Becoming one with Eternity
May 24th
A great learned brahmin came to me, we were speaking generally for sometimes and the discussion switched to god and then realisation.
I put forward my understanding of realisation as “realisation never comes as a desire, it is without it. God is not but God is”. The man became very furious and started to argue that god is there and he can prove it in many ways, even told that he had seen it as a divine energy.
I asked him if he can see it as a divine energy, then what is he? isn’t he not a speck of that divine energy? If he is a speck then how can the energy be seen separately?
He became very angry and said, look I have learnt so many vedas, upanished,bible and quron and he can prove it and challenged me.
I said, I do not know anything so I am a looser.Now I challenged him that he is a winner if he comes to a stage where he also do not know anything like me. The man never answered and went away
Knowledge is illusion, it creates all kind of illusions, god or whatever we call it as is beyond imagination, it is the reality, it is now and here.
Anyone who has experienced god will never tell how it is, if told then he becomes a observer different from the observed. If only the observer and the observed are one then he is that.
Thus any religious script will be just pointing finger to the moon, it just points, we have to see the moon not the finger. We have to be what Jesus says and not what he is, we have to be Krishna and not worship krishna, we have to be allah and not worship allah. I am pretty sure that if Krishna, Jesus and allah are here, they will kick the people who starts to worship them. All they wanted people is to become what they have become, not to worship them.
Worshipping disappears when we became one with the eternity, after becoming one, what is there to worship? How can your eye see your own self?
A great learned brahmin came to me, we were speaking generally for sometimes and the discussion switched to god and then realisation. I put forward my understanding of realisation as “realisation never comes as a desire, it is without it. God is not but God is”. The man became very furious and started to argue that god is there and he can prove it in many ways, even told that he had seen it as a divine energy. I asked him if he can see it as a divine energy, then what is he? isn’t he not a speck of that divine energy? If he is a speck then how can the energy be seen separately?He became very angry and said, look I have learnt so many vedas, upanished,bible and quron and he can prove it and challenged me. I said, I do not know anything so I am a looser.Now I challenged him that he is a winner if he comes to a stage where he also do not know anything like me. The man never answered and went awayKnowledge is illusion, it creates all kind of illusions, god or whatever we call it as is beyond imagination, it is the reality, it is now and here.Anyone who has experienced god will never tell how it is, if told then he becomes a observer different from the observed. If only the observer and the observed are one then he is that. Thus any religious script will be just pointing finger to the moon,we have to see the moon not the finger. We have to be what Jesus says and not a worshipper of him, we have to be Krishna and not worshipper of krishna, we have to be allah and not worshipper of Allah. I am pretty sure that if Krishna, Jesus and Muhammad are here, they will kick the people who worship them. All they wanted people is to become what they have become, not to worship them. Worshipping disappears when we became one with the eternity, after becoming one, what is there to worship?
Classified Secrets of life
May 19th
No Love
The following is to be understood clearly by every human being, specially by people in India.
From Osho on Tantra Vision Volume 2:
Sex energy is life energy; it is uncontrollable. And the politician and the priest are not interested in you, they are interested in channelising your energy into certain other directions. So there is a certain mechanism behind it – it has to be understood.
Sex repression, tabooing sex, is the very foundation of human slavery. And man cannot be free unless sex is free. Man cannot be REALLY free unless his sex energy is allowed natural growth.
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The first is: Keep man as weak as possible if you want to dominate him. If The priest wants to dominate you or the politician wants to dominate you, you have to be kept as weak as possible. Yes, in certain cases, exceptions are allowed that is, when the services of fighting our enemy are needed, only then otherwise not. The army is allowed many things which other people are not allowed. The army is in the service of death; it is allowed to be powerful. It is allowed to remain as powerful as possible: it is needed to kill the enemy.
