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Volume: 1 Issue II APRIL 2008
CONTENTS
Taoshobuddha at the shrine of Naqshbandi
Hazrat Mazhar Mir Jane Jana, New Delhi, India 2
Life is to learn from… 2
When you sit silently… 2
Editorial 3
Spiritual Commandment 3 – 4
Why is Meditation Necessary? 5 – 7
Though Meditation begins…. 7
Tulsidas – Composer of Ramcharitmanas 7 – 10
Dynamic Meditation—Techniques of Meditation 10 – 12
Taoshobuddha Responds 13 – 14
Ek Omkar Satnam—Songs of Nanak 15 – 17
What is Commune? 17 – 18
From Chaos to Cosmos Via… 18 – 20
Laughter – The way of Meditation 20
Hanuman Chalisa – A Mystical Dimension 21 – 22
ENLIGHTENMENT: THE ULTIMTE FLOWERING
(March 21st OSHO ENLIGHTENMENT DAY) 23 – 25
Upcoming Events 26
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TAOSHOBUDDHA
AT THE SHRINE OF
NAQSHBANDI MASTER
HAZRAT MAZHAR MIR JANE JANA,
NEW DELHI, INDIA
Jan, 2008
EDITORIAL TEAM:
SWAMI DHARAM BODH; SUFI LAKSHMI SAHAI;
PT. MAHENDRA NATH MAHARAJ; PT. GAJENDRA KUMAR;
SWAMI SUDHAMA
Swami Anand Neelambar Lord Hanuman also appeared in this month and so we give
an insight into “Hanuman Chalisa – A Mystical Dimension”
an upcoming publication.
We hope you find something of interest that resonates with your inner being. If not, then we
hope the next issue will offer what you are seeking. We welcome your comments and
suggestions.
SPIRITUAL COMMANDMENTS
1. CONSCIOUS BREATHING (Hosh dar dam)
"Always safeguard your breath from heedlessness, the in‐coming and outgoing both. Be
aware of your in‐coming and out‐going breath. Buddha introduced Vipashyana or Anapana
Sati Yoga meditation to create inner sun of awareness. Conscious breathing leads to
Awakening. And AWAKENING IS THE KEY TO MEDITATION. Be centered in your heart and
thereby keeping your heart always in the Divine Presence. Let each breath be soaked
meditatively in the REMEMBRANCE of that which is. Remember for every breath which is
inhaled and exhaled consciously with Presence is alive and connected with the Divine
Presence. And each breath inhaled and exhaled unconsciously is dead, disconnected from
the Divine Presence."
Ubaidullah al‐Ahrar, A NAQSHBANDI SUFI Master said, "The most important mission for
the seeker in this Order is to safeguard his breath, and he who cannot safeguard his breath,
it would be said of him, 'he lost himself.'"
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Shah Bahauddin Naqshband, another Enlightened Naqshbandi Master said, "This Order is
built on breath. So it is a must for everyone to safeguard his breath in the time of his
inhalation and exhalation and further, to safeguard his breath in the interval between the
inhalation and exhalation."
Safeguarding your breath from heedlessness will lead you to complete Presence. And
complete Presence will lead you to complete Vision! Complete Vision will lead you to
complete Manifestation of the Ultimate. Or what Sufis call as Allah's Ninety‐Nine Names
and Attributes! Or what Hindus call as thousand names of VISHNU. Such awareness leads
you to ULTIMATE FLOWERING OF YOUR BEING.
Existence manifests in myriad forms. The entire existence is the extension of that cosmic
energy. It is god that blossoms as flowers. It is the existence that is the cause of all that is
manifest and all that is unmanifest. Sufis say Allah leads you to the Manifestation of His
Ninety‐Nine Names and Attributes and all His other Attributes, because it is said, "Allah's
Attributes are as numerous as the breaths of human beings." Isa Upanishad says that
divinity is manifest and spread over the entire existence. Be aware of this. Life will unfold a
new meaning.
Remember that securing the breath from heedlessness is difficult for seekers in the
beginning. Therefore always, as Sufis say safeguard it by seeking forgiveness (istighfar)
because seeking forgiveness will purify it and sanctify it and prepare the seeker for the Real
Manifestation of Allah everywhere.
I say to you, BE AWARE AND AWAKE each moment. Never let even a single action happen
unconsciously. You can be aware of your in‐coming and out‐going breath through practice.
For this, practice Vipashyana Meditation given by Buddha. It is basically breath watching
meditation. You need not do any ritual. The breath comes in and goes out effortlessly. All
you need to do is be aware of this. Be a witness as the breath comes in and then goes out. In
the beginning it will be hard. But as you continue you will get the knack of it. Remember
meditation is a knack. Unlike other disciplines it cannot be taught. All a master can do is to
create an energy field so that you can get the pulse or the knack of it.
(SHIVA explained 112 techniques of meditation based on breathing and awareness in a
5000 years old treatise on meditation: VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA and Buddha gave a
breathing technique meditation to create an inner sun of awakening)
Links:
¾ MEDITATION TECHNIQUES; MEDITATION THE WAY TO SELF REALIZATION BY
TAOSHOBUDDHA STERLING PUBLISHERS 2008:
¾ OSHO. COM (MEDITATIONS)
SEND A QUERY ON http//www.taoshobuddhameditations.com
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2. ALWAYS CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY
Each moment life presents different situations, circumstances and conditions. Certain are
acceptable to human understanding while others are not. In all circumstances you choose
to be unhappy. And to human understanding while others are not. In all circumstances you
choose to be unhappy. And slowly and slowly this becomes your musculature. And your
entire life centers on this unhappiness.
To be happy is your choice and right. To be happy is a conscious choice only you can make.
But in all situations you choose to be unhappy. Remember a happy heart is the door to the
beyond, or door to the inner, or door to the being. You tend to be happy or unhappy
because of the other or the circumstances. No one chooses to be happy for no reason. A
happy heart is filled with gratitude towards the WHOLE. To be happy is the greatest
blessing. It unfolds a totally new unknown and unknowable realm.
One Sufi Naqshbandi master Shakuntala Devi, always used to bless any one bowing to her
by saying “BE ALWAYS HAPPY”. If you really decipher these simple words, these will
manifest a totally new realm. When a master says something, the seeker needs to
introspect on these words. The master can never be wrong or unconscious. The very fact
that he or she is a master implies now something has changed within. A master may look
like you, but in reality he differs in his understanding of the cosmic phenomena and
awareness. None of his actions are ever guided by unconscious. Even when he moves his
hands he is totally aware of this.
Let this be your meditation each moment. A new meaning will unfold in life. Serenity,
blessedness will engulf you. Only then it can be said that you are living in the image of a
master. Then something of the master, his awareness, his understanding, will be part of you
as blessing.
…continued in NEXT ISSUE
WHY IS MEDITATION NECESSARY?
Meditation is necessary to bring harmony both within and without.
Meditation is to be in harmony.
Man has lost himself. In fact, he has lost his harmony. As a result he is in constant conflict.
He is pulled apart in different directions simultaneously. He is not one. He is many. And to
be many is to be in a non‐meditative state, while not to be many is to be in Meditation.
