Every moment is Diwali !

We have a few festive days.

Once a year we celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, and light many lamps in the darkness.

But our life is dry and dull; and it is just because this is so that man has had to create festivals.

The birds, the beasts, the plants, the rivers, the waterfalls – they have
neither Holi nor Diwali.

It is because man is sick that he is satisfied with just one Diwali.

One Diwali is just a consolation.

So on that day the new clothes, the firecrackers, the lighted lamps – and then

we return to the same gloominess, the same prison, the same misery, the same anxiety.

But do you think that a river that flows for one day of the year is going to reach the ocean? And even this one day is only an apology for the real flowing;

it is just a mockery of our real selves!

Look at nature: there is Existence enjoying Holi every day, and celebrating Diwali daily.

In nature the colors flow afresh every day, new flowers open each morning.

Even before the old leaves fall,
the new buds are bursting out and the new shoots are springing up.

The festival does not stop even for a moment.

It is non-stop, every moment is Diwali.

Such will be the life of a religious person.

He will be festive each moment – he is grateful that he is.

His every breath is an expression of gratitude and benediction.

OshO ❤️
Nowhere To Go But In