The Razor’s Edge 3

BELOVED OSHO,
ONCE YOU SAID TO ME THAT I AM ENERGY AND AWARENESS. I USE THIS AS A KEY. THE
OTHER DAY, WHILE SPEAKING ABOUT THE DISCIPLE TOUCHING THE MASTER’S FEET,
YOU SAID ENERGY ALWAYS MOVES DOWNWARDS, LIKE WATER. I HAVE FELT ENERGY
SHOWERING DOWN, BUT I HAVE ALSO FELT ENERGY SOARING UPWARDS, LIKE A FLAME.
CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THIS?
Prem Shunyo, life has so many aspects, that it is almost impossible to contain all those aspects in
one statement. When I said that energy always moves downwards, like water, it was in a particular
context. The context was the disciple touching the feet of the master.
If he wants to get the master’s energy he has to be humble, and available to the downgoing energy.
Just as, in the East, for centuries the disciple has been touching the feet of the master, the master
has been touching the head of the disciple with his hands. This way the disciple gets energy on his
own accord, from the feet; and from the master’s hands, compassion. And a circle starts happening.
If the disciple is not holding himself back, then he will feel what Amrito was calling ”orgasm,” energy
showering on the disciple from the master; but it is energy coming from above, downwards. This
was the context, when I said all energy moves downwards.
But your experience is absolutely true. When the master’s energy showers on the disciple, and if the
disciple is totally ready, the energy is so much that the disciple becomes aflame; the energy becomes
fire. And like flames, the energy starts moving upwards. You all have felt it without understanding it.
Sometimes you feel your hands are moving upwards, in spite of yourself. You are not doing it. You
are not the doer; your hands have become like a flame which wants to reach to the stars. This is the
overflow of energy.
Ordinarily energy moves downwards; but if the disciple is able to attract the master’s energy in such
quantity that it starts flowing all around him, he cannot contain it – it is too much to contain. The very
fact of abundance makes the energy move upwards.
And the feeling, Shunyo, is perfectly right. You say, ”I have felt energy showering down, but I have
also felt energy soaring upwards, like a flame.” That is the second step. First, you have to be so
humble – just like a valley – that from the mountains, rivers can descend into you. Once you have
too much... you should remember that at a certain point, quantitative changes become qualitative
changes.
For example, at one hundred degrees water suddenly starts evaporating, moving upwards.
Ordinarily water flows downwards, but at a hundred degrees of heat a qualitative change happens.
The whole direction changes; the water becomes a new phenomena: vapor. It is the same water

– it starts moving upwards. Almost similar is the case if energy falling into you makes you so hot,
so full... then you will feel a second step: the energy moving upwards like flames. So whatever you
have experienced is not against reality.
What I was saying was only in a particular context. In Shunyo’s context I can also be a witness. I
have seen it, and many of you may have felt that whenever I come close to her, she starts moving
her hands upwards – not only her hands upwards, but she starts saying things that... I don’t think
she understands what she is saying. The whole experience is just so much that it wants expression.
Slowly, slowly, it is going to happen to everyone. But only when it happens is it meaningful to talk to
you about it. I don’t say many things to you. I will wait for the right moment, when you have some
experience, so that my words don’t just go above your heads but go directly like arrows into your
hearts.