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Four Varnas explained

Posted on 2nd October 2022 | Comments Off on Four Varnas explained

*भोग यानी शुद्र (देह)*
*तृष्णा यानी वैश्य (मन)*
*संकल्प यानी क्षत्रिय (आत्मा)*
*समर्पण यानी ब्राह्मण ( परमात्मा)*

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तुम यह जानते हो कि इस देश में जो बड़े से बड़े ज्ञानी हुए–सब क्षत्रिय थे।
बुद्ध, जैनों के चौबीस तीर्थंकर, राम, कृष्ण–
सब क्षत्रिय थे! क्यों? होना चाहिए सब ब्राह्मण, मगर थे सब क्षत्रिय। क्योंकि ब्राह्मण होने के पहले क्षत्रिय होना जरूरी है।

जिसने जन्म के साथ अपने को ब्राह्मण समझ लिया, वह चूक गया। उसे पता ही नहीं चलेगा कि बात क्या है!

और जो जन्म से ही अपने को ब्राह्मण समझ लिया और सोच लिया कि पहुंच गया, क्योंकि जन्म उसका ब्राह्मण घर में हुआ है, उसे संकल्प की यात्रा करने का अवसर ही नहीं मिला, चुनौती नहीं मिली।

इस देश के महाज्ञानी क्षत्रिय थे।
हिंदुओं के अवतार, जैनों के तीर्थंकर, बौद्धों के बुद्ध–सब क्षत्रिय थे। इसके पीछे कुछ कारण है।

*सिर्फ एक परशुराम को छोड़कर, कोई ब्राह्मण अवतार नहीं है। और परशुराम बिलकुल ब्राह्मण नहीं हैं। उनसे ज्यादा क्षत्रिय आदमी कहां खोजोगे! उन्होंने क्षत्रियों से खाली कर दिया पृथ्वी को कई दफे काट–काटकर। वे काम ही जिंदगीभर काटने का करते रहे। उनका नाम ही परशुराम पड़ गया, क्योंकि वे फरसा लिए घूमते रहे। हत्या करने के लिए परशु लेकर घूमते रहे। परशु वाले राम–ऐसा उनका नाम है।*

वे क्षत्रिय ही थे। उनको भी ब्राह्मण कहना बिलकुल ठीक नहीं है, जरा भी ठीक नहीं है। उनसे बडा क्षत्रिय खोजना मुश्किल है! जिसने सारे क्षत्रियों को पृथ्वी से कई दफे मार डाला और हटा दिया, अब उससे बड़ा क्षत्रिय और कौन होगा?

संकल्प यानी क्षत्रिय..।

ऐसा समझो कि भोग यानी शूद्र। तृष्णा यानी वैश्य। संकल्प यानी क्षत्रिय। और जब संकल्प पूरा हो जाए, तभी समर्पण की संभावना है। तब समर्पण यानी ब्राह्मण।

जब तुम अपना सब कर लो, तभी तुम झुकोगे। उसी झुकने में असलियत होगी। जब तक तुम्हें लगता है मेरे किए हो जाएगा, तब तक तुम झुक नहीं सकते। तुम्हारा झुकना धोखे का होगा, झूठा होगा, मिथ्या होगा।

अपना सारा दौड़ना दौड़ लिए, अपना करना सब कर लिए और पाया कि नहीं, अंतिम चीज हाथ नहीं आती, नहीं आती, नहीं आती, चूकती चली जाती है। तब एक असहाय अवस्था में आदमी गिर पड़ता है। जब तुम घुटने टेककर प्रार्थना करते हो, तब असली प्रार्थना नहीं है। जब एक दिन ऐसा आता है कि तुम अचानक पाते हो कि घुटने टिके जा रहे हैं पृथ्वी पर। अपने टिका रहे हो–ऐसा नहीं, झुक रहे हो–ऐसा नहीं, झुके जा रहे हो। अब कोई और उपाय नहीं रहा। जिस दिन झुकना सहज फलित होता है, उस दिन समर्पण।

