Discerning the Essential: Osho on Spiritual Awareness
Earlier I told you that the swan has a symbolic capacity — it may not be scientific, yet it is poetic — that it can separate milk from water.
It separates the essential from the non-essential.
The awakened awareness of a sannyasin is like a sword.
It cuts apart the non-essential and the essential, and separates them.
Just like a sword — in one stroke, into two pieces.
How the Swan Separates Milk from Water
It is said that the swan eats nothing except pearls.
It may die, but it will choose only pearls.
Choosing Pearls Over Pebbles in Life
So too the sannyasin — even if he must die, he does not choose objects; he chooses the Divine in every condition.
In every condition his choice is of pearls, never of stones and pebbles.
He will agree to die, but he will not agree to choose pebbles.
His choice is always of the highest.
Of the auspicious, the beautiful, the true.
This capacity of the swan — this itself is the conduct of the sannyasin.
~ From the Nirvan Upanishad by Osho (Hindi Discourse), Discourse 5 – Translated
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