When there remains only one, and when even this one is no longer there, then it is a state
of non‐duality. Two are there no more. Many have disappeared. And with many, also
disappears one. One can exist only amongst the many. Man is ordinarily a crowd. In the
absence of integration man is no more a self. He is fragmented. He is not together. No more
one piece! Meditation is therefore necessary, to be in one piece. And when you are one
piece you are in peace. You are blissful! In the process of transformation first this harmony
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has to be attained within and then consciously allow this to extend outside. When you
attain the vision of oneness, you will act accordingly, even in the outside world. For
instance, for a child to be born, first it has to be conceived. Then it will go through the
entire process of growth within the womb and at the right time the child will be born. But if
you are pretending to be pregnant by keeping a pillow under your clothes, you may look
pregnant, but since the change has not happened within, you cannot deliver the baby. So
too, first the experience of harmony has to happen within and then as it evolves within
harmony it will start appearing in the outer world surrounding you! First man becomes a
harmony and then he has to start pulsating with the greater harmony of the existence.
STEPS IN MEDITATION
Thus, there are two steps in meditation. The first step is not to be in conflict within you.
And thus will not allow any conflict and split to happen any longer within! Do not allow
things like, mind fighting with body; reason fighting with feelings; and feeling fighting with
sexuality. Have you not observed a continuous fight going on? Without any gap or break it
continues.
With such things going on, you cannot be happy. Unless these warring elements embrace
one another within, stop warring, fall in love with one another, or dissolve into one
another, there is no possibility of happiness. In such a case, happiness will remain a hope
never fulfilled. Happiness is the shadow of harmony. Happiness or bliss follows harmony.
There is no other way to be happy. Unless you are in harmony, you can go on striving for
happiness; in return you will get only frustration and misery. Just as a shadow follows you
wherever you go, so too happiness will follow you when you are in total harmony!
The first step in this process happens within you. And when you have become one pulse
without any division, one wave of energy with no antagonism, with no distinction of lower
and higher, without any choice, no evaluation, no judgment, when you are simply one, then
happens the second step. When you are one, you can see oneness. The eyes get clear then.
When you are one, you will immediately see the oneness around. Now you know the
language of one. The language of duality or many has vanished. Novice is no more.
Madhouse is no more. The nightmare is no more. You are silent. In such a silence you begin
to dissolve, bit by bit into the vastness of the existence. Also you can fall in tune with the
pulse of the universe and the cosmos. This is the second step of meditation.
The first step is difficult compared to the second. The second is not so difficult. The first
step requires a great effort on your part. The second is so simple that it happens on its own
accord. The first is like a blind man being operated upon to get his vision. The second is
after the operation is over; the man is waiting for the moment when the bandage will be
removed and he will be able to open his eyes. And as soon as he opens his eyes, he sees the
light and the world of light and also millions of joys around him full of color, light, beauty,
and form.
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The first step needs effort. The second happens effortlessly. The first step is like yoga. The
second is like Zen. Or in modern parallel, the first is like Gurdjieff and the second is more
like Krishnamurti. That is why Osho calls Zen as pinnacle. Yoga is the beginning and Zen is
the end in Meditation. Or you can say Yoga is Alpha and Zen is Omega of Meditation.
When you are one and suddenly you see this oneness outside, all barriers vanish. No more I
and Thou. Then there is only God or Truth or Samadhi or you may call this as Nirvana. Zen
calls this state as Sonoma or Konomama. This is pure ish‐ness, such‐ness, or as Buddha
calls Thathata. One simply is. One is not doing anything. No more thinking! One is not
feeling anything. One simply is. This ish‐ness is the ultimate experience of bliss. Beyond this
there is nothing. To arrive at this ish‐ness is the eternal search of every being.
Reprint: MEDITATION THE WAY TO SELF REALIZATION by TAOSHOBUDDHAREF: SECTION 4
WHAT IS MEDITATION? CH: WHAT IS MEDITATION?
Though meditation begins in the mind, it is not real Meditation.
Begin with the mind. One day you will attain meditation.
When the mind ceases, You are beyond it;
Only then real meditation begins.
Even to go beyond the mind you have to use the mind itself;
TULSIDAS–COMPOSEROF
However, use the mind negatively.
You will certainly attain meditation
TULSI DAS – COMPOSER OFRAMCHARITMANAS
Portrayal of Sri Rama. The word Manas refers to Lake and also
the mind. Thus the portrayal of Rama is like a lake. Also it
implies the portrayal of Rama that is inscribed on the mind of
human beings. Ramcharitmanas is, therefore an epic devoted to
Rama. This work is still very popular among Hindus. It will
continue to inspire humanity till the mountains remain and
rivers flow, along the path to self development.
Goswami Tulsidas (1532‐1623) is a saint, and a medieval Hindi
poet. He is more recognized as a social reformer through his
works. He was born in Rajapur, India in the district of Banda in
Uttar Pradesh. He was married to Ratnavali.
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Tulsidas was a Saryuparina Brahmin by birth and is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki,
the author of Ramayana written in Sanskrit. Tulsidas wrote twelve books and is considered
the greatest and most famous of Hindi poets. The most famous book is his Ramayana –
Ramcharitmanas – in Avadhi. This Ramayana is read and worshipped with great reverence
in every Hindu home in Northern India. For that matter world over where Hindus are. It is
an inspiring book that contains sweet couplets in beautiful rhyme. Vinaya Patrika is
another important book written by Tulsidas.
His father’s name was Atma Ram Sukal Dube; that of his mother is said to have been Hulasi.
A legend relates that, having been born under an unlucky conjunction of the stars, he was
abandoned in infancy by his parents, and was adopted by a wandering ascetic, with whom
he visited many holy places in the length and breadth of India; and the story is in part
supported by passages in his poems. It is also said when he was born he had all teeth and
spoke the word Ram. This prompted his name to be Rambola, one who spoke Ram. He
studied, apparently after having rejoined his family, at Sukarkhet, a place generally
identified with Sor in the Etah district of the Uttar Pradesh, but more probably the same as
Varahakshetra, 30 miles west of Ajodhya (Ajodhya) (Varahakshetra and Sukar‐khet have
the same meaning; Vardha Skara, a wild boar). He married in his father’s lifetime and had a
son. His wife's name is Ratnavali. She is the daughter of Dina Bandhu Pathak, and had a
brother named Tarak. Tarak died at an early age. And Tulsi's wife, who was devoted to the
worship of Rama, left her husband and returned to her father’s house to occupy her with
religion. Tulsidas followed her, and did his best to convince her to return to him, but in
vain; she reproached him (in verses which have been preserved) with want of faith in
Rama. With the words of Ratna Tulsi Das was hurt. These words prompted him to renounce
the world.
Thus he entered an ascetic life. A TRANSFORMATION that has made Tulsi ETERNAL in
every Hindu heart!
Tulsi spent much of his time in wandering as a preacher of the necessity of a loving faith in
Rama. He first made Ajodhya his headquarters, frequently visiting distant places of
pilgrimage in different parts of India. During his residence at Ajodhya the Lord Rama is said
to have appeared to him in a dream, and to have commanded him to write a Ramayana in
the language used by the common people. He began this work in the year 1574, and had
finished the third book, when differences with the Vairagi Vaishnavas at Ayodhya, to whom
he had attached himself, led him to migrate to Benares, where he settled at Asighat. Here
he left the physical body to enter eternity in 1623, during the reign of the emperor Jahangir,
at the age of 91. The period of his greatest activity as an author synchronized with the
latter half of the reign of Akbar (1556‐1605), and the first portion of that of Jahangir.
