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Beyond Duality
 MEDITATION TIMES
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EDITORIAL
“Samaduhkhasukhah svasthah” in paraphrase this
means one who is beyond dualities. Duality is the
world. The reality is beyond dualities. Mind
functions in terms of duality and cannot see the
integrating oneness in all things. All things are Swami Anand Neelambar
interconnected and derive from the same cosmic
your way. As long as the seeker remains attached
material. The stuff of creation is one. Multiplicity
to the words of Meditation Times he cannot
is a functional utility and only applicable in
progress on the pathless path.
relative circumstances. In the realm of
meditation, multiplicity not only has no The way is no way. White clouds floating with no
relevance, but is an impediment. purpose, no direction that is the way. It exists for
the mere bliss of existing.
To see the truth one needs to delve into the
ocean of oneness where all things dissolve into Meditation Times takes this opportunity to
each other. The Hindus call this creative stuff as extend a fruitful sojourn as we enter into a new
Brahman. It is from this Brahman that all things in era and new decade in the 21st century. The new
existence are wrought into being. The forms dawn is reflective of new beginnings and renewed
certainly will change and continue to evolve into opportunities. As we take impetus for our sojourn
new shapes and forms. But the essential stuff we gather courage in the fact that other buddhas
from which it is fashioned is one. have crossed the threshold and assured us that
the path is within human reach. The way is not
The world is apparently diverse and variegated
impossible, and in fact, I take personal solace in
but it is called a universe – a singular
the utterance of Swami Vivekananda: it is not
composition. The Creator is the created.
important that we attain realization but rather
Meditation is the process by which one goes back
that the journey is started. To even begin the
to the original face. The face of the creator. When
sojourn is in itself a great benediction and
one encounters this original face he sees it as a
culmination of spiritual austerities.
mere reflection of himself. Not himself as seen in
the mirror but a reflection of himself as seen the The grace of the Masters is the only requirement
inner abyss of the atma (soul, heart, being). to enter the pathless path of meditation.
Himself seeing himself is enlightenment.
We welcome all our readers to a new dawn and
To go beyond duality is to be on the sojourn to may they continue to support and encourage us.
life eternal.
And I close with the reminder of Swami
Meditation Times is only a catalyst in the sojourn. Vivekananda: it is not important that we attain
We plod the seeker to go within himself and realization but rather that the journey is started.
discover his own way. Our way cannot be your
way and may in fact be a hindrance to discover
 Message from Taoshobuddha

We are once again at the threshold where we are moving from one realm to another.
From one end the year 2010 has disappeared in the unknown oblivion. And another year
has ushered in. Thus moves the wheel of time. This is change. The change takes place
around the eternal axle that never changes.

Therefore I was wondering what should be the message when love has embodied itself
as Jesus and time unfolds into a new dimension. It is most appropriate to overflow
Buddha-Field.

BE A LIGHT UNTO YOURSELF!

 Buddha-field
Mystery beyond the Known
A Buddha-field is one of the most mysterious and rarest phenomena in the
entire existence.

A Buddha-field is one of the most innumerable number of books on

mysterious phenomena in the entire almost an inconceivable range to
existence. It implies whenever someone topics, audio, video and other devices
is awakened, his consciousness radiates a have begun to act like thousands of
certain aura around him. Whoever is mirrors now reflecting the light of the
receptive and available, can be being that radiates through this
transformed by this radiating energy from presence.
an AWAKENED BEING. The very
presence of the awakened one can hit you In India there is a temple made totally of
so deep that your dormant energy starts small pieces of mirror. When you enter the
becoming alive once again. temple you are suddenly surrounded by
your image reflecting from every nook and
It has been described as a sleeping corner. In thousands of ways: from the
serpent being awakened. When the energy ceiling, to the floor; from one corner to
that was lying coiled, looking almost dead, another; and all around the walls the
is hit by the energy of the awakened one, image of the one inside reflects in many a
it comes into life and begins to uncoil myriad ways. Each reflection represents
itself. This phenomenon you in your totality. It is
of uncoiling energy in A Buddha-field is one of the most not that the piece of
the presence of the mysterious phenomena in the mirror is going to reflect
awakened one is called only a certain part of
entire existence.
Kundalini in the East. you. The mirrors reflect
Kundalini simply means you in totality. Your
the serpent power. whole being is reflected through these
mirrors. And those thousands of mirrors all
The Buddha-field works like a network. reflect you.
In the hands of a skilled master it need
not be confined to a small area alone. Just take a lit candle inside with you and
Instead it spreads beyond the dimensions you will be surprised at the effect of the
of the known. This is the reason I began flame. Just one flame suddenly becomes
these meditations sessions, books and thousands of flames, and all the reflections
talks. Through this network of audio video create a tremendously awesome panorama
and PDF, I am expanding the BUDDHA - of light. The man who had made the
FIELD beyond the horizons to the temple was one of the richest men in
COSMIC LEVEL. All these efforts are like India. He simply loved to make unique
putting a mirror in front of a light. The things.
mirror does not produce light, however it
can reflect light. And when a single light is He simply created a unique piece of
surrounded by thousands of mirrors it can beauty, architecture, and something which
create a LIGHT OF IMMENSE QUANTITY has no parallel in the whole world.
and Beauty. In the same way these
However he did not know the meaning of belong. Certainly you he can and will
the creation. ultimately reflect me.

This temple represents the BUDDHA- Through these writings, audio, videos I am
FIELD in a material way through creating a network to connect to millions
myriads of reflections. of seekers world over. And soon these
millions of people will start reflecting the
An ENLIGHTENED ONE creates thousands light. Also they are going to create a
of seekers around him like reflecting network of energy enveloping the whole
mirrors. They are not awakened yet but earth.
they are aspiring to be awakened. They
have not yet reached the ultimate. The Just as one sun rises in the morning, but it
flower has not yet blossomed. But like a is reflected by all the oceans, the lakes,
bud they are very receptive, open, and the rivers, and the ponds. Small ponds too
available. In the presence of the master reflect the same sun as the biggest ocean.
they can at least function as mirrors very Just one sun rises, and millions of places
easily. Then one Buddha gives birth start reflecting it. And it is not only the
millions of buddhas. Buddhahood or ocean, lake, river, ponds alone reflecting
awakening is the seed that gives birth to instead there are other reflections too.
millions of seed buddhas. The reflections through the ocean,
lakes, ponds, mountain tops are gross.
Through this network I have created There are other reflections too that
communes so that thousands of seekers are more subtle.
can come to sojourn and learn to reflect
my BUDDHA – NATURE or AWARENESS. Even before the sun comes above the
Remember never imitate a buddha. horizon, the birds suddenly start singing
Reflection and imitation are two totally the inner harmony. They are awakened,
different things. The mirror something tremendously
never imitates you. The An ENLIGHTENED ONE beautiful has happened to
mirror simply reflects you as creates thousands of them, and otherwise from
you are. An awakened one where will the song arise?
acts as a mirror so that you seekers around him like And they are so full of life!
can see your reflection in the reflecting mirrors. The flowers open their
awakening of the master. petals… these are reflections
Thus the seekers begin to reflect the light too. There is no obligation on their part.
of the Buddha. And in the process one day They can remain buds. There is no
are awakened. obligation on the part of the birds. They
may decide not to sing, but something
Soon one who comes within this energy- irresistible has happened within which is
field begins to reflect the light through beyond their control….
gestures, reflected consciousness and
many other ways. His way of thinking When the sun is rising, something is rising
changes! Now he looks at the world and its in them too through their life energy, or
phenomenon differently. In the process their Kundalini. Of course a bird cannot
he has to be a mirror. In this process time become a buddha, but it can at least sing,
and space make no difference. If you are dance, fly in the sky just out of sheer joy,
available to me, and you are as close to and open his wings as an indication of
me as you are then it does not matter to freedom, and aliveness. The bird can now
which farthest corner of the earth you
claim the whole sky as its own field of
play.
And all the flowers – from the smallest
grass flower to the biggest lotus – they
suddenly all fall into a symphony. They
forget all their differences. They forget
that there are poor flowers and rich
flowers too. That there is the proletariat
and there are the bourgeois; suddenly all
classes disappear. And in their flowering,
in their opening, in their blossoming they
release whatsoever they have.
They give back to existence as a gift
whatever existence has given to them.
This is what a Buddha does. He does not
keep it, or hoard it. Buddha gives it back a
thousand fold. He multiplies it, because
what was – apparently – not in the seed,
what was not in the roots, what was not in
the tree, in the branches, in the leaves…
has suddenly come to blossom in the
flower - all the colors, all the fragrance
and all the beauty too. But they waited
long in the dark night for the sun to rise.
The presence of the inner sun suddenly
gets reflected in millions of ways and
creates a network of light, life, joy,
fullness, and overflowing ecstasy. This is
Buddha-field. One man getting awakened
means the sun has risen. It is the
declaration that the dark night of the soul
is at an end. But it is possible only if there
are millions of people spread all over the
earth to create a connectedness. With this
net of energy we may be able to transform
many people who had no idea, or who had
never dreamed that there is something
more than a mundane life.
I am reminded of a story. It is not indeed
a story instead a real fact. It is so strange
and significant that it looks almost like a
story. In South America in a hidden valley
deep in the mountains, a small community
of people was discovered that lived there.
The community was not more than three
hundred but all blind. It was strange. What
had happened to these people? What
calamity had fallen on them that they are
all blind?
One man, very adventurous, a scientific
enquirer, wanted to know what had
happened to these people. Entire humanity
was afraid to go into the valley. It was
dangerous. If three hundred people are
blind, perhaps there is something wrong in
the air, or something wrong in the water,
or something wrong in the food. Who
knows what is wrong? You may go blind!
But this courageous young man entered
the valley and was surprised. He did not
turn blind. He figured out what was
happening. There was a certain fly in the
mountains. Every child was born with
eyes, like any other child is born
elsewhere. But within three, four months if
the fly bites the child he will go blind.
Three or four months were too long a
time, and the fly was a common fly, all
around, everywhere.
So everybody was born with eyes, but
nobody ever remembered that once he
had eyes because he had lost them so
early in life – when he was two months
old, at the most four months old. But the
fly‘s bite was not capable of destroying a
young man‘s eyes. So anybody who had
passed at least one year was beyond the
reach of the fly. It needed only the very
vulnerable child.
The man wanted to help them because he
had found the cause. The cause could be
removed and those common children could
be saved. While he was working on the
plans of how to destroy the fly, those
primitive people used to laugh at the
madman. They used to laugh because they
could not believe that they had eyes.
And of course they were three hundred
and he was alone and there was no way to
prove that he had eyes. Those three beauty and they would never be aware of
hundred people had never heard about her beauty. It was his eyes that had given
eyes – he was just a poet, a dreamer! the glimpse of the beauty of the woman.

