playing with it and it will reveal manythings to you. It will change with you, it will always adjust to you. That's whygreat works of classical literature are eternal. They are never exhausted.But today's newspaper will be worthless tomorrow, because it has no vitality ofmeaning. It simply says what it means; it has nothing more in it. Tomorrow youwill look foolish reading it. It is ordinary prose; it gives you information but ithas no depth, it is flat.Two thousand years have passed since Jesus spoke and his words are still asalive and fresh as ever. They are never going to be old. They don't age, theyremain fresh and young. What is their secret?The secret is that they mean so many things that you can always find a new doorin them. It is not a one-room apartment. Jesus says, "My God's house has manymansions." There are many doors, and there are always new treasures to berevealed, to be discovered. You never come on the old landscape again. It has acertain infinity.That's why I go on changing. Yes, whenever I feel, I change the meaning. But thatis the way Jesus himself has done it.In translating the Hebrew Bible into English, much has been lost. In translatingthe Gita into modern languages, much has been lost. In translating the Koran, thewhole beauty is gone because the Koran is a poetry. It is something to be sung, itis something you should dance with. It is not prose. Prose is not the way ofreligion; poetry is the way.Remember this always and don't get confined. Jesus is vast and the English Bibleis very small. I can understand the resistance of old people that their booksshould not be translated. It has a deep significance.You can translate prose, there is no trouble. If you want to translate a book on thetheory of relativity into any language, it may be difficult, but the difficulty is notthe same as it is with the Bible, the Gita or the Koran. It can be translated:nothing will be lost; it has no poetry in it.But when you translate poetry, much will be lost because each language has itsown rhythm and each language has its own ways of expression. Each languageCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho