I can show you the path, but the exprience I cannot convey

Remember this.... RELIGION NEVER TALKS ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE ITSELF, it talks only about the method. It shows the how, not the what. The what is left to you. IF YOU DO THE HOW, THE WHAT WILL COME TO YOU.

    AND THERE IS NO WAY TO CONVEY IT. One can know it, but cannot convey it. It is such an infinite experience, that language becomes useless. The vastness is such that no word is capable of expressing it. So only the method is given.

    Buddha is reported to have said continuously for forty years that, "DON'T ASK ME ABOUT THE TRUTH, about the divine, about nirvana, liberation. Don't ask me anything about such things. JUST ASK ME HOW TO REACH THERE. I can show you the path -- but the experience I cannot give you, not even in words." The experience is personal, method is impersonal. Method is scientific, impersonal; experience is always personal and poetic.

    What do I mean when I differentiate in this way? Method is scientific. If you can do it, centering will result. THAT CENTERING IS BOUND TO RESULT, IF THE METHOD IS DONE. If the centering is not resulting, then you can know that somewhere you are missing the point. Somewhere you have missed the method, you have not followed it. Method is scientific, centering is scientific -- but when the explosion comes to you, it is poetic.

    By poetic, I mean EVERY ONE OF YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY. Then there is no common ground. AND EVERYONE WILL EXPRESS IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY. Buddha says something, Mahavir says something, Krishna something else; Jesus, Mohammed, Moses and Lao Tsu, they all differ -- not in methods, but in the way they express their experience. Only on one thing do they all agree: that whatsoever they are saying is not expressing that which they have felt. Only on that one point they agree.

    Still, they try. STILL, THEY TRY TO CONVEY SOMEHOW, TO HINT. It seems impossible. But if you have a sympathetic heart, something may be conveyed. But that needs a deep sympathy and love and reverence.

    So really, whenever something is conveyed, IT DOESN'T DEPEND ON THE CONVEYOR -- IT DEPENDS ON YOU. If you can receive it in deep love and reverence, then something reaches you. But if you are critical about it, then nothing reaches. Firstly, it is difficult to express. Even if expressed, and you are critical -- then the message becomes impossible, there is no communication.

    THE COMMUNICATION IS VERY DELICATE. That's why in all these one hundred and twelve methods, it has been left out completely -- only hinted at. Shiva says so many times: "Do this, and then the experience..." and then he becomes silent. "Do this, and then the blessing..." and then he becomes silent.

    "The blessing", "the experience", "the explosion": BEYOND THAT THERE IS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. That which cannot be expressed, it is better not to try to express it -- because that which cannot be expressed, if tried, will be misunderstood. So Shiva is silent. He is talking simply of methods, techniques... how to do it.

OSHO
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
Vol 1, Ch #14: Changing the direction of energy
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