But living with them he fell in love with a He had seen so many women, but he
girl of the community. He wanted to marry finally settled for this blind woman.
the girl. But the community put a Although she was blind, she had
condition: ―You will have to drop this something indescribable, something
illusion that you have eyes. And to make otherworldly. But to lose one‘s eyes to get
certain, we have our elders who will check that woman seems to be a very strange
you. If they find something that you call bargain, because in losing your eyes you
eyes, they will destroy them… because you will be also losing that woman. You will
have something which you should not never be able to see her again. Then all
have. No human being has eyes. women are equal. To a blind man what
Something is wrong with you. difference does it make that you have a
homely woman or a professional? It does
―You can marry the girl of our community, not matter at all.
but the condition is that you have to
become part of our community. Also you No, he could not manage to convince
have to become blind. The choice is your. himself to lose his eyes, because his eyes
Either you have to leave us alone and were the source of the experience of the
never disturb. Since you have come it has beauty. In the middle of the night he
been a continuous disturbance. You have escaped from the valley. And this is not a
been corrupting our youth, by putting in story, it is a historical fact.
their minds the idea of eyes. We have
never heard even from our elders or our I wondered humanity has progressed. It
forefathers about has come a long way
eyes. We have always Human imbecility remains the same. from the days of
lived this way. And Only mask has changed. And now they Krishna, Socrates and
we do not need eyes. Buddha. They have
What will we do with
wear better masks than their ancestors, not moved a single
eyes? We are but behind the mask is hidden the same inch! Human
perfectly happy and uncivilized, uncultured and ignorant imbecility remains the
content. same. Only mask has
consciousness. changed. And now
―You have disturbed they wear better
our peace and now you want to enter into masks than their ancestors, but behind the
our community. You have two choices mask is hidden the same uncivilized,
either you lose your eyes and marry, or uncultured and ignorant consciousness.
you forget all about this love affair and
leave the valley and never return again.‖ Humanity is not able to accept the
stranger. It is not vast enough to absorb
The young man thought for the whole the new, the unknown, and all that is not
night. He really loved the woman, but this yet experienced. Humanity becomes
was stupid, the condition was simply irritated and annoyed too. It wants to
idiotic, that he had to lose his eyes. In fact destroy your eyes, because humanity is
he loved the woman because of her eyes. blind and your eyes will remind the
She was so beautiful, and all those three humanity about its blindness.
hundred people were not aware of her
I would rather rely on individuals. In that
way I can spread my message far and
wide. I want to protect your eyes. They
are very vulnerable because you are in the
situation of a child and just a fly can
destroy your eyes. And these people are
not flies, they are monsters.
The Buddha-field has expanded its area,
but its strategy has changed. Now I will
depend on the individuals. The awakened
Truth Lies Beyond…
The contacts of senses with objects, O son of Kunti, which cause heat and cold,
pleasure and pain, have a beginning and an end; they are impermanent.
Therefore endure them bravely, O descendant of Bharata.
Through this sutra Yogeshwara explains
the theory of PERCEPTION in Vedanta.
Accordingly an object is perceived not BY
the sense-organs instead THROUGH
them. Try to understand the difference
between these two words ‗BY‘ and
‗Through‘. You pass through a door neither
from nor by. The Indriyas or sense –
organs are instruments through which the
ego gathers the knowledge of the various
objects. Ego is the perceiver. If the
perceiver is not actually contacting the
objects through the sense-organs, the
objects, as such, cannot bring any
perception to him. Therefore the
interaction between these sense organs
and the objects is essential.
Man is in a state of disharmony because of
inner imbalance between consciousness,
ego, and mind. The conflict between body
and mind gives birth to certain types of
diseases. And the conflict between intellect
ones can move around the world, to
faraway regions. And still there will be a
connecting link with me. Wherever there is
an aspiring heart I am there to reflect. He
will reflect me and my light. He will
transmit my energy, and my
understanding as well.
This is the energy-field or Buddha-
field – a mystery beyond the known!
and mind breeds in mental disease. Thus
the life continues as the life of duality.
Your body is the visible soul. And soul is
the invisible body. Body is manifest. And
soul remains unmanifest. Both body and
soul are part of one synergistic harmony.
However because of imbalance between
consciousness, ego and mind this
synergistic harmony remains missing.
Body and mind are the part of one organic
whole. Accept your body. Love your body.
The harmony that body creates will
certainly become door to meditation one
day. Love your body. Respect your body.
Be grateful to your body. Only then the
journey of transcendence is possible.
Each individual has a different body-mind
realm. Mind is yoked to sense-organs.
Through the interaction between sense-
organs and the objects stimuli reaches the
mind. Two individual mind frames can
never be the same. As a result the same
objects can give two different types of short period, in the world-of-objects where
experiences to two different individuals. change alone is the changeless law.
The object remaining the same, if it can
give different experiences, it is evident The wise understands the finite nature of
that it is because of the difference in the the changeable objects-of-the-world. All
mental composition of the individuals. It is these objects have a beginning and an
also observed that, the objects that were end. Thus the wise never despair the least,
the cause of fancy during a certain stage of things THAT ARE, or of things THAT ARE
in one's life become a nuisance to the NOT in any way. Heat and cold, success or
same individual after a time. As time failure, pain or joy - none of these can
passes on, the mental frame of the ever be permanent. Neither the sorrow nor
individual also changes. In short, it is very happiness remains. One unfolds into the
clear that the external other. Life unfolds into
objects can convey their Your body is the visible death and the process
stimuli and give us an soul. And soul is the goes on.
experience only when
our minds come in invisible body. Body is Since every situation,
contact with the objects manifest. And soul remains keeps on changing on its
through the sense- unmanifest. Both body and own, it would be foolish
organs. to get ourselves upset at
soul are part of one every change visible.
Wise understands that synergistic harmony. Indeed it is wisdom to
the objects of the world suffer them meekly with
are in a state of the comfort and
constant change. These are constantly consolation of the knowledge of their finite
coming into existence and perishing too. nature. The wise goes through life, both in
The wise will not allow him to be tossed joy and sorrow, in success and failure, in
about by the existence or non-existence of pain and joy, with the constant
the finite things of the world. In the flood awareness: ‗Even this will pass away.‘
of time, things and incidents,
circumstances and environments flow up The external world of challenges is finite.
to our present from the unknown FUTURE. Indeed it has a beginning and an end. Not
In the process these give us vivid only that, Bhagwan adds, ‗they are
experiences of varied intensity. However impermanent by their very nature.‘ The
the nature, of these experiences cannot word ‗impermanent‘ means that the same
remain permanent. And these must pass object gives pleasure at one moment and
on to become one with the entire PAST. at another moment, pain to the
Nothing can remain the same, even for a experiencer. This inconsistency is indicated
by the term 'anitya' in the Sutra.

CHOICE-LESS-NESS
Choice keeps you dualistic and choicelessness
takes you to a life of beyondness.

Serenity is the outcome of inner harmony. duality. He is not in the waves. He has got
Harmony comes when consciousness, ego the taste of the ocean.
and mind are in harmony. He is beyond
The man of serenity is not disturbed by
anything because he accepts all that
comes. Sadness comes, he accepts it. Joy
comes, he accepts it. He has no preference
or no choice. He lives in a choiceless state
of consciousness. Whatever happens he
allows. He is totally open to it. He drinks
it. He absorbs it. He has no likes and
dislikes. No preferences, no choices too!
He is not against sadness, he is not
against anger, he is not against sex, and
he is not against love either. He is neither
against nor for. He is simply serene. This
is the state of BEYONDNESS.
If you choose, immediately you are
disturbed. Try and watch it. Whenever you
choose you will be disturbed. Choice brings
disturbance. Choice means alternatives. To
be this or to be that, to be or not to be is
the way of choice. Choice means you are
standing at a crossroad. And now the
question arises which road to follow? If
you go to the right, who knows? It may
just lead you into a cul-de-sac. Maybe the
left was the right choice. Who knows? How
to decide?
The moment you choose, you become
disturbed. And you always choose against
yourself, against a part of yourself. One
part of you says, ―Choose this,‖ while
another part says, ―Choose that.‖ Now you
have to decide. With decision you will be
divided. The part that was saying, ―Do not
choose this,‖ has been denied, and
rejected. That rejected, or denied part will
take revenge. Sooner or later it will say,
―Now see what happened: now repent.
Therefore never choose this, or that. This
was wrong. Choice keeps you dualistic and
choicelessness takes you to a life of
beyondness.
And the same would have happened if you
had chosen the other. The man who
chooses remains disturbed. Serenity
means a state of choicelessness.
Choicelessness is the mirror that reflects
all that comes in front of such a mirror.
Just as a mirror, simply reflects, without
any choice. An ugly man comes, mirror
reflects. A beautiful man comes, it reflects
too. It has no choice; there is no question
of choice. Just reflecting is the way of
mirror.
Sadness comes, and the man of serenity
says, ―I am sadness. This moment, this is
how I am. This moment, this is my
reality.‖ He does not compare either: ―The
last moment was better, I was joyous.
Now I am sad.‖ He never compares two
moments. He never hankers for something
else in the future. Whatsoever is, he is
totally relaxed with it. This is serenity —
and out of serenity comes real knowing.
This is EQUANIMITY – EQUI-BALANCE.
This is what Yogeshwar tells Arjuna
through the Sutra mentioned earlier.

The realm beyond the heart – BEING

Mind is limited. So is it capabilities. It is like a bio-computer. It is not your
whole being. The heart is far bigger than the mind. And beyond the heart is
your being, which is bigger than the heart. And beyond your being is the
universal being — which is infinite. To enter into these mysteries you will need
a SERENE MIND that does not disturb you.

