The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 1

Talks on the Atma Pooja Upanishad

Talks given from 15/02/72 pm to 06/06/72 pm English Discourse series

1 The Tradition of the Upanishads and the Secrets of Meditation 2 Dissolution into the Cosmic 3 Desirelessness: An Opening to the Unknown 4 Desire: The Link with Life 5 A still Mind: The Door to the Divine 6 Encountering the Unconscious 7 The upward Flow of the Mind 8 The Complementariness of Opposites 9 What can Man Offer?10 The Secret of Totality 11 Light, Life and Love 12 You are responsible 13 Transcendence Through Being 14 Facing the Reality 15 Witnessing: The Base of all Techniques 16 Will or Surrender 17 Towards a Total Flowering of Consciousness 18 The Light of Awareness

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2 Dissolution into the Cosmic

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 Dissolution into the Cosmic 16 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India Question 1 OSHO, YOU SAID LAST NIGHT THAT THOSE WHO HAVE BECOME VOID, VALLEY-LIKE, DO NOT REACT BUT THEY RESPOND, AND THAT THE RESPONSES OF THESE DIFFERENT ENLIGHTENED ONES WILL BE DIFFERENT – THAT THE VALLEY WILL REECHO IN ITS OWN UNIQUE AND INDIVIDUAL WAY. NOW A QUESTION ARISES WHETHER THOSE WHO BECOME ABSOLUTELY VOID, NOTHINGNESS, STILL HAVE A PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUALITY....

3 Desirelessness: An Opening to the Unknown

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 Desirelessness: An Opening to the Unknown 17 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India SARVA KARMA NIRAAKARANAM AAWAHANAM CESSATION OF THE CAUSE OF ALL ACTIONS IS AAWAHANAM – THE INVOCATION. RELIGION is not ritual. Really, when a religion dies it becomes ritual: the dead body of a religion becomes the ritual. But everywhere ritual is to be found. If you go to find religion, you will find ritual....

4 Desire: The Link with Life

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 Desire: The Link with Life 18 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India Question 1 LAST NIGHT YOU SAID THAT DESIRES MOVE BETWEEN THE DEAD PAST AND THE IMAGINARY FUTURE. PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY THIS DEAD PAST PROVES SO DYNAMIC AND POWERFUL THAT IT COMPELS A PERSON TO FLOW INTO THE PROCESS OF ENDLESS DESIRE. HOW CAN ONE BE FREE FROM THIS DYNAMIC PAST, THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS?...

5 A still Mind: The Door to the Divine

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 A still Mind: The Door to the Divine 19 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India NISCHAL GYANAM ASANAM NON-WAVERING KNOWING IS ASANA – THE POSTURE MAN IS neither a body, nor a mind alone – he is both. Even to say that he is both is wrong in a way because body and mind are separate only as two words. Existence is one....

6 Encountering the Unconscious

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 Encountering the Unconscious 20 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India Question 1 CONSIDERING THE EXAMPLE OF SENSUAL INSTINCT, KINDLY EXPLAIN WHAT ARE THE PRACTICAL WAYS TO ENCOUNTER THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND, AND HOW CAN ONE KNOW THAT ONE HAS BECOME FREE FROM IT? THE UNCONSCIOUS is not really unconscious. Rather, it is only less conscious. So the difference between conscious and unconscious is not of polar opposites, but of degrees....

7 The upward Flow of the Mind

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 The upward Flow of the Mind 21 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India UNMANI BHAAVAH PADDYAM THE UPWARD FLOW OF THE MIND IS PADDYAM – THE WATER OF DIVINE WORSHIP. THE MIND is the bridge between matter and consciousness, between without and within, between the gross and the subtle. When I say mind is the bridge, I mean many things. Man comes to the world through mind; man comes to the body through mind; man comes to desires through mind....

8 The Complementariness of Opposites

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 The Complementariness of Opposites 22 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India Question 1 OSHO, YOU SAID LAST NIGHT THAT TO HAVE AN UPWARD FLOW OF THE MIND ONE HAS TO MAKE A CONSTANT EFFORT AGAINST PAST ANIMAL HABITS. PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN EFFORT AGAINST HABITS, AND SUPPRESSION. TRANSFORMATION of the mind is a positive effort. Suppression of the mind is negative....

9 What can Man Offer?

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 What can Man Offer? 23 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India SADAAMANSKAM ARGHYAM MIND CONSTANTLY ARROWED TOWARDS THAT IS ARGHYAM – THE OFFERING. WHAT CAN man offer? What can the offering be7 We can offer only that which belongs to us. That which does not belong cannot become an offering, and man has always offered that which does not belong to him at all....