समर्पण यानी ब्राह्मण। समर्पण यानी ब्रह्म।
जो मिटा, उसने ब्रह्म को जाना।

*ये चारों पर्तें तुम्हारे भीतर हैं।*
यह तुम्हारे ऊपर है कि तुम किस पर ध्यान देते हो। ऐसा ही समझो कि जैसे तुम्हारे रेडियो में चार स्टेशन हैं। तुम कहां अपने रेडियो की कुंजी को लगा देते हो, किस स्टेशन पर रेडियो के कांटे को ठहरा देते हो, यह तुम पर निर्भर है।

*ये चारों तुम्हारे भीतर हैं।*
देह तुम्हारे भीतर है।
मन तुम्हारे भीतर है।
आत्मा तुम्हारे भीतर।
परमात्मा तुम्हारे भीतर।

अगर तुमने अपने ध्यान को देह पर लगा दिया, तो तुम शूद्र हो गए।

स्वभावत:, बच्चे सभी शूद्र होते हैं।
क्योंकि बच्चों से यह आशा नहीं की जा सकती कि वे देह से ज्यादा गहरे में जा सकेंगे। मगर के अगर शूद्र हों, तो अपमानजनक है। बच्चों के लिए स्वाभाविक है। अभी जिंदगी जानी नहीं, तो जो पहली पर्त है, उसी को पहचानते हैं। लेकिन का अगर शूद्र की तरह मर जाए, तो निंदा-योग्य है। सब शूद्र की तरह पैदा होते हैं, लेकिन किसी को शूद्र की तरह मरने की आवश्यकता नहीं है।

अगर तुमने अपने रेडियो को वैश्य के स्टेशन पर लगा दिया; तुमने अपने ध्यान को वासना-तृष्णा में लगा दिया, लोभ में लगा दिया, तो तुम वैश्य हो जाओगे।

तुमने अगर अपने ध्यान को संकल्प पर लगा दिया, तो क्षत्रिय हो जाओगे।

*तुमने अपने ध्यान को अगर समर्पण में डुबा दिया, तो तुम ब्राह्मण हो जाओगे।*

~ ओशो
ऐस धम्मो सनतनो–
प्रवचन-118

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What is GOD ??

Posted on 21st June 2021 | Comments Off on What is GOD ??

What is God?

God is not a person. That is one of the greatest misunderstandings, and it has prevailed so long that it has become almost a fact. Even if a lie is repeated continuously for centuries it is bound to appear as if it is a truth.

God is a presence, not a person. Hence all worshipping is sheer stupidity. Prayerfulness is needed, not prayer. There is nobody to pray to; there is no possibility of any dialogue between you and God. Dialogue is possible only between two persons, and God is not a person but a presence – like beauty, like joy.

God simply means godliness. It is because of this fact that Buddha denied the existence of God. He wanted to emphasize that God is a quality, an experience – like love. You cannot talk to love, you can live it. You need not create temples of love, you need not make statues of love, and bowing down to those statues will be just nonsense. And that’s what has been happening in the churches, in the temples, in the mosques.

Man has lived under this impression of God as a person, and then two calamities have happened through it. One is the so-called religious man, who thinks God is somewhere above in the sky and you have to praise him to persuade him to confer favors on you, to help you to fulfill your desires, to make your ambitions succeed, to give you the wealth of this world and of the other world. And this is sheer wastage of time and energy.

And on the opposite pole the people who saw the stupidity of it all became atheists; they started denying the existence of God. They were right in a sense, but they were also wrong. They started denying not only the personality of God, they started to deny even the experience of God.

The theist is wrong, the atheist is wrong, and man needs a new vision so that he can be freed from both the prisons.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration. Once you start looking at God as godliness there will be a radical change in your approach. Then prayer is no more valid; meditation becomes valid.

Martin Buber says prayer is a dialogue; then between you and God there is an “I-thou” relationship – the duality persists. Buddha is far closer to the truth: you simply drop all chattering of the mind, you slip out of the mind like a snake slipping out of the old skin. You become profoundly silent. There is no question of any dialogue, no question of any monologue either. Words have disappeared from your consciousness. There is no desire for which favors have to be asked, no ambition to be fulfilled.

One is now and here. In that tranquility, in that calmness, you become aware of a luminous quality to existence. Then the trees and the mountains and the rivers and the people are all surrounded with a subtle aura. They are all radiating life, and it is one life in different forms. The flowering of one existence in millions of forms, in millions of flowers.