Akbar's finance minister, the celebrated Raja Todar Mall was his attached friend. So was
Abdul Rahim Khankhana, another celebrated Jewel of Emperor Akbar. Tulsi Das is said to
have been resorted to, as a venerated teacher, by Maharaja Man Singh of Jaipur (d. 1618),
his brother Jagat Singh, and other powerful princes; and it appears to be certain that his
great fame and influence as a religious leader, which remain pre‐eminent to this day, were
fully established during his lifetime.
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Tulsi’s great poem, popularly called Tulslkrit Ramayana, but named by its author
Ramcharitmanas, the Lake of Rama's deeds, is perhaps better known among Hindus in
upper India than the Bible among the rustic population in England. Its verses are
everywhere, in this region, popular proverbs; an apt quotation from them by a stranger has
an immediate effect in producing interest and confidence in the listeners. As with the Bible
and Shakespeare, his phrases have passed into the common speech, and are used by
everyone (even in Urdu language) without being conscious of their origin. Not only are his
sayings proverbial: his doctrine actually forms the most powerful religious influence in
present day Hinduism; and, though he founded no school and was never known as a guru
or master, but professed himself the humble follower of his teacher, Narhari‐Das, from
whom as a boy in Sokar‐khet he heard the tale of Rama's doings, he is everywhere accepted
as an inspired and authoritative guide in religion and conduct of life. Narhari‐Das was the
sixth in spiritual descent from Ramanand, the founder of popular Vaishnavism in northern
India.
Ramcharitmanas as a poem is a representation of the great theme of Valmiki. However, in
no sense is a translation of the Sanskrit epic. The succession of events is of course generally
the same, but the treatment is entirely different. The episodes introduced in the course of
the story are for the most part dissimilar. Wherever Valmiki has condensed, Tulsi Das has
expanded, and wherever the sage poet has lingered longest, there his successor has
hastened on most rapidly. It consists of seven books, of which the first two, entitled
Childhood and Ayodhya, make up more than half the work. The second book, Ayodha Kand
is that most admired. The tale tells of King Dasarath’s court, the birth and boyhood of Rama
and his brethren, his marriage with Sita, daughter of Janak king of Mithila, his voluntary
exile, the result of Kaikyi's guile and Dasarath’s rash vow, the dwelling together of Rama
and Sita in the great central Indian forest, her abduction by Ravan, the expedition to Lanka
and the overthrow of the ravisher, and the life at Ayodhya after the return of the reunited
pair. It is written in pure Baiswari or Eastern Hindi, in stanzas called chaupais, broken by
dohas or couplets, with an occasional Sortha and Chhand ‐ the latter a hurrying metre of
many rhymes and alliterations.
Its style varies with each subject. There is the deep pathos of the scene in which describes
Rama's farewell to his mother; the rugged language depicting the horrors of the battlefield ‐
a torrent of harsh sounds clashing against each other and reverberating from phrase to
phrase; and, as occasion requires, a sententious, aphoristic method of narrative, teeming
with similes drawn from nature herself, and not from the traditions of the schools. His
characters, too, live and move with all the dignity of a heroic age. Each is a real being, with a
well‐defined personality.
Rama, perhaps too perfect to enlist all our sympathies; his impetuous and loving brother
Lakshman; the tender, constant Bharat; Sita, the ideal of an Indian wife and mother; Ravan,
destined to failure, and fighting with all his demon force against his destiny the Satan of the
epic. All these are characters as lifelike and distinct as any in occidental literature.
A manuscript of the Ayodhya‐Kand is said to be in the poets own hand, exists at Rajpur in
Banda, his reputed birthplace. One of the Balkand dated Sambat 1661, nineteen years
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before the poet's death, and carefully corrected, it is alleged by Tulsi Das himself, is at
Ajodhya. Another autograph is reported to be preserved at Malihabad in the Lucknow
district, a city well known for the best and a very large variety of Mangoes. However, this
remains so far as unknown to many. Besides the Lake of Rama's deeds, Tulsi Das was the
author of five longer and six shorter works, most of them dealing with the theme of Rama,
his doings, and devotion to him. These are
1. The Dohabali, consisting of, 573 miscellaneous Dohas and Sorathas.
2. The Kabitia Ramayana or Kabittbali, which is a history of Rama in the kabitta.
3. The Krishndohawali or Krishna gitabali, a collection of 61 songs in honor of Krishna,
in the Kanauji dialect of Hindi. However the authenticity of this is doubtful.
4. The Vinaya Patrika, or Book of petitions, a series of hymns and prayers of which the
first 43 are addressed to the lower gods, forming Rama's court and attendants, and
the remainder, Nos. 44 to 279, to Rama himself.
Tulsi’s doctrine is derived from Ramanuja through Ramanand. Like Ramanuja he believes
in a supreme personal God, who possesses all gracious qualities. Tulsi’s Rama is not the
impersonal Brahman of Sankaracharya. Tulsi’s Lord assumed for Himself the human form,
and became incarnate, for the blessing of mankind, as Rama. The Lord is to be approached
by faith (Trust), devotion (Bhakti) and surrender of self the Totality of love. Also Tulsi
emphasized that all actions are to be purified of self‐interest in Meditation of Him. Show
love to all creatures, and you will not only be happy but attain to Bliss as well. The soul is
from the Lord, and is submitted in this life to the bondage of action (karma). Man, in his
obstinacy, keeps binding himself to actions.
DYNAMIC MEDITATION
DYNAMIC MEDITATION IS AN ACTIVE MEDITATION. THROUGH CHAOTIC BREATHING IT
LEADS FROM INTENSE BODY ACTIVITY TO A STATE OF TOTAL NON‐DOING. OUT OF
STRONG NECESSITY FOR HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS THIS TECHNIQUE WAS EVOLVED.
DURATION: 60 Minutes Morning (preferably before 11 am): 21 Days
…continued from March Issue
This technique was developed by a Buddha of this century – Osho for the erring humanity
and for the transformation of human consciousness. Man is neurotic. And it is not the
question of one or two or even a few; men are neurotic. So it is the question of the entire
humanity. This neurosis is considered normal. This neurosis has come in you since birth. In
fact you were born neurotic. This you will have to understand. You have to understand the
causes that make you neurotic. This neurosis is inborn. There are certain reasons for this.
The first reason is that man is the only creature who is not fully evolved at the time of birth.
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Every child is born immature. The child is helpless. Without the mother, family, and parents
the child cannot survive. Except man, all animals are born mature. Scientists say that nine
months are not enough for evolution. It takes almost eighteen months for a child to be
mature. And no mother can carry the child in her womb for that long. Thus, growth is
aborted. This is because man alone stands on his two feet. And the human womb is not
made for this erect posture. This immaturity gives a neurotic beginning.
These cathartic meditations use breathing to hammer your inner unconsciousness. These
techniques accept your present neurotic state. And thus by accepting it, attempts to bring
inner harmony, wholeness, blissfulness, and thus a celebration. From intense action these
lead to non‐action. Dynamic Meditation is an active meditation. Through chaotic breathing
it leads from intense body activity to a state of total non‐doing. Out of strong necessity for
human consciousness this technique was evolved. This takes into account all three types of
persons: the body‐oriented, the heart‐oriented, and the mind‐oriented. It starts with
intense body activity. It starts with deep chaotic breathing at the body level, moving to the
emotions at the heart level and finally takes you to the stillness and the silence of ‘no‐mind’
consciousness by working through the mental blocks.