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By the time you are eighteen you are at the peak of your sexual energy, your love energy. By the time you get married twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven… and the age has been going up and up. The more cultured a country, the more you wait, because more has to be learnt, the job has to be found – this and that. By the time you get married you are almost declining in your powers. Then you love, but the love never becomes really hot, it never comes to the point where people evaporate; it remains lukewarm. And when you have not been able to love totally, you cannot love your children because you don’t know how. When you have not been able to know the peaks of it, how can you teach your children? How can you help your children to have the peaks of it? So down the ages man has been denied love so that he should remain weak. Second: Keep man as ignorant and deluded as possible so that he can easily be deceived. And
if you want to create a sort of idiocy – which is a must for the priest and the politician and their conspiracy – then the best thing is not to allow man to move into love freely. Without love a man’s intelligence falls low. Have you not watched it? When you fall in love, suddenly all your capacities are at their peak, at their crescendo. Just a moment ago you were looking dull, and then you met your woman… and suddenly a great joy has erupted in your being: you are aflame. While people are in love, they perform at their maximum. When love disappears or when love is not there, they perform at their minimum. The greatest, most intelligent people are the most sexual people. This has to be understood, because love energy is basically intelligence. If you cannot love, you are somehow closed, cold; you cannot flow. While in love one flows. While in love, one feels so confident that one can touch the stars. That’s why a woman becomes a great inspiration, a man becomes a great inspiration. When a woman is loved, she becomes more beautiful IMMEDIATELY, instantly! Just a moment ago she was just an ordinary woman, and love has showered upon her – she is bathed in a totally new energy, a new aura arises around her. She walks more gracefully – a dance has come to her step. Her eyes have tremendous beauty now, her face glows: she is luminous. And the same happens to the man.
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Tantra says: This life is the only life. The other life is hidden in THIS life. It is not against it, it is not away from it; it is IN it. GO into it. THIS IS IT! Go into it and you will find the other too. God is hidden in the world – that is the Tantra message. A GREAT message, superb, incomparable: God is hidden in the world, God is hidden here-now. If you love, you will be able to feel it.
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The third secret: Keep man as frightened as possible. And the sure way is not to allow him love, because love destroys fear… love casteth out fear’. When you are in love, you are not afraid. When you are in love, you can fight against the whole world. When you are in love, you feel infinitely capable of anything. But when you are not in love, you are afraid of small things. When you are not in love, you become more interested in security, in safety. When you are in love, you are more interested in adventure, in exploration. People have not been allowed to love because that is the only way to make them afraid. And when they are afraid and trembling, they are always on their knees, bowing to the priest and bowing to the politician. It is a great conspiracy against humanity. It is a great conspiracy against YOU! Your politician and your priest are your enemies, but they pretend that they are public servants. They say ’We are here to serve you, to help you attain a better life. We are here to create a good life for you.’ And they are the destroyers of life itself. The fourth: Keep man as miserable as possible – because a miserable man is confused, a miserable man has no self-worth, a miserable man is self-condemnatory, a miserable man feels that he must have done something wrong. A miserable man has no grounding: you can push him from here and there: he can be turned into driftwood very easily. And a miserable man is always ready to be commanded, to be ordered, to be disciplined, because he knows ’On my own I am simply miserable. Maybe somebody else can discipline my life?’ He is a ready victim. And the fifth: Keep men as alienated from each other as possible, so that they cannot band together for some purpose of which the priest and the politician may not approve. Keep people separate from each other. Don’t allow them too much intimacy. When people are
separate, lonely, alienated from each other, they cannot band together. And there are a thousand and one tricks to keep them away. For example: if you are holding the hand of a man – you are a man and you are holding the hand of a man, and walking down to road singing – you will feel, guilty because people will start looking at you: Are you gay homosexual or something’? Two men are not allowed to be happy together. They are not allowed to hold hands, they are not allowed to hug each other. They are condemned as homosexuals. Fear arises. If your friend comes and takes your hand in his hand, you look around. ’Is somebody looking or not?’ And you are just in a hurry to drop the hand. You shake hands in such a hurry. Have you watched
it? You just touch each other’s hand and shake, and you are finished. You don’t hold hands, you don’t hug each other. You are afraid. Do you remember your father hugging you ever? Do you remember your mother hugging you after you became sexually mature? Why not? Fear has been created. A young man and his mother hugging? Maybe some sex will arise between them, some idea. some fantasy. Fear has been created: the father and the son, the father and The daughter no: the brother and the sister no; the brother and the brother – no!