THIS experience is God. And it is everybody’s birthright, because whether you know it or not you are already part of it. The only possibility is you may not recognize it or you may recognize it. The difference between the enlightened person and the unenlightened person is not of quality – they both are absolutely alike. There is only one small difference: that the enlightened person is aware; he recognizes the ultimate pervading the whole, permeating the whole, vibrating, pulsating. He recognizes the heartbeat of the universe. He recognizes that the universe is not dead, it is alive.

This aliveness is God!

The unenlightened person is asleep, asleep and full of dreams. Those dreams function as a barrier; they don’t allow him to see the truth of his own reality. And, of course, when you are not even aware of your own reality, how can you be aware of the reality of others? The first experience has to happen within you. Once you have seen the light within you will be able to see it everywhere.

God has to be freed from all concepts of personality. Personality is a prison. God has to be freed from any particular form; only then he can have all the forms. He has to be freed from any particular name so that all the names become his.

Then a person lives in prayer – he does not pray, he does not go to the temple, to the church. Wherever he sits he is prayerful, whatsoever he is doing is prayerful, and in that prayerfulness he creates his temple. He is always moving with his temple surrounding him. Wherever he sits the place becomes sacred, whatsoever he touches becomes gold. If he is silent then his silence is golden; if he speaks then his song is golden. If he is alone his aloneness is divine; if he relates then his relating is divine.

The basic, the most fundamental thing is to be aware of your own innermost core, because that is the secret of the whole existence. That’s where the Upanishads are tremendously important. They don’t talk about a God, they talk about godliness. They don t bother about prayer. their whole emphasis is on meditation.

Meditation has two parts: the beginning and the end. The beginning is called dhyana and the end is called samadhi. Dhyana is the seed, samadhi is the flowering. Dhyana means becoming aware of all workings of your mind, all the layers of your mind – your memories, your desires, your thoughts, dreams – becoming aware of all that goes on inside you.

Dhyana is awareness, and samadhi is when the awareness has become so deep, so profound, so total that it is like a fire and it consumes the whole mind and all its functionings. It consumes thoughts, desires, ambitions, hopes, dreams. It consumes the whole stuff the mind is full of.

Samadhi is the state when awareness is there, but there is nothing to be aware inside you; the witness is there, but there is nothing to be witnessed.

Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is.

It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to live it – that is the only way to know it.