You may not have observed your breathing. It is special in many ways. Your body operates
on voluntary and non‐voluntary systems. You can move your hand voluntarily. But you
cannot affect your blood circulation. This is non‐voluntary. The human body is made of
these two systems. You can do something with this to hammer the inner neurotic state by
changing your breathing patterns. Remember your breathing changes with the emotions.
This is the devise used in Dynamic Meditation. You can change the rhythm and even stop
breathing for a few seconds, but breathing cannot be stopped completely. Breathing is the
link between your voluntary and non‐voluntary systems. Thus, by changing your breathing
many things can change. When you observe your breathing minutely, you can become
aware of many things. With anger the breathing rhythm is different. Love brings another
rhythm of breathing. Rhythm is different during relaxation. Your breathing gets fast when
you are sexually aroused. Breathing is therefore related to your mental frame. Dynamic
meditation begins with chaotic breathing. This creates a chaos within your inner repressed
system. A child breathes differently! And when the child becomes sexually aware breathing
again changes! If you are sexually afraid you cannot breathe deeply. Breathing hammers
your sex center. In fear you breathe shallow. Thus, chaotic breathing destroys all your past
conditionings and patterns. This creates chaos within. Without such chaos, repressed
emotions that have now moved to your body cannot be released.
The meditation proceeds in five stages; each is supported by a specific music. The first
stage is that of life and be released. The meditation proceeds in five stages; each is
supported by a specific music. The first stage is that of life and death. The second stage
represents the negative mind. The third stage represents the positive mind. The fourth
stage is that of neutral or transcendental mind or no‐mind. And the last stage refers to free‐
flowing consciousness.
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DYNAMIC MEDITATION TECHNIQUE:
STAGE ONE: 10 MINUTES
CHAOTIC BREATHING – THE LIFE AND DEATH PHASE
Start with ten minutes of chaotic breathing. This breathing is not PRANAYAMA or yogic
breathing. It is deep and fast. It gives you more oxygen. With this you become more alive
and animal like. You are animal like again. Only then something higher can develop within.
Breathe as fast as you can. Be total. Cooperate with the body. Allow it to do whatever it
wants.
STAGE TWO: 10 MINUTES
THE CATHARSIS – THE NEGATIVE MIND
This is total cooperation with the energy of the body that breathing has created. Total let
go. Just allow whatever is happening. Do not suppress anything. Do whatever you like:
weeping, laughing, dancing, screaming, jumping, shaking, or anything else. Just be a witness
to all that is happening within.
STAGE THREE: 10 MINUTES
THE POSITIVE MIND
For the next ten minutes raise your hands above the head. Go on jumping up and down as
you continue the sound hoo‐hoo. As you jump, land hard on your soul; the sound hoo‐hoo is
forced deep into the sex center. Exhaust yourself completely.
For the next ten minutes raise your hands above the head. Go on jumping up and down as
you continue the sound hoo‐hoo. As you jump, land hard on your soul; the sound hoo‐hoo is
forced deep into the sex center. Exhaust yourself completely.
STAGE FOUR: 15 MINUTES
THE FREEZE OR TOTAL STOP – THE NEUTRAL MIND
With the sound STOP at the end of the third stage, just freeze totally in this stage. Just
remain in whatever position you are. Just stop! Freeze! No movement! When you freeze,
the energy thus generated goes to your system. Breathing has awakened the energy,
cleansed through catharsis, and then raised through the Sufi sound ‘hoo.’ Now allow it to
work deeply within you. Energy needs movement. So if you do not throw it out, it will begin
to work within.
STAGE FIVE: 15 MINUTES
THE DANCE OF CELEBRATION OR FLOWING CONSCIOUSNESS
For fifteen minutes go on dancing a dance of celebration; a dance of thanksgiving for bliss
you have experienced. Do these techniques, as a meditation every morning, for at least
three weeks before you experience something. It is only after three weeks that things will
start settling and your consciousness will move deeper. You can continue this meditation
for three months. The meditation lasts for 60 minutes. It has music to support. Each stage
begins with a different pattern of Music!
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The music CD is available worldwide at Osho Centers and Bookstores that carry Osho
books and literature.
TAOSHOBUDDHA RESPONDS:
Someone asked, Buddha said, “LOVE YOURSELF” Please explain this statement. First let me
rephrase the statement. Never say Buddha said. Always say, Buddha is reported to have
said. This is a profound statement. Yet still it is quite contrary to what has been taught and
you know generally. Something about, Buddha’s way of communication! For forty years
Buddha sermoned. Every day he will come out. Monks gather. And Buddha will begin the
sermon. This continued for forty years. But the system of recording is not what we have
now. Whatever Buddha spoke was heard by Anand and then it was reported.
There was a conference after Buddha took Mahasamadhi among the monks to authenticate
the message of Buddha. It was then Anand who authenticated the message. This is why we
say Buddha is reported to have said. The person is reporting what he has heard. It cannot
be said if this is the statement of Buddha. Yet indeed it is the statement of Buddha. The
reporting instrument does not have any inertia of its own. The instrument is purified.
“Love yourself”, is a profound statement of Buddha. However, all cultures, all traditions, all
civilizations, all churches (various places of worship) teach and propagate just the
opposite. What is propagated, implies, love others, but not yourself. What an insane
statement? A statement full of cunningness, and a strategy! It seems these people have
forgotten the essence of love. Love is an unseen but realized Truth. Love is the nourishment
for soul. Just as food nourishes the body, so too love nourishes soul. Human body cannot
survive without food, so too soul cannot exist without the fragrance of love. When I say
love, I do not mean the counterfeit that is being sold in the name of love. It seems no state,
no church; no vested interest has ever wanted people to have such strong, healthy, and
loving soul.
Remember a person with healthy soul is a perennial reservoir of spiritual energy. Also
remember such a person is alive really. And one who is overflowing with this energy is
bound to be rebellious. All masters, and those who have known truth are rebellious, be he
Jesus, Mohammed, Kabir, Nanak, Lau Tzu, Buddha, Mahabir, Bodhidharma or anyone else.
Love transforms you. Love nourishes you. Love is revolutionary. Love gives you wings to
soar high. Love gives. Love transforms you. Love nourishes you. Love is revolutionary. Love
gives you wings to soar high. Love gives you insight into things and beings. Love is an
understanding. Understanding of oneness! Understanding of a synergetic harmony!! And
once you have such an understanding no one can ever deceive you! Exploit you! Or oppress
you then! Love is Total Freedom. But this is not what you know as love.
The whole society and its systems make you spiritually weak. And for this they have found
a way. The way is not to allow you to love yourself. Remember if you cannot love yourself,
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you will not be able to love anyone else. So their teaching is to love others. Such people are
cunning. Somehow they know if you are not allowed to love yourself, then how can you
love others. So they go on saying and propagating love others, love humanity, love god, love
nature, love your wife, love your children, love your wife, and love your parents. Love
everyone else but yourself. To such people loving yourself is selfishness. Alike anything else
they condemn and criticize self‐love. Remember without this experience life is
meaningless.
