Deep down you know you are alone

( This article is not intended to hurt anybodies , feelings , cultures or conditioning , but is provided in general terms & views )

Deep down you know you are alone……………

Just by sitting beside a fire and a priest repeating mantras in Sanskrit – which neither he understands nor you understand – and just a few minutes before, you were strangers....

In India – and the same is true in other countries in different ways – the basic thing is some ritual.

The priest creates the ritual.

The husband and wife take seven rounds around the fire and two strangers have become as if they are born for each other.

I was a professor in my university.

One professor was really going through difficult times with his wife.

She actually beat him.

Finally, he came to me. He was not known to me but somebody suggested to him that ”The man has strange ideas, maybe he can figure out something.”

He said, ”I will not hide anything.” He showed me his back, because that very morning the wife had beaten him with a stick. There was blood.

He said, ”What to do?”I said, ”You are an idiot!

How did she become your wife?”

He said, ”How? We have taken the seven rounds around the fire god.”

I said, ”Take seven rounds again in the reverse order! It is so simple.

Fire is not a problem; if you have gone clockwise, this time go anti-clockwise, or if you have gone anticlockwise, this time go clockwise.

And say goodbye to her – why be bothered?”

He said, ”The people who have sent me to you were right that you are a man of strange ideas.

I Have never thought about it, such a simple solution. If seven rounds can make two persons husband and wife, then just in the reverse order they are released.”

He said, ”But you will have to come with me.”I said, ”Why are you creating trouble for me?”He said, ”But a priest is needed!”

I said, ”Then I am coming.”And he said, ”Do you know Sanskrit?”And I said, ”Don’t be worried.

Neither your priest knew it, nor you, nor your wife. And this time it is not going to be marriage.

I will do it in Hebrew.”He heard the word Hebrew. He said, ”Are you a Jew?”I said, ”I am no one; I just thought if Sanskrit has made you husband and wife, Hebrew may be helpful.

You have to go anticlockwise anyway.”He said, ”Give me a little time....”I said, ”You will get another beating from your wife.

You are asking for time so that you can ask your wife what her idea is – she will beat you, and then I am not coming.

Because if she can beat you...I am a complete stranger. I don’t want to be beaten unnecessarily.”

We have created friends, relationships, which are just to pretend one thing: that we are not alone.

But whatever you do, it is all phony.

Deep down you know you are alone.

Deep down you know that even living with your wife for thirty or forty years, neither do you know her nor does she know you.

You cannot even have a nice true conversation for five minutes.

~ Osho