~ OSHO

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Sahasrar & Samadhi

Posted on 30th September 2020 | Comments Off on Sahasrar & Samadhi

The third-eye center. At the third-eye center the right and left meet, pingala and ida meet, and become sushumna. The two hemispheres of the brain meet at the third eye; that is just between the two eyes. One eye represents the right, another eye represents the left, and it is just in the middle. These left and right brains meeting at the third eye, this is a very high synthesis. People have been capable of describing up to this point. That’s why Ramkrishna could describe up to the third eye. And when he started to talk about the final, the ultimate synthesis that happens at sahasrar, he again and again fell into silence, into samadhi. He was drowned in it; it was too much. It was floodlike; he was taken over to the ocean. He could not keep himself conscious, alert.
The ultimate synthesis happens at sahasrar, the crown chakra. Because of this sahasrar, all over the world kings, emperors, monarchs, and queens, use the crown. It has become formal, but basically it was accepted because unless your sahasrar is functioning, how can you be a monarch, how can you be a king? How can you rule people, you have not even become a ruler of yourself? In the symbol of the crown is hidden a secret. The secret is that a person who has reached to the crown center, the ultimate synthesis of his being, only he should be the king or the queen, nobody else. Only he is capable of ruling others, because he has come to rule himself. He has become a master of himself; now he can be helpful to others also.
Really, when you achieve to sahasrar, A crown flowers within you, a one-thousand-petaled lotus opens. No crown can be compared with it, but then it became just A symbol. And the symbol has existed all over the world. That simply shows that everywhere people became alert and aware in one way or other of the ultimate synthesis in the sahasrar. Jews use the skullcap; it is exactly on the sahasrar. Hindus allow a bunch of hair, they call it choti, the peak, to grow exactly on the spot where the sahasrar is or has to be. There are a few Christian societies which shave just that part of the head. When a Master blesses a disciple, he puts his hand on the sahasrar. And if the disciple is really receptive, surrendered, he will suddenly feel an upsurge of energy, running from the sex center to the sahasrar.
Sometimes when I touch your head and you suddenly become sexual don’t be afraid, don’t shrink back, because that is how it should be. The energy is at the sex center. It starts uncoiling itself. You become afraid, you shrink, you repress it — What is happening? And becoming sexual at the feet of your Master seems to be a little awkward, embarrassing. It is not. Allow it, let it be, and soon you will see it has passed the first center and the second and, if you are surrendered, within a second the energy is moving at the sahasrar and you will have a feeling of a new opening within you. That’s why a disciple is supposed to bow his head down, so the Master can touch the head.
The last synthesis is of object and subject, the outer and inner, again. In a sexual orgasm outer and inner meet, but momentarily. In sahasrar they meet permanently. That’s why I say one has to travel from sex to samadhi. In sex ninety-nine percent is sex, one percent is sahasrar; in sahasrar ninety-nine percent is sahasrar, one percent is sex. Both are joined they are bridged, by deep currents of energy. So if you have enjoyed sex, don’t make your abode there. Sex is just a glimpse of sahasrar. Sahasrar is going to deliver a thousandfold, a millionfold, a bliss to you, benediction to you.
The outer and the inner meet, I and thou meet, man and woman meet, yin and yang meet; and the meeting is absolute. Then there is no parting, then there is no divorce.
This is called yoga. Yoga means the meeting of the two into one. In Christianity mystics have called it UNIO MYSTICA; that is the exact translation of yoga. UNIO MYSTICA: the mysterious union. At the sahasrar the alpha and the omega meet, the beginning and the end. The beginning is in the sex center, sex is your alpha; Samadhi is your omega. And unless alpha and omega meet, unless you have attained to this supreme union, you will remain miserable, because your destiny is that. You will remain unfulfilled. You can be fulfilled only at this highest peak of synthesis.

~ Osho

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Hate & Love !!

Posted on 13th September 2020 | Comments Off on Hate & Love !!

HATE

Hate exists in the past and the future. You cannot hate in the present – try, and you will be utterly impotent. Try it today: sit silently and hate somebody in the present, with no reference to the past or the future… You cannot do it. It cannot be done; in the very nature of things it is impossible.

Hate can exist only if you remember the past: this man did something to you yesterday – then hate is possible. Or this man is going to do something to you tomorrow – then too hate is possible. But if you don’t have any reference to the past or the future – this man has not done anything to you and he is not going to do anything to you, this man is just sitting there – how can you hate? But you can love.

Love needs no reference – that’s the beauty of love and the freedom of love. Hate is a bondage. Hate is imprisonment – imposed by you upon yourself. And hate creates hate, hate provokes hate. If you hate somebody you are creating hate in that person’s heart for yourself. And the whole world exists in hate, in destructiveness, in violence, in jealousy, in competitiveness. People are at each other’s throats either in reality, actuality, in action, or at least in their minds; in their thoughts, everybody is murdering, killing. That’s why we have created a hell out of this beautiful earth – which could have become a paradise.

Love comes from you for no reason at all. It is your outpouring bliss, it is your sharing of your heart. Sharing for sharing’s sake, for no other motive.

Your love is nothing but the other side of hate. Hence, your love has reference: somebody has been beautiful to you yesterday, he was so nice that you feel great love for him. This is not love; this is the other side of hate – the reference proves it. Or somebody is going to be nice to you tomorrow: the way he smiled at you, the way he talked to you, the way he invited you to his house tomorrow – he is going to be loving to you. And great love arises.

This is not the love buddhas talk about. This is hate disguised as love – that’s why your love can turn into hate any moment. Scratch a person just a little bit, and the love disappears and hate arises. It is not even skin-deep. Even so-called great lovers are continuously fighting, continuously at each other’s throats – nagging, destructive.