These people are so cunning that you can never know the whole strategy. Their arguments
are very logical. If you love yourself, you are bound to be selfish. This leads to egoism. You
are then egoistic. It is said, if you love yourself you are bound to be narcissistic. But in
reality it is not true. When you begin to love yourself, ego dissolves. It is by loving others
you get the impression that you are a great lover. When you begin to love others without
loving yourself ego is born and as you continue to love others ego continues to grow. All
missionaries, all social reformers, all social servants have the greatest ego. It is so because
they think themselves to be superior to others. They no longer belong to the ordinary. It is
said that only ordinary people love themselves. And the great people love others. They love
god! They love higher ideals. In reality when you begin to love yourself, this is beginning.
This is the first step towards the real love. By loving yourself you have thrown a pebble into
the tranquil water of your being. The first, circular ripples will arise around the pebble.
Certainly very close to the pebble these ripples will arise. Where else can these ripples
arise? Once these ripples are there, these begin to spread to the shore. The farthest shore of
your being! If you stop these ripples arising very close to the pebble, there will be no more
ripples. And when the ripples are not there will be nothing to reach to the farthest shore.
But all your politicians and priests know this, so they propagate not to love yourself. And
thus they go on destroying your capacity to love. So what the world thinks and understands
as love is counterfeit, really pseudo. It may be duty but in no way love. Really for me duty is
a four letter world. Everyone seems to be fulfilling their duties. Parents are fulfilling their
duties towards their children, and expect in return children will love them. Wife is duty
bound towards the husband so is the husband. But where is the love.
Love is not duty bound. Love knows no duty. Duty is bondage love is freedom. Duty is a
formality. Love is joy. Love is not duty bound. Love knows no duty. Duty is bondage love is
freedom. Duty is a formality. Love is joy. Love is blessing. Love is sharing. Love is informal.
Love never feels fulfilled. Love is fulfillment unto itself. Love is the flowering of your being.
One who knows the fragrance of love never feels that he has done enough. Love continues
like an unfinished process. Love feels obliged the other has accepted the overflow of love.
Love feels elated that the other has not rejected it.
Only this much for now! Just as love remains unfinished so too this overflow is unfinished! I
have only created a thirst in you for more of Taoshobuddha responses – his being, his
presence with you.
….to be continued
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EK OMKAR SATNAM:
SONGS OF NANAK – JAPUJI
ek‐omkār saṯ nām karṯā purakẖ nirbẖa‐o nirvair akāl
mūraṯ ajūnī saibẖaʼn guru parsāḏ.
Nanak got silent. Same time amidst the dark stillness of the night a bird papeeha echoed the
sound PIHU PIHU…. Nanak drew the attention of his mother towards this sound, and said
mother are you listening to the sound of this bird. This bird is not asleep as yet. Its song –
the Clarian call continues. The bird continued the lament of separation with its beloved. I
am in competition with this bird. It is calling to its beloved. Then how can I be silent. I will
continue to sing as long as this bird continues to call. Its beloved is close by. But my beloved
is far. Even if I continue for lives only then I can reach. In love one does not count days. And
thus Nanak continued singing. Nanak reached to the Ultimate through singing. Nanak’s path
is full of songs. Nanak’s search is unique. Remember Nanak did no Yoga! No Tap! No
Dhyana! Nanak simply sang. And thus attained to oneness with the Ultimate! Nanak sang
with so much totality that his song became dhyana (meditation). Song became Yoga! Also
song became tap or austerities. An ecstatic Kabir sings:
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SURAT KALARI MATVARI MADHWA PEE GAYEE BIN TAULE!
NANAK IS ONE WHO DRANK THE MYSTICAL WINE TO IMMEASURABLE QUANTUM!
Nanak continued to sing the rest of the life. Such songs are not the songs of an ordinary
singer. These are the songs of one who has known Truth. These songs echo the ultimate
experience of Truth or Oneness. These songs reflect the very Being of Parmatma or God or
rab as Nanak calls Him. Having drunk Nanak is now overflowing that which cannot be put
into words. Only an enchanting heart can feel Nanak and His ENERGY FIELD. The energy of
Nanak cannot be destroyed by any means. Only an Enchanting heart can become a medium
of communion.
NOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE BIRTH OF JAPUJI:
The dark night of rainy season I spoke of earlier, and then Nanak was about 16‐17 years
old. When Japu Ji was born Nanak was 36years, 6 months and 15 days old. The night that I
spoke of earlier Nanak was an aspirant. That night he was in search of his beloved. Search
has just begun. The call for the beloved is continuing— PIHU, PIHU… The bird was still
calling. Union had not yet happened. The flower has not yet blossomed. But the bud has its
beauty fragrance and aura.
WHENEVER AN INDIVIDUAL DOES ANY ACT WITH SO MUCH TOTALITY,
THAT ALONE BECOMES THE PATH. ANYTHING DONE HALFWAY! BE IT MEDITATION,
CANNOT LEAD TO ULTIMATE FLOWERING!! IF YOU SING WITH YOUR WHOLE BEING! DANCE
TOTALLY! CERTAINLY YOU WILL REACH. IT MATTERS NOT WHATYOU DO? WHAT REALLY
MATTERS HOW YOU DO? THE QUESTION IS OF YOUR TOTALITY.
JUST AS ATOM CANNOT BE DESTROYED
SO CONSCIOUSNESS CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED!!!
SCIENTISTS HAVE HARNESSED ATOMIC ENERGY ONLY FOR DESTRUCTIVE PURPOSES SO FAR!
BUT NANAK HAS HARNESSED THE ENERGY FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS
FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN BEING! FEEL IT! BE IT!!!
NANAK’S EFFORT IS THE BIRTH OF A NEW MAN OUT OF YOU! THE INTEGRATED,
HARMONIZED, AND BLISSFUL!!! ONE WHO LIVES LIFE BEYOND DUALITY!!!
JAPUJI is the announcement of Nanak’s union with God. The bird is now united with its
beloved. The lament of PIHU, PIHU is over now. After this solemn union with his beloved
JAPUJI is Nanak message. Nanak’s compassion overflows through JAPUJI. Japuji is the Being
of Nanak. Japuji is the Fragrance of Nanak. Therefore, in the message of Nanak JAPUJI
occupies a very significant place. Most sublime of Nanak’s message is Japuji. Japuji is the
most authentic, sublime, and the recent message from the UNKNOWN AND UNKNOWABLE.
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JAPUJI is the first words that overflowed through Nanak after the Union with his beloved.
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE BIRTH OF JAPUJI? In the darkness of the night! On the
bank of the river! Nanak was sitting till late in the night along with his disciple and
attendant Mardana. All of a sudden Nanak took off his clothes. Without a single word Nanak
entered the river. Mardana followed. And kept on asking, what are you doing? Night is cold
and dark. Far he went in the river. Nanak took a dive. Mardana thought in a few moments
Nanak will come out. Nanak did not come out of the river. For five to ten minutes Mardana
waited. Then he started searching for Nanak. He started calling. Then he started sprinting
along the shore. Where are you? Response! Mardana felt as if each wave is responding.
Have patience! Wait a little longer! But there was no trace of Nanak. Mardana ran to the
village. Midnight he woke up every one. Crowd gathered. Everyone loved Nanak dearly.
People saw a rare possibility in Nanak. A possibility of blossoming! In the presence of
Nanak everyone felt a different aura. A new fragrance! Flower has not yet blossomed! Yet
still the bud has its beauty! And fragrance too! Entire village started crying. People
gathered. They searched the entire river. But found no trace of Nanak. Three days passed. It
was accepted either Nanak drowned or some animal has eaten Nanak. It was accepted that
Nanak died. There seemed to be no possibility of Nanak coming back. Sudden demise of
Nanak was accepted.
