Love … The easier it sounds, the more complex and mysterious its sense is. For centuries, poets, saints and philosophers have written, sung and considered on love. But a question still resonates – is love a truth or a mistake? When we seek the answer to this question from the point of view of a spiritual guru like Osho, a new consciousness opens. Osho, also known as Rajneesh, explained every aspect of life deeply. Love was the central subject of his thinking. He described love as not only a feeling, but an energetic state of the soul. According to him, understanding love correctly is the first step towards enlightenment.
The nature of love in the eyes of Osho
Osho says – “There is no love affair, this is a state. It is not a bond, but a path to liberation.” According to him, we often limit love to a particular person. As soon as love is ‘connected to someone’, it becomes a relationship – and this is where confusion begins. Love then becomes control, it becomes expected, a feeling of ownership comes. Osho believes that true love is devoid of any expectation, control or selfishness. When you love someone and ‘self’ has no role in that love, then that love is ‘truth’.
So is love a mistake?
Osho says – “The love that we know is mostly confusion – confusion that another person will fulfill us.” We spend our lives in this confusion. We think that a person, a relationship will give us perfection. But this confusion eventually breaks, and we consider love to be a mistake. Therefore, Osho reverses this question – love is not a mistake, but the way we love is definitely a mistake. The same love is when we understand ourselves, when love bursts from within – not in the desire to get from anyone. When love becomes a ‘fulfillment’ but ‘expression’, then it becomes true.
Relation of love and meditation in Osho’s thoughts
Osho considers meditation as the root of love. He says that a person who loves himself can love others properly. If you are empty inside, incomplete, then you cannot love. Because you are just looking for someone else to fill your deficiency. The person descends within himself, recognizes his existence. And when he experiences perfection inside, then he automatically falls in love with him. That love is unconditional, unconditional – and this is the love truth.
Advice on Osho’s love: 5 important things
Love yourself: Do not expect love from anyone else until you accept yourself.
Freedom is important in love: true love does not bind anyone, he frees – he gives wings to fly.
Love is not owned in love: Saying “You are mine” is not love, selfishness. Love says – “You are your place, and I am your place – yet we are connected.”
Love is a mirror: The way you love others, he shows how you behave yourself.
Bring love and meditation with you: Love is not blind – should be understood in love, and that understanding comes carefully.
According to Osho, love is not a simple feeling shown in cinema or novels. That love is spiritual energy, which leads man to God. When love is free from desires and expectations, then it becomes devotion. Osho says – “When there is no duality in love, then it becomes meditation – and meditation is liberation.” Therefore, if love is to be said to be forgotten, then it is only as long as we search it out. As soon as we start feeling love from within, it becomes the truth – a truth that makes us Shiva, zero and the whole together. So, is love a mistake? No, according to Osho, love can never be forgotten, but our way, our expectations, our attitude – it can definitely be strayed. Sad, know and live love – then it will emerge as your own experience.