Mind symbolizes ego. Ego creates shadows a life of duality. When you come in the
in the layers of consciousness. Shadow company of a master the energy-field
goes on lengthening as the light of creates a longing for inward journey in you
awareness fades. And then one enters into
and you are at the threshold of a new
beginning.
Such an occasion of deepest longing has to
come in the life of every seeker. You are
here only for this kind of happening. It is
just the beginning. In the beginning it is
very natural for the mind to create doubts.
There is no need to be angry with the
mind. This is BEYONDSNESS. Mind cannot
understand it. This is beyond the scope of
mind. And naturally the mind wants you to
remain rational, reasonable, and sane.
The mind creates doubts for the simple
reason that it wants to protect you. It is
not against you, it is trying to protect you
so that you do not get into some crazy
space. But it is only in the beginning that
the mind creates doubts. And this is the
time when the master and the energy-field
of the master helps you not to be bothered
with what your mind is saying, but to
explore the new that is now arising in
you.
You are feeling light descending from an
unknown horizon. Shadows are
disappearing. And a luminous body is
arising within you. This is the body of
light. The mind can accept a skeleton.
However it cannot accept a body of light.
Mind is very primitive. It still believes in
matter. But the Physicists have come to
the conclusion that there is no matter at
all. Only energy exists. But the energy
particles are moving at such a tremendous
speed that they create the illusion of
solidness.
It is just like the movement of the blades
of a fan. When the fan is running you
cannot see the three wings separately. The
blades create a circle. If it moved with the
speed of light, the way electrons move in a
pillar, then you could sit on the fan and
you would not fall, and you would not feel
that something is changing under you and
there are gaps. Because before you could
feel the gap, the other wing of the fan
would have come in and you would not
feel anything. The speed makes it a solid
thing.
All that looks solid only looks solid. But
mind is very primitive. The heart is neither
primitive nor contemporary. The heart is
eternal. It knows no divisions of time. So
the heart can see without any doubt the
body of light. In fact, that body is truer
than the solid body that we see. It is so
the body of light implies the body of
electrons, or pure electricity.
It happened after the Second World War.
A soldier returned home. He had been
away from home for five years, and
naturally he was in a hurry to meet his
wife. As he hugged his wife he got a shock
— such an electric shock, he fell flat on the
ground. He said, ―My God, what has
happened?‖
For five years the wife had been waiting
and waiting and waiting with such
intensity, her electric forces had been
accumulating. Doctors were called. They
could not even take her hand to check her
pulse — immediate shocks. Then the
electrician was called, hoping that
something may happen. Now it is no
longer physical. Instead something
electrical has gone wrong. The electrician
was very much afraid. He said, ―First take
this bulb in your hand.‖ He gave the
woman a five-candle bulb to put in her
hand, and the bulb lit up.
That was the first happening of its type.
The entire body of the woman was
throbbing with electricity. Because of her,
research started into human electricity,
and now it is an established fact that every
human body has electricity.
If your eyes are very perceptive, you can
see the electric aura around the body. It is
the same Aura that you have seen around
the photographs of Nanak, Kabir, Krishna, start becoming aware of your inner being.
Rama, and Buddha. Those circles around Remember your inner being is surrounded
the faces are not fictions. They are not the by a light.
imaginations of the painters. They have
been seen by disciples, and the Masters have called it the ASTRAL BODY,
meditators. or the BODY OF LIGHT. This body is
made of starlight. This is why it is called
And now in the ‗astral‘. Just
Mind is limited. So is it capabilities.
Soviet Union, there remember that it is not
It is a bio-computer. It is not your
is a photographer within the domain of
who even takes whole being. The heart is far bigger the mind. Therefore tell
photographs of this than the mind. And beyond the the mind, ―This is none
electrical energy. He heart is your being, which is bigger of your business. You
has developed very than the heart. And beyond your do your thing.‖ And
sensitive plates. His being is the universal being — there are many more
name is Kirlian. And which is infinite. To enter into these things. Existence is not
because of his name, mysteries you will need a SERENE limited to the mind
this photography has MIND that does not disturb you. alone. Existence is far…
become known as bigger, and far more
Kirlian‘s mysterious.
Photography. He has become famous
world-wide. If he takes your photo, it will You have all the possibilities that any
not just be you but also surrounding your mystic has ever experienced anywhere in
whole body an AURA OF LIGHT. the world. Such experience requires a
certain state of INNER SILENCE. And
And strangely enough, if somebody‘s hand silence is BEYOND MIND. In the absence
has been cut off in an accident and Kirlian of inner silence those doubts can go on
takes a photograph, the hand is not there disturbing you. This is why I emphasize
in the photograph but the aura of the hand before entering the mysterious world, first
is still there. The electrical body is still silence the mind. Discipline the mind so
intact and nothing has been disturbed; that silence overflows. In that state there
only the physical part has been dropped is no room for thinking. With inner
off. Suppose one of your fingers has been serenity when you enter the mysterious
cut off for some reason or accident; but in world the mind does not come in the way.
the photograph four fingers will show a Also it does not raise awkward questions
darker image of the physical finger with a for which you have no answer furthermore
lighter shade around it, and one finger will you will not have to worry that mind
be simply the lighter electric shade. But cannot understand your answers.
the shade will still be there.
Mind is limited. So is it capabilities. It
And this is not only with the human body. is a bio-computer. It is not your whole
Kirlian said this applies even with flowers. being. The heart is far bigger than the
Pick a petal from a rose flower and Kirlian mind. And beyond the heart is your
can say which petal has been taken out being, which is bigger than the heart.
because his photograph will show the And beyond your being is the
missing petal‘s electric aura. universal being — which is infinite. To
enter into these mysteries you will
So when you come within the energy-field need a SERENE MIND that does not
of a master you start becoming silent, and disturb you.
 Meditation and Holy places
Symbol of Beyondness
A
ll holy places have been created as
the place for meditation.
Meditation at such places takes the
seeker beyond the horizons of the known
to the realm of the Unknown.
I have told you many things to explain
the significance of a HOLY PLACE. But
that is not enough. There are many
things connected with such places which
cannot be understood by the ordinary
human consciousness. However they do
happen. Such things
cannot be intellectually The word TIRTHA is sacred. It is such places. You will
clarified or made into means a sort of jumping board remember
mathematical formulas,
but they do happen. This
from where one can take a dive
is not only true about into the infinite ocean of divinity.
holy place instead at the
shrines as well. You will experience the
aura of the beyondness only if you
meditate.
All these holy places have now become
so much commercialized and ridden with
noise that there is no opportunity for
serene meditation.
I will tell you of two or three things that
happen when you sit somewhere alone in
meditation. You are unlikely to be aware
of the presence of the few souls that may
be around you. But in a HOLY PILGRIM,
such an experience can be very strong.
It may become so deep sometimes that
you feel your own presence less than
that of the other souls. And meditating in
the company of such souls takes you to
the realm of the beyond.
For example, Kailas has been a holy
place for Hindus as well as for Tibetan
Buddhists. But Kailas is absolutely
desolate. It has no houses and no human
population, no worshipers, and no
priests. But whoever sits in meditation
in Kailas will find it fully inhabited.
From the moment you reach Kailas, if
you are capable of going into meditation
you will say that is inhabited by many
souls and wonderful ones too. But if you
go there and cannot meditate, then
Kailas is empty for you. There is no
provision for meditation
that my
emphasis is on
individual meditation.
And when this happens
you will experience a
very strong subtle presence. This is
mystical and BEYOND THE
DIMENSION OF THE KNOWN.
The word TIRTHA is sacred. It means a
sort of jumping board from where one
can take a dive into the infinite ocean of
divinity. The Jaina word TIRTHANKARA
means a creator of a TIRTHA, or a place
of pilgrimage. A person can only be
called a TIRTHANKARA if he has
charged an area into which ordinary
people can enter, open themselves up
and begin their inner search.
Jainas call them not incarnations but
TIRTHANKARAS. A TIRTHANKARA is
a greater phenomenon than an
incarnation, because if the divine enters
a human form it is good, but if a man
makes a place for others to enter the
divine, it is a far higher event.
 To be alone – the experience of the beyond
As you start coming closer and closer to your centre your behavior on the
circumference too changes. It becomes more and more loving, compassionate,
calm, and friendly. It becomes less greedy, less angry, less jealous, and less
possessive. It becomes more and more a song, a dance, as if suddenly a spring
has come to you and thousands of flowers have blossomed.

To live at the center of the being is the
greatest challenge. One who has learned
the art to be ALONE has indeed
experienced that which is BEYOND.
Man can live either on the circumference
or at the centre. To live at the
circumference is easy, because everybody
is living there. But to live at the centre is a
great challenge. There you will be living all
alone. You will not find a crowd there. And
to be alone needs the greatest courage in
the world. That is why very few people
have been able to know their innermost
core. The journey to innerness is
absolutely solitary.
Meditation prepares you for this journey.
It transforms your LONELINESS into the
vastness of ALONENESS. Indeed the
miracle of meditation is transforming your
solitariness into solitude. There is vast
difference between the feeling of
loneliness and the experience of
aloneness, between solitariness and
solitude.
Solitariness or loneliness is negative and
ugly. Solitude or Aloneness is positive and
beautiful too. Solitariness is like a wound.
Like a black hole it stays inside you, hat
goes on hurting. One wants to cover it,
and escape away from it. Thus one wants
somebody to be with so one can forget
one‘s solitariness. Solitude is like Everest.
It is a virgin peak. Just a single moment of
it is more valuable than the whole life of
living with the crowds. The whole life of
so-called relationships is just utter
madness compared to a single moment of
solitude. It is so healthy and so
wholesome.
And the same is true about loneliness and
aloneness. Loneliness is negative,
aloneness is positive. Loneliness means
you are missing the other, aloneness
means you are enjoying yourself.
Meditation transforms the negative into
the positive, the miserable into the
blissful. Once you have tasted the joy of
being alone, the beauty of solitude, you
can rush in — then there is no problem,
then the journey is an immense joy. And
one thing more each moment the joy
becomes bigger and bigger. Each moment
it is more and more incredible. Each
moment you are stuck with wonder
because you were thinking that you had
reached the last — now what more there
can be? But again there is more. Once you
reach one peak suddenly you see another
peak waiting ahead of you. Each peak that
comes is always higher and higher. And
this goes on like an unending voyage to an
unknown dimension.
As you start coming closer and closer to
your centre your behavior on the
circumference too changes. It becomes
more and more loving, compassionate,
calm, and friendly. It becomes less
greedy, less angry, less jealous, and less
possessive. It becomes more and more a
song, a dance, as if suddenly a spring has
come to you and thousands of flowers
have blossomed.
And when you have It is like the fast moving
There is vast difference between
reached to the very train that everything far
the feeling of loneliness and the
centre of your being behind. The ego is no more
experience of aloneness, between
you have known all there so you are no more
solitariness and solitude.
that is worth there. But in a way you are
knowing. Knowing for the first time but
oneself one knows all. The name of that EGOLESSLY. With ‗YOU‘ left far behind
innermost core is the SUPREME SELF. It only SELF remains! This is the essence of
is not YOUR- SELF. YOU are left far the SUPREME SELF - the Egoless
behind. YOU are left on the circumference. Experience of One‘s Being.

The Osho – Consciousness Beyond the known

Question – Beloved Osho, why it is so difficult for Sannyasins to have any deep
relationship with Non-Sannyasins explain?

