The Madman's Guide
to Enlightenment
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   June 1978
Pune, India
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    Anand means bliss and pushkara means a blue
    lotus -- a blue lotus of bliss.

    Bliss has something to do with the lotus and
    also something to do with the color blue.
    Hence the blue lotus, 'pushkara', has become a
    symbol of enlightenment. When a person
    comes to the ultimate peak of his awareness, it
    is a kind of blue light that spreads all over his
    being, a very very soft light. One is bathed in it.
    And not only that it is inside, it starts spreading
    outside. The man of enlightenment sees the
    world as completely basking in blue light -- a
    very soft blue light, just as the soft sky.

    And it is a kind of flowering: when you move to
    the highest peak of your being, it almost looks
    as if a lotus has bloomed. The lotus is the
    biggest flower in the East or in the whole world.
    This blooming of your consciousness inside is
    as if it is a one-thousand-petalled lotus. It is
    simple and yet mysterious; it is innocent but
    wisdom arises out of it.

    So Pushkara is one of the most beautiful names
    one can get. Make it a point that it has to be
    realised. These are my hopes for you -- they
    have to be fulfilled. These are my dreams about
    you -- if you cooperate, they will become
    realities....

                                                    – Osho
     The Madman's Guide to Enlightenment, ch. 1