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There are many doors to the temple of God like peace, love, compassion. All these doors bring bliss, a tremendous understanding of other people, forgiveness, a great humility, humbleness, egolessness, truthfulness, sincerity, authenticity with them. But at every door you will need the same key to unlock it – and that is meditation, that is awareness.

A Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Lao Tzu and Zarathustra all meet at the very centre. The doors were so different. But as they enter inside they suddenly know that all doors are right. And the miracle was they were all using the same key. The doors were different, the shape of the locks was different, their directions were different, but they were using the same key. Jesus says to his disciples again and again, “Beware!” Beware means, ‘Be aware.’ Buddha says to his disciples continuously, day in, day out, year in, year out… for forty-two years he was teaching a single word, ‘rightmindfulness’ , another name for awareness. Krishnamurthy simply calls it ‘awareness.’ Gurdjieff used to call it ‘self remembering’; that is a Sufi word. Kabir simply called it ‘Smrati’, remembrance. These are different words that they have used for the same key.

The man who is aware of himself is the greatest emperor because the moment you become aware of yourself the whole kingdom of God is yours. The moment you become aware of your own inner beauty, all the struggle occurring outside disappears. One attains to a grace and is no more interested in the non essential. Awareness is what the alchemists have been searching for: the nectar, the magical formula that can help one to become an immortal.

In fact everyone is immortal but we all are living in a mortal body and hence we identify ourselves with it. Awareness creates the distance between you and your body and mind. When you become aware of your mind and body, you immediately know you are separate from both and the distance starts happening. Then you know you are immortal, you are not part of time, you are part of eternal. You know there is no birth for you and no death either, that you have always been here and will always be here.

To become aware of oneself is to become aware of all. By a simple process of inner observation, we come to realize ourselves. And the moment we know who we are, immediately we know the essential core of the whole existence, of life itself, because we are part of it.

- Osho