People are kept in separate boxes with great walls around them. Everybody is classified, and there a thousand and one barriers. Yes, one day, after twenty-five years of all this training, you are allowed to make love to your wife. But now the training has gone too deep into you, and suddenly you don’t know what to do. How to love? You have not learned the language. It is as if a person has not been allowed to speak for twenty-five years. Just listen: for twenty-five years he has not been allowed to speak a single word and then suddenly you put him on a stage
and tell him ’Give us a great lecture.’ What will happen? He will fall there, then and there. He may faint, he may die… twenty-five years of silence, and now suddenly he is expected to deliver a great lecture. It is not possible. This is what is happening: twenty-five years of anti-love, of fear, and then suddenly you are legally allowed – a license is issued, and ’Now you can love this woman. This is your wife, you are her husband, and you are allowed to love.’ But where are those twenty-five years of wrong training going to go’? They will be there. Yes, you will ’love’
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you will make a gesture. It is not going to be explosive, it is not going to be orgasmic: it will be very tiny. That’s why you are frustrated after making love to a woman. Ninetynine per cent of people are frustrated after making love, more frustrated than they have ever been before. And they feel ’What? There is nothing! It is not true!’ First the priest and the politician have managed that you should not be able to love, and then they come and they preach that there is nothing in love. And certainly their preaching looks right, their preaching looks exactly in tune with your experience. First they create the experience of futility, of frustration, then… their teaching. And both look logical together – of one piece.
This is a great trick, the greatest that has ever been played upon man. These five things can be managed through a single thing, and that is the love-taboo. Sex energy is life energy; it is uncontrollable. And the politician and the priest are not interestedin you, they are interested in channelising your energy into certain other directions. So there is acertain mechanism behind it – it has to be understood.Sex repression, tabooing sex, is the very foundation of human slavery. And man cannot be freeunless sex is free. Man cannot be REALLY free unless his sex energy is allowed natural growth….The first is: Keep man as weak as possible if you want to dominate him. If The priest wants todominate you or the politician wants to dominate you, you have to be kept as weak as possible. Yes,in certain cases, exceptions are allowed that is, when the services of fighting our enemy are needed,only then otherwise not. The army is allowed many things which other people are not allowed. Thearmy is in the service of death; it is allowed to be powerful. It is allowed to remain as powerful aspossible: it is needed to kill the enemy….By the time you are eighteen you are at the peak of your sexual energy, your love energy. By thetime you get married twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven… and the age has been going up and up.The more cultured a country, the more you wait, because more has to be learnt, the job has to befound – this and that. By the time you get married you are almost declining in your powers.Then you love, but the love never becomes really hot, it never comes to the point where peopleevaporate; it remains lukewarm. And when you have not been able to love totally, you cannot loveyour children because you don’t know how. When you have not been able to know the peaks of it,how can you teach your children? How can you help your children to have the peaks of it?So down the ages man has been denied love so that he should remain weak.Second: Keep man as ignorant and deluded as possible so that he can easily be deceived. Andif you want to create a sort of idiocy – which is a must for the priest and the politician and theirconspiracy – then the best thing is not to allow man to move into love freely. Without love a man’sintelligence falls low. Have you not watched it? When you fall in love, suddenly all your capacitiesare at their peak, at their crescendo. Just a moment ago you were looking dull, and then you metyour woman… and suddenly a great joy has erupted in your being: you are aflame. While peopleare in love, they perform at their maximum. When love disappears or when love is not there, theyperform at their minimum.The greatest, most intelligent people are the most sexual people. This has to be understood,because love energy is basically intelligence. If you cannot love, you are somehow closed, cold;you cannot flow. While in love one flows. While in love, one feels so confident that one can touchthe stars. That’s why a woman becomes a great inspiration, a man becomes a great inspiration.When a woman is loved, she becomes more beautiful IMMEDIATELY, instantly! Just a moment agoshe was just an ordinary woman, and love has showered upon her – she is bathed in a totally newenergy, a new aura arises around her. She walks more gracefully – a dance has come to her step.Her eyes have tremendous beauty now, her face glows: she is luminous. And the same happens tothe man….Tantra says: This life is the only life. The other life is hidden in THIS life. It is