The Heart of Yoga by Osho

Author:Osho
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Osho International

The second question:

Osho,

Why do masters need directions from a master of masters? Are they not enough unto themselves when they have reached enlightenment? Or are there stages of enlightenment too?

No, in fact there aren’t stages, but when a master is in the body, and when he leaves the body and becomes bodiless, there is a difference – not exactly stages. It is just like if you are standing under a tree by the side of the road, and you can see a patch of the road, but cannot see beyond that patch. Then you climb the tree. You remain the same; nothing is happening to you or your consciousness, but you have climbed the tree, and from the top you can see for miles right around from one side to the other.

You can take a flight in an airplane – nothing happens to you; your consciousness remains the same, but now you can see for thousands of miles. In the body you are on the road – by the side of the road – encased in the body. The body is the lowest point in existence because it means it is still committed to matter, still being with matter. Matter is the lowest point and God is the highest point.

When a master attains enlightenment in the body, the body has to fulfill its karmas, the past samskaras, past conditionings. Every account has to be closed; only then can the body be left. It is like this: your airplane has arrived, but you have a lot of businesses to finish up. All the creditors are there, and they are asking you to close your accounts before you leave. There are many creditors because for many lives you have been promising, doing things, acting, behaving; sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes a sinner, sometimes a saint. You have accumulated so much. Before you leave, the whole of existence demands that you complete everything.

When you become enlightened, you know that you are not the body, but you owe many things to the body and the material world. Time is needed. Buddha and Mahavira lived for forty years after their enlightenment in order to pay for everything they owed, and to complete every circle that they had started. There is no new action, but the old things hanging around have to be finished, the old hangover has to be finished. When all the accounts are closed, now you can catch your plane.

Up to now, with matter, you have been moving horizontally – just like in a bullock cart. Now you can move vertically. Now you can go upward. Before this, you have always been going forward or backward; there was no vertical movement. The higher you rise… The God, the master of masters, is the highest point from where there is total perception. Your consciousness is the same; nothing has changed. An enlightened man has the same consciousness as the supreme state of consciousness, God – no difference of consciousness. But the field of perception is different; now he can look everywhere.

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