Suddenly then three days after Nanak appeared from the river. As Nanak appeared JAPUJI
is first message. Nanak made this announcement. Such is the story. I say a story! A story
means, it is true and not true at the same time. It indicates truth. And it is not true because
it indicates in symbols. And deeper the message is, one has to search for deeper and more
subtle symbols.
When Nanak disappeared in the river for three days, the story says Nanak appeared in
front of his beloved – God. Nanak experienced Totality. He came face to face with God.
Found his beloved in front of his eyes. One whom Nanak called day and night through his
songs found in front of his eyes. For whom all his songs were addressed! One who was his
heart beat! One who was the cause of his existence! Found right in front of his eyes! Nanak
is fulfilled. God said, “Now you go back. All that I have bestowed upon you, Share the same
with people.” Returning from this communion, JAPUJI is the offering of Nanak.
….TO BE CONTINUED
WHAT IS COMMUNE?
The word was first coined by Buddha. He called commune as SANGHA. It implies where
initiates have dropped their Egos and is no more functioning as separate islands or
personalities. All personalities and identities are dissolved in a commune. Then is born
your individuality! Communication between heads is replaced by the COMMUNION of the
HEART. When ever so many hearts open, many flowers blossom! Fragrance is released.
This fragrance that surrounds a Buddha is the fragrance or the energy of the BEING. You
may call this as BUDDHAFIELD.
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If someone has attained to his Flowering, a COMMUNE is bound to happen. It cannot be
prevented. All those who are thirsty will start moving towards This FLOWERING of a
BUDDHA. Just like when a flower blossoms the magnetic pull of the fragrance attracts many
bees. Only the bees! No dog will ever be attracted to this magnetic pull of a flower.
A BUDDHA AND A COMMUNE EXISTS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SENSITIVITY,
PERCEPTION, THE AVAILABILITY, THE SEARCH, AND OPENNESS. MANY WILL PASS BUT
WILL MISS THE BUDDHA AND THE COMMUNE. WHEN MANY INDIVIDUALS WITH DEEP
SEARCH AND THE OPENNESS ARE COMPLETELY DISSOLVED AND MERGED INTO ONE
ANOTHER! THERE ARISES A COMMUNE, A BUDDHAFIELD, AND A SANGHA!!!
FROM CHAOS TO COSMOS VIA…
Chaos refers to a state of disturbance and disorder. And cosmos refers to a state of order,
rhythm, awareness, and harmony. The word cosmos was coined by Greek Mystic and
Mathematician Pythagoras. He has contributed tremendously to human growth and
evolution. But he is generally known as a mathematician alone. His vision of cosmos
became the basis for all scientific investigations and research. Remember science can exist
only because the existence is Cosmos. And religion is the science of the inner.
So too religiousness can exist only if there is cosmos within. Do not imagine how the
cosmos can be within. Cosmos means harmony, rhythm and awareness. If there exists
chaos within, there will be no religiousness. Only there will be pseudo religion on the
surface. And deep within a chaos, disorder, and misery! If for instance law continues to
change every day ‐ one day water evaporates at 100 degree, another day at 200 degree,
thus if water functions due to this disorder in a whimsical way without any order how can
there be science.
When you look at man, you will find he lives in this whimsical manner without any inner
order. That is why there are so many religions, churches, wars, crimes but there exists no
TRUE RELIGIOUSNESS. Such a state is referred to as CHAOS. Remember this chaos does not
exist outside. Instead, it exists within. Man has not attained to his inner flowering or
Enlightenment, but he continues to preach and thus leads others into a state of chaos. In the
name of religion and meditation counterfeit are circulating. Everything has become a game
of EGO.
If you look within you will find Chaos, and Conditioning. And because of this you cannot
look within and live in the present moment of Eternity. You continue to swing from the
dead past to unborn future. Thus you keep yourself occupied in every possible way so that
there is no time left to look within. You keep on listening to Buddhas unconsciously, who
say look within. You do not know the process of looking within. Reality exists within, but
you make no effort to look within and coping with darkness that exists within. Inside there
is chaos. And outside exists rhythm and harmony. Stars are moving in a pattern. Why this
chaos does exist within then? And one wonders where does this come from? The root of all
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problems and chaos is in your mind. SO it is important to understand what is mind. Of what
stuff is this mind made of?
One wonders whether mind is an entity or simply a process. What is its nature? Is it
substantial or its nature is dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of your mind you
will not be able to solve any problem or attain to the state of Harmony and Bliss. You may
try to solve a single individual problem. You are bound to fail. Because mind is the only
problem! You may go on cutting the branches or pruning the leaves but it is not going to
help. New branches and leaves continue to grow. You are to uproot the tree. Unless you
know how to do it all your efforts are bound to fail. Mind is hidden problem and the cause
of CHAOS. You can see for yourself what I am talking about.
Mind is hidden problem and the cause of CHAOS. You can see for yourself what I am talking
about. Mind is never clear. Its nature is that of confusion. Clarity is possible only without
mind. Peace will happen without the mind. And you will never come across anything like
mind. Mind is a process. Mind is a crowd. Thoughts together give you an illusion that mind
exists. Mind is a crowd of millions of thoughts standing together. Is there anything like
crowd? In crowd can you find anything other than individuals? No you cannot? So too is the
case with your mind. In mind you will find thoughts but not the mind.
This is the first insight into the mind. Watch and you will find uninterrupted stream of
thoughts alone. But you will not find the mind anywhere. Constant flow of thoughts
condition the mind! This results in chaos and constant turmoil. And whatever chaos you
see outside is all your creation, and a projection of your own conditioning.
Your life will remain chaotic unless you drop all conditionings and attain to a state of NO
MIND. How???
Mind is chaos!!! A constant flow of thoughts!!! Start watching the thoughts! After one
thought there is a gap! Each thought has to be separated from the other. Deeper you go, you
will notice more gaps. If you become more aware, you will see more gaps. If you really
become aware you can only see gaps. In such gaps you will experience the first SATORI. The
state of NO‐MIND! Satori is a window to the unknown! It is the beginning. No—Mind is
cosmos. But you have become identified with the mind and your conditioning as a Hindu,
Christian, Muslim, and a Jew etc., and the dead past hovering on your shoulder and the
unborn future as a projection of your unfulfilled past echoing hopes in you. Present is
existential. It is not the part of the mind. It is absolute harmony. To live in the present
moment needs courage. And to be religious simply means to live in the present moment.
Remember being in harmony with this you grow in trust. Bliss and peace will overflow.
There is no other way to be religious neither by chanting scriptures unconsciously, nor by
believing in any saviour or anything else.
Remember past is no more. The future is not yet. Both are non‐existential. This is the
conditioned chaotic mind given to you by your family and the so‐called religions. All the
religious teachers talk of non‐existential. This is the way to keep you slave and be in the
business. Out of these arise memories of the dead past, imaginations, desires, hopes and
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hallucinations. Only in the presence of a Master, in a Buddha field you can gather courage to
face your inner chaos. In the beginning this is a state of breakdown. But as you continue
consciously and courageously soon there comes a breakthrough.
