“A Frenchman was crossing the desert with his Arab guide. Days passed, and not a single day went by without the Arab kneeling on the burning sand to call upon his God. Finally, one evening, the unbeliever asked the Arab:
‘How did you come to know that there is a God?’
The guide glanced at the godless man and replied:
‘How did I come to know that there is a God? How did I know that it was not a man but a camel that passed here last night? Was it not by the traces its hooves left in the sand?’ And pointing to the sun, whose last rays were fading over the horizon, he added: ‘These traces are not human.’
Your true being cannot have been created by you; it cannot have been made by man. You brought it with you; you are it. How could you have created it? In order to create it, you would first have had to be there already. This is the meaning that Christians, Mohammedans, Hindus place into the statement that man is a creation. It means that man has not created himself—that is all.
The Creator is hidden somewhere in the unknown. We have emerged from some mysterious life force. Your self is not yours! This false self is not yours, because you have created it; your true self is also not yours, because it is still in God—your roots are still in God.”
–Osho
Translated from Bulgarian.
