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Death
Beloved Osho,
When I was coming for discourse, my heart was
trembling with fear; I felt as if I was going to die.
Death seemed to be very close. Later in the
discourse, I felt an infinite joy from some unknown
source. Are these just two colours of love for you,
or is it something else? Will you please comment?
But you are a little bit awake: you can sense the
presence of death. Hence the possibility opens for
a deeper understanding, that life and death are all
together, two extremes of one energy. Life is the
active force and death is the inactive force. Life is
the positive electricity and death is the negative
electricity, but they cannot be separated.
You are saying, “When I was coming for discourse,
my heart was trembling with fear; I felt as if I was
going to die.” Those who are aware that death is
possible at any moment – the very next moment
and you may be gone – this awareness is going to
help you to live this moment as deeply as possible,
because death can cut your roots without
informing you, without any previous intimation
that “I am coming.” It simply comes. You know
only when it has happened. But it is not the
greatest misery. The greatest misery is when there
was the chance and the opportunity, you did not
live – you went on postponing.