Premjeet/Victory of love

Love has a way of its own

it becomes victorious but in a very strange way

without conquering, without fighting

in fact even without desiring to be victorious

victory comes as a gift

as a reward from the beyond

love is ready to be defeated

love enjoys to be defeated

love is ready to surrender

love is never willing to fight

but this is one of the miracles of life

that love surrenders, but in that very surrender

becomes victorious

without any desire, without any motive

victory comes on its own accord

the people who try to be victorious

are never victorious

they can force others into submission, into slavery

but they cannot win their hearts - that’s impossible

the body can be made a slave

it can be chained, imprisoned, killed, destroyed

but you cannot imprison the heart

and the heart is the real core of the person

love without any effort to conquer

reaches to the very core of the person

it is the only victory there is

all alexander the greats are failures

utter failures

only lovers have known the taste of victory

and it depends on us

if we want to remain beggars

go on struggling, fighting

if one wants to be the emperor

then surrender to existence, relax with existence

be in a state of loving let-go and suddenly

all is yours, the whole kingdom of God is yours

Osho