Hakim Sanai on reality knows no should and no ought

Talking on Hakim Sanai’s book The Hadiqa: The walled garden, Osho talks about perspective of Hakim Sanai on reality:-

HE DOESN’T KNOW HIS OWN SELF:

HOW SHOULD HE KNOW THE SELF OF ANOTHER?

And what is the problem?
Why don’t you know your own self?
This should be the easiest thing in the world, and it has become difficult, the most difficult. This has become almost impossible, to know oneself.

What has gone wrong?
You have the capacity to know.
You are there, the capacity to know is there.
Then what has gone wrong?
Why cannot this capacity of knowing turn upon itself?

Only one thing has gone wrong, and unless you put it right you will remain ignorant of yourself. And the thing that has gone wrong is, a split has been created in you. You have lost your integrity. The society has made you into a divided house, divided against yourself.

The strategy is simple; once understood, it can be removed.
The strategy is, the society has given you ideals of how you should be.And it has enforced those ideals so deeply in you, that you are always interested in the ideal “how I should be” and you have forgotten who you are. You are obsessed with the future ideal and you have forgotten the present reality.
My comment that you can omit :- (While each of us is unique the ideals are same for all, so everyone is trying to fit in one sized garment like situation is crated and this way everyone get filled with guilt, a divide. Now it is easy to control such guilty or divided mind.)

Your eyes are focused on the distant future. Hence they cannot turn inwards. You are constantly thinking of what to do, how to do it, how to be this.
Your language has become that of shoulds and oughts, and the reality consists only of IS.
Reality knows no should, no ought.

A rose flower is a rose flower, there is no question of its being something else. And the lotus is a lotus. Neither does the rose ever try to become a lotus, nor does the lotus ever try to become a rose.
Hence they are not neurotics. They don’t need the psychiatrist, they don’t need any psychoanalysis. The rose is healthy because the rose simply lives its reality.

And so it is with the whole existence except man.
Only man has ideals and shoulds. “You should be this and that” — then you are divided against your own IS. ‘
‘Should’ and ‘is’ are enemies.

And you cannot be anything other than you are. Let it sink deep into your heart: you can only be that which you are, never anything else.
Once this truth sinks deep, that “I can only be myself” all ideals disappear. They are discarded automatically.

And when there is no ideal, reality is encountered. Then your eyes are herenow, then you are present to what you are. The division, the split, has disappeared. You are one.

This is the beginning of being one with god. First be one with yourself.

This is the first step of UNIO MYSTICA: be one with yourself.

And then the second step, and the last, is: be one with existence. The second is easy.

The first has become difficult because of so much conditioning, so much education, so many civilising efforts. The first has become difficult.

If you have taken the first step of just accepting yourself and loving yourself as you are, moment to moment… For example, you are sad.

This moment you are sad.

Your whole conditioning says to you “You should not be sad. This is bad. You should not be sad. You have to be happy.”

Now the division, now the problem.

You are sad: that is the truth of this moment.

And your conditioning, your mind says, “You should not be like this, you have to be happy. Smile! What will people think of you?”

Your woman may leave you if you are so sad, your friends may desert you if you are so sad, your business will be destroyed if you remain so sad.

You have to laugh, you have to smile, you have to at least to pretend that you are happy. If you are a doctor your patients will not feel good if you are so sad. They want a doctor who is happy, jolly, healthy, and you are looking so sad. Smile — even if you cannot bring a real smile, bring a false smile, but smile. At least pretend, act.

This is the problem: you pretend, you act. You can manage to smile, but then you have become two.

You have repressed the truth, you have become phoney. (You are sad within, but looking smiling to others, you become a dead thing like a portrait of Mona Lisa, but living.)

And the phoney is appreciated by the society. The phoney becomes the saint, the phoney becomes the great leader, the phoney becomes the mahatma. And everybody starts following the phoney.
The phoney is your ideal.

That’s why you are unable to know yourself.
How can you know yourself if you don’t accept yourself?
You are always repressing your being.
What has to be done then?
When you are sad, accept the sadness: this is you. Don’t say “I am sad.” Don’t say that sadness is something separate from you.
Simply say, “I am sadness. This moment, I am sadness.” And live your sadness in total authenticity.

And you will be surprised that a miraculous door opens in your being.

If you can live your sadness with no image of being happy, you become happy immediately, because the division disappears.

There is no division any more. “I am sadness” and there is no question of any ideal to be anything else. So there is no effort, no conflict. “I am simply this” and there is relaxation.

And in that relaxation is grace, and in that relaxation is joy.

All psychological pain exists only because you are divided. Pain means division. and bliss means no-division.

