The difference between obedience and surrender

Osho responds to this question in his inimitable manner:

There is a great difference. Not only a difference: obeying and surrender are diametrically opposite. If you are surrendered then there is no question of obeying. Then my voice is your voice; you don't obey it. Then I am no more separate from you. If you are not surrendered, then you obey it, because my voice is separate from yours.

Obeying is ugly. Either surrender or be on your own. Obeying is a compromise: you don't want to surrender, one thing; and you are not confident to remain on your own, another thing. So you compromise. You say: I will remain on my own, but obey. I will listen to you, whatsoever you say, and will find ways and means to obey it.

Surrender is a totally different thing. There is no duality in surrender. When a disciple surrenders to a master, they have become one; that moment the duality has disappeared. Now the master is no more thought of as separate, so who is going to obey and who is going to obey whom? If surrender has happened, then you don't enforce discipline, it comes spontaneously. When I say something to you, and you are surrendered, you hear my voice as your own. In fact, you will see immediately that this is what you wanted to do, but you were not clear about it. You will be able to understand that I have told you something about which you were groping in the dark. You had a certain feel for it, but things were vague -- I have made them clear for you. I have spoken for you. I have brought your own heart's desire to you. In surrender that is going to happen.Then my voice is your voice; you don't obey it. Then I am no more separate from you. If you are not surrendered, then you obey it, because my voice is separate from yours.

Courtesy: Oshoworld

When insults had class...

A recent series started in the Asian Age, Kolkata is titled 'When insults had class', a series of witty quotes by people. I was very impressed with the collection and thought of sharing a few gems with you:

• "He has all the virt ues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
  

• "A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

• "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

• "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

• "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

• "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

• "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response

• "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

• "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

• "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." - Jack E. Leonard

• "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

• "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

While reading a little more on the nature of insults (!) I learnt that in medicine insult is a synonym for injury or trauma. No wonder!