In love, the other has become important, but you are still there. Life acquires a meaning only through death.

If you cannot die for someone, you cannot live for someone. Only if you can die for someone can you live for someone. The other has become the meaning of your life. If you can die for someone, there is love. When the lover becomes more important than you, you can die for him or her. Those are rare peaks of love, but ordinarily you remain and the lover is there. You remain, but for certain moments there may be a peak when you are not. In love you take the first step – the other becomes important. When the “I” disappears, the “thou” also disappears. One day you are no more just a consciousness of the other remains.Īnd when you are no more, the other is also not the other, because he is the other only when you are there. There is only one way: the other becomes so important, so significant, that by and by you fade out and disappear. Ego dissolves, and it dissolves in only one way there is no other way. For the feeling world, for the world of the devotee, ego is the disease. The feeling of ego is the root of all madness. Suddenly one is purified – totally purified – because when the ego is not there you cannot be impure in any way. It is not! This feeling that Krishna is there, this total feeling of love, this total surrender, this losing oneself into one who may be or may not be, this losing itself is the transformation. I want to emphasize the fact that it is not a question of whether Krishna is there or not. But she took a jump and she became transformed. But when Krishna is no more there, Meera alone is living in a room and talking to Krishna, and living for him who is nowhere. It is not so difficult to feel Krishna’s reality when he is present. And even Radha would become jealous of Meera, because for Radha the real person was there.

That is why Meera is a greater devotee than Radha. For Meera, Krishna was not there in reality. For the lover, it is irrelevant.įor Radha, Krishna was there in reality. Krishna may not be there at all it is irrelevant. And remember, whether you make a real person your love object or whether it is just your imagination, it makes no difference, because the whole transformation comes through devotion, not through the beloved – remember this. She has made that point, Krishna, her love object. No one can see Krishna, and Meera cannot prove that Krishna is there, but she is not interested in proving it at all. That is why Meera goes on calling Krishna, God. If your love grows deeper, the other becomes more and more significant – so significant that you begin to call the other your god.

Krishna by Osho