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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_887122,0015002200000093.htm The Hindustan Times, New Delhi The mirror of consciousness THE INNER VOICE | Swami Chaitanya Keerti July 15 There's a famous story told by Mevlana Jelaludin Rumi. Once, a great emperor called the greatest artists of his time to create the ultimate throne room. He prepared two rooms, divided by a curtain. On one side sat the greatest artisans of China while on the other were the best creators from Greece. The Chinese, with their extraordinary technique and skill, created an elaborate and ornate room befitting the emperor. In the other room, the Greeks laid white marble on the floor and walls. Once the rooms were done, the emperor got a peek into them. The Chinese room was done in rich brocade, gold and finery. On the other hand,the room prepared by the Greek artists was so well polished, it reflected everything in the other room, yet remained completely empty. This story signifies the process of meditation and its ultimate realisation of truth. Polishing the marble denotes removing dust - that of thoughts and imagination related to our past - from the mirror of our consciousness. Osho says: "Your consciousness has to be cleaned, emptied, so you can become a pure mirror reflecting reality. To be able to reflect reality is to know God, who is just another name for reality." So how does one clean one's consciousness? Watch and witness whatever you do. Simply sit and watch your body, thoughts and emotions. Witness your whole being from within. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. Just pure consciousness. And once you realise this, you come in touch with your eternal life and your immortal being. Top back to overview |
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http://www.dailypioneer.com/vivacity1.asp?main_variable=RELATIONSHIPS&file_name=rela2%2Etxt&counter_img=2 Pioneer, New Delhi Main hoon na Swami Chaitanya Keerti July 12 Relationships are always a big issue in life - the only one. We spend life thinking and worrying how to relate with others, how deeply or superficially we should involve ourselves with them. We often get into all kinds of entanglements. And each relationship promises pleasure in the beginning then turns sour. Some create insecurity, others make us dependent. Some relationships appear so beautiful we don't want to lose them and become possessive. Then comes bondage leading to suffering and misery. Relationships create extreme reactions in our being - either we become possessive or start escaping. And these extreme situations are not healthy and harmonious. They have nothing much to do with love - they are weaknesses, dependence on others. They keep our mind, heart and emotions in turmoil. They are not nourishing. Love is real nourishment but it has nothing much to do with the way we relate with people. Love is a pure joy but these relationships suck our life and leave us in anguish. What is the way then? How to go beyond bondage and misery? Osho guides us: My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other but not being possessive. They will be sharing with all their joys and blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other. My vision of real humanity is of a world consisting not of families, nations or races, but individuals. He says: "Going beyond needs, demands, desires, love becomes a soft sharing, great understanding. When you understand yourself, that day you have understood whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable..." Top back to overview |
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_871374,0015002200000093.htm Hindustan Times, New Delhi The way of the Zen: Just being Swami Chaitanya Keerti July 7 Marjorie Hansen, the author of The Confident Woman uses a very interesting phrase for people in her book. She calls them Human Doings rather than Human Beings. The enlightened mystics of the East have also talked about these two categories. Doing is our karma, and being is our consciousness. From the moment we get up in the morning to the moment we hit the bed at night, we remain engaged in all kinds of doings. And when we sleep, our minds remain engaged in dreaming. Unfortunately, this divine gift of life does not get enough attention and nourishment from us. It is a rule of life that anything that gets attention from us becomes nourished. Lack of attention causes starvation. Pay attention to negativity and the negativity increases. Yes, it is important to work in life. Top back to overview |
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http://newstodaynet.com/03jul/ss1.htm News Today, Chennai Meet Satyaraj, the philosopher RADHIKA G Chennai, July 3 2004: What do Periyar and Osho have in common? While the former was a rationalist who worked among people to convince them to reject every religion, the latter, a godman preached freedom from every man-made shackle including religion. Ask actor Satyaraj and he will tell you that 'both were revolutionaries in their own way'. We know the actor in Satyaraj. But he now sounded philosophical. Satyaraj, with apparent rationalist leanings argues that the two 'wanted to break the 'chains' in the mind which links their thought process'. This was the view of Socrates, Buddha , Jesus and Krishna too, he asserts. The actor, who is known for his on-screen and off-screen wit, seems to be an avid reader of Osho. On his introduction to Osho's teachings, the actor said he had become 'hooked' to his teaching ever since he chanced upon a translated version of a book of the 'free-thinking' philosopher in Tamil sent to him by 'someone'. 