CHAPTER 2.

NO MISSION, NO MESSAGE

therefore there is Jainism. These are misunderstandings – words with different meanings that we
have conceived as if the experiences were different. So there are different sects.

To me, there is no difference, the difference is only of name. One is Krishna: if you wash off the
name... one is Mahavira, and if you wash off the name, and the two persons were here, nameless,
you could not see the difference. Where is the difference? There is no difference. But the name for
us means much. Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, the names are more important to us than the reality for
which those names stood.

If one goes deeper, one comes to know the source is one. These things may differ, the paths may
differ, but the reaching point is the same. Those who were realized come to know the one reality.
Those who were not realized, conceive their own realities individually.

We create our own realities, our own philosphies.

Another question has been asked,

WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY?

I have got no philosophy at all. Because philosophy means how I define reality. Philosophy means
how I systematize the real, what I say about reality.

The first thing I say is that the reality cannot be said, cannot be expressed. How do I define it? I
never define it, because definitions can only be in words. You cannot define love. You can know it,
you can feel it, you can live it, you can suffer it, but you cannot define it. How can you define love?
How can you define prayer? You can be in prayer, there are moments when you are in prayer, but
you cannot define it. All that is beautiful, all that is true, all that is good, cannot be defined. It can
only be experienced?

So I have got no philosophy.

SECOND QUESTIONER: SO, WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING THEN YOU CAN DEFINE
IT, CERTAINLY?

A: No! Even then you cannot define it! You can only express it... falteringly. You can’t define it. You
can express it falteringly, and a person who knows will always say categorically... he will say that
what I am saying is not what I have experienced. Because words convey so differently....

It is like this:

You have come to a lake; you have seen the sun rise and you have gone back. Now someone asks:
define the beauty, define the sunrise! What do you mean that you have experienced a beautiful
scene? What do you mean that you have become exhilarated? What do you mean? Then he says,
please paint that sunrise. And you begin to paint. You paint a sunrise: a sun, – with a pencil – a
lake, hills, but then you see the difference. It was something living, but this is something dead. That
was something miraculous, this is a sketch. A circle, and you say this is the sun? A circle drawn
with a pencil, you say this is the sun?

Early Talks 12 Osho