It will look paradoxical to you: if one is sad, accepting one’s sadness how can one become joyous?

It will look paradoxical, but it is so. Try it.

And I am not saying try to be happy; I am not saying that, “Accept your sadness so that you can become happy” — I am not saying that. If that is your motivation then nothing will happen; you are still struggling. You will be watching from the corner of your eye: “So much time has passed and I have accepted even sadness, and I am saying ‘I am sadness”, and joy is still not coming. “It will not come that way.

Joy is not a goal, it is a by-product.

It is a natural consequence of oneness, of unity. Just be united with this sadness, for no motivation, for no particular purpose. There is no question of any purpose.

This is how you are this moment, this is your truth this moment. And next moment you may be angry: accept that too. And next moment you may be something else: accept that too.

Live moment to moment, with tremendous acceptance, without creating any division, and you are on the way towards self-knowledge.

Self-knowledge is not a question of reading the Upanishads and sitting silently and reciting, “Aham Brahmasmi, I am God.” These are all foolish efforts.

Either you know you are God, or you don’t know it.

You can go on for your whole life repeating, “Aham Brahmasmi, I am God.” You can waste your whole life in repeating it, but you will not know it.

If you know it, there is no point in repeating it.

Why are you repeating it?

If you know, you know.

If you don’t know, how can you know by repetition?

Just see the whole stupidity of it.

But that’s what is being done in this country and in other countries also, in monasteries and ashrams.

What are people doing? Parrot-like repetition.

I am giving you a totally different approach. It is not by repetition of the Koran or Bible or Vedas that you will become a knower, no. You will only become knowledgeable.

Then how does one come to know oneself?

Drop the division: the division is the whole problem.

You are against yourself. Drop all ideals which create this antagonism in you.

You are the way you are: accept it with joy, with gratitude. And suddenly a harmony will be felt. The two selves in you, the ideal self and the real self, will not be there to fight any more. They will meet and merge into one.

It is not really sadness that gives you pain. It is the interpretation that sadness is wrong that gives you pain, and that becomes a psychological problem. It is not anger that is painful; it is the idea that anger is wrong that creates psychological anxiety. It is the interpretation, not the fact.

The fact is always liberating.

Jesus says, “Truth liberates.” And that is of tremendous import. Yes, truth liberates, but not KNOWING about truth. Be the truth, and it liberates. Be the truth, and there is liberation. You need not bring it, you need not wait for it: it happens instantly.

How to be the truth? You ARE already the truth. You are just carrying false ideals; they are creating the trouble. Drop the ideals: for a few days be a natural being. Just like trees and animals and birds, accept your being as you are. And a great silence arises. How can it be otherwise? There is no interpretation: then sadness is beautiful, it has depth. Then anger too is beautiful it has life and vitality. Then sex too is beautiful, because it has creativity.

When there is no interpretation, all is beautiful. When all is beautiful, you are relaxed. In that relaxation you have fallen into your own source, and that brings self-knowledge. Falling into one’s own source is what is meant by “Know thyself.” It is not a question of knowledge, it is a question of inner transformation.

And what transformation am I talking about?

I am not giving you any ideal that you have to be like; I am not saying that you have to transform from what you are and become somebody else.

You have simply to relax into whatsoever you are, and just see.

Have you hears what I am saying?

Just see the point: it is liberating. And a great harmony, a great music is heard. That music is of self-knowledge. And your life starts changing. You then have a magic key which unlocks all the locks.

If you accept sadness, sadness will disappear. How long can you be sad if you accept sadness?
If you are capable of accepting sadness you will be capable of ABSORBING it in your being; it will become your depth.

And how long will you be able to be angry if you accept anger? Anger feeds on rejection. If you accept it, you have absorbed the energy. Anger has great energy in it, vitality, and when that energy is absorbed you become more vital. Your life then has a passion to it, it is a flame. It is not a dull insipid life; it has intelligence and passion and sharpness.

And if you have accepted sex, one day sex disappears too. And it releases great creativity in you, because sex is the potential of creativity. And then you become a creator. Great paintings may arise through you, great poetry may come, great sons may be born, or music. Anything and everything is possible then; you participate with God.

Sex is the lowest form of creativity, just the seed of creativity. Once the seed has broken, has dissolved, has been absorbed, your whole being comes creative.

And to be creative is to be blissful, to be creative is to be one with Go d. When you become a creator you participate in God.

And I am not saying that unless you paint and write poetry you will not be a creator. Buddha did not paint, did not write any poetry, but his whole life was of creativity. Whosoever he touched was transformed. Whosoever was courageous enough to come close to him was reborn. He created a great energy-field, a buddhafield, and whosoever entered that field was never the same again. That is his creativity. He did not write any visible poetry. But the way he walks is poetry, the way he looks at people is poetry. He never danced. But if you watch, silently sitting underneath the bodhi tree there is a great dance happening in him. It is an invisible dance; it is subtle, it is not gross. It is not of the physical, it is a spiritual dance.