To move from this breakdown to breakthrough is the whole function of a Master. For this
he creates a Commune of Energy as a Buddha field. Thus transformation from chaos to
cosmos happens. This is the function of a commune. Alone you may not move from your
present state. A commune is a place where many are behind you and many ahead of you
and there is a Master who exists like a DAWN of NEW AWAKENING. He goes on calling. His
clarion call lingers;
Listen to me O traveller on the path.
As you are now I was ever!
As I am now you will be one day!
A little waiting is necessary!
A little more patience!!
Then all of sudden a miracle happens. You are totally AWAKE. Your chaos has transformed
into cosmos. You are an orchestra. Noise has become music. Suddenly all unconsciousness
transforms into consciousness. Madness is transformed into BUDDHAHOOD or
ENLIGHTENMENT. The spring has come. So new foliage are in the garden! Buds start
opening. Inner flowering begins to happen. A new fragrance wafts! Thousand flowers
blossom. All fears disappear. You are courageous to enter the UNKNOWN and thus the
UNKNOWABLE. Trust happens. And then UMMMM!!!!
LAUGHTER THE WAY OF TRANSFORMATION
Masters have used jokes as a devise to transcend the energy from mind to heart. Whenever
a joke is given you cannot remain in the mind. Naturally you burst into laughter. As you
begin to laugh your solar plexus center gets activated with the constant hammering at this
existential center. Remember through this center and the umbilical cord you have been
connected to your mother as an infant during the pregnancy. Meditation establishes this
connection between you – the finite being and the cosmic being.
Unlike the tradition the Sufi Master Raghuber Dayal used this devise for the transformation
of human consciousness. Another Sufi Master Idrish Shah developed a character in MULLA
NASURIDDIN to create humor among the aspirants and thus bring about transformation.
Another mystic Osho has used jokes as an important devise for this. It is worth considering.
It is significant. The first thing to understand is that except for man, no animal is capable of
laughter. So laughter shows a very high peak in the evolution of life. Laughter is meditation
and a way to transformation. For this your laughter has to be spontaneous. Laughter is one
pole of this meditation. The other poles are crying and silence.
…. to be continued
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Hanuman Chalisa
A Mystical Dimension
Hanuman represents the sojourn from mortal
consciousness into divine awakening. The Hanuman
Chalisa is indeed a mystical treatise on the evolution
from mind into no-mind. Hanuman Chalisa shows
the way of transformation from ego-centricity to
becoming a nimitta – an instrument of divinity.
Tulsi Dasa the composer of this magnanimous “song
in praise of Hanuman” reveals the inner mysteries for
climbing the ladder of the chakras to attain the
highest realization and self transformation. As he
also was transformed using the same method.
Jaya Hanuman gyaana guna saagara
Jaya Kapeesha tihun loka ujaagara
Victory to Hanuman, ocean of wisdom and virtue,
Hail Monkey Lord, illuminator of the three worlds.
The Chalisa opens with a chant of victory to
Hanuman for attaining a state of total surrender
to the divine will. Jaya Hanuman! It continues
with a description that Hanuman is Gyan Guna
Sagar ‐ A vast ocean of wisdom and virtue. Tulsi
Cover of Hanuman Chalisa Dasa then praises Hanuman as Kapisha – Lord of
A Mystical Dimension the monkeys. But in Vedanta monkey is symbolic
of mind hence Kapisha is master of the wavering
mind. Tihun Loka literally refers to the three
worlds but actually symbolizes the three states of
waking, dreaming and deep sleep. Ujaagara means to enlighten/awaken thus refers to the
forth state or turiya.
The mystical interpretation is:
Salutations to the one who has attained to realization and transcendence!
And thus filled with wisdom and compassion!
Salutations to the one who is awakened
and conquered the mind and three states of waking dream and deep sleep!
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Raama doota atulita bala dhaamaa
Anjani putra Pavana suta naamaa
You are the emissary of Lord Rama,
the abode of incomparable strength,
the son of Anjani,
and also called ‘son of the wind god.’
Rama doota means one who is an instrument of the Divine. One who is a hollow reed in
the hands on the Divine. One who merely resonates the eternal echoes from the Beyond.
One who has attained transcendence and becomes divine as well, thus functions as a
medium to relay the ‘whispers from the unknown’.
Atulita is used as the instrument has no personality of its own hence it cannot be
compared to anything. The instrument is totally dissolved into the Divine.
Bala is limitless strength. It means energy coming from the infinite source and not coming
from the muscles or an intellectual prowess.
Dhaamaa means one who is a repository for the transmissions of the Divine. It is really a
connection with the Divine from which flows unlimited energy and true power. Dhaamaa
can be compared to a satellite radio station which merely transmits whatever is being
broadcast from the main hub.
Anjani putra is really a paradox. Anjani means unborn, causeless. The birth of Hanuman is
similar to that of Sita. They both come into existence without a source. Putra is an offspring
or child that delivers one from the lower realms into the higher realms. One who ascends
from the lower chakras and moves up the higher psycho‐spiritual centres.
Pavana suta means not having a direction of its own. Egoless. Just coming and going as a
prophet of the Divine. It appears from nowhere and disappears into the horizon without a
map or trace. Like the clouds in the infinite sky. With no cause it comes into being and then
dissolves like burning camphor.
Naamaa is the same as Guru Nanak’s “eka omkar sat naam”. It means the existential
source from which everything comes into being yet having no cause of its own.
The mystical interpretation:
An instrument of the Divine that resonates the eternal message.
A repository of infinite energy.
The unborn harbinger that is known as the cause of its own existence.
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ENLIGHTENMENT: THE ULTIMTE FLOWERING:
(MARCH 21st – OSHO ENLIGHTENMENT DAY)
It is one of the most significant moments in the life of man, when he feels that he has run
out of ambitions and is simply waiting, not knowing for what. This is the moment when
enlightenment is nearest. Enlightenment is not a goal. It is not there, far away, that you
have to reach to it. You cannot make an ambition of enlightenment: that is the sure way to
miss it. Enlightenment happens in this gap, when all your ambitions are finished, you don’t
know what to do, where to go. In this silence – because there is no turmoil of desire, no
hankering for ambition – enlightenment happens of its own accord. It is a by‐product, not a
goal. And that’s why you are feeling sad,
unfulfilled; although all the ambitions are
finished... why should one feel unfulfilled? There
must be something in life which is not part of
the ambitious mind, without which one cannot
feel fulfilled. You can fulfill all your desires, all
your ambitions – still you will feel unfulfilled.
Thus continues the process. The cessation of
this process is ENLIGHTENMENT.
In fact you will feel unfulfilled more than those
who are still running after desires, because at
least for them there is hope that tomorrow they
will reach the goal. Today may be empty, but the
illusion, the hallucination of tomorrow keeps today in a certain way hidden from them. But
now for you there is nothing which can hide your reality. You are unfulfilled. So one
fundamental thing is very clear: that even if all the ambitions are fulfilled, man is not
fulfilled! There is something which is not an ambition, and unless you achieve it – and it is
not an achievement – unless it happens to you, the unfulfillment will make you sad. And
thus will continue the perpetual cycle.