not against it, it is notaway from it; it is IN it. GO into it. THIS IS IT! Go into it and you will find the other too. God is hiddenin the world – that is the Tantra message. A GREAT message, superb, incomparable: God is hiddenin the world, God is hidden here-now. If you love, you will be able to feel it…The third secret: Keep man as frightened as possible. And the sure way is not to allow him love,because love destroys fear… love casteth out fear’. When you are in love, you are not afraid. Whenyou are in love, you can fight against the whole world. When you are in love, you feel infinitelycapable of anything. But when you are not in love, you are afraid of small things. When you arenot in love, you become more interested in security, in safety. When you are in love, you are moreinterested in adventure, in exploration.People have not been allowed to love because that is the only way to make them afraid. And whenthey are afraid and trembling, they are always on their knees, bowing to the priest and bowing tothe politician. It is a great conspiracy against humanity. It is a great conspiracy against YOU! Yourpolitician and your priest are your enemies, but they pretend that they are public servants. They say’We are here to serve you, to help you attain a better life. We are here to create a good life for you.’And they are the destroyers of life itself.The fourth: Keep man as miserable as possible – because a miserable man is confused, a miserableman has no self-worth, a miserable man is self-condemnatory, a miserable man feels that he musthave done something wrong. A miserable man has no grounding: you can push him from here and there: he can be turned into driftwood very easily. And a miserable man is always ready to becommanded, to be ordered, to be disciplined, because he knows ’On my own I am simply miserable.Maybe somebody else can discipline my life?’ He is a ready victim.And the fifth: Keep men as alienated from each other as possible, so that they cannot band togetherfor some purpose of which the priest and the politician may not approve.Keep people separate from each other. Don’t allow them too much intimacy. When people areseparate, lonely, alienated from each other, they cannot band together. And there are a thousandand one tricks to keep them away.For example: if you are holding the hand of a man – you are a man and you are holding the handof a man, and walking down to road singing – you will feel, guilty because people will start lookingat you: Are you gay homosexual or something’? Two men are not allowed to be happy together.They are not allowed to hold hands, they are not allowed to hug each other. They are condemnedas homosexuals. Fear arises.If your friend comes and takes your hand in his hand, you look around. ’Is somebody looking or not?’And you are just in a hurry to drop the hand. You shake hands in such a hurry. Have you watchedit? You just touch each other’s hand and shake, and you are finished. You don’t hold hands, youdon’t hug each other. You are afraid.Do you remember your father hugging you ever? Do you remember your mother hugging you afteryou became sexually mature? Why not? Fear has been created. A young man and his motherhugging? Maybe some sex will arise between them, some idea. some fantasy. Fear has beencreated: the father and the son, the father and The daughter no: the brother and the sister no; thebrother and the brother – no!People are kept in separate boxes with great walls around them. Everybody is classified, and therea thousand and one barriers. Yes, one day, after twenty-five years of all this training, you are allowedto make love to your wife. But now the training has gone too deep into you, and suddenly you don’tknow what to do. How to love? You have not learned the language.It is as if a person has not been allowed to speak for twenty-five years. Just listen: for twenty-fiveyears he has not been allowed to speak a single word and then suddenly you put him on a stageand tell him ’Give us a great lecture.’ What will happen? He will fall there, then and there. He mayfaint, he may die… twenty-five years of silence, and now suddenly he is expected to deliver a greatlecture. It is not possible.This is what is happening: twenty-five years of anti-love, of fear, and then suddenly you are legallyallowed – a license is issued, and ’Now you can love this woman. This is your wife, you are herhusband, and you are allowed to love.’ But where are those twenty-five years of wrong traininggoing to go’? They will be there.Yes, you will ’love’… you will make a gesture. It is not going to be explosive, it is not going to beorgasmic: it will be very tiny. That’s why you are frustrated after making love to a woman. Ninetynineper cent of people are frustrated after making love, more frustrated than they have ever beenbefore. And they feel ’What? There is nothing! It is not true!’First the priest and the politician have managed that you should not be able to love, and then theycome and they preach that there is nothing in love. And certainly their preaching looks right, theirpreaching looks exactly in tune with your experience. First they create the experience of futility, offrustration, then… their teaching. And both look logical together – of one piece.This is a great trick, the greatest that has ever been played upon man. These five things can bemanaged through a single thing, and that is the love-taboo.
Are we there Yet?