Osho – It is natural. To be a sannyasin There is no possibility of communication. It

means you are deprogrammed. To relate
with non-sannyasins is bound to be
difficult because they are programmed
people. Their programmed minds and your
deprogrammed minds cannot have
anything in common. You will think them
stupid; they will think you licentious,
rebellious.
will become more and more difficult the
more sannyasins get deeper into
meditation. Then those people will not be
able to understand at all. They will think
that you have been corrupted, you have
been brain washed, and you have been
hypnotized. All kinds of condemnation will
come upon you from their side. And from
your side, you cannot conceive how people
can go on believing in such stupid ideas.
Everything they believe in will look idiotic
— their God, their heaven and hell, and
their churches, their prayers.
You have become an outsider. You do not
belong to the crowd. You have been able
to see something of which they are not
aware. It is just like a man having eyes
trying to communicate with a group which
is blind. There will be a thousand and one
difficulties. You cannot mention colors, you
cannot mention light; you cannot mention
a beautiful sunset, because they will start
laughing: ―You are living in fantasies —
these things don‘t exist.‖
And for you the problem is that you know
they exist, and you know that these
people are blind and they need some
treatment for their eyes. But you cannot
force them; they don‘t think they are
blind. They simply think that this is how
one has to be. And they are in the
majority. They may even violently force
your eyes to be destroyed just to help you,
so that you don‘t talk nonsense. You talk
about colors and rainbows and flowers and
sunsets and stars — which are not part of
their mind at all. But they are powerful.
They are in the majority; they have the
government in their hands — they can do
anything they want. And you cannot do
anything against them, nor would the
heart of a sannyasin like to do anything
against them — you can only feel
compassion for them. You can try to
convince them, argue with them, but your
arguments and your efforts to convince
them are not going to lead you anywhere,
because you are speaking two different
languages.
It is one of the most difficult things, and it
has always been so. Not only to
sannyasins, but to all people of greater
perceptivity, greater sensitivity, the
masses have been antagonistic. Vincent
van Gogh… just a few days ago I saw a
copy of one of his paintings in which he
makes his stars like spirals. Nobody has
painted stars like spirals — you don‘t see
them as spirals. He was condemned even
by the painters of his day. All the critics
were against him; all the painters thought
that he was crazy. Every night you can see
the stars, but have you ever seen spirals?
It was just a few months ago that
astronomers came to realize that every
star is a spiral. The distance is so much —
that‘s why we cannot see the spiral. But it
is strange how Vincent van Gogh got the
idea. He was not a physicist — he had no
instruments. It took one hundred years for
scientists to develop delicate instruments,
sensitive instruments which can see stars
as they actually are. But he had painted
them a hundred years ago exactly as they
are finding them now. Their photographs
and Vincent van Gogh‘s paintings are
exactly the same!
But the poor fellow was not understood at
all. He was turned out of his home
because his parents were poor, and they
said, ―We cannot afford to keep you. You
are now grown up. We have given you all
the education that we could manage —
now you can become a priest in a church.
We cannot afford for you to be a painter.‖
His father was working in a coal mine; his
parents were really poor, and you cannot
say anything against them. And Vincent
van Gogh‘s first works are just coal
sketches — but they are tremendously
beautiful. Now even those coal sketches
have a value of millions of dollars. But his
parents would not give him money for
paints, for canvases, and finally they had
to turn him out.
One of his friends took pity on van Gogh
and asked him to stay with him until he
got some employment. And he fell in love
with the sister of the friend — just love at
first sight. The first day in the house of the
friend, he proposed to the girl. The girl
simply laughed; they were more
comfortably-off people — better educated,
middle class, higher than Vincent van
Gogh and his family.
She could not believe that this poor
beggar could even dare to ask her.
Jokingly, she said, ―Can you give me any
proof of your love? Can you put your hand
on this candle?‖ — it was burning by their
side.
He said, ―Yes!‖ and he kept his hand on
the burning candle. His whole hand was
burnt. The woman got frightened: this
man seems to be mad also! She pulled his
hand away, but he said, ―Why are you
pulling it away? Let me keep it there until
you say yes.‖
The whole family gathered there. They
pulled him away from the candle — he had
burned his hand for his whole life — and
he was turned out of the house the next
day.
A man of great sensitivity — but no
woman was ready to love him, because he
looked crazy. Nobody was buying his
paintings, and still he went on painting.
His brother was employed — his younger
brother — and was sending van Gogh the
exact amount of money so that he could
have his food every day. Each week he
would send money — enough for one week
only. And Vincent van Gogh would only eat
four days in the week, and three days he
would fast and purchase canvases and
paints. And nobody was buying his
paintings. People were simply laughing
and saying, ―He is simply mad! We have
never seen such paintings. What is he
doing?‖
But it seems whatever he was doing is
going to come true, slowly, slowly. If his
vision of stars is now confirmed by
physics, it is simply a miracle that with
bare eyes, he could see that they are
spirals. Nobody in the whole of history has
even thought about it, so you cannot think
that he borrowed the thought from
somebody. Nobody has seen stars like
that. And he could not prove anything; he
simply went on saying, ―This is how I see
them.‖ But everybody laughed, because
they also could see the stars but they
didn‘t see spirals.
This tremendous sensitivity… but he was
misunderstood everywhere. And finally
when he was only thirty-three, they drove
him mad. Hungry, starving, and everybody
laughing and condemning… not a single
painting was sold. His brother tried to send
a man with money and said, ―At least
purchase one painting. He will have the
consolation that somebody has purchased
one painting.‖
The man went — he had no idea about
painting. Van Gogh was so ecstatic that
somebody had come finally to purchase a
painting — so he was showing him all his
paintings. And the man said, ―Don‘t waste
my time — any will do. This is the money.‖
You can understand how much van Gogh
would have been shocked. He simply said,
―That means this money has been given to
you by my brother — because you are not
even looking at the paintings. I cannot sell
any painting to you. These paintings are
not for people who cannot understand
them. And just tell my brother never to do
such a thing to me — it hurts more.‖ And
it was found actually that that was the
case.
Van Gogh died without selling a single
painting. Now only two hundred paintings
have survived, and each painting is worth
not less that one million dollars; each
painting has a certain quality that has
never been found in any other painting.
He became mad, but he continued to paint
even while he was mad; in his madhouse
he continued to paint. Even the paintings
he has done in the madhouse are
tremendously beautiful. Perhaps he was
not mad; perhaps he was simply forced by
the medical profession and other painters
to feel that he was doing mad things.
After one year he was released, because
he was absolutely nonviolent; he created
no trouble for anybody, he simply
continued to paint. In fact he was not
willing to leave because it was far easier in
the hospital. The hospital was paying
everything for his paintings, and he was
getting food for seven days, so this was
far easier than to be outside.
But they forced him; they said, ―We don‘t
think you are mad, and if you are mad
then there is no way to cure you. You
simply get out.‖ Outside he could not
manage and simply committed suicide. He
wrote a letter to his brother in which he
says, ―What is the point of living in a world
where nobody understands you? And there
is no hope that anybody will ever
understand me — at least not in my life. It
is better to withdraw.‖
So this is not only with sannyasins, it is an
old story. People of immense qualities, but
with a different perspective and different
sensitivity than the ordinary mind has,
have been tortured, and there has been no
way to communicate.
All that the sannyasins can do, rather than
arguing with those people, is accept
whatever condemnation they have and still
ask them, ―Do you see that we are happier
than you? Do you see that we love more
than you? Can you see that we are more
silent, more integrated than you? We may
be brainwashed, hypnotized — all your
condemnations we accept.‖ Just raise the
question, ―Are you more contented than
we are? Although we have nothing, are
you less worried than we are? Although we
don‘t have anything that makes us not
worry, and we have everything that would
make you commit suicide.‖
Don‘t argue — simply make it clear to
them, ―We are homeless, we don‘t have
any money, we don‘t belong to any
society, we have abandoned all the
nations, all the religions. Still, we are
happy. We don‘t know what is going to
happen tomorrow, but today is enough.
When tomorrow comes it will take care of
itself.‖
Rather than intellectual arguments,
existential comparison perhaps may help
them. Perhaps they may start thinking
about it, that there is some truth in it. And
that is the only possible way to bring them
closer. And once they are closer and open
and ready to listen, then there is every
possibility of communion. First, you have
to melt the ice — and that is the biggest
problem. Once the ice is melted, then
things become easier.
So first, accept all their condemnation
rather than retaliating, arguing against it.
That will not help. What is going to help is
to just accept what they are saying, then
make an existential comparison and tell
them, ―You can think about it, and if you
feel that we have got something that you
have not got, we are ready to share it with
you.‖
And those people are in misery. They may
be pretending they are not, but they are in
misery, they are in suffering. If you can
just make a question arise in their mind,
so that they can look at their fake masks
and can see their reality for a moment,
they will be ready to listen to you. There is
no other way. You cannot force, you
cannot argue, because on that ground the
conflict cannot be resolved. It can be
resolved only on existential grounds. And
that‘s where many sannyasins miss the
point.
If people say, ―You are hypnotized,‖ you
start arguing, ―We are not!‖ No, you
should say, ―It is possible; you may be
right, we may be hypnotized. But what do
you think: being in misery and not
hypnotized, or being in bliss and being
hypnotized — what alternative will you
choose? And what is wrong in being
hypnotized? Have you ever been
hypnotized? Do you know what it is? Have
you ever experienced anything of it — or
just heard the word?‖
There are millions of people who have just
heard words, and they go on throwing
those words around: hypnotism,
mesmerism, brainwashing — and they
don‘t understand a thing they are saying.
So rather than arguing, you can say, ―If
you know about brainwashing, I am ready:
brainwash me, so I can see what
brainwashing is. If you know what
hypnotism is, hypnotize me, so I can
experience what hypnotism is.‖
Make one thing certainly clear to them:
―You don‘t know — you are simply
throwing words about.‖
I was a student of a professor, and there
was always conflict with him for the simple
reason that he went on throwing words
about and he did not know what they
meant. I would insist, ―You explain that
word. And I will not be satisfied only by an
intellectual explanation. I am ready —
brainwash me, hypnotize me, I am ready.‖
But he was just throwing words about.
He reported to the vice-chancellor of that
university that I was a continual trouble
because I would contest each word, that
he had to prove…. The vice-chancellor
asked me to come to see him. The
professor was present there — I
immediately understood what the problem
was.
The vice-chancellor said to me, ―Why do
you create trouble?‖ I said, ―I don‘t create
trouble. You just wait and see.‖ I asked
that professor — he was a Bengali man,
Professor Bhattacharya — I asked, ―Have
you read the book written by Ouspensky,
TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS?‖
He said, ―Yes! It is such a famous book. I
loved it when I read it.‖ And I told the
vice-chancellor, ―Phone the library and
enquire if there is any such book —
because I have simply made up the name
of the book. There is a book TRACTATUS
LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS, but it is not
written by P.D. Ouspensky, it is written by
Ludwig Wittgenstein — and this man has
never seen the book. This is my whole
problem in the class.
―Do you think I am creating trouble or is
this man the trouble? Can‘t he be honest
and say, `I have never heard of such a
book‘? But he cannot accept his ignorance
— about anything.‖ The vice-chancellor
phoned to the librarian; the librarian said,
―P.D. Ouspensky has never written such a
book. There is a book of this name, but
the author is Ludwig Wittgenstein.‖
The vice-chancellor said to the professor,
―You have to understand that if you don‘t
know, you should not pretend to know.
And this boy has made his point absolutely
clear.‖
I said to the vice-chancellor, ―This has
been happening almost every day. This
man never goes to the library. I have
looked through the whole philosophy
department in the library: his name is not
on a single book‘s card. And I have looked
in his house, because he lives by the side
of one of my friends‖ — who was a
professor of economics — ―and the houses
are joined together, they are sharing half
and half. So I just made an arrangement
with my friend, `Someday let me into his
house. I want to see what books he has.‘
―And all that he has are magazines like
PLAYBOY, which I don‘t think have any
philosophy. I have not seen a single book
which is concerned with philosophy — and
he is a professor of philosophy! And do
you think a professor of philosophy
reading PLAYBOY is going to discuss
philosophy with me? He has passed his
examinations — that must have been
thirty years ago, but in thirty years
philosophy has moved on further and
further.‖
That was the last time that the professor
allowed me in the class. The next day
when I went into the class he said, ―Listen,
you may be right. Yesterday you put me in
such a bad situation — I don‘t want to
argue at all. Either you promise me not to
argue in the class or just don‘t come to my
class.‖
I said, ―I always wanted not to come to
your class because it is so worthless. But
you have to give me ninety percent
attendance.‖
He said, ―I will give you one hundred
percent, but don‘t come to my class.‖ I
said, ―Can I come to your house
sometime?‖
He said, ―I don‘t want to see your face!‖ I
said, ―It is up to you: if you have decided
to remain retarded, what can I do? But
once in a while I will try to come to your
house, because I want to help you to come
out of your retardedness.‖
He was very angry with the economics
professor: ―You allowed him in my house
to look into my books — and certainly
there are no books, just magazines and
other things. He brought the whole thing
before the vice-chancellor, and I felt so
insulted!‖
I went to the vice-chancellor and I said,
―This is the situation: he is willing to give
me hundred percent attendance, but he
does not want me to attend the class. And
I want to inform you that this is absolutely
criminal. You go to the class and check
how many days I have been present.‖
The vice-chancellor did it; he went to the
class at the end of the month, and I was
marked as present the whole month. He
asked Bhattacharya, ―Are you sure that
this person has been present the whole
month?‖
Bhattacharya became suspicious that I
must have been doing something behind
his back. He said, ―Yes, I am certain;
otherwise why should I give him that
percentage of attendance unless he was
present?‖ The vice-chancellor asked the
students. They said, ―No, we have not
seen him for one month.‖
Bhattacharya came to my room in the
hostel that evening and said, ―Please,
come to the class from tomorrow. I am
very sorry, and I accept that I don‘t know
anything about the latest developments in
philosophy. But you have given me so
much trouble that if you don‘t come to my
class, I am going to lose my job.‖
I said, ―Don‘t be worried — I will not do
any harm to you. I simply want you to
understand that you should not throw
names around. You go on throwing names
around like Martin Heidegger, Jaspers —
you know nothing about these people, and
I have been wasting my whole nights with
these people. You simply stop! What is the
point? — if you are not knowledgeable,
accept it.
―I am trying to become knowledgeable,
and I think it honorable of you to
recognize that you DON‘T know. I don‘t
think there is any disrespect in it, because
one cannot know everything in the whole
world. There are millions of things, for
everybody that he does not know. So you
learn one thing: when you don‘t know, you
have to accept in the class that you don‘t
know.‖
That discussion with him… I went to the
class the next day and he really accepted
three times in one hour that he did not
know anything about something. And
afterwards he thanked me, ―It was such a
great release and freedom to say, `I don‘t
know.‘ I have never known such a relief. It
was a tension and anguish to tell a lie,
knowing perfectly well that I didn‘t know
this man, this philosophy, and still saying I
do — because this was my conditioning,
that the professor has to know everything,
at least more than the student.‖
I said, ―Forget that, and there is no
problem‖ — and since that day there was
no problem. In fact, even in the class he
would stop sometimes and ask me,
―Perhaps you have some idea about this
that you can explain to the class.‖
He had been a much disrespected person.
However eventually he became a person
very respected by the students — just by
accepting that he was ignorant about
some things. His humbleness created
respectability.
It is a difficult task with people, and you
have to deal with different people in
different ways. No certain method can be
given, because it may work with one
person, it may not work with another
person. So you have to be very watchful
about the person to see what will work.
Witnessing – Dimension beyond Duality
When you watch events, circumstances and situations without evaluation
know this as WITNESS.
You think unabated; you imagine things that
are never there. But you never watch.
One thing is certain, that they are all in
suffering, all in tension and anguish, and
they all want to get out of it. So from
there you have to find your clue, and the
key. And if you are watchful enough, you
can always find the clue and the key, and
a communion is possible.
And you have nothing to lose. That person
really wants to lose many things — his
misery, his suffering, his anguish. And he
has nothing else; his whole being is full of
hell. Don‘t fight with the person. Try to
accept whatever he is saying. Ask him
questions about what he says and let him
feel that he knows nothing about these
things. Once he accepts his ignorance
about anything, you have a loophole from
where you can enter into his being.
His knowledge is a protection of his
personality, his ego. So first you have to
make a dent somewhere. So just listen to
him and ask a few questions, and you will
be able to find where he is just absolutely
ignorant. Then you can make possible a
little space to connect through. And let
him feel your love, your compassion, your
peace, your blissfulness.
It will take a little time for him to ask you,
―What has happened to you?‖ But sooner
or later he is bound to ask, because he is
sick, and nobody wants to remain sick. If
you can prove that you have come out of
the ordinary sickness of human beings…
Only then can a sannyasin have a
communication with non-sannyasin.
Source – Osho Book ―Light on the
Path‖
Watching is a totally different process. It
means you do not have any likes, any dislikes.
You do not condemn anything. You do not
appreciate either. You simply see and you are
aware and you are alert but not dead like a
mirror. You are aware. You are watching what
is happening. But you are neural.
You see a rose flower. Instead of being
verbose remember this is the moment to
connect to the being of the flower. You reflect
it and you watch it. But never say anything
about the rose. Never bring words between
you and the rose because all those words are
useless.
When you are confronting a real rose why
bring words in? Why destroy the reality of the
rose by bringing interpretations of the past?
You may be quoting great poets — Shelley,
Yeats and Keats. Have you ever wondered by
quoting them you are bringing between you
and the rose a barrier? Leave your eyes utterly
empty. Do not fall asleep. Watch, just look
silently. Be a witness.
Watching means looking at things without any
evaluation, neither saying it is not good nor
saying it is bad. Because nothing is good and
nothing is bad. Things are simply what they
are. A rose is a rose and a thorn is a thorn.
Neither the thorn is bad nor is the rose good.
If man disappears from the earth, roses will be
there, thorns will be there, but there will be
nobody to say that roses are good and thorns
are bad. It is our mind that creates these
values. And these go on changing. This is
duality. And to go beyond duality is bliss.
Just a hundred years ago nobody would have
ever thought to put a cactus in one‘s home. A
cactus is all thorns. If you had brought a
cactus into your home, people would have
thought you were mad. It will be considered
that something had gone wrong with you! But
now to grow roses in your home is orthodox.
The avant-garde or forward thinking people
grow cactuses. They are the really considered
cultured people. They keep cactus plants in
their bedrooms too — poisonous, dangerous,
but the cactus is ―in‖ and the rose is ―out.‖
What a metamorphosis is this?
In this century, ugly things have become
beautiful and beautiful things have become
ugly. Picasso is valuable — one of the ugliest
painters the world has ever known! Just two
hundred or three hundred years ago he would
have been forced to live in a mental asylum if
he had painted things like this. He would have
been thought insane, utterly insane.
And the world of Michelangelo is a totally
different world. A different valuation existed.
The world of Leonardo da Vinci is a totally
different world.
Fashions go on changing. Every day man goes
on changing. Nothing is, in fact, good or bad,
beautiful or ugly. It all depends on you.
Whatsoever you start thinking is good, and
beautiful, that alone becomes good and
beautiful.
It depends what your criteria are, what your
values are. But in reality, nothing is good and
nothing is bad. Things are simply what they
are. If you witness then there is no question of
choice. Then a choiceless awareness arises in
you.
J. Krishnamurti goes on saying this. It is
basically the message of Buddha. The
followers of Krishnamurti think that he is
teaching something very original. It has
nothing original in it. It is essentially the
message of Buddha. It is not J. Krishnamurti‘s
invention. In another sense it is original. It is
original in the sense that it is his experience.
He also knows it as much as Buddha knew,
but it is not new or original in the sense of
being new. It is original in the sense that it
has originated in him.
He is not repeating Buddha that is true. He is
not imitating Buddha that is true. He is simply
saying what HE has known. But whatsoever he
has known is the same truth as Buddha‘s
truth.
In fact, there are not two truths in the world,
so all the awakened ones know the same truth
again and again. Their language is different,
their expression is different. And it is bound to
be so. Twenty-five centuries have passed since
Buddha. How can I speak the same language
PALI and Sanskrit that Buddha spoke? And
how could Buddha have spoken the language
that I speak – English or Hindi or Persian? teaching as Buddha‘s: choiceless awareness.
That is impossible. That is the meaning of ―reflect‖ and ―watch.‖