This situation happens to very fortunate people; otherwise everybody is running after
desires, and there are so many things in life to do. There is no time to feel unfulfillment;
there is no time to feel sadness. The hope for tomorrow dispels all sadness. But now you
don’t have any hope for tomorrow. Only today is with you, and it is good that you are
waiting, not knowing for what. If you are waiting knowingly for something, that is desire,
then the mind is playing a game with you. If you are simply waiting, you have come to the
end of the road. There is nowhere to go, what can you do except wait? But wait for what? If
you can answer, “I am waiting for this or that”, you will miss enlightenment. Then your
waiting is not pure. Then it is not simply waiting. If you can be clear about it, that it is a
pure waiting which is not addressed to anything, to any object, it is the right situation in
which enlightenment happens. So you are in a beautiful state, unaware of it, because pure
waiting and sadness... one cannot see what is beautiful about it. Only the awakened ones
can see what is beautiful about it. This is the situation in which, as a by‐product, you wake
up. Otherwise life remains a spiritual sleep. All desires and ambitions are nothing but
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dreams in this sleep. So Chuang Tzu, one of the most absurd but one of the most significant
mystics, has a beautiful parable.
One morning he wakes up very sad. His disciples ask him what has happened. He said,
“Something has happened, and I don't think any of you will be of any help – but still I will
tell you; you can try to help me. “In the night I dreamed that I have become a butterfly.”
They all laughed. They said, “There is no need to worry about it. It was only a dream.”
Chuang Tzu said, “First listen to the whole thing, that is only the half part. Now I am awake,
and wondering perhaps if the butterfly has gone to sleep and is dreaming that he is Chuang
Tzu. My problem is whether I am Chuang Tzu who dreamed to be a butterfly, or I am a
butterfly who is dreaming to be Chuang Tzu.” They all fell silent. Logically there seems to be
no way. Chuang Tzu’s chief disciple, Lieh Tzu, was out. As he came in people were sitting
sadly, the master was sitting sadly. He enquired of a disciple, “What is the matter? What has
happened?” The disciple told him the story; he said, “Don't be worried, I will put him right.”
And he went close to him and threw a bucket full of cold water into his eyes. And Chuang
Tzu said, “That’s perfectly right, that’s the answer. But if you were not here.... Today I was
lost. Now I know that I am Chuang Tzu; you need not bring another bucket, the water is too
cold.” Lieh Tzu said, “When I am out you should not do any such thing. These people don't
understand you. They were all puzzled, and they were all sad that their master is sad, and
all that is needed is cold water so you wake up, whoever you are – a butterfly or Chuang
Tzu does not matter – wake up! From any point, either from being a butterfly or from being
a Chuang Tzu! All that is needed is WAKE UP! Who cares who you are? We care... your
wakefulness that is our concern.” Sadness, a deep unfulfillment, ordinarily will not look
something glorious, not something to be proud of, but I say to you that it is something to be
proud of. Just remain in your sadness. Don’t try to change it into something else. Remain in
your waiting – don’t try to give it an object. A pure waiting attracts the ultimate experience
we call enlightenment to it. One has not to go to enlightenment as a goal. Enlightenment
comes to you when you are ripe, and this is the kind of ripeness which is necessary.
In the West it is happening to many people, but they do not know, because in the West Lieh
Tzu has not entered yet. They are sad, in deep anguish; they are drowning themselves in
alcohol, in drugs, in perverted sexualities – they are trying to forget their sadness in all
kinds of things. They are trying to find ways somehow to make an object for their waiting.
Perhaps they may become religious, and they may start looking for God; but remember, all
those who are waiting for God are waiting for Godot. I used to think that Godot must be a
German word ‐‐ it sounds German. It hits like a German word. I used to think it must be
German for God and that was exactly the message in the book WAITING FOR GODOT.
Nobody has seen Godot, nobody knows about him. Two persons are waiting, but just to
wait for nothing is the most difficult thing in the world. So they have imagined themselves...
and they have helped each other, and one says to the other, “I think he must be coming.” He
says, “I also think. It is already late.” And nobody knows about whom they are talking, but
nobody wants to bring up the question, “About whom you are talking?" – Because they are
both afraid that if the question is raised then their wound will be opened, that there is only
waiting and it is for no one, and it will be very sad. So it is good. And they go on talking...
“This is not right, this is not gentlemanly – promising and then not coming.” And finally one
gets up and says, “I am fed up with this waiting. I am going to look for him – where is he?
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What is preventing him from coming?” The other says, “Where are you going, leaving me
alone here? I am also coming with you.”
The whole dialogue starts with no base, but they both get engaged in it. So I thought it can
only be God. I asked my German sannyasin, the oldest German sannyasin, Haridas, “Is
‘Godot’ the German word for God?" He said, “No! The German word for God is ‘Gott’.” I said,
“Even better – already got! No question of waiting. In Godot there is some possibility to
wait. God is a faraway goal, but Gott...?” Only Germans have got it. Nobody else has the guts
to say that. A few will become religious and start waiting for Gott. A few may start
philosophizing, that life is meaningless, that life is nothing but anguish, that it is nausea.
And the beauty is that Jean‐Paul Sartre, who was continuously saying, ‘Life is meaningless,
just anxiety, anguish, nausea” – he also wrote a book titled NAUSEA – he lived long. Then
why go on living if life is just nausea ‐‐ to write a book about it? If it is meaningless to argue
about it! To get a Nobel Prize for it! That reminds me of Zeno, one Greek philosopher, a very
sharp logician. He has left puzzles which have not been solved in two thousand years. And I
don't think there is any way to solve them. The man has a tremendous mind for looking at
things in such a way that he will find puzzles everywhere. And he preached before Jean‐
Paul Sartre, two thousand years before him, that life is meaningless, but he was more
logical. He said, “Suicide is the only logical conclusion.” Many of his disciples committed
suicide, and he himself lived for ninety years! And when he was dying, somebody asked,
“This is strange. You preach suicide and many of your closest followers have committed
suicide when they were young, and you have lived to ninety.” And in those days to live to
ninety was very rare. “What is your answer?" He said, “I had to live, to preach my
philosophy, to teach people that life is nothing, and the only way out is to commit suicide. It
was such a burden, but a duty has to be fulfilled. I could not commit suicide, because that
would have been destructive to my philosophy and its propagation.” He is saying he lived
just to teach people that they should commit suicide. Many intelligent people are
committing suicide. Those who cannot gather courage to commit suicide go mad. Either
there are drugs or madness or suicide or a superstitious religion and creating a bogus idea
of God far away, just to give you something to wait for; otherwise it seems like an open
wound, and there is no way for it to be healed. Jay, what I am saying is totally different from
what is happening in the West. What I am saying is what has happened in the East in the
past ten thousand years, whenever a man has come to such a point that all ambitions are
useless ‐‐ he has lived them, and found that it was not worth it; he reached the goal that he
wanted and then found that there was nothing to be found, that it was only a hallucination,
an oasis that looked to be real from far away – but as he came closer and closer, it
disappeared, and there was only desert. The East has used it in a different way. Not a single
philosopher has preached for suicide. Not a single man in this state has gone mad, or has
turned towards drugs. But for centuries it has been accepted as the most potential moment
in life. If you can just wait, without waiting for anything; just wait – pure waiting.... Let the
sadness be there, let the unfulfillment be there – they cannot stop your enlightenment. Only
one thing can stop your enlightenment, and that is if you make some object for your
waiting. If the waiting is pure, enlightenment is going to happen, and with its happening
there is fulfillment, and there is great rejoicing and life has come to its flowering.
The Transmission of the Lamp # 15 Osho
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