May 12th
Endless Road
Any religious scripts given by enlightened masters are for people at a certain level. This level can be compared to standing in the edge of a deep well. Before standing in this level a human need to go through a very long journey. Let us examine what this level is. Osho says enlightenment is sudden. It is like pushing someone into a deep well, like Alice falls into the rabbit hole in Alice in wonderland. Most of the time what we think was that we are in the edge of the deep well, read again “we think”, this means our mind inflates our ego of becoming a powerful master and then tries to think that we have reached a level where we are ready to be pushed into the well of enlightenment.
Before the push, there will be a evolution, the evolution of moving from inanimate to animate organisms, plants, animals then human. This will be according to Darwin’s theory of evolution. The next and final level of evolution is enlightenment. We are in between the animals and enlightened and most of us have a long way to go.
Before going behind any sage, master or sadhu, first understand your current level. What level you are in? The moment you ask this question, you will get confused and will go astray in your mind. This is where you stop the search, because we are not there and the distance may be more. This distance towards enlightenment cannot be measured as we are not conscious enough to do it. The consciousness evolves as we are reborn again and again. There comes our free will to choose to move ahead in consciousness or go backwards. In this situation we will reach a level of consciousness where we will never ask such question of whether I am ready or not, the master will come to you by that time and you will be initiated into the path of enlightenment, this is where you will be few feet from the well of enlightenment, this is when the master helps and gives that push I talked before.
So, let us not waste our time in going behind god men, let us be aware of our level of consciousness, take up required meditation. Meditation must not be associated with any religion or master. The moment you learn that meditation, you must be allowed to practice it by yourself. This meditation must be taught by someone who has experienced the meditation or experiencing it. Initially we will end up in mass camps where everyone is taught the same meditation, we must then cross that and move towards the next level, the next level will come by itself, all you need to do is to take that first step, never mind if it is from a mass guru, but make sure that you never fall for their charm and loose yourself to their organisations.
One great way of meditating is to remain aware of what we do, each and every thing, and be total in it. As Osho use to say, see a small child looking at you its eyes will be totally looking at you, see a child eating ice-cream, the child will become the ice-cream, let us do this, let us try to be conscious of what we do and become the action itself, this is considered to be one of the greatest meditation. Meditation of lifetime, do it on every action you do, including love making, I could see that when the word meditation is mentioned, we will immediately move to a clean secluded room with fragrance and flowers and the room filled with deity pictures and our mind exclude love making with our partners from meditation due to our wrong upbringing, no this is not meditation, meditation is totality in action.
Random Thoughts: The Dead and Their Rituals
May 10th
Show me the living dead, I will believe in rituals
Such rituals are dead ceremonies
Dead things are useless, thus the rituals.
The dead has already gone, the air mingled with air, the heat of body with sun, the body with earth, the body fluids with water, the Prana or life force with the universal force.
Their thoughts faded away like a pinch of salt dipped in the sea.
Karma stays eternal until it is exhausted in the coming births. So Karma is reborn
After all these there will be nothing hanging around in the world as everything has already become what they are ought to be.
You are alive!
Alive every moment
Enjoy the liveliness, throughout this life, do not compare yourself with Krishna, Buddha or Lao Tsu, you are unique on your own.
You are your own religion, do not add anyone else to it, you must be the only one member of that religion.
Dance is your ritual, love is the preaching, silence is your prayer and you are eternal.
The Judgement Day
May 10th
Judgement Day (copyright acknowledged)
Whenever I think of realised masters, gurus or teachers in the current time, I always see a contrary view from someone else. No one bother to have views on older rishi’s, saints and maharishis. For example when I search in the internet for Osho, I will also find people who accuse Osho of something they think were bad. It became a habit for me that whenever I begin to read about a master, I also googled about him to find out if he as any other side.
Suddenly I realised that this is absurd and stupid on my part. What was wrong with these masters who were accused of involving in some scandals? Nothing is wrong, what was wrong was inside me. Whenever I see these masters, I judge them and see them through the eyes given to me by the society not with my own eye.
Jesus said “May those who have eyes, See; and those who have ears Hear”. This is not for blind and deaf people. This is one of the greatest parables of Jesus. What we hear and see is not the truth, the truth will be heard when you have an ear that listens to unbiased, non-dualistic words and eyes which will see unbiased and nun-dual. This is one of the greatest lessons I have learnt.
