SHARPEN YOUR INTELLIGENCE,AT LEAST TO ONE-THIRD OF ITS POTENTIAL---OSHO Most of the people who become enlightened die instantly. They simply cannot breathe anymore. There is no reason why they should breathe. The experience is so big that the heart stops. They have never seen anything of the kind, it is so unknown. It takes their breath away – literally. Very few people survive enlightenment and the reason why these people survive is strange: people who have been adventurous, people who have enjoyed taking risks, who have lived like a tightrope walker, whose life has been a razor’s edge, may survive. The shock will be there, but they are accustomed to smaller shocks. They have never seen such a big shock, but smaller shocks have prepared them to accept even this enormous phenomenon. They still continue to breathe; their heart still continues to beat. But still the body suffers in many ways because something has happened that the body cannot understand. Enlightenment certainly disturbs much psychosomatic health because it is something for which the body is not ready or not prepared. Nature has not made something inbuilt in the body for enlightenment to be absorbed. Suddenly a mountain falls on top of you: you are bound to be crushed. Why do nine persons out of ten remain silent? At the most it has been said, “Because truth cannot be said.” It is true, but there is a far more important thing which has not been mentioned. Out of ten people, nine people’s brains get disturbed. They are no longer capable of using this brain mechanism for speaking and it is better, they feel, to remain silent. They can see perfectly that their brain mechanism is no longer in a functioning state. And naturally…the brain is a very subtle phenomenon; in the small skull of man almost seven million small nerves create your brain. They are so small and so delicate that any small shock can disturb them, can destroy them – and enlightenment is a tremendous lightning shock. It goes through the brain disturbing many cells, many nerves. Only one person out of ten can save his brain, and that is the person who has used his brain so much that by sheer use it has become stronger and stronger. If he had not become enlightened, he would have been a great philosopher, a great logician, a great mathematician or a great physicist. He had a strongly built machine which could have been a Bertrand Russell or an Albert Einstein – or a Gautam Buddha. But ordinarily, people don’t use the brain so much. For ordinary work it is not needed. Only five percent of your capacity – the average human being uses five percent of his brain and the people you call very great geniuses use only fifteen percent. But if a person has used his brain to at least one-third of its capacity – that is, thirty-three percent – then it has strength enough that it can survive enlightenment. Not only can it survive, it can serve it too. The people who have remained silent really got damaged. There was no other way for them to be silent; the mechanism was broken. They had the experience but they didn’t have the vehicle. So it is a very rare phenomenon: first to be enlightened, then to survive enlightenment, then to save your brain so that you can be a master. And that depends on if you had exercised your brain before enlightenment to at least one-third of its potential. Less than that won’t do. Hence my insistence: Don’t believe. Doubt, think, inquire. Sharpen your intelligence, at least to one-third of its potential. And meanwhile meditate, so the day you become enlightened you can say something to the world – you owe it. Existence waits millions of years for somebody to become enlightened, and when someone becomes enlightened existence wants him to share, to spread the word, whatsoever the cost, to all those who are fast asleep. They are not all going to awaken, but somebody may hear the call. Even if a few hear the call, that is enough reward. ~OSHO The Path of the Mystic, #23
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