But as the followers go on claiming that the Therefore, BE AWARE, but never choose. If
teachings of my master is absolutely original. you choose, you lose watching. The moment
This is new ignorance. It is basically the same you choose you will start clinging and then
reflection is lost.

Dying with God’s name on mind - Resurrection

It rarely happens that a person dies with God on his mind

BAULS say that there is only one way to come out of the stupor man lives in, and that is
remembrance of God: NAM-SMARAN, remembrance of His name. That has always been
part of the basic techniques on the path of love — to remember Him. And when a
devotee, with deep reverence, remembers the name of God, his whole being is thrilled,
his energy starts rushing upwards. Ordinarily the energy is rushing downwards; that is
the way of sex.

If you really cry the name of God, whatsoever it is — Ram, Allah, or

whatsoever, all names are His — the very cry, the very remembrance hits
somewhere near the SAHASRAR, the seventh chakra, in the head. If
remembrance is not just ritual, if with deep love and reverence and devotion
and surrender you have called the name of God, suddenly there comes a
change in your body energies. The energy that was going to the sex center
starts rising high.
The Bauls say,

God has reversed

the acts of the play.
The land talks in paradox
and the flowers devour the heads of fruits,
and the gentle vine, roaring,
strangles the tree.
The moon rises in the day,
and the sun at night with shining rays.

