Gorakhnath says - live naturally

Gorakhnath says:

When you were born you didn’t come with a name. A name was given to you and you became that name. When you were born you didn’t come with any knowledge. You were taught and made to study; you went to school, to university where many thoughts were poured into your brain. You were moulded, created by this knowledge. Then you began to think that this is YOUR knowledge.

Nothing in all of this is yours. Everything is borrowed. Your name is not yours, your knowledge is not yours, the image that you have of yourself is not yours - it too has been constructed by others. Someone said you were very beautiful and you accepted it. Someone said you were simply incomparable and you accepted that. Someone praised you - so you wrapped it up and kept it carefully. If someone insulted you, you were hurt.

Your personality is constructed from others’ opinions; others’ hands have created it - others’ have brought their brushes and painted you. And if you accept this as your ‘being’ you will never be able to know yourself.

Let this false form die so you can experience your real form. Let your mask fall away. It is good if this covering burns to ashes so that your naked truth can manifest itself in its naturalness. Until the ego is gone there cannot be any experience of ‘being’. And how can one who does not even experience his own being, the self, his soul, becomes conscious of the soul of the universe?

~Osho💖

Die O Yogi Die: live naturally