Osho – We love many things but essentially in all our love we are searching for god. Of course the search is unconscious, that’s why you cannot give any explanation if it is asked ‘Why do you love a rose flower?’ At the most you can say because it is beautiful, but that is not an answer, it is a tautology. Again the same question can be raised, ‘Why do you love that which is beautiful?’, and you will be at a loss to answer.
You love a beautiful sunset, you love a beautiful woman, you love a beautiful child, you love a beautiful painting — you love thousands of things. There must be something running through all of them which makes you love them all. You call it beauty but nobody has ever been able to define what beauty is.
Three thousand years of philosophizing on the subject has not led to any conclusion. The reason why we cannot define beauty is that beauty is really nothing but the reflection of god. And because god itself is indefinable, likewise its reflection is indefinable. If you cannot define the moon, how can you define the moon reflected in the lake?
The eastern mystics have given three indications of god. They are just hints, not definitions: satyam, shivam, sundaram. Satyam means the truth: wherever you find truth it is a reflection of god. Shivam means the good: wherever you find something good it is a reflection of god. And sundaram means the beautiful, the presence of beauty: wherever you find beauty it is the reflection of god.
This is the true trinity. And sundaram, the beautiful, is the highest peak. So whatsoever you love — truth, good, beauty — it is all in fact an unconscious search for god. Through sannyas the unconscious search has to be made a deliberate, conscious effort.
The moment your search becomes conscious it becomes very easy to find the truth. In unconsciousness we go on in circles, in consciousness we can immediately see the centre of the whole thing and we can move to the centre like an arrow.
Meditation helps you to become aware of whatsoever you have been doing. It takes you out of your vicious circle, it gives you a clear-cut insight into the target. And once you know exactly what your deepest longing is then to find it is very easy. That’s why Jesus says, ‘Seek and ye shall find, ask and it shall be given unto you, knock and the door shall be opened unto you.’ But this seeking, this searching, this knocking, has to be done in absolute consciousness.
Source – Osho Book “Going All the Way”