The Fourth Center

That is the meaning when Mohammedans say that Mohammad heard the Koran ,that is the meaning. That is exactly what happens at the innermost core of your heart. Not that you say it: you hear it. Mohammad heard the Koran – he heard it happening inside. He was really puzzled; he had never heard anything like this. It was so unknown, it was so unfamiliar. The story says that he became ill. It was so weird! When suddenly, sitting in your room, if one day you start hearing inside aum, aum, or anything, you will start feeling, ”Am I going mad?” You are not saying it, nobody else is saying it. Are you going mad?

Mohammad was sitting on a hilltop when he heard it. He came back home trembling, perspiring; he had a high fever. He really became disturbed. He told his wife, ”Just bring all the blankets and cover me! I have never had such a trembling; a great fever has come to me.” But his wife could see that his face was illuminated: ”What type of fever is this? His eyes are burning, afire with something tremendously beautiful. A grace has entered with him in the house. A great silence has fallen over the house.” Even his wife started hearing something. She said to Mohammad,’l don’t think it is a fever – I think God has blessed you. Don’t be afraid! What has happened? Tell me!”

His wife was the first Mohammedan , Khadija was her name. She was the first convert. She said, ”I can see. God has happened to you, something has happened to you, something is flowing from your heart all over the place. You have become luminous! You have never been like this ; something extraordinary has happened. Tell me why you are so much worried and trembling. Maybe it is new, but you tell me.”

And Mohammad told her, very much afraid of what she would think, but she become converted ,she was the first Mohammedan. 

It has happened so always. Hindus say the Vedas were recited by God Himself. It simply means that they were heard. In India, for the holy scriptures we have a word; the word is shruti, it means that which has been heard. 

At this center of the heart, anahata chakra, you hear. But you have not heard anything inside you – no sound, no omkar, no mantra. That simply means you have avoided the heart. The waterfall is there, and the sound of running water is there – but you have avoided it, you have bypassed, you have taken some other route, you have taken a shortcut. The shortcut simply goes from the third center avoiding the fourth. The fourth is the most dangerous center because it is the center out of which trust is born, faith is born. And the mind has to avoid it. If the mind does not avoid it, then there will be no possibility for doubt. Mind lives through doubt.
This is the fourth center. And Tantra says through love you will come to know this fourth center.

The Tantra Vision

Osho