Conscious Bliss

The trees, the birds, the animals, are one with existence - but unaware. They are blissful; but they have no idea of what bliss is, they are not conscious of it. And a bliss which is unconscious is not of much value. You may have a treasure, but if you are not aware of it what is the point of having it!The distant call of the cuckoo is beautiful to us, but not to the cuckoo itself. The cuckoo has no idea what beauty is, what music is, what poetry is. It is unaware - blissful, but unaware.
Man is not aware but miserable. But this misery can be dropped. Awareness has to be increased a little more and man has to drop it consciously and has to achieve a reunion - I call it a reunion. The tree and the cuckoo and the other birds and the animals are in a state of union. Man has to reclaim it; he has lost contact with it.It all depends on us, on what we do about our misery. We can go on nursing it and we can go on creating more hell for ourselves. We can drop it and we can move towards the whole for the ultimate merger. We can melt ourselves into the ocean of existence; and then bliss arises. And when man becomes blissful, his bliss has tremendous value. The cuckoo is blissful but its bliss has no value.
To be consecrated to God means to be ready to merge and melt into the whole. Then bliss comes of its own accord.
.------ o 0 o ------>From the book:"Osho, A Must for Morning Contemplation"A collection of extracts from talks by Oshocompiled at Osho's suggestionCopyright Osho International Foundation,Published by Rebel Publishing House, Germany.