Osho – The word “guru.” Guru means one who has gravitation, जसको वरिपरि तपाईलाई अचानक तानिएको जस्तो महसुस हुन्छ. गुरु एक महान चुम्बक हो, with only one’ difference. There is a man who has charisma — you are pulled, तपाईं उहाँ तिर तान्नु भएको छ. त्यो करिश्माको मान्छे हो. ऊ ठूलो नेता बन्न सक्छ, एक महान राजनीतिज्ञ. एडोल्फ हिटलरको त्यो करिश्मा छ; लाखौं मानिसहरू उहाँतिर तानिएका छन्. त्यसोभए करिश्माटिक नेता र गुरुमा के फरक छ? फरक ठूलो छ. फरक छ: जब तपाई गुरु तर्फ तान्नु हुन्छ अचानक तपाई भित्र तानिएको महसुस गर्नुहुन्छ, बाहिर होइन.
जब तिमी कबिरतिर तानिन्छौ, नानक, बुद्ध, तपाईं एक अनौठो भावना छ. The feeling is that you are being pulled towards them and at the same time you are being pulled inwards — a very strange paradoxical phenomenon at the closer you come to your guru, तपाईं आफै नजिक आउनुहुन्छ. गुरुप्रति जति आकर्षित हुँदै जान्छ, जति तिमी आत्मनिर्भर बन्छौ. जति धेरै गुरुमा समर्पण हुन्छ, जति धेरै तपाई महसुस गर्नुहुन्छ कि तपाईसँग स्वतन्त्रता छ जुन पहिले कहिल्यै थिएन.
So it is a very subtle difference. Remember it. If you are Pulled towards a man and that pull creates a slavery, that an is not the guru. That man may have charisma, may have magnetic power — maybe his great intelligence, his physical beauty, or his sheer vitality pulls you — but you will be going away from yourself. It will be an infatuation. You will be obsessed with this man, and you will be off your center. Avoid such people; यी हुन् संसारका सबैभन्दा ठूला दुराचार गर्नेहरू. खतरा यो छ कि त्यो सम्पूर्ण मानवताको अन्त्य हुनेछ, नेपोलियन, Alexander — these are the people who have created great havoc, किनभने मानिसहरूले धेरै आकर्षित महसुस गर्छन् र मानिसहरू आत्मसमर्पण गरेको महसुस गर्छन्.
प्रकृति मा ओशो उद्धरण, if your surrendering gives you freedom, then the man is a guru, a Master. If your surrendering makes you a slave, makes you a robot — as all the followers of Adolf Hitler were turned into mechanical robots…. They lost their souls; he simply exploited their souls. They lost all their awareness. This happens in the spiritual world also, because these charismatic people are everywhere. So make it a criterion inside: if by the presence of your guru, of your Master, you are becoming freer and freer, more and more independent; by surrendering, the paradox is happening — that by surrendering you are gaining more willpower, by surrendering you are becoming powerful not impotent — then you are near the guru.
गुरु त्यो हो जसले तपाईलाई आफ्नो अस्तित्वमा फर्काउनको लागि तपाईलाई आफ्नो तर्फ तान्छ. उनी मध्यस्थकर्ताको रूपमा काम गर्छन्; गुरु मार्फत, तपाईं आफैमा पुग्नुहुन्छ. किनकी तपाईं प्रत्यक्ष जान सक्नुहुन्न, उहाँ मार्फत तपाईलाई मद्दत गर्नुहुन्छ. तर उसको सारा प्रयास तिमीलाई नै बनाउने हो.
एक सच्चा गुरुले आफूलाई तपाईमाथि कहिल्यै लाद्दैन. उसले आफ्नो जीवन शैली तपाईमाथि कहिल्यै लाद्नेछैन. उहाँले तपाईंलाई कुनै पनि कठोर अनुशासन दिनुहुनेछैन. उसले तिमीलाई केही पनि लागू गर्ने छैन, रेजिमेन्ट तपाईं. उसले तिमीहरूका सिपाहीहरू बनाउन प्रयास गर्नेछैन. No, उसले तिमीलाई आफै बन्न मद्दत गर्नेछ. उसले तपाईलाई आफै बन्न मद्दत गर्नेछ, त्यो जे होस्. उहाँले तपाईंलाई आफ्नो बारेमा थप र अधिक समझ दिन मद्दत गर्नेछ. तिमी झन् केन्द्रित बन्नेछौ, जरा भएको, उनको नजिक. More and more you will feel he has given you back to yourself — that which was lost or forgotten, उसले तिमीलाई यसको बारेमा सचेत गराएको छ.
That’s what I say to my sannyasins: that I have nothing else to give to you; I give you back to yourself. You surrender to me, and I give it back to you. It is difficult for you to know yourself right now because you have lived in forgetfulness for so long. You need a shock; I give that shock to you. But I don’t give you any discipline. And I don’t force my life-style on you, because each person has to find his own life-style and each person is so unique that each person has to live in his own way. Nobody else’s life-style is going to help you. You will become second-rate, secondhand; and God loves only firsthand people. Never be a carbon copy. If somewhere you are forced to become a carbon copy, avoid that place like the plague, escape from there.
Source – Osho Book “Ecstasy – The Forgotten Language”
