True Reverence and the Cosmos: Om as the Language of Wholeness
A gentleman wrote me a letter recently—
a very amusing letter.
He wrote,
‘I bow only to the divine parts within you.’
Perhaps he feared that if he bowed to the whole man,
some non-divine fragment might accidentally receive his namaste.
But when a rishi utters Om,
even the stone lying before him
is part of that Om.
The stars scattered across the sky
are part of it too.
Om is all-inclusive—
it embraces everything,
rejects nothing.
In true reverence,
there is no selection.
No choosing whom to bow to
and whom not to.
A bow offered to Om
is a bow to the totality—
to all that exists,
to the whole that holds everything.
~ Translated from Nirvan Upanishad by Osho (Hindi Discourse), Discourse 1
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