Wheel of Existence

OSHO





Pythagoras' is the first experiment in creating a synthesis.Twenty-five centuries have passed since then. There have been great mystics like the Buddha, Lao Tzu and Zarathustra. There have been great scientists like Newton, Edison and Einstein. But it is difficult to find a man at home with both worlds. Pythagoras is a class unto himself. The synthesis was needed then as it is needed today because the world is again at the same point. The world moves in a wheel motion.Samsara in Sanskrit means `the world', it also means the wheel. The wheel is big: one circle is completed in 25 centuries. Twenty-five centuries before Pythagoras, Atlantis came to an end because of man's own scientific growth. Without wisdom, scientific growth is dangerous. Now the wheel has come to the same point.
Uprooted, life loses meaning as values disappear. Everything seems pointless. Chaotic times can either be a great curse, as it happened in Atlantis, or can prove to be a quantum leap in human growth. It depends on how we use them. It is only in such great times of chaos that great stars are born.
Ordinary people, the majority, live in unconsciousness; so they can't see even a few steps ahead. If we can create a great momentum for meditation, for the inward journey , for tranquillity , stillness and love, humanity will be born anew. Only a few people will achieve enlightenment. Here and there, once in a while, a person will become alert and aware and divine.