What is seeing things from societies view? A society will have rules and regulations, views from hundreds of people. I remember someone having a caller tune (a song instead of the usual ringing sound you hear when you call a mobile phone, this is common in Indian mobile phones) which has a song that starts with word “burning” and he need to change that because someone calling him told him that, listening to a word “burning” when calling you is not a good luck for him, it’s like asking me to burn. This is an example of society view. The person immediately changed to some other caller tune song with normal words. The society increases complexity by imposing their fears and ideas on us. Many societies thinks that sex is a sin, even in the current so called Hinduism, where sex was considered as one of the ways to go towards realisation. This is the view of society not yours or mine.
Sorry from God (Original artist acknowledged)
Each such view of society gives a filter in front of our real eye. The society starts to add layers and layers of veils which filter the naked truth from our eyes. When light from the truth tries to reach your eye through so many filters, it will finally be darkness and no light as the filters absorb the light of truth.
Let us start to look at the truth as they are and accept that. Acceptance is nothing but not commenting on something with your own or society’s views. Remember society involves everything including your parents, siblings, wife, children etc. Let us start listening to the truth with no bias, just listen, enjoy it and then leave it, no comments, and no dual thoughts. Dual thoughts is judging something as good or bad, right or wrong, this or that. When we shun that we will start the real growth inside us, until then we are artificially grown, grown by the society.
I can see many people asking, do we not have to abide by the society as we are a part of it? Yes you are a part of a society, but there is a limit up to which the society can govern you. You have to abide by traffic rules, a countries law or you have to abide to immigration rules in a country, and these are external rules that govern your, never let anything govern your inside, your own self, your true form.
A master gives you a push; it is like push of a mother bird to make its baby bird to fly from nest. You might have seen this, when the baby bird is big enough to fly, the mother will push it from the next to make it fall down, and the baby bird will start to flap its wings and learn to fly. Then the baby bird will never worry about its mother, because it is free now. Free to to go around and find its own life, the mother will also not worry about the baby bird. This is how a master and disciple must be. Get a push from a master, go ahead move ahead; never think about what the society says, all you need is that push. Whatever happens to the master after that never judge or take sides, when you start to fly, fly freely.
There is nothing called Judgement day, because there is nobody or nothing to judge, who are we to judge on something? The judgement day is the day from which we stop judging forever. After thar we are free, free from everything. Free means not freedom of choice, choosing means clinging to something, taking sides or taking on side by judging two, freedom is actually freedom from choice and not freedom to choose. Freedom to choose is the state in which we will be thinking of choosing a choice less path or remain in this dualist world with thousands of rebirths. Here rebirth is the rebirth of your mind not you as you are never born or never dead.
Ahead of Time
May 9th
Timeless
Many people use to comment on great enlightned masters as “They are ahead of our time”. I realised that it is not them who are ahead of time, it is we who are behind or ahead. They are always in the present and now.
Iceland Volcano
Apr 19th
The Volcano
The volcano threw dust and we all became like dust in land. Many people of England are now doing reverse discovery which they made hundreds of years ago. Hundreds of years ago England set on to discover new lands by sea, now people of England are trying to find out different sea routes to get back to England as the air route is completely shut down.
When I set out of England, I never imagined something like this will happen and hamper my travel plans, now I started to enjoy the beauty of nature and the universal consciousness acting on us. It comes, acts and goes, does not spares anyone, if we think its our fate then it will become our fate, if we think its fun, then it will be fun. As Ramana maharishi indicated to UG Krishnamurthy who came him to get some high spiritual advice, by giving a book of jokes, lets take things as fun, as nature does not act with prejudice, it does not know any difference of cast, creed, color or even living and non-living things, it just acts and does not expects anything or wait for anything. This is how I feel we must be, just walk the path of life, if there are stones and thorns, avoid and take other routes, if there is high tide, float with the tide, don’t swim against it, finally we will reach our destination of the universal consciousness.
This movement towards the universal consciousness is the final evolution of us humans, not the one depicted in human imagination as mutated humans (X-Men?), as mutation is artificial and movement towards the universal consciousness is natural.
Just stop, enjoy every moment, don’t expect, go with the flow everything was all right, everything is all right and everything will be all right.