'I am a BSc graduate. But when it comes to reading English, I struggle. The Tamil translation came as a blessing', he admitted. 'I started to read Osho about seven years back only because I wanted to do something wrong. I was curious to know what the godman had said as Osho's reputation as a sex godman intrigued me', the actor admitted candidly amidst laughter at a book release function at Landmark yesterday. The event was held to launch the Tamil translation of Osho's 'Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic' called 'Buddarin Vaira Suthiram'. Setting the mood jovial, Satyaraj went on to say: 'Well I was reading and reading every page with the intent of reaching 'those' pages but was still not at it thus frustrating me. After going through about 50 pages I actually forgot about sex and became interested in the book'. The rounds of humour were laced with traces of seriousness. 'We need constant awareness about unawareness.' said the actor who did not miss the occasion to take a dig at societal admiration for actors in Tamilnadu and their belief about self. According to the actor, Osho has written about 'the character of god' rather than giving a shape and appearance to God. 'I believe there is a character of God, unlike what is projected in every religion'. 'God is man made', he argues and hence 'should not be taken seriously', he adds claiming that Osho was a much misunderstood man. The Tamil translation was published by Kannadhasan Pathippagam which along with Osho Premveena Meditation Centre, Coimbatore, organised the programme. http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=90395 Top back to overview |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/757003.cms The Times of India, New Delhi Sacred Space Guru Vandana Week (OshoWorld June 28-July 3) June 29, 2004 Experience life in all possible ways - good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience...the more experience you have, the more mature you become. Ecstasy is our very nature; to be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature. Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder. All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. No dead principles can help, but only living consciousness. Be absolutely unprincipled and just follow life. You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied; something or other will remain to be changed. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect. Osho's thoughts, compiled by Swami Chaitanya Keerti Top back to overview |
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_848230,0015002200000093.htm The Hindustan Times, New Delhi Inner Voice Where does man come from? Swami Chaitanya Keerti June 25, 2004 The modern man has a deep trust in science because science more often than not tries to give some logical answers to eternal questions. Recently a genetic study found that the 13th century warrior Genghis Khan was a "prolific lover." It also found that nearly eight per cent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry Y-chromosomes that are nearly identical with that of Genghis Khan. Spiritually speaking, this report answers one question but raises many questions. Another geneticist, Spencer Wells, who claimed to have analysed DNAs of people from all over the world, concluded that all human beings have descended from a single man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago. Now, we can conclude that this man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago, must have been our own Brahma, the original source of all life in this universe. But then the question remains from where did this African come from? What was before him, so on and so forth? Another question arises that whether in the last 60,000 years enlightened beings as Lord Krishna, the Buddha, Lord Mahavira, LaoTse, Guru Nanak, Kabir among many others, descended from this African man? Science tries to demystify creation and many people believe the answers. But creation remains a mystery despite all answers. The life of a scientist, who tries to demystify creation, will also end one day. Sadly, even he doesn't know where he came from and where he will go. Does any one know? Top back to overview |
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Hindustan Times, New Delhi Inner Voice Determination opens many doors Swami Chaitanya Keerti June 15, 2004 We often say we are seeking truth or searching God and we want our life to be peaceful, content and blissful. We make efforts to attain all this but our efforts don't produce any results. We become more frustrated than before. This is all because our efforts are lukewarm and our quest has no real determination and strength. Osho once told the story of a Sufi saint, Farid. A man once asked him the way to attain God. Farid looked into his eyes and saw thirst. He was on his way to the river so he asked the man to accompany him and promised to show him the way to attain God after they'd bathed. They arrived at the river and as soon as the man plunged, Farid grabbed the man's head and pushed it down into the water with great force. The man began to struggle to free himself from Farid's grip. He was much weaker than the saint but his latent strength gradually began to stir and soon it became impossible for the saint to hold him down. The man pushed himself to the limit and was eventually able to get out of the river.. He was shocked. Farid was laughing loudly. After the man calmed down, the saint asked him, "When you were under the water what desires did you have in your mind?" He replied, "Desires! There weren't desires, there was just one desire — to get a breath of air." The saint said, "This is the secret