Just a few days before one seeker was here from California. He traveled long. He had come to meet me. And then he said, ”Before I meditate or before you tell me to meditate, I have heard that whosoever comes to you you push into meditation, so before you push me in, I have got questions.” He had at least a list of hundred questions. I think he has not left any that is possible – about God, about soul, about truth, about heaven, hell and everything – a sheet full of questions. He said, ”Unless you solve these questions first, I am not going to meditate.” He is logical in a way because he says, ”Unless my questions are answered how can I meditate? Unless I feel confident that you are right, you have answered my doubts, how I can go in some direction you show and indicate? You may be wrong. So you can prove your rightness only if my doubts disappear.” And his doubts are such they cannot disappear. This is the dilemma: if he meditates they can disappear, but he says he will meditate only when these doubts are not there. What to do? He says, ”First prove there is God. No one has ever proved, no one can ever. That doesn’t mean that God is not there, but he cannot be proved. He is not a small thing which can be proved or disproved. It is such a vital thing, you have to live it to know it. No proof can help. But he is right logically. He says, ”Unless you prove how I can start? If there is no soul, who is going to meditate? So first prove that there is a self, then I can meditate.” This man is committing suicide. No one will be ever able to answer him. He has created all the barriers, and through these barriers he will not be able to grow. But he is logical. What should I do with such a person? If I start answering his questions, a person who can create a hundred doubts can create millions, because doubting is a way, a style of mind. You can answer one question through your answer he will create ten because the mind remains the same. He looks for doubts, and if I answer logically I am helping his logical mind to be fed, to be more strengthened. I am feeding. That will not help. He has to be brought out of his logicalness. So I told him that, ”Have you ever been in love?” He said, ”But why? You are changing the subject.” I said, ”I will come to your points, but suddenly it has become very meaningful to me to ask have you ever loved.” He said, ”Yes!” His face changed. I asked, ”But you loved before or before falling in love you doubted the whole phenomenon?” Then he was disturbed. He was uncomfortable. He said, ”No, I never thought about it. I simply had fallen in love, and then only I became aware.” So I said, ”You do the opposite. First think about love, whether love is possible, whether love exists, whether love can exist. And first let it be proved, and make it a condition unless it is proved you will not love anybody.” He said, ”What you are saying? You will destroy my life. If I make this a condition, then I cannot love.” But, I told him, ”This is the same you are doing. Meditation is just like love. You have to know it first. God is just like love. That’s why Jesus goes on saying that God is love. It is just like love. First one has to experience.” A logical mind can be closed, and so logically, that he will never feel that he has closed his own doors of all possibilities for all growth. So inference, anuman, means thinking in such a way that growth is helped. Then it can become a source of right knowledge. Osho
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 05:51:21 +0000