My mind feels bad and my heart goes to people who were stranded, especially foreigners who were stranded in India and treaded very bad by the airport employees in India. I read so many stories of people being snatched of huge money for just a bottle of water in Indian airports on these bad hours. Don’t we have the compassion to help people in distress? Don’t we ever get stranded in so many natural disasters in India and foreign people and missionaries help us with millions of dollars or pounds of money? What has happened to the compassion which was born and nurtured a lot in India for thousands of years?
I believe east is now becoming west and west is becoming east, I could see compassion a lot in western countries and dog fight in eastern countries like India where I was born. When I observed myself, In India we have to snatch the few available supplies in a cloth show room or in supermarket otherwise other person will snatch them. This is how Indians are now, becoming snatchers. India is not far from situation where we will be snatching food from each other every day.
With such a behavior I would recommend all the foreign missionaries and charities to stop helping these 3rd world countries, you have done enough for countries like India, nothing more, first go and help your nations to come out of this recession and financial problems, then if you have surplus, think of helping the 3rd world countries. All the money you are giving are like a block of ice passed from one person to another who are standing in a long line, finally at the end of the long line, what the actual person gets is nothing other than a drop of water from the block of ice you gave, all your money are going into corrupted peoples pockets, whatever you are shown as reasons for funding are just like cinema art and acting to snatch your money.
I felt so bad when one of my friends in UK felt compassionate about the slum dwellers in Bengaluru and Chennai. I also feel bad for another friend from USA who goes and helps poor people whenever he comes to India for official reasons. They just see one side of these so called poor people, they did not see the other side of these so called poor people who had rented the free apartments given to them by the government and come back to the slum area to snatch more from government and charity organisations.
If you say that I am inhuman, so be it. Imagine how nature works by itself, a critter automatically finds a wall to grow on, like that we humans who are part of this nature can survive without these luxury charities, these charities are like crippling us and giving us everything, let these people face the reality and come out of it by themselves, if they are helped then they will expect the help always, that will be true for any charity.
Volcano erupted,
Ash moving with the wind
I am watching it.
Nothing more can be done and nothing less can be done.
We Born and Die with Nothing
Apr 7th
Nothingness
We are born with nothing and will die with nothing, if we take this literally, we are born without any dress. When we die we are burnt or buried and nature will take away our clothing first and then the body. If we look at this in depth, we are born with no name, no religion and no attachments, after death, there is nothing and there is no meaning in chanting krishna or ramas words in the ears of a dead body.
The in between what we call as life is the most precious one, be aware let us loose all our identity and live life to the fullest, identity gives us ego and ego is easily exploited by others, ego also results in mind and bodily problems. When aware of the ego we can overcome it, that is the only way to remove ego, overcomming it, drink if you want to drink, eat if you want to eat, a time will come when you realise the fact that it will not lead us anywhere and slowly increase the awareness in you while doing them, you will know the reality.
We as human are the last stage in evolution, beyond this evolution is in our hands, this is what is called as free will, we must evolve as free spirit and go beyond this circle of birth and death and become immortal, immortal is not bodily, as all bodies are mortal only and the moment it is born death has been written, may it be after 80 years of after 800 years, death is sure for the body, soul is something debatable, it can only be realised and beyond that is the universal consiousness, this is where all the great saints, rishis and seers dissolve to, as Kabir says the ocean where the drop of water mix into and become the ocean itself, this must be our ultimate journey.
Vivekanadha like other gurus was misunderstood a lot, Vivekanandha always describes the last moment of life where our consciousness or soul or shunyatha or whatever you call it merges into the universal consciousness. So Arise, Awake, stop not till you find your own path, yes your own path, no other path can lead you to that.
Stop listening advices from people, people includes, friends, relatives and so called religious leaders as I see back here in India, people talk a lot, give unwanted advices, instill dogmas and unwanted religious rituals for their own benefit. Start to hear your own voice and vibrations, this voice will not be the voice of the mind it will be one’s experience of the consciousness. As Jesus says Come Follow Thyself, you will reach there and ‘there’ can be only experienced not said, this is why whatever we are experiencing, speaking, listening, smelling and tasting is called as Maya or unreal by great sages.The reality is beyond what we are experiencing now and this reality called as true religion, be a religion of your own never become affiliated to any and never allow anyone to modify or join your own religion. Christanity died with Jesus, Islam died with Muhammad, Buddhism died with buddha, Hinduism dies every time when a human being who was born as Hindu reaches the consciousness and dies as nobody, Jainism died with Mahavira and your religion must die with you.
