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Osho Mother and Father
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Enlightenment of Osho's father
Question:
Osho, would
you say something about your father's death yesterday?
Osho: Vivek, It was not a
death at all. Or it was the total death. And both mean
the same thing. I was hoping that he would die in this
way. He died a death that everybody should be ambitious
for: he died in
samadhi, he died utterly detached from
the body and the mind. I went to see him only three
times during this whole month he was in the hospital.
Whenever I felt that he was just on the verge, I went to
see him.
The first two times I was a little afraid that if he
died he would have to be born again; a little attachment
to the body was there. His meditation was deepening
every day, but a few chains with the body were still
intact, were not broken. Yesterday I went to see him: I
was immensely happy that now he could die a right death.
He was no more concerned with the body. Yesterday, early
in the morning at three o'clock, he attained his first
glimpse of the eternal -- and immediately he became
aware that now he was going to die.
This was the first time he had called me to come; the
other two times I had gone on my own. Yesterday he
called me to come because he was certain that he was
going to die. He wanted to say good-bye, and he said it
beautifully -- with no tears in the eyes, with no
longing for life any more. Hence, in a way it is not a
death but a birth into eternity. He died in time and was
born into eternity. Or it is a total death -- total in
the sense that now he will not be coming any more. And
that is the ultimate achievement; there is nothing
higher than it.
He left the world in
utter silence, in joy, in peace. He left the world like
a lotus flower -- it was worth celebrating. And these
are the occasions for you to learn how to live and how
to die. Each death should be a celebration, but it can
be a celebration only if it leads you to higher planes
of existence.
He died enlightened. And that's
how I would like each of my sannyasins to die.
Life is ugly if you are unenlightened, and even death
becomes beautiful if you are enlightened. Life is ugly
if you are unenlightened because it is a misery, a hell.
Death becomes a door to the divine if you are
enlightened; it is no more a misery, it is no more a
hell. In fact, on the contrary, it is getting out of all
hell, out of all misery.
I am immensely glad
that he died the way he died. Remember it: as meditation
deepens, you become farther and farther away from your
body-mind composite. And when meditation reaches its
ultimate peak, you can see everything. Yesterday morning
he was absolutely aware of death, that it had come. And
he called me. This was the first time he had called me,
and the moment I saw him I saw that he was no more in
the body. All the pains of the body had disappeared.
That's why the doctors were puzzled: the body was
functioning in an absolutely normal way. This was the
last thing the doctors could have imagined, that he
could die. He could have died any day before. He was in
deep pain, there were many complexities in the body: his
heart was not functioning well, his pulse was missing;
there were blood clots in the brain, in the leg, in the
hand.
Yesterday he was
absolutely normal. They checked, and they said it was
impossible; now there was no problem, no danger. But
this is how it happens. The day of the danger, according
to the physicians, didn't prove dangerous. The first
twenty-four hours when he was admitted to the hospital
one month before were the most dangerous; they were
afraid that he would die. He didn't die. Then for the
next twenty-four hours they were still hesitant to say
whether he would be saved or not.
A suggestion had even come from a surgeon to cut the leg
off completely, because if blood clots started happening
in other places it would be impossible to save him. But
I was against cutting off the leg, because one has to
die one day -- why distort the body and why create more
pain? And just living in itself has no meaning, just
lengthening the life has no meaning. I said no. They
were surprised.
And when he survived for almost four weeks they thought
I was right, that there had been no need to cut off the
leg; the leg was coming back, becoming alive again. He
had started walking also, which Dr. Sardesai thought was
a miracle. They had not hoped for that much, that he
would be able to walk.
Yesterday he was
perfectly normal, everything normal. And that gave me
the indication that now death was possible. If
meditation happens before death, everything becomes
normal. One dies in perfect health, because one is not
really dying but entering into a higher plane. The body
becomes a stepping-stone.
He was meditating
for years. He was a rare man -- it is very rare to find
a father like him. A father becoming a disciple of his
own son: it is rare. Jesus' father did not dare to
become a disciple, Buddha's father hesitated for years
to become a disciple. But he was meditating for years.
Three hours each day, in the morning from three to six,
he was sitting in meditation. Yesterday also, in the
hospital also, he continued.
Yesterday it
happened. One never knows when it will happen. One has
to go on digging...one day one comes across the source
of water, the source of consciousness. Yesterday it
happened; it happened in right time. If he had left his
body just one day before he would have been back in the
body again soon -- a little clinging was there. But
yesterday the slate was completely clean. He attained to
no-mind, he died like a Buddha. What more can one have
than Buddhahood?
My effort here is to
help you all to live like Buddhas and die like Buddhas.
The death of a Buddha is both! It is not a death,
because life is eternal. Life does not begin with birth
and does not end with death. Millions of times you have
been born and died; they are all small episodes In the
eternal pilgrimage. But because you are unconscious you
cannot see that which is beyond birth and death.
As you become more
conscious, you can see your original face. He saw his
original face yesterday. He heard the one hand clapping,
he heard the soundless sound. Hence it is not a death:
it is attaining life eternal. On the other hand it can
be called a total death -- total death in the sense that
he will not be coming any more. Rejoice!
Source: from book
"Be still and know" by Osho
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