What Are Emotions Called? (Part - 17)

Date: 04.01.2026

It is Osho's great gift to humanity that he always stirs our conscience by making us aware of both aspects of every act, event and its consequences. Then he presents its positive side to us through irrefutable arguments and tales of wisdom. Sometimes I am filled with extreme surprise when Osho himself brings out the positive side of an incident from his life and presents it to us. The essence of the incident that he has described in his life in the historical Sadhana Camp of Mahabaleshwar can be understood only if it is written verbatim. In the words of Osho -

"I was young and my father was poor. He built his house with great difficulty. He was poor and foolish too because he had never built a house before. He built a house with great difficulty. That house must have been built foolishly. It was built and we had not even reached that house and it collapsed in the first rain. We were young and were very sad. He was outside the village. I sent him the news that the house has collapsed. We had great hopes that we would go to live in that house. Those hopes were dashed. He came and distributed laddus in the village. He said: "Thank God. If the house had collapsed after eight days, not even one of my children would have survived. We were to move into that house after eight days. For the rest of their lives they remained happy that the house collapsed eight days earlier. If it had collapsed after eight days, it would have been very difficult. Life can be seen like this. The one who sees life like this, experiences immense happiness in his life. Everything depends on how you see life. There is nothing in life, it depends on how you see it; your attitude, your grasp, your vision makes and breaks everything.

Pleasure and happiness emerge in life when our outlook towards life becomes positive. How do we look at the characteristics of our family, friends and acquaintances? If that outlook becomes positive, then our feelings can also become pure. We will have to make efforts. We will have to do sadhna. For example, one of our acquaintances has become addicted to drugs but he never goes to his office after consuming drugs. He does his office work with full dedication and honesty. Now, his personality can be discussed in two ways in the circle of friends. Firstly, my acquaintance is dutiful and loyal. He is a bit fond of drugs but his dedication, hard work and honesty are not affected by this hobby of his.

Secondly, it can also be said that he is an addict, no matter how much dedication and devotion he has, it does not matter.

The first way of discussing personality is positive and constructive. This way creates happiness in the mind. The second way creates negativity and sadness. We have to keep our way of looking at life positive. This way brings happiness and the burden of life starts reducing gradually. When the burden reduces, the mind will become light and our life energy will not be spent in useless activities.

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