What is Compassion?
Mar 31st
The Grass grows by Itself
I took a book from a old cupboard titled “Compassion the Crown of life” by a so called great sage. Then I asked to myself what is compassion?. I googled. The answer is “Human emotion prompted by the pain of others”.
When I read a story in life of Buddha as narrated in the above book, I realised how stupid people are in realising certain facts. Also found that how emotionally these books use peoples mind against themselves. I understood from my experience that a real Buddha is not what is told in these stores, he is far more incomparable than that.
The following is my understanding with compassion.
Compassion begins with ones self. Man must first be compassionate about one self. This does not mean that he must have pains and must feel compassionate about his own pains. A compassion means acceptance of one as they are, first we have to accept as we are. There is a great possibility of one’s ego coming in front to accept oneself as socially incompetent or incompatible person, this must be kept in awareness as we have to be in touch with the society to lead our day to day life.
A real compassion arising of ones own love will be the real compassion. The compassion of self. Then comes the compassion to others or other things. Thus the meaning of compassion is “Acceptance of things as they are”.
The story i saw says that Buddha trying to give his life to save some goats from a king who wants to sacrifise them. A real Buddha will never do this, he will accept the situations as they are and the people as they are. A compassionate Buddha’s present will radically change the entire situation without him speaking or acting on something. Buddha is not a man of action or words. He is a embodiment of love, He is like a leaking honey comb, where the divine leaks through Buddha.
So do not get carried away by such stories, they are cheating ones self, strengthening our egoes. What we want is to go beyond these ego’s. Do not teach such stories to our children. There is no self less deed by any human in this world unless they become enlightened. Self less deeds mostly for such people I believe is to remain silent and communicate love from their being not with any action of charity, as I had mentioned before charity is like supporting the cause of it not weeding it out.
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”
That is the real compassion.
Haiku of Basho
Mar 25th
Frog Jumping into Pond Courtesy: http://phillipkay.files.wordpress.com
Haiku, beautiful poems, I got introduced to haiku long back in some tamil magazines. Now I got introduced to haiku by Osho, what a difference!.
I still remember one Haiku in tamil which I read around 10 or 15years back, that translates to
“I look around
There is a crowd of people
Crowd of people, Crowd of people,
Crowd of people, Crowd of people, Crowd of people,
Crowd of people, Crowd of people, Crowd of people, Crowd of people”
The explanation given by my favourite writer Sujatha for this Haiku is that the repeating words represents how more and more people crowd add up in time.
But a Haiku from a realised master is far more amazing than that. Osho use to say they are like small seeds which when sprouts will give huge tree of reality. Osho also says that a haiku need to be meditated upon rather than read or understood.
What is meant by meditated upon? The haiku must be felt in each and every senses and in us.
“An old pond
A frog Jumps in –
Splash!”
Just close your eyes, imagine you are near an old pond, feel the cold wind blowing through the pond, feel the smell of the water lily and lotus in the pond, see inside you the beauty of the lily and lotus, it can be day or night you can imagine both, and now a frog jumps into the pond, hear the splash, there you are..
This is how the haiku of an enlightened master must be read. As Osho uses to say all such haiku’s are Koan’s, A question without any answer, which need to be meditated upon. When we meditate upon such haiku we will go to mindless state with our mind full state, we will feel how it will be when you are in the now and here. The haiku above ended with basho himself, we can just imagine. When you are here are now, you can feel lots of haiku’s, wherever your awareness turns to and you are aware of your awareness with no mind.
“Hands typing,
No words
I am communicating”
That’s what I feel now when I am typing this blog. I could feel what it is when I read that haiku I just wrote again and again, it gives a void feeling in me..
I use to think why am I blogging all these? I then realised, my mind is still with me, I feel that these blogs must be either a conversation of my mind to satisfy its ego’s or a conversation between my mind and self
When my mind disappears I will no more blog and I will no more be what I am.
A collection of Basho’s haiku’s: http://oaks.nvg.org/basho.html
