The application of science does not mean we have conquered nature there is no way to conquer nature. Science only means that we have discovered certain ways and means of living in accord with nature. That’s all it means. The fact is, we have discovered the ways of living in accord with nature. For example, the breeze was always ready to blow from outside. We prevented it by raising the wall; we did not make a window. But if you did make a window, would that mean you conquered the breeze? You simply have given way to the breeze. The breeze was always ready to pass through. Our being able to run the fan and burn the light with electricity does not mean we have found victory over nature. We simply learnt the way to be in agreement with nature. Now we fix our bulbs and switches, lay out electric wires in such a way that electricity can pass through them. In fact, electricity was always ready to pass through them. Our act simply amounts to opening the window.
Science stands for the search for nature’s laws favourable to the external world. Religion stands for the search for nature’s laws agreeable to the inner world. There are certain laws of nature that exist in the outer world.
If we conform to these laws, nature becomes agreeable; if we go against them, it becomes disagreeable. In a way it is wrong to say nature becomes agreeable or disagreeable; the right way to put it is whether we are able to take nature’s help or not. For example, you are walking with an umbrella over your head and the wind is blowing against you. Now if you bend the umbrella forward, no harm will be done, but if you place it backward on your shoulder, the wind will turn it inside out. Here nature will not be at fault. You did not place the umbrella agreeably to the wind. In both instances nature was working in the same way, the difference was in how you had positioned the umbrella. Similarly, there are inner lays of nature too. A man who lives with anger has his umbrella resting on the shoulder. Now that will cause him difficulty — all his inner umbrellas are bound to fall apart. A person who spreads love is placing his umbrella forward; he is being agreeable to nature. One who has learnt how to love has actually mastered one law of the inner science. He has learnt that love brings agree-ability and harmony in the inner life; whereas anger creates discord and disharmony within. Nature is willing to work in both instances, depending upon what you wish to do.
Meditation is the ultimate agree-ability of the inner life, the uttermost harmony, the most profound of all. Meditation means that, from within, one is now in complete harmony with the ultimate law of life. The word ‘beautiful’ was used by Lao Tzu for it. The name given by the Vedic seers is also appropriate. They call it ‘rit’, which means ‘the law’. Similarly, dharma also means your inner nature, the law. Dharma means that if you act according to the law, you will attain happiness. Adharma, an unrighteous act, is that which would go against the law and cause you unhappiness. This is the principle of inner science.
Meditation, in the ultimate sense, means to be agreeable — agreeability. In other words, one who is agreeable in every way, one who is at no point separate from life; one who has become harmonious with all the laws of life, he attains to the ultimate truth, the ultimate life, the ultimate bliss.
Matter referenced from:
- Abridged from And Now And Here, Osho Times International, courtesy: Osho International Foundation
- Conforming to the Laws of Nature by Osho, Science & Spirit Section, The Speaking Tree, Ahmedabad, Times of India, November,3, 2019.
By: Dr. Bhawana Asnani.
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