< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Awareness: The Gateway Toward Eden 1 July 1972 pm in CHIDAGNI SWAROOPAM DHOOPAH “TO CREATE THE FIRE OF AWARENESS IN ONESELF IS DHOOP, THE INCENSE.” FOR PHILOSOPHY, many are the problems – infinite. But for religion there is only one problem, and that problem is man himself. It is not that man has problems, but man is the problem. And why is man the problem?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 I am “That” 1 August 1972 pm in SOHAM BHAVO NAMASKARAH “THE FEELING OF I AM THAT – SO-AHAM – IS THE SALUTATION.” EXISTENCE is one, or rather, Existence is oneness. Al-Hillaj Mansoor was flayed alive because he said, “I am the Beloved; I am the Divine; I am That which created the world.” Islam was totally unacquainted with this type of language....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 Questions and Answers 2 August 1972 pm in Question 1 OSHO, “SO-AHAM – I AM THAT,” OR “AHAM BRAHMASMI – I AM THE BRAHMAN,” OR “ANAL- HAK”: ALL THESE STATEMENTS SEEM TO BE THAT OF A GYANI (ONE WHO IS ON THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE). LAST NIGHT’S SUTRA SAYS: “I AM THAT – SO-AHAM – IS THE SALUTATION.” THE SECOND PART SEEMS TO BE THAT OF A BHAKTA (ONE WHO IS ON THE PATH OF DEVOTION), WHEREAS THE FIRST PART SEEMS TO BE THAT OF A GYANI....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 Breaking the Inner Monologue 3 August 1972 pm in MOUNAM STUTIHI “SILENCE IS THE PRAYER.” “SILENCE is the prayer.” By prayer we always mean a communication, something said to the Divine, but the Upanishads say that whatsoever you may say will not be prayer. Prayer is not something to be done. You cannot do it. It is not an act; it is not your doing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 Questions and Answers 4 August 1972 pm in Question 1 OSHO, LAST NIGHT YOU SAID THAT ONE CAN GROW THROUGH TOTAL ACCEPTANCE. BUT THE EAST HAS REMAINED UNDEVELOPED DUE TO THIS PRINCIPLE OF ACCEPTANCE AND CONTENTMENT, WHEREAS THE WEST HAS BECOME MORE DEVELOPED ONLY BECAUSE OF NON-ACCEPTANCE AND DISCONTENTMENT. THEREFORE, ISN’T IT OBVIOUS THAT DISCONTENTMENT AND NON-ACCEPTANCE IS THE PRINCIPLE FOR EVOLUTION AND GROWTH AND NOT TOTAL ACCEPTANCE?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 Contentment: The Dispersion of Desires 5 August 1972 pm in SARVA SANTOSHO VISARJANAMITI YA AEVAM VEDA “TOTAL CONTENTMENT IS VISARJAN, THE DISPERSION OF THE WORSHIP RITUAL. ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS SO IS AN ENLIGHTENED ONE.” TOTAL contentment is wisdom. Three things have to be understood. First, what total contentment is; second, what wisdom is, what it means to be wise, to be Enlightened, and third, why contentment is wisdom....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 Questions and Answers 6 August 1972 pm in Question 1 OSHO, YOU TOLD LAST NIGHT ABOUT THE HINDU SYSTEM OF CREATING A MUD IDOL FOR WORSHIP, AND AFTER THE WORSHIP, ABOUT ITS VISARJAN DISPERSION – INTO THE SEA OR A RIVER. THIS HAPPENS ON THE OUTER PHYSICAL PLANE. WHAT IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND INNER MEANING OF THIS OUTER RITUAL? WHAT IS IT THAT MUST BE CREATED INWARDLY?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 Experiencing: The Essence of the Hindu Mind 7 August 1972 pm in SARVA NIRAMAYA PARIPOORNOHAMASMITI MUMUKSHUNAM MOKSHAIK SIDDHIRBHAWATI “I AM THAT ABSOLUTELY PURE BRAHMAN: TO REALIZE THIS IS THE ATTAINMENT OF LIBERATION.” EXISTENCE is divided into two. Existence, as we see it, is a duality. Biologically, man is divided into two: man and woman, ontologically, Existence is divided into mind and matter....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Questions and Answers 8 August 1972 pm in Question 1 OSHO, WHY HAVE WE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CREATE A SOCIETY WHICH COMBINES BOTH POLARITIES – PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY, SCIENCE AND RELIGION? IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OF THE TOTAL MEETING OF THESE POLARITIES? WHICH LAND IS MORE FERTILE FOR THIS MEETING – EAST OR WEST? IS THIS MEETING POSSIBLE ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL, OR CAN IT EXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE SOCIETY ALSO?...

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 18 Questions and Answers 9 August 1972 pm in OSHO, IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT RELIGION IS A SEARCH FOR TRUTH. BUT ONE NIGHT YOU SAID THAT WHILE THE GREEK MIND, THE SCIENTIFICALLY INCLINED MIND, SOUGHT TRUTH, THE EASTERN MIND, THE RELIGIOUS MIND, HAS Moksha, OR FREEDOM, AS ITS OBJECT OF SEARCH. BUT YOU HAVE ALSO SAID IN THE PAST THAT IT IS TRUTH ALONE THAT LIBERATES....