You Ain't Seen
Nothin' Yet
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Mar. 1979
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    Anand means bliss, nirjana means aloneness --
    not loneliness mind you: aloneness. Loneliness
    is a negative state, empty.

    There is great urge for the other, you are
    missing the other; it is a state of misery. But
    aloneness is totally different. It is positive, full,
    too full. You are too full of yourself; there is no
    need of the other. You are overflowing with joy;
    the joy is welling up within you.

    Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful. And
    unless one becomes capable of being alone,
    one is not mature. One remains immature,
    dependent, hankering for mummy or daddy or
    something or other -- this toy, that toy, money,
    power.... All those things are nothing but things
    to stuff your inner emptiness somehow, but that
    inner emptiness cannot be stuffed; it erupts
    again and again.

    It disappears only when you become alone; and
    the process of becoming alone is meditation.
    It is the art of becoming alone, it is the art of
    finding one's own inner juices. It is the very
    science of finding all that is needed within one's
    own being; and once it is found, one is happy
    for no reason at all.

    This does not mean that you will not relate with
    people; in fact only a person who is capable of
    being alone can relate, because he has
    something to share. The lonely person cannot
    relate, he can only exploit. The alone person is
    my definition of a sannyasin: he relates, he
    relates in many ways, in every possible way, he
    is not an escapist, but even in the crowd he is
    alone. His aloneness is such that nothing can
    destroy it, not even the market-place.

    That is the meaning of your name, and that has
    to become the meaning of your life too...

                                                       – Osho
                            You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, ch. 1