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The Symbol

You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word ’majnu’ means mad, mad for God. And ’laila’ is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; ’laila’ means the beloved. Everybody is a ’majnu’ and God is – the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.

So man is very tricky – he creates a false prayer. He makes a ritual out of prayer, he pretends to pray. He only goes through the gesture, through the empty gesture – his heart is not in it. He goes to the mosque, to the temple, to the church; he prays. And he knows that he is deceiving, he knows that he is not in it. Yet it gives him a certain respectability. People think of him as being a religious man. That gives him a certain credibility. It is a formal gesture, it makes his social life smooth, it creates a kind of lubricant – but it doesn’t change him.

There are many kinds of people in the world. A few are curious people, they come just out of curiosity, they waste time. Then there are a few who come with enquiry. They are better than the curious people, there is some possibility that they may grow, but that is only a possibility. Then there is a third kind who is really a seeker, who is ready to stake his life, who is ready to lose something for it, who is ready to pay the price for it.

On one side the sufis constantly go on hiding themselves, on another hand they go on making themselves available to those who are in search. The other part has not been discussed much.

A man who wants to forget himself will be interested in drugs, but a man who knows the beauty of remembering himself will not be able to understand at all why people should drug themselves, why they should try to forget. It is tremendously joyful to remember.

Sufis say there are two types of people or two states of humanity. One they call GOFIL – the people who are utterly oblivious of themselves, asleep, unconscious – and another, the people who remember, the people who have a certain remembrance of their being. Now those who are
searching to remember themselves will have a different kind of language. One who is searching for money knows only the language of money, and one who is searching for peace has a different kind
of language. There are many languages in the world; they depend on your desires.

OSHO

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