Remember, whatever creates ’I’ is still out of ignorance – no matter what beautiful names you go on giving it. - Osho.

These seers of the Upanishads are very strange people. They do not say that when you have seen God, know this as the ultimate knowing.

They have maintained that even the seeing of God is not the limit of knowing; that when all your chakras have opened up, the kundalini has awakened and the thousand-petalled lotus has bloomed, know this as the limit of knowing. No, they don’t say that.

Nor do they say that when you have crossed all the seven heavens – and only goodness knows how many kinds of such calculations are prevalent – or when you have completed the journey of all the fourteen realms and entered the sach khand, the realm of truth....

No, the Upanishads say: these things have nothing to do with the matter, the only criterion is that I-ness does not arise.

Even kundalini creates arousal of the ego. The seeker feels that now he is not an ordinary person, his kundalini has arisen.

Someone feels that his third eye center has awakened, he is able to see
the light; now he is no ordinary person.

Someone feels that his heart center is awakened, the blue diamond has appeared in the heart, the blue flame has been seen; now he is liberated, now there is no world for him.

Remember, whatever creates ’I’ is still out of ignorance – no matter what beautiful names you go on giving it.

The Upanishad says, as long as the ’I’ is created – no matter what the cause – as long as one feels ”I have become something,” till then knowing has not ripened. No flowers have yet blossomed, no explosion has yet taken place.

The only criterion given is that no ’I’ is created.

So it is also possible that a person sitting in his shop whose kundalini has not awakened, who has not seen the blue light, who has not traveled to the realms of truth – who has done nothing, who is simply working in his shop but whose ego does not arise – has reached to the ultimate limit of knowing.

Even a great yogi standing on a high crest of the Himalayas, if his ego is also high like a peak of the Himalayas, if he thinks that only he has arrived and no one else, if he thinks that only he has achieved and no one else, then understand that knowing has not yet happened to him.

There is only one touchstone – that a state is attained inside where nothing whatsoever creates any ego. Then anything may go on happening – even if God himself comes the feeling will not arise: ”How lucky I am, I have achieved even God! See, there is God standing before me and I am seeing him.”

When the very disposition of ’I’ does not arise inside, then know it as the ultimate limit of knowing.

Keep watching within you, otherwise everything creates conceit – everything.

Mind is very clever, it derives ego from anything. It is so clever that it can derive ego even from humility, and a person starts saying, ”No one is more humble than I am. There is no one more humble than I.” But that ”No
one more than I” still remains.

It may be anything – it may be wealth, it may be prestige, it may be
power, it may be knowledge, it may be liberation, it may be humility, but that ”No one more than I”... that ’I’ goes on surviving.

OSHO.
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CHAPTER 12. DIE TO THE FUTURE.