Whenever there is an opportunity, a situation in which you can be reborn, you will be reborn.

Osho left his body on January 19, 1990. His disciples and lovers around the world celebrate this day as The Osho Mahotsav. There is a unique epitaph on his samadhi, which he had dictated a few weeks before he left his body:
Never Born – Never Died
Only visited this planet Earth between
December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990

The enlightened mystics like Buddha, Guru Nanak, Kabir and so many more our world has known are never born and they never die, because their birth and death are conscious happenings. Osho had been meditating deeply in his previous birth that happened 700 years ago in Tibet, as he informed us in one of his discourses on Dimension Beyond the Known, which is included in a book The Great Challenge.

A disciple asked him, “Were you fully conscious of the gap between your last death and this birth?” Osho said: “Yes, I was fully conscious for those 700 years. I was fully conscious, but it was a consciousness of the gap, of the vacuum, of the emptiness, of nothing happening. Nothing can happen. ‘Happening’ means being embodied. Only if you are in the body can anything happen.”

Osho adds: “So if you are conscious between one life and another, you are only conscious of your consciousness. Nothing — no thought, no desire but the last desire — will have any effect on you. And the effect of your last desire is automatic, because to enter a body again was the last suggestion of your mind; nothing has to be done about it. If at the moment of death one dies fully conscious, with no desire, no thought, then rebirth becomes impossible.

Whenever there is an opportunity, a situation in which you can be reborn, you will be reborn. And if you have been conscious in your last life, then you will be conscious in this life also. Your birth will be a conscious birth; you will know what is happening. Then that will be your last life. If this birth has been a conscious birth, then this death will be a conscious death. Then there can be no further birth possible. Once someone is born with full alertness, then that is his last birth. One more death will happen of course, but after that there will be no more births, no more deaths.

January 19, The Osho Mahotsav is the punyatithi. It is the celebration of this consciousness as a great reminder: What happened to him can happen to everybody on earth.

Osho says: “I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?”

Swami Rama Tirtha was a mystic saint of India who travelled to the US, preceded by Swami Vivekananda, during the last century. He was a great teacher of practical vedanta who used to call himself Baadshah Ram, Emperor Ram, even though he had renounced his family and all worldly belongings. It is reported that somebody who saw him in the US without any worldly belongings asked him: “You look like a beggar, then why you keep calling yourself the emperor? Swami Ram replied: “Look at me and not what I have or not have.” He really looked like an emperor and behaved like an emperor. A man who has no desires does become an emperor in the real sense, but an emperor who is full of desires is just a beggar with unfulfilled desires. Contentment makes us emperors.

Talking on the phenomenon of happiness and contentment, Osho introduced a certain law that only some mystics have known. He says: “I can make you kings without kingdoms; you only have to act like kings, and act so totally that before you even a real king will appear as if he is just acting. And when the whole energy has moved into it, it becomes reality! Energy makes anything real. If you wait for kingdoms they never come. Even for a Napoleon, for an Alexander, who had big kingdoms, they never came. They remained miserable because they didn’t come to realise the second, more basic and primal law of life.”

This basic and primal law depends on how we use our energy. The secret is hidden in our energy. One has to work on one’s energy. One has to learn the art of becoming total and undivided in whatever one does. Totality creates its own reality. Act totally and be one with your act, it will become real. If you are acting half-heartedly then it will remain artificial.

Osho suggests this secret law in My Way: The Way of the White Clouds, “Create the effect, become the emperor, be a magician… and from this very moment, because there is no need to wait. One has to wait if the kingdom has to come first. If the cause has to be created first, then one has to wait and wait and wait and postpone. There is no need to wait to create the effect. You can be the emperor this very moment… Be happy, and in that peak of happiness you will see the whole world is happy with you.”

The enlightened mystic concludes: “There is an old saying: Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry, and you cry alone. Even the trees, the rocks, the sand, the clouds… if you can create the effect and be ecstatic, they will all dance with you; then the whole existence becomes a dance, a celebration.”

Sammasati: Remember you are a Buddha
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Remembering yourself as a buddha is the most precious experience,
because it is your eternity, it is your immortality.
It is not you, it is your very existence.
You are one with the stars and the trees and the sky and the ocean.
You are no longer separate.
The last word of Buddha was, sammá-sati.
Remember that you are a Buddha—Sammá-sati.
Osho

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Osho