Become silent, thoughtless, conscious, alert, aware, awake – this is how light is brought in. And the moment you are alert, aware, hate will not be found. Try to hate somebody consciously and you will find it impossible. Either consciousness disappears, then you can hate; or if you are conscious, hate disappears. They can’t exist together. There is no coexistence possible: light and darkness cannot exist together – because darkness is nothing but the absence of light.

If you are MEDITATING then it becomes more and more difficult to hate. You cannot hate even your enemies; you will feel a deep compassion. So everything else is going perfectly right – just drop this idea that love may turn into hate.

Love while love is there. And when the hate comes, if you cannot manage to avoid it, then hate! But hate totally and intensely and you will still be following me, because my teaching is for totality and intensity.

My message of love is of that love which is capable of absorbing hate and transforming it. What is important is that if you hate, hate with awareness. If you love, love with awareness.

If hate arises for someone or against someone, or love arises for someone, what do we do? We project it on the person. If you feel hate toward me, you forget yourself completely in your hate; only I become your object. If you feel love toward me, you forget yourself completely; only I become the object.

You project your love or hate or whatsoever upon me. You forget completely the inner center of your being; the other becomes the center.

When hate arises or love arises, or any mood for or against anyone, do not project it on the person in question. Remember, you are the source of it.

~ Osho

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Looking & Seeing !

Posted on 9th February 2017 | Comments Off on Looking & Seeing !

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOOKING AND SEEING?

THERE IS a great difference. Looking means you are looking for something; you have already some idea to look for. You come here and you say, “I am looking for Teertha” — then you have an idea. Then you look all around for where Teertha is. The idea is there already. Looking is already prejudiced. If you are looking for God, you will never find Him — because looking means you have a certain idea already of who God is. And your idea is bound to be either Christian or Judaic or Hindu or Mohammedan. Your idea is going to be your concept — and your concept can never be higher than you. And your concept is bound to be your concept. Your concept is bound to be rooted in ignorance, borrowed. At the most, it is just belief; you have been conditioned for it. Then you go on looking. A person who is looking for truth will never find it, because his eyes are already corrupted, he already has a fixed concept. He is not open. If you have come to me to look for something, then you already have an idea — you will miss me. Then whatsoever I say you will interpret according to your idea and it will not be my meaning, it will be your meaning. You may find yourself agreeing with me, you may find yourself not agreeing with me — but agreeing or not agreeing is not the question at all, it is not the point at all. You have missed me. You can agree, but you are agreeing with your own idea. You say: “Yes, this man is right,” because this man fits with your idea. Your idea is right so that’s why this man is right. Or, you don’t agree because it doesn’t fit with your idea. But in both the cases your idea is more important. You will miss me. A man who is looking for something will always be missing it. Seeing is just clarity — open eyes, open mind, open heart. Not looking for something in particular; just ready and receptive. Whatsoever happens, you will remain alert, receptive, understanding. Conclusion is not there! Conclusion has to come: by your own eyes you will see — and there will be a conclusion. The conclusion is in the future. When you are seeing, the conclusion is not already there. When you are looking, the conclusion is already there. And we go on interpreting according to our ideas. Just the other night I was reading a joke: A small child is reading a pictorial book on wild life, and he becomes very intrigued with the pictures of ferocious lions. He reads whatsoever is there, but one question is not answered there so he asks his mother. He asks his mother: “Mom, what type of love-life do lions have?” The mother said, “Son, I don’t know much about Lions because all your father’s friends are Rotarians.” If you have some idea in the mind, you corrupt. Then you are not listening to what is being said — then you are listening according to yourself. Then your mind is playing an active role. When you are looking, mind is active. When you are seeing, mind is passive. That is the difference. When you are looking, mind is trying to manipulate. When you are seeing, mind is silent — just watching, available, open, with no idea in particular to enforce on reality. Seeing is nude. And you can come to truth only when you are absolutely nude; when you have discarded all clothes, all philosophies, all theologies, all religions; when you have dropped all that has been given to you; when you come empty-handed, not knowing in any way. When you come with knowledge you come already corrupted. When you come in innocence, knowing that you don’t know, then the doors are open — then you will be able to know. Only that person who has no knowledge is capable of knowing.

~ OSHO – A Sudden Clash of Thunder

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