baul -xxi-

Otherwise, people live a fruitless life.

People live an unfruitful life, people live without fruition.

Nothing is born out of them, they simply live and die. There is no meaning and no significance in their lives. The significance arises only when two trees have become one tree. And when on that one tree, the fruit of love is born.

'conscious and fruitful
the well never sinks
into the water'...

The Bauls say: "You see? Go and see a well full of water, but it never sinks into the water.'' This is very mysterious...

When you are absolutely drowned in oneness, for the first time you are. You never sink into it. You are merged, all boundaries lost, but then happens a paradox - the paradox of being lost completely and yet being, for the first time, yourself.

When you are lost completely, you are, for the first time, your reality. You are full, surrounded by tremendous force, but you are not sunk in it. You are one with it, but for the first time your flame burns. Without any ego...

your being is revealed.


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