God's Got a Thing
about You
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Sept. 1978
Pune, India
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    Deva means divine, aikanta means aloneness.
    Self-knowledge is possible only in deep
    aloneness.

    Ordinarily whatever we know about ourselves is
    the opinion of others. They say "You are good"
    and we think we are good. They say "You are
    beautiful" and we think we are beautiful. They
    say you are bad or ugly... whatsoever people
    say about us we go on collecting. That becomes
    our self-identity.

    It is utterly false because nobody else can know
    you, can know who you are, except you yourself.
    Whatsoever they know are only aspects, and
    those aspects are very superficial. Whatsoever
    they know are only momentary moods; they
    cannot penetrate your center. Not even your
    lover can penetrate to the very core of your
    being. There you are utterly alone, and only
    there will you come to know who you are.

    People live their whole lives believing in what
    others say, dependent on others. That's why
    people are very afraid of others' opinions. If they
    think you are bad, you become bad. If they
    condemn you, you start condemning yourself. If
    they say that you are a sinner you start feeling
    guilty. Because you have to depend on their
    opinions you have to continuously conform to
    their ideas; otherwise they will change their
    opinions.

    This creates a slavery, a very subtle slavery. If
    you want to be known as good, worthy, beautiful,
    intelligent, then you have to concede, you have
    to compromise continuously with people on
    whom you are dependent...

                                                       – Osho
                       God's Got a Thing about You, ch. 1
    God's Got a Thing about You　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Shen dui ni fasheng le xingqu

    Chinese traditional:
    神對你發生了興趣

    Chinese simplified:
    神对你发生了兴趣