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Osho Books—Darshan Diaries
If You Choose To Be
with Me,
You Must Risk Finding
Yourself
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Feb. 1980
Pune, India
this volume has yet to be
published in book form.

    Denis has two meanings from two different languages;
    both are beautiful.

    The first is from Assyrian. In the Assyrian language it
    means wise, a Buddha, one who is awakened, one who
    knows.

    But even better than that is the Greek meaning; in
    Greek it means God of wine... one who is utterly drunk,
    drunk with the divine. Both meanings become two
    aspects of the same phenomenon: the moment you
    become wise and awakened you also become drunk,
    you also become a God of wine, so drunk that there is
    no way to come back. Once gone into it one is gone
    forever.

    One is so drunk with the divine that there is no
    possibility of becoming sober again.  And then life is a
    dance, a song, a celebration. It is a beautiful name
    because it joins two aspects of spirituality together.

    That's my whole effort here: to make you wise and yet
    drunk, to make you drunk, yet wise. I don't want to
    separate these two things...

                                                                     – Osho
    If You Choose To Be with Me, You Must Risk Finding
    Yourself, ch. 1