baul -iii-

Man is a quest.

An eternal inquiry, a perennial question.

The quest is for the energy that holds existence together - call it 'God', call it 'the truth', or whatsoever you like to call it. Who holds this infinite existence together? What is the center of it all? The core of it all?

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Science, philosophy, religion...

áll ask the same question.

Their answers may differ, but their question is the same. Religions call it 'God'. Scientists will not agree with the word God - it looks too personal, it looks too anthropomorphic, man-oriented. They call it 'electricity', 'magnetism'. 'energy fields'...

But only the name is different.

God IS an energy field.

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Philosophers go on giving different names to it: 'the ultimate stratum', 'the absolute', 'the Brahma'... From Thales to Bertrand Russell, they have supplied many answers. Sometimes some philosopher says it is 'water', 'liquidity'. Somebody else says it is 'fire' - but the quest has been eternal.

What holds this infinite universe togéther?

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Bauls call it 'love'.

And to me, their answer seems to be most pertinent.

It is neither personal nor impersonal.

It has something of God in it...

and something of magnetism in it also.

Something of the divine...

and something of the earth.


~osho~
the beloved vol.1
(1977) - ch.9