The blood is white,

and on the lake of blood
float a pair of swans,
copulating continuously
in a jungle of lust and love.

All the great mystics have described it: when the energies start rushing upwards, when
gravitation no longer affects your energy, when your energy is functioning under
another Law, the law of grace; when you are pulled up, when you are falling up, when
you are rushing upwards as if the sky is pulling you, then man comes to know a totally
different world. Everything is upside-down — or maybe it is really right side-up — but
everything changes.
Kabir has said that when it happened to him, he saw the ocean burning and the fire very
cold. He saw fishes running on dry land, and he saw trees whose roots were in the sky
and whose branches were coming to the earth. These are just symbolic sayings.

EVERYTHING we had known while sex-energy was running downwards is affected by it.
When the sex-energy rushes up, a TOTALLY different world is revealed. Then you don‘t
see this world because your eyes are no more the same. You are in a new dimension,
just diametrically opposite to the old.

But ordinarily our whole concept of life is centered on sex. Whatsoever we do: we earn
money, we earn money for sex; we try to earn fame, but we earn fame for sex. Even
sometimes very innocent activities which you cannot connect with sex are connected
with sex if the person is still infatuated with lust. It is difficult to see how a person who
is running after fame is running after sex.

Ask the psychologists. They say women are more attracted by fame than by anything
else. They are not so attracted by the face, handsomeness, as they are attracted by
achievement. An achiever, one who has much money, power, prestige, is more
attractive to women than anybody else, because a woman is constantly in search of
somebody to lean upon. You may be beautiful, but if you have no power you cannot give
any guarantee and security to the woman. If you are powerful, maybe you are not
beautiful, you are not intelligent, but that doesn‘t matter. But it you are powerful,
reliable, the woman can lean on your shoulders. There is a certain guarantee in you.

Men are attracted by physical proportions, body-beauty; a woman is more attracted by

fame, prestige, power, achievement. So if men are too mad after power, the arithmetic
is simple. Even in the face of death or in the face of danger people go on lusting.
THE grip of lust is such that you cannot see the danger ahead. The grip of lust is such
that you cannot even see death ahead. In fact, a very strange phenomenon happens:
the more a person comes close to his death, the more lustful he becomes. Because sex
gives a feeling of life, one clings more to sexuality. Old people may not be physically
able to move into sexuality, but then they start moving in their fantasies. It almost
always happens.

I have watched many people die. It rarely happens that a person dies with God
on his mind. Almost always, nine out of ten people die with sex on their minds
when they die, and that becomes the beginning of another life. Sex on the mind
becomes the beginning of another sex life.

But it has to be so if you have not been working hard to go beyond it, to go beyond its
grip. If you have not been struggling hard to release yourself from its clutches, then it is
going to be so — because at the moment of death you start thinking more of sex,
because sex seems to be just the opposite of death. Sex is birth; mind fantasizes about
sex. And when the last moment has come when the body is going to disappear, a bout
of energy, the last bout, streams into your head, overpowers you. If you die with sex on
the mind, you will be moving again into the wheel of life, what the Hindus call
ANAGAMIN, coming and going, coming and going; a repetitious circle.

Reference: Osho “The Beloved, Vol 2″

Beyond Enlightenment
Is it possible to become Enlightened in a Dream?

Not only possible — whenever it happens,
it always happens in a dream. Whatsoever
you think is your waking consciousness,
that too is not waking; that too is
dreaming. While sitting here in front of
me, do you think you are awake? I don‘t
see it. I can hear your snore. And if you
listen minutely, you will be able to hear it
yourself: a deep snoring inside, a deep
sleep — and dreams and dreams.
In sleep, only dreams can happen. That‘s
what we have been insisting in this
country continuously: that your world is
illusory, it is MAYA. When Shankara says
the world is MAYA, he‘s not talking about
HIS world. He‘s talking about YOUR world.
Because in sleep, how can you know that
which is real? The sleep distorts. A totally
different world is created by sleep: a world
of dream. Whatsoever you call your life is
made of the same stuff as dreams. It is
dream-stuff.
So, whenever you become awakened and
enlightened it will always be in a dream.
Buddha became enlightened — or Jesus,
or Zarathustra, or Lao Tzu — they all
became enlightened in a dream. The
dream was shattered; they awoke out of
sleep. They looked around: the dream was
never found anywhere; it was a totally
different thing. That is what they call God,
nirvana, truth, Brahma, or the kingdom of
God. That is what they call it. It is not your
world; it is a waking. Enlightenment is just
an awakening out of sleep. It is to become
aware.
You are lost in your dreams. Your
subjectivity is completely engulfed by the
dreams. It is just like when you go to see
a movie. You know well that there is
nothing on the screen. Still, you get
deceived. When the movie starts, the
screen is full of pictures. Just a play of
light and darkness, just very subtle
dream-stuff, and you are lost. You forget
yourself. You forget the spectator, you
become part of it. Sometimes you cry and
weep when some tragedy happens on the
screen. Sometimes you laugh; sometimes
you become very tense. You follow all that
is happening on the screen. There is
nothing happening, but for two, three
hours, you are completely lost.
This is what life is..For seventy years,
eighty years, you are completely lost.
Buddha is one who becomes awakened in
a movie house and suddenly shakes
himself and understands that there is
nothing — only a wide screen covered with
white and black shades; just covered with
false, dreamlike stuff. He laughs — not at
what he is seeing; he laughs at himself —
and comes back home. There is no point
being there now. He has understood. He is
no more a part of sleep; he has become
awakened.
Try this. One day, go to the movies and
watch how you become so unaware that
that which is not real starts becoming real.
Then bring yourself back and back, again
and again. Become aware. Give a jerk to
the body, look again, and remember it is a
white screen and there is nothing there.
Then again watch. Within seconds you are
again gone. Again your consciousness has
been taken possession of by the dream
stuff. Again you are enjoying, or moving
with the story. Remember again!
This is the same process that a Buddha is
doing in the world. A movie house can be
a perfect meditation place if you can
remember. The day you can remember
continuously for three hours that there is
nothing…. And remember, don‘t repeat
this: that there is nothing. That won‘t
help. It has to be KNOWN that there is
nothing. You have to remember constantly
that you are a witness you have to watch
that you are not affected by anything
happening there.
When three-dimensional movies came for
the first time, they created a stir in the
world. When a new three-dimensional
movie was shown for the first time in
London…. A horse was coming, running.
People got scared. It was a three-
dimensional movie; the horse was almost
real. People even gave way for the horse
to pass by. It looked so real! Your reality is
just a three-dimensional dream. One has
to awake. And awakening is always bound
to be in a dream, so it matters not what
type of dream you are seeing.
That‘s why I say there is no need to
change the dream. You can wake up
wherever you are. You may be seeing
yourself as a sinner, a criminal; you may
be in a prison. Or, you may be thinking of
yourself as a great mahatma. You may be
in a temple being worshipped by
thousands and thousands of people. It
makes no difference. The mahatma is as
much in a dream if he believes what he is
seeing and if he‘s affected by the worship
that is being done to him. If somebody
insults him and he feels angry, annoyed,
then he is in a dream as much as the
sinner in prison.
It is not at all relevant to change the
dream: to first become a mahatma instead
of a criminal. From the sinner you become
a saint. It is foolish. Why waste time when
you can wake up directly from wherever
you are? You can become enlightened
while you are imprisoned, you can become
enlightened directly from where you are.
You are a sinner, okay — because sin is as
much a dream as all your sainthood. The
awakening is the same.
In the night, you dreamt that you are a
murderer. By the morning, when you wake
up, you are not worried. You don‘t go on
saying, ―I will repent. I have been a
murderer in my dream.‖ You simply laugh
at the whole thing. You don‘t condemn
yourself, because it was a dream. Or, you
see in a dream that you have become a
great mahatma, a great soul: a saint,
worshipped by millions. In the morning
when you wake up, you don‘t go on telling
people how great a mahatma you were in
the dream!
There is a Zen story. A great master woke
up in the morning. He called his chief
disciple and said, ―Come to me. I had a
dream, I will tell it to you. Interpret it.‖
If the disciple was a Freud or a Jung or an
Adler, he would have been tremendously
happy, and he would have immediately
started interpreting the dream. But the
disciple was a meditator not a Jung, not a
Freud. He said, ―You wait. Don‘t talk
rubbish. I will bring water so you can wash
your face.‖
He brought a bowl of water. While the
master was washing his face, another
disciple passed. The master said, ―Come
here. I had a dream. Would you like to
interpret it?‖
The disciple looked. He said, ―Wait. The
tea is ready and I will bring you a cup of
tea. Then you will come to your senses!‖ A
dream is not worth even interpretation.
The master was happy. It is said he
danced that day. He said, ―At least two
disciples….‖ He said, ―If you had
interpreted my dream, I would have
thrown you out of my monastery‖ —
because a dream is nonsense, and then
trying to interpret it is even a higher
nonsense.
What the disciples did was the best
interpretation. The first one brought a
bowl of water and said to the old master,
―You just wash your face so that you
become more awake.‖
The other brought tea. ―Just drink tea, a
little hot tea, and that will bring you back
to your senses. You will be more
conscious.‖
Consciousness is needed, not
interpretation. All dreams are the same:
there are not good dreams and bad
dreams. How can there be good dreams
and bad dreams? Both are unreal. In
unreality you cannot make a distinction
between good and bad. Moral, immoral;
sinner, saint — all are dreams. Don‘t try to
change one dream for another. All are
chains. Steel or gold, it doesn‘t matter.
Wake up! All the awakened ones are just
standing there with bowls of water and a
hot cup of tea….
Reference: Osho: “Come Follow to
You, Vol 2″

Video link for Buddha-field

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNSMy_dDPcQ
BUDDHAFIELD – THE MYSTERY OF EXISTENCE

BE AWARE! LIVE YOUR LIFE IN TOTAL CELEBRATION! A LIFE OF CELEBRATION

WILL UNFOLD PAGES FROM THE SCRIPTURE OF THE BEING!
 Death is Celebration – Beyond Duality
HOW A SHEIKH SHOULD LEAVE THE WORLD
is the realization of this awareness.

yh Kya raj hE saik@ mSt beoud ik

Ab tUne cZme #nayt hqa lI

vhI mykda hE mgr sUna sUna

vhI jamae mIna mgr oalI oalI

#nayt ka r<g Aaj bdla huAa hE

vh hE< ya< jama bdl kr bEQe hu@

jra Apne cZme hkIkI se deoae

n yh jam oalI n vaeh jam oalI.

What is this secret that physically you are no more?

Everything is same yet still something has changed.
Today the form or nature of grace is different.
Look at things through your inner vision
and you will find no place devoid of that
SUBTLE PRESENCE!