He is not separate from existence. So he is dancing with the trees in the wind, and he is dancing with the stars, and he is dancing with the whole. He is not separate any more.

Do you understand the difference?

If you try to drop sex, all creativity will disappear from your life.

That’s what happened in this unfortunate country. People tried to drop sex, people tried to somehow impose celibacy on themselves. And they all became uncreative; they all became dull, they lost intelligence. You can go around and look at Indian mahatmas, and you will not see such dull and stupid people anywhere else in the world. Their whole life consists of living in a very uncreative way; they are praised for uncreative things.

Somebody fasts, that’s why he is praised — not for any dance. Somebody sleeps on a bed of thorns, that’s why he is praised. Now, he has not done anything creative in the world. He has not made the world a little more beautiful than he found it. He will leave the world as ugly as it was before, or even uglier. But he is praised because he lies on a bed of thorns. What is the point of it?

If you repress sex, creativity disappears. If you accept sex, sex is transformed into creativity.

If you accept anger, it releases great vitality and passion in you. Your life becomes a passionate life.

It is then a life of involvement, commitment and participation. Then you are not just a spectator, then you are in the thick of things, in the dance of life, part of it. Your every moment is of involvement. Then you are not an escapist; you live joyously and totally. Then you contribute something to existence. Then you are not futile, you have some meaning. But anger has to be accepted, then anger’s energy is absorbed.

Whenever you reject something, you have rejected some energy. You have said, “I don’t want to absorb this energy.” But this is your energy. And the rejected energy will keep you poor. Reject anger, and you have rejected the possibility of being vital. Now you will be dull.

Reject sex, and you have rejected the possibility of being creative. Now no poetry, no song, no dance, is going to happen in your life. You will be just a walking dead man. Your life will be an empty gesture, impotent.

If you have rejected sadness then you will not have any depth. You will remains hallow. Your laughter will also be shallow, because it will not have any depth; that can only be released by sadness through acceptance. Your laughter will be just on the surface.

That’s what I mean when I see people and call them phoney. A phoney person is one who is only pretending to live but not really living, one who is afraid of life. And this phoniness comes through rejection. Go on rejecting everything.

Keep an ideal in the mind that you have to become a Buddha, that you have to become a Jesus. You will never become one; on the contrary, you will lose all possibilities of ever becoming anything.

Forget all about Buddhas and Krishnas and Christs, they are not ideals to be imitated. Don’t have any ideals, be an ideal-destroyer. This is rebellion and this is religion too.

And when there are no ideals haunting you, torturing you, you fall into harmony with yourself. And when you don’t reject anything, all energies are yours, you are enriched. Then you have tremendous energy. And that tremendous energy is you, that energy is delight.

My comments that you may skip :- (That accumulated energy brings transformation one day when you take second step as Osho says initially “And then the second step, and the last, is: be one with existence. The second is easy.”. You become one with existence and it feels like we have arrived at our eternal home after a long journey of several lives. This is also called as falling into our own source ie existence. It is called as falling because it happens on it’s own or you can say it happens due to god’s grace. This is real meaning of god’s grace because you have not to do any effort so god gives the push and it happens.)

Falling into your own source, you become a knower.
And the moment you know yourself, you have known all, because it is the same. That which is in me is in everybody.

Only forms are different, houses are different. It is the same consciousness.

My comments :- (Same consciousness reflecting itself in different forms. This I have explained in detail in one of my posts ‘We are like holographic projections’.)

That in me which says, “I am” says the same in you also: “I am.”
I-am-ness is one.

It is the same in the tree, unspoken. It is the same in the rock, fast asleep.

But it is the same I-am-ness.

And to know this is to know the meaning of AHAM BRAHMASMI.

To know is to declare I am God.

My comment :- (As Jesus declared and you become fellow traveller of Jesus).

My suggestions:-

Awareness Meditation is the way worked for me in understanding perspective of Hakim Sanai on reality and I tried it first during brushing my teeth in the morning after trying 8–10 meditations over period of 15 years! So there is no need to reinvent the circle for you. May be you too find it suitable otherwise with Dynamic meditation and/or Kundalini in the evening it is suitable for most of the people. There are 110 other meditation techniques discovered by Indian Mystic Gorakhnath about 500years before and further modified by Osho for contemporary people that one can experiment and the suitable one could be practiced in routine life.

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Originally published at https://philosia.in on October 19, 2023.