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Don’t
think of God as truth, rather, think of God as beauty. Religion would
have been totally different if God were thought of as beauty rather than
as truth. I am not saying that He is not true – He is, but it makes a
lot of difference for people in how they conceive of Him.
Because
God has been conceived of as truth, people started thinking logically
about Him. Truth creates logic in consciousness, it stirs logic. Truth
seems like the conclusion of a syllogism. People started arguing about
God, started proving, disproving. Because God was conceived of as truth,
religion automatically became reduced to theology. Rather than becoming
poetry, it became theology. Rather than becoming an aesthetic
experience, it became logic-chopping. Rather than enhancing the earth,
making it more beautiful, it went against life. Logic is always against
life; it is murderous because it depends on analysis; analysis kills.
Because God was thought of as truth, religious people became thinkers,
not creative artists. Just that simple phenomenon dominated the whole
past of ten thousand years.
Sufis
say that God is beautiful, ‘jamil.’ Think of Him as beauty, then it
stirs creativity in you. Because beauty has to be created – in poetry,
in sculpture, in painting; one has to give birth to it. If you think of
God as beauty then you can do something about it. If God is truth then
you can’t do anything about it, you have to discover it. Truth is there –
you have just to uncover it.
But
if God is beauty then you are not only to discover it, you have to
create. Then the whole perspective changes and religion becomes
life-affirmative. Then it enhances and affirms. It is not life-negative,
it is not in the service of death. Then religion is not against love,
because how can beauty be against love? Then religion is not against
dance, it is not against celebration. How can beauty be against
celebration? Then the earth is not a punishment but a holiday resort. We
are here just to enjoy – it is a gift.
*OSHO VISION excerpted from: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) * The Ninety-Nine Names of Nothingness ( a 31st darshan diary) * Chapter 7 * Osho talked to Swami Jamil *Page 144 to 146 * First Edition: September 1980 * Thursday , May 11th
Swami Jagdish Bharti.
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