Life is the beginning. And death is
considered as the end. Life and death are
two sides of the same coin. Or these are
two ends of life‟s tunnel. One end is life
and the other is death. I am not calling
these as entrance and exit. The entrance
and exit are meaningful only in relation to
the realm you are in. For example you are
in a room then this is your realm. Going
out of the room will be exit and vice versa.
On the other hand if the room door opens
into another area which is your realm.
Then what meant to be exit in relation to
the room will mean entry in relation to the
other area.
So too is the case of life and death. Or
journey from one realm to another! You
are entering form the known to the
unknown or the subtle one.
One unfolds into the other. Life/death is
the door to beyond. Life and death are like
a door sign which has on one side written
„Life‟ and „Death‟ on the other side. As an
individual you have to go beyond both life
and death only then you can one day
attain to fruition. If life is a yagna as
Hindus call their way of ritualistic worship
then death is the culmination or the final
offering in that holy sacrificial fire of life –
the ultimate.
Death will determine how you have lived
your life full of awareness or
unconsciousness. If you have wasted your
life in useless pursuits of duality, conflict,
and negation of life force then life has
been a waste. Then in the moments of
death there will be fear, pain and loss. On
the other hand if life has been full of
awareness then you will exit from the life
joyfully, full of awareness, singing and
dancing. Life of such a man of awareness
is a blessing and death is even a bigger
blessing – benediction.
Remember when a master – a man of
awareness leaves the world tremendous
energy is released. And if you are aware
you can be enlightened that very moment.
The life energy that was encaged within
the narrowness of the body-mind realm is
now being released. Normally your
awareness is only that of the body-mind
realm so we continue to lament at such an
occasion. And you forget all your
scriptures and sermons that soul never
dies.
This has not become part of your
awareness and inner growth. Anything
that remains on the surface can never
transform you. And even you make efforts
to remember this you will forget. For any
teaching to be part of your awareness first
has to grow within you as part of your
growth. Only then it will evolve from deep
within. This alone can transform you and
give you moment to moment awareness of
that which is. In the absence your efforts
will prove futile.
Tasuwware sheikh – Taoshobuddha
Desirelessness is the path that leads to the
experience of totality. It leads to the
experience of the immortal within.
However each one of us is inflicted by
myriad desires. Desires imply life. Desires
continue to plague human mind in a
continuum. This is chain reaction. One
leads to the other. And the process
continues unabated. And Desirelessness is
the state of life beyond. Or what we
generally call as death.
Before I take you through this composition
and the process of Tasawwuf something of
the composer!
This is one of the compositions of Mirza
Ghalib. In this he has brought out the
falsafa of life. Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan,
Ghalib a great classical Urdu and Persian
poet of the Indian subcontinent was born
in Agra during the terminal period of
Mughal rule on 27 December 1796. He is
considered to be the most popular and
influential poet of the Urdu language.
Ghalib today remains popular amongst
Urdu speakers not only in India and
Pakistan but also amongst diaspora
communities around the worl d. Ghalib
mea ns dom inant. This is the pen name
that he used.
He had seven children but none survived.
This pain echoes in some of Ghalib's
ghazals. He died on 15 February 1869. The
house where he lived in Gali Qasim Jaan,
Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, in Delhi, has
now been turned into 'Ghalib Memorial'
and houses a permanent exhibition on
him.
hjarae< Ovaihze @esI ik hr Ovihz pe dm inkle
bhut inkle mere Arman leikn i)r -I km inkle.
Life and death are two poles of existence.
Death is more total and significant than
life. Life is just trivial and superfluous.
Death is far deeper! Through death you
grow into real life. And through life you
can only reach death. Life is a continuous
journey. All that you understand by life is
desire just a journey towards death. The
entire life is a journey of desire and
nothing else. Once you know that life is
just a journey, and then you will be less
interested in life. Your interest in death will
increase. Once you are interested in death, death. Then you experience a life that is
you can delve deeper in life. You will not existential and eternal but without death.
want to remain on the circumference.
Both death and Desirelessness are
Life implies desire. Desire to live! Desire to synonymous. When through Maraqba you
be in every possible way! Desirelessness attain to the state of Desirelessness you
implies being closed to the outer world of have in fact tasted death. This is the death
duality. This is conscious death. This is of all that is finite. This is fana as well.
death through Maraqba. It is only in death Desirelessness is immortality.
that you resurrect.
To reach the domain of immortality you
By nature you cannot be interested in have to pass through the door consciously.
death. In every possible way, you want to We die many times but only
escape death. You are afraid of death. unconsciously. You consider death as
What is the reason? You have made our something inauspicious and ugly. You die
life a garden, while you have completely most of the time, in a state of sleep or
deserted the domain of death. And while unconscious. You are so afraid of
everyone is afraid of moving from an oasis death that the moment death approaches
to a desert. Death is not far. It is now and you become afraid and unconscious. When
here. We are dying every moment. It is you die in this state, you are re-born. The
true physiologically, psychologically, and whole process repeats itself. And, thus,
emotionally. Every moment cells die in our continues the saga of the journey of the
body and in their place new cells are born. being. But you are not concerned with
Human skin constantly changes. While we death. Once you are ready to experience
are dying, we continue to be concerned death rather than life, then you can pass
about life. Such concern about life is just a through the door of death consciously.
deep concern, a fear. Death is right there. This is what Maraqba is. Maraqba implies
It is deep inside. And not only there but is to pass through the door of death
growing constantly. What you need to do consciously. To die consciously is Maraqba.
is take an 180-degree turn. When you are However, you cannot wait for death,
concerned with death, then life will unfold because death happens every moment.
a new meaning to you. And the door is not
Once you are at ease This is what Maraqba is. somewhere outside.
with death, without Maraqba implies to pass Also, it is not a
any fear you enter into normal door that you
a deathless life. A life
through the door of death know. The door is
of tranquility and bliss! consciously. To die consciously inside you. It is right
The moment you come is Maraqba. there now.
to know death you will
encounter life – What is necessary for
eternal. Death is the door from the this is to accept the very act of death.
superfluous life on the circumference. Once you have accepted death, feel it
When you pass through this door you every moment, live it, and be aware of it.
enter the domain of life that you have Then suddenly the door opens. And
never known. A dimensionless domain of through this door you begin to glimpse the
eternity! A dimensionless domain of life eternal. It is only through death you
deeper, eternal, deathless life! From the can experience eternity. It can be said that
life on the circumference, which is nothing meditation is conscious death, a voluntary
but death, you pass through the door of death. This is just a process of deepening
within or drowning within. You are no
more on the surface, instead you are
moving deeper into your being. By Death
is meant moving away from the surface.
Moving away from the life of desires!
Desirelessness is Maraqba. This is death. A
conscious death! From times immemorial
this blossoming of flowers in the garden of
the existence has been happening and
shall continue erelong.
Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Pythagoras,
Heraclitus, Bodhidharma, Mahabir, Lau
Tzu, Chung Tzu, Krishna, Rama, Raman,
Ram Krishna, Vivekanand, Nanak, Kabir,
Mira, Rabia, Mira, Osho, Shah Bahauddin,
Al HilajMansoor, Bayzid Bistami, Sheikh
Ahmad Al Farooqui, Sheikh Baqui Billah,
Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, Sufi, Ram
Chandra, Sufi Raghuber Dayal, Sufi Brij
Mohan Lal, Milerapa, Rumi, Kabir, Guru
Gobind Singh are just to name a few.
LOOK AT THESE LILLIES. THEY ARE FAR
MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN SOLOMON IN HIS
MOST PRECIOUS ATTIRE.
Celebrating the Dissolution of Consciousness
OSHO: Many years ago when Dr Amrito
asked Osho how would you like to
celebrate your death? An Elightened Osho
responded – „Take me to Buddha hall for
tem minutes! And from there take me
straight to the burning Ghat for
cremation!‟
Introspect, these words. Can any ordinary
person say such words? No! Not at all!
Only a Buddha! The enlightened one can
really say so. Such is Osho!
What really overwhelms me is the
tremendous awareness in this statement.
One thing is certain! No one takes the
living one for cremation.
THUS CAME THUS GONE THESE FLOWERS.
IN THEIR BLOSSOMING EXISTENCE
CELEBRATED ITS FRUITION. AND IN
THEIR WITHERING NAY DISSOLUTION
TOO EXISTENCE CELEBRATED.
THE FLOWER THAT HAS BLOSSOMED ONE
DAY DISSOLVED INTO TOTALITY LEAVING
ITS BEAUTY, FRAGRANCE, SERENITY,
LOVE AND AWARENESS INTO COSMOS.
JUST AS A SEED BLOSSOMS ONE DAY
INTO MYRIAD FLOWERS! THUS
CELEBRATES LIFE. AND THEN ONE DAY
DISAPPEARS IN THE UNKNOWN
OBLIVION! IN THAT TOO IT GIVES BIRTH
TO MYRIADS OF NEW SEEDS. THUS
CONTINUES THE PROCESS OF
TRANSFORMATION AND THE BIRTH OF
THE NEW MAN!
SUCH HAS BEEN THE LIFE OF EACH ONE
OF THESE FLOWERS.
If it be so then at what precise moment
did Osho leave the finite existence? Of
course he did not leave before he came to
the Buddha hall. Also he did not leave
during the ten minutes when he was in the
Buddha hall. Then when did he leave. First
Osho gave the living message of a
Buddha. And coming to the end of the ten
minute period he allowed his being to
dissolve into the entire cosmos, it is at this
precise moment Osho leave the world. The
purpose of life is fulfilled. The flower has
now dissolved into the vastness of the
existence.
Only an enlightened one can really live life
like this. And when life is lived like this
then death becomes a celebration.
RAM KRISHNA PARAMHANSA:
A being of tremendous awakening he had
liking for a particular dish. During the
meditation sessions he will run inside to
the kitchen to enquire of the menu for the
day. This was quite embarrassing for
everyone.
At this Sharda said, „Your this behavior
and the desire for food is quite
embarrassing for even your disciples. You
cannot resist that you have to come to the
kitchen even during the meditation or
prayer sessions.‟
Hearing this awakened or enlightened Ram
Krishna said, „There is nothing that can
hold me to this life. I have crossed all
obstacles. My work on this earth is not
over as yet. As a result I had to create a
conscious desire so that I can stay on
earth until my work is over. The day I turn
my face from the food remember three
day after that I will be no more alive.‟
Everyone thought this as another excuse
of the master. But no one could tune in to
his awareness or his inner state of
awakening.
It happened. Ram Krishna was suffering
from throat cancer. He was resting on the
bed. Sharda brought the platter of food for
him and said that she had prepared his
favourite dish. Awakened Ram Krishna
looked at Sharda as if to remind her of
something and then turned his face away
from the food to the other side. Hearing
this Sharda remembered the words many
years ago, „The day I turn my face away
from food three days after that I will not
be alive.‟ The platter slipped from the
hands of Sharda.
Exactly three day after that Ram Krishna
entered Samadhi.
Introspect on this. Life was celebration and
death too a celebration for Ram Krishna
Paramhansa.
MILEREPA:
Milerepa is a Tibetan master. He lived in a
temple. He was on his death bed. His
disciples were surrounding him. Sound of
Om continued to echo inside the room.
Everyone realized that no one was creating
this sound and yet still this sound was in
the room. Anxiously each looked for the
source of this echo but could not find.
Then someone put his easy of one part of
Milerapa it was confirmed that the sound
was coming from each cell of his body.
This is celebration of death that a master
can give a taste.
AL HILLAJ MANSOOR:
He used to go on the public places and
declare „ANAAL HAQ‟ – I am the light, I am
the truth. This is blasphemy according to
Islamic tradition. Only Holy Prophet Peace
be upon Him is Anaal haq.
Even his master Junnaid had the courage
to say this. Junnaid used to tell Hillaj not
to say such things although he knows this
to be true. At this Hillaj would say what he
can do if Allah wants him to declare.
Hillaj was caught and killed. People would
ask Hillage what is ultimate. Hillaj invited
him to come next day to the place of
execution. Hillaj‟s limbs were being cut but
he kept on laughing and the sound „Anaal
Haq’ continued to echo.
BUDDHA:
Someone asked where you will go after
you die. Buddha took a candle lit it. As the
candle was lit the light spread and then
suddenly Buddha put off the flame.
Then addressing the commune Buddha
asked one moment ago the candle was lit
and then suddenly the flame was out.
From where the light came and where it
did disappeared.
The light came from nowhere and
disappeared in the vastness of
„NOWHERE‟.
THUS CAME THUS GONE. ‘TATHAGATA’
Buddha is said to have told Anand that he
is now going to enter the existence
MAHAPARI NIRVANA or simply death.
As was about to enter a man named
‘SUBHADRA’ came running. He wanted to
meet Buddha. Many a times he wanted to
come but the world and its affairs kept him
away. He was stopped by Anand that
Buddha has gone to enter MahaPari
Nirvana. This is the last moment of his life.
Buddha heard this. So he asked Anand to
allow the person to come in. Also he said
something very significant. Buddha said, „I
do not want the humanity to know that
Buddha was alive and he refused to meet
someone.‟
Such was the awareness of Buddha.
SUFI NAQSHBANDI RAMCHANDRA:
On August 14, 1931 when he entered
Mahasamadhi he went on explaining that
life force or rooh has now left a particular
part of the body. He continued to explain
this until the life force reached the vocal
cord. After that no more explanation as
the voice ceased. And all those who were
present in the room experienced witness a
bight lighted ball came out of his mount
and disappeared in the unknown filling the
entire room with its incandescence for a
moment.
Ordinary human beings cannot witness the
dissolution of a master. The room had only
a few enlightened ones.
SUFI NAQSHBANI RAGHUBER DAYAL:
June 7, 1947 it was afternoon enlightened
Sheikh had his afternoon snack. Thereafter
purposely he sent everyone away for one
reason or the other. He was all alone.
Then he sat in meditation and consciously
allowed the life force to release the finite
realm of the body.
Thus the sheikh entered Samadhi. A
conscious dissolution!
SUFI NAQSHBANDI BRIJ MOHAN LAL:
Sheikh Brij Mohan Lal exhibited this
awareness throughout life. When life is full
of such awareness death becomes a
benediction, a celebration. Such a life
living and even death becomes a song, a
dance, and a celebration.
After the marriage of his daughter Gyatri
to Sufi Lakshmi Sahai (the coauthor in this
book) sheikh was completely detached
from life. It appeared as if he was waiting
for the final moment of dissolution.
Journeying along the ocean of life
nourishing and nurturing all those who
came in his company the life of Sheikh Brij
Mohan Lal continued.
Then came the January 6th 1955 when the
Sufi Master set for the final journey full of
awareness and understanding that time
has now come for the final transcendence
and dissolution into the vastness of the
existence. His program for journey to
Mumbai (Bombay then) began. Along the
journey many came to seek his blessings.
To everyone he gave the hint for the final
journey. At the same time he veiled the
cognition of all those who visited him en-
route. Such things are kept a secret from
ordinary human consciousness. Ordinary
human consciousness has not yet
transcended beyond his life and death.
First the aspirant has to transcend beyond
individual life and death. And then he goes
beyond the cosmic dissolution and
evolution. Or simply cosmic life and death!
Only an individual who has experienced
cosmic life and death in the moments of
solitude can really witness soul‟s journey
to the life beyond. And such secrets can
only be revealed to such a person.
I had experienced this when during my
visit to India I met my uncle Sufi Master
Sufi Onkar Nath. During this meeting a
hint was given that this is our last
meeting. But I could not reveal this to
anyone. When such secrets are revealed
you are plunged in the ocean of bliss and
serenity full of gratitude.
A master is not body. The body must
undergo its metamorphosis. But the Rooh
is ever indestructible. Rooh is the
incarnation of the whole or Allah as Noor
within the finiteness of the body. Sheikh‟s
program for the return journey was not
published in the monthly magazine. And
no one could notice this. It was only after
the demise that it was noticed that the
Sufi did not allow his return program be
published. When someone is no more how
could he plan anything then?
His return journey was to be planned by
others. This is the reason it was not
published. On January 17th, 1955 he
reached the city of Mumbai early in the
morning. And in the evening congregation
amidst disciple his discourse had the
message of forgiveness. He spoke of
„forgiveness‟ in the light of a Hindu
Scripture – Ram Charit Manas. The talk
centered the understanding of the one who
is beyond narrowness. Generally it is not
easy for anyone to forget and forgive. We
seem to forgive only on the surface and
deep down the seed of forgiveness never
grows in the barren soil.
The story narrates the fierce battle
between the demon king Ravana and Ram
was over as Ravana was slain. Now,
Ravana is no more. And with this all
enmity also vanished. But such is not the
case. We continue to nourish and nurture
the seeds of acrimony even after the
person is no more. Thus you continue to
live in the graveyards of the putrefied
emotions. Ravana‟s dead body lay in the
battlefield. He is still counting for the final
journey of the Rooh or the soul. Rama
went close by. And in a flash the soul of
Ravana dissolved in the vastness of Rama.
As this happened the soul or Rooh of
Sheikh Brij Mohan Lal left the finite
existence to merge in Totality! Fruition
happened. Totality merged into totality.
KABIR:
Kabir moved from Banaras a place where
he lived all his life to nearby place that
was considered as profane. People come
from all quarters to die I Banaras and
Kabir moved from such a holy city to a
profane place for the last days of his life.
Kabir died in Maghar a place nearly 13
miles from Banaras. After his death there
was quarrel among his Hindu and Muslim
disciples over his funeral. Each wanted the
funeral his way. It was found the next day
when the crowd gathered still undecided
about the funeral. And when the sheet
covering the body was removed the body
of Kabir had disappeared and instead the
remains of the body were remains of
mortal body.
I can go on and on about other masters as
well.
Just as a master lived, celebrating, singing
and dancing each finite moment! So
should he die singing, dancing and
celebrating as the river of life merges in
the vastness of the ocean of
existence…Total Acceptance! This is fana
or dissolution. Total acceptance… total
welcome…with a spirit of deep gratitude…
a deep let go…. just total gratefulness for
the life…The Whole!
A master knows very well his journey on
this earth in this form is now
complete...there is no returning …no more
lives…
Now he is no longer confined to this space
…he is beyond the body…he is beyond the
mind…he is beyond time… Now he will
become available to many more. At this
moment, all those around should be in
deep silence with the master everything is
for a period…everything has its time….
Seasons come…seasons go….
The sun rises in the morning and sets in
the evening…
Life keeps on moving… Once I was a
child…in my mother‟s arm...helpless…then
my body grew older…. One day, it would
be time for me to be in the arms of
existence….
We are here but for a time…nothing really
is ours to keep…there should be no “this is
mine…and that is mine.”
Whatever is given…welcome it…. Use
it…enjoy it…but always with the
remembrance that it is a gift…. We have
been given the gift of life through this
body....
Welcome it…use it…enjoy it…give
reverence and thanks for this gift….
Enjoy this gift of life…celebrate this gift of
life…Live life in its totality…but always with
the remembrance that this life is a gift…
Therefore, we should not be possessive of
this body…it was a gift…a gift given to us
by the existence and one day this gift
…the gift of this body will be no more…I
It will be a time to let it go… There is a
commonly used statement…” let go and let
God”… Nothings last forever….everything
passes…the joys...the sorrow.. A lover was
once there…now he is gone…an accidental
meeting…now it is time for a separation…a
time to let go A child was born…now he
has died…a time to let go….
Be a witness…be aware…the emotions and
feelings in this life do not last forever…in
the morning you were happy, now in the
evening you have become sad…just be a
witness…knowing that all this shall pass…
When sadness comes your way…release
the tears…no need for fear… Just with the
remembrance that this too shall pass….
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Books will teach you something of the outward aspects of

