Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

If you love somebody and the whole day you say, "I love you, I love you," manytimes -- and you enjoy saying it -- in the beginning the other person may behappy, but sooner or later the thing is going to be too much. "I love you, I loveyou" -- you are making a beautiful word useless. Don't use it too much. Then it issignificant, then it carries some meaning. In fact those who are really in love maynot use it at all. If the love is not shown by itself it cannot be said -- there is noneed to say it. And if it is shown by itself, then what is the need to say it? Thereshould be a few key words which you use rarely, very rarely. They should bekept for rare occasions when you touch a peak.The Jews have always insisted that the name of God should not be taken. It wasthe custom in the old days, before Christ, that only the High Priest of the Templeof Solomon was allowed to use it -- and once a year only. Nobody else wasallowed. So THE WORD is the code, the code for God's name. Something has tobe used to indicate it and this is a beautiful code: THE WORD. They don't useany words: they simply say: THE WORD. The same has been done in India also.If you ask Sikhs, the followers of Nanak, they will say: NAM, the Name. Theydon't say any name; they.simply say: the Name. It means the same as THEWORD.Only the High Priest was allowed, and the High Priest had to purify himself. Thewhole year he would purify himself and fast and pray and get ready. Then oneday in the year the whole community would gather. Then too the High Priestwould not utter the word before the crowd: he would move into the innermostshrine of the temple; the doors would be closed. Deep in silence where nobodycould hear -- the crowd would be waiting outside and there was no possibilityfor them to hear -- he would assert the name in such sanctity, deep love,intimacy. He was asserting the name for the whole community.It was a blissful day when the name was asserted. Then for the whole year thename was not to be brought to the lips. You have to carry it in the heart; it has tobecome like a seed. If you bring the seed out of the soil again and again, it willnever sprout. Keep it deep down. Water it, protect it, but keep it deep indarkness so that it sprouts, dies and is reborn.The name of God has to be kept deep in the heart. Even you should not hear it; itshould be so deep in your being, in your subliminal depths, that it never evenreaches to your own mind. That is the meaning of why the High Priest goes intothe innermost shrine. Nobody hears, the doors are closed, and he asserts thename once. The meaning is this: go into the deepest shrine of your temple of theheart, purify yourself, and once in a while, when you feel the fragrance of yourbeing -- when you are at the peak of your energy, when you are really alive andnot an iota of sadness lingers around you: you are happy, tremendously happy,ecstatically happy and tranquil and silent, you are in a state where you canthank, where you can feel grateful -- then go into the innermost shrine. Yourmind will be left out -- that is the crowd. You move deeper in the heart and thereCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho