God = Peeping Tom & ‘Forgetory’ by Osho Rajneesh

Osho
– God = Peeping Tom: The idea of God is that of a Peeping Tom who does not even allow you privacy in your bathroom, who goes on looking through the keyhole, watching what you are doing. This is ugly! All the religions of the world say God continuously watches you – this is ugly, what kind of God is this? Has he got no other business but to watch everybody, follow everybody? Seems to be the ultimate detective!

– ‘Forgetory’: But this strength is possible only when the wave knows that it is a wave of a great, infinite ocean. If the wave forgets this, then the wave is very weak. And our ‘forgetory’ is tremendous; our momory is very small, very tiny – forgetory, tremendous. We go on forgetting, and that which is very obvious we forget very easily. That which is very close we forget very easily. That which is always available we forget very easily.

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Do you remember your breathing? You remember only when there is some trouble – you have a cold, breathing trouble, or something; otherwise, who remembers breathing? That’s why people remember God only when they are in trouble. Otherwise who remembers? And God is closer than your breathing, closer than you are to yourself. One tends to forget. Have you watched it? If you don’t have something, you remember. When you have it you forget, you take it for granted. Because God cannot be lost, it is very difficult to remember. Only very rare people become capable of remembering God. To remember that which we have never been away from is very difficult.

A fish in the ocean forgets the ocean. Throw the fish on the shore, in the sands, hot sands, and then the fish knows. Then the fish remembers. But there is no way to throw you our of God; there is no shore to him – God is a shoreless ocean. And you are not like a fish, you are like a wave. You are exactly like God; your nature and God’s nature are the same.