Then he simply drops his self-consciousness, becomes unconscious, and murders, kills, rapes-everything is allowed in war. Then he knows no law, then he knows no humanity, then he knows no god. Even for a few days, a few months, man again is an animal. Why do you feel so happy in being angry? Why do you feel such a rush of energy in destroying something? Why in wartime do people look more radiant, more healthy, more sharp, more intelligent?-as if life is no longer a boredom.
And there are moments we become animal-like-in deep anger, in violence, in war. It is very difficult to forget that Garden of Eden it was so beautiful. One home is lost, there is a nostalgia man wants to become animal. Man is expelled from one home so that he can search for another home-bigger, higher, deeper, greater. When Adam was in the Garden of Eden he was an animal he was not an Adam, he was not a man. Adam has been turned out Adam has become human. One home is lost-the home where birds are still singing, animals still moving, trees still flowering-the Garden of Eden. To be human is to be miserable, because to be human is to be in the middle-neither here nor there, but hanging in limbo. It is nothing of your fault, it is nothing like that you are in some error. Man is miserable because man has to be miserable. The person who has asked it must be a beautiful person, in fact ready for sannyas-but he does not understand what he is saying. This is really the state of a human being-that he is always surpassing, going, going … somewhere else is the goal. To hope means to hope to surpass, to transcend. The goal will never arrive then, and you will be just on the journey, on the journey, on the journey. The way can never be permanent, it cannot become eternal. To be human simply means to be on the way of being a god, and nothing else. If you don't go ahead, you will start slipping backward … but you will have to go somewhere. If you try too hard to remain human, you will become inhuman.
But to say that you would like to just remain human is impossible because humanity is just a passage, a voyage, a journey, a pilgrimage. You can become a buddha, that is simpler. Just to be human, you ask-you ask the impossible. And so is youth going howsoever hard you try to remain young, your efforts are doomed to fail because youth is already turning into old age. Childhood is already going, youth is already coming. Childhood is not a state you cannot remain in it, you cannot stick to it, it is a process. The child is already becoming a youth, he is on the way. Let me just remain a child"-is it possible? For example, if a child says, "I don't want to become a youth, I don't want to become old. Because that means you are saying, "Let me just remain the process, in the middle." Man is not a state, man is only a process. Now, this is too ambitious, and it is impossible. Just the other day a new seeker wrote me a letter, saying, "Osho, I don't want to become a sannyasin, I don't want to become superhuman like Buddha or Christ. He is no longer an animal, no longer a tree, no longer a rock, and yet not a buddha. Unconscious nature has no self, and the supraconscious beings also have no self.
There is a similarity between unconscious nature and supraconscious beings. They are happy, but they don't know that they are. They don't know that they are happy.īuddha is happy, Krishna is happy, Christ is happy, but they are pure consciousness. The birds are happy, the trees are happy, the clouds and the rivers are happy, but they are not self-conscious. That self-consciousness functions as a barrier, and one remains alive yet not truly alive. Life is overflowing, life is blissful, but man has lost contact with life. I have heard you say that life itself is so fulfilling, so overflowing, so blissful-then what is it that makes a person miserable? Anything that can become a blessing can also become a curse it depends how you use it. The sword can be used rightly, can protect, but the sword can harm, too. You have been given something so valuable that you don't know what to do with it it is almost like a sword in the hands of a child. It depends on you whether it will be agony or glory. Man is the only conscious being on the earth that is his glory and that is his agony, too.
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