Osho on Body and Grapes
The body is like grapes. The grapes are to go. You cannot keep grapes for long – they will go rotten; but you can create wine out of the grapes, that’s why it is also called ’spirit’. You can create spirit in your being, a wine. Grapes cannot be accumulated, they are temporary, momentary. But wine can stay forever. In fact, the older it becomes the more precious and valuable it is. It has a nontemporal duration, it is something of eternity.
The body is like the grapes, and if you use it rightly you can create the wine in you. The body is going to disappear, but the wine can remain, the spirit can remain.
Jesus has done many miracles. One of the miracles is his miracle of transforming water into wine. These are metaphors – don’t take them literally. If you take them literally, you destroy their meaning, their significance. And if you start proving that they are historical facts, then you are stupid, and with you Jesus also looks stupid. They are metaphors of the inner world.
(Excerpt: Osho, I Say Unto You, Vol 1, 1977)