baul -iv-

Love has two faces.

It is Janus-like.

One face looks towards the earth, the other face looks towards the sky. It is the greatest synthesis conceivable - it comes out of lust, and moves towards prayer. It comes out of mud, and becomes a lotus facing the sun.

This word 'love' has to be understood.

What do we mean by the word 'love'?

One thing we certainly all mean is, that it has a pull in it, great energy. When you fall in love, it is not that you do something - you are pulled in. It has a magnetic force.

You gravitate towards the object of your love, you gravitate almost helplessly, you gravitate even against your will. It has a pull, a magnetic field - that's why we call it 'falling in love'.

Who wánts to fall?

But who can avoid it?

When the energy calls you, suddenly you are no more your old self. Something bigger than you is pulling you, something greater than you is invoking you. The challenge is such that one simply runs into it headlong.

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So the first thing to understand is:

love is a great energy pull.


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