{"id":1806,"date":"2018-02-17T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruquote.net\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2018-02-17T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T15:45:48","slug":"birth-death-simply-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guruquote.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/17\/birth-death-simply-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth and death are simply devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<p>Birth and death are simply devices, because neither birth is true nor death is true. We have been before birth, so how can birth be true? And we will be after death, so how can death be true? Only one thing is true: the consciousness that comes with you through birth and goes with you through death \u2014 perhaps birth is a door, and death too! Perhaps they are the same door, just your direction is different.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-image-obj motopress-text-align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruquote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Osho_Tantra_Indulgence.jpg?fit=604%2C401&ssl=1\" title=\"osho guru quotes\" alt=\"All religions have been against drugs. The reason is this: if you become an addict then the whole possibility of your higher dimension, of your higher unity, of achieving buddhahood, of becoming a christ, is lost. They are not against drugs, in fact. They are not concerned with drugs, they are concerned with your higher unity. If you start falling backwards in your mind, and if you become attuned with the lower unity of nature, then who will evolve? Then you have frustrated the very effort of nature through you. 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