the inward, and so will Meditation Talks. Without them you
will make really no progress in inward journey. Remember
the outward is the conductor to the inward.

But why should we not be able to do so without books? For

the same reason, remember you cannot think without
words. I have to give you words so that your thinking
pattern can change. Once your thinking pattern is changed
then one day I will take away the word from you and then
I will connect you to your inner silence.
This is journey from WORD to WORDLESS.
This is the work of a MASTER.

Whenever the darkness of ignorance, despair, and

disappointment stare in your face, a passage from here
and there will certainly revive the inner cords of your
being and thus will continue the inward journey. This is my
certitude.
S
omeone asked why do I go on writing so many books, almost
an inconceivable number and go on giving talks not only on
Sufi Path instead on all conceivable Paths of Spiritual
Attainment?

Books will teach you something of the outward aspects of the

inward, and so will meditation talks. Without them you will make
really no progress in inward journey. Remember the outward is the
conductor to the inward.

But why should we not be able to do so without books? For the same
reason, remember you cannot think without words. I have to give
you words so that your thinking pattern can change. Once your
thinking pattern is changed then one day I will connect you to your
inner silence.

You have been reared on books. Your mind is so altered by books

and talks, by hearing and speaking, that the inward can only speak
to you through the outward. Whatever you pretend you can
perceive! Man ultimately becomes what one pretends to be. However
the tragedy is that you are not interested in books. I have to create
designs for interest in books again.

This is Naqshbandi Design. Books are the Tawwazjoh or the energy

field that the master creates as Designs for Transformation.
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