Have you observed the difference between an organic unity and a mechanical unity? You make a car engine; you can purchase parts from the market and you can fix those parts, and the engine starts functioning like a unity. Or you can purchase parts of a radio from the market and you can fix them, and the radio starts functioning like a unity. Somehow, it comes to have a self. No part in itself can function as a radio; all parts together start functioning like a radio–but still the unity is mechanical, forced from the outside. Then you throw seeds into the ground, and those seeds die into the soil and a plant arises. This unity is organic; it is not forced from outside–it was in the seed itself. The seed goes on spreading, goes on gathering a thousand and one things from the earth, from the air, from the sun, from the sky–but the unity is coming from within. The centre comes first and then the circumference. In a mechanical unity, the circumference comes first and then the centre.
Man is an organic unity. You were a seed one day, like any tree; in the soil of your mother’s womb you started gathering your circumference. Centre came first, centre preceded circumference. And now you have forgotten the centre completely. You live on the circumference and you think this is your whole life. This circumference, and continuously living on it, creates a sort of self, a pseudo-self, which gives you a feeling that yes, you are somebody. But it is always trembling because it has no organic unity in it.
Hence, the fear of death. If you know your real self you will never be afraid of death–there is no question, because the organic unity never dies. Organic unity is immortal. Only mechanical unities are put together and die. That which is put together, one day will fall apart. Mechanical unity has a beginning and an end. The organic unity has no beginning and no end–it is an eternal process.
That’s why you are more graceful when you are alone–because you are not worried. You are more innocent when you are alone. That’s why people are so much afraid of others. Alone, there is no anxiety.
Osho is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, with an approach to meditation that acknowledges the accelerated pace of contemporary life.
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