of attaining God. This is determination. And your determination awakened all your latent powers." In a real moment of intense determination, great strength is generated — and a man can pass from the world into truth; by determination one can awaken from the dream to the truth. Top back to overview |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/724843.cms The Times of India THE SPEAKING TREE Zorba the Buddha: The Complete Man OSHO 8 June, 2004 The traditional concept of man was that of a materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral person, sinner or saint. A divided man is miserable. He is neither healthy nor whole; the other half that has been denied will go on taking revenge. It will find ways and means to overcome the part you have imposed upon yourself. You will become a battleground, there will be civil war. In the past we were unable to create real human beings; we made humanoids. A humanoid is one who looks like a human being but is utterly challenged. He has not been allowed to bloom in his totality. He is adhoora, and because he is halfis always tense; he cannot celebrate. Celebration is the fragrance of being whole. Only a fulfilled tree will flower. Man is yet to flower. The new man will be earthy and divine, worldly and other-worldly. The new man will accept his totality and he will live it without any inner division, without getting split. His god will not be opposed to the devil, his moralitywill not be opposed to immorality; he will know no opposition. He will transcend duality, he will not be schizophrenic. With the new man will come a new world, because the new man will perceive in a qualitatively different way. He will live a totally different life. He will be a mystic, poet, scientist. all at once. The moment a child grows to become whole, society starts to suffocate him, stifling and cutting him into fragments, telling him what to do and what not to do, what to be and what not to be. Losing his wholeness, he becomes guilty about his whole being. He denies much that is natural, and in that very denial he becomes uncreative. Now he will be only a fragment, and a fragment cannot dance, a fragment cannot sing. And a fragment is always suicidal because the fragment cannot know what life is. The humanoid cannot decide on his own. Others have been deciding for him — his parents, the teachers, the leaders, the priests; they have taken all his decisiveness. They decide, they order; he simply follows. The humanoid is a slave. My concept of the new man is that he will be Zorba the Greek and he will also be Gautama the Buddha. The new man will be Zorba the Buddha. He will be sensuous and spiritual — in the body, yet with a great consciousness, a great witnessing. He will be Christ and Epicurus together. Religion failed because it was too other-worldly. It neglected this world. And you cannot neglect this world; to neglect this world is to neglect your own roots. Science has failed because it neglected the other world, the inner, and you cannot neglect the flowers. Once you do that, neglect the innermost core of being, life loses all meaning. The tree needs roots, so man needs roots, and the roots can only be in the earth. The tree needs an open sky to grow, to come to great foliage and to have thousands of flowers. Then only is the tree fulfilled, then only does the tree feel significance and meaning and life becomes relevant. Religion talks only of flowers that remain philosophical, abstract; they never materialize because they are removed from earth. And science has failed because it cares only about the roots. We now need a new humanity in which religion and science become two aspects of one human being. And art will be the bridge. That’s why I say that the new man will be a mystic, a poet and a scientist. ( Compiled by Swami Chaitanya Keerti, Osho World Foundation .) Top back to overview |
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The Hindustan Times, New Delhi Inner Voice Know your being Swami Chaitanya Keerti 2 June, 2004 Those who were praising you to the skies and falling at your feet yesterday are ridiculing and lampooning you today. Those who were dying to befriend you yesterday do not want to see your face today. This always happens in the life of not only individuals but in societies and nations. This happens mainly in the East and particularly in India where emotions rule more than the reason. We make ordinary people heroes and when they fall in our eyes, we crush them to pieces. This is a love-hate relationship and we express both emotions in such way that it becomes a catharsis. When there is too much love, know well there will be eruption of hate too. Realising this phenomenon of love-hate, success-failure as two sides of the same coin, our ancient seers taught us how to deal with such situations. They brought in the dimension of witnessing consciousness, what is known in Sanskrit as sakshin. Societies, nations and races have collective consciousness or unconsciousness, but it is the individual alone who can enter into the realm of witnessing consciousness. This way, his spiritual quotient grows and his spiritual growth becomes a shining example. Lord Krishna makes Arjuna aware of this dimension on the battlefield of Mahabharta. Meditation makes us realise this, and we transcend the storm of emotions, we become what Osho calls as "watcher on the hill." This state of consciousness is serenity and bliss. Osho says: "Nothing fails like success! Failure fails, success fails. There is only one possibility, that you know your being, only that satisfies, only that never fails." Top back to overview |
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