I HAVE CREATED PUNE COMMUNE AS MY IDEA OF A REAL UNIVERSITY & HERE THERE ARE THREE STAGES OF BEING WITH ME: STUDENT, DISCIPLE & DEVOTEE. I HAVE LEFT BEHIND A LARGE NUMBER OF OLD AND YOUNG SANNYASINS. A NEW-COMER ENCOUNTERS THEM SOONER OR LATER AND PONDERS.. WHOM SHOULD I RELY UPON…OLDER ONES….THOSE PHYSICALLY CLOSE TO ME FOR LONG PERIODS….THOSE RUNNING MY PUNE COMMUNE….THOSE OUTSIDE PUNE COMMUNE… I SUGGEST JUST ONE THING….WHOMEVER YOU ENCOUNTER REPRESENTING ME….TRY TO MAKE OUT WHAT STAGE THIS GUY IS….STUDENT …DISCIPLE ….OR A DEVOTEE? ONE STAGE IS THAT OF A STUDENT WHO THINKS ABOUT ME AS A PERSON. HE NEVER LOOKS INTO MY EYES, HE NEVER TRIES TO PENETRATE MY BEING, HE REMAINS CONCERNED WITH THE SUPERFICIAL, THE FORMAL, MY BODY, MY WORDS. HE REMAINS AN OUTSIDER, CURIOUS, DESIROUS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ME, LONGING FOR MORE AND MORE KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION. BUT THERE IS AN INFINITE DISTANCE BETWEEN ME AND HIM. HE WILL GATHER A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE AND WILL LEAVE. HE WILL BECOME MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE, MORE EGOISTIC; IN FACT HE WILL LEAVE AS MORE SICK THAN HE HAD COME, MORE BURDENED THAN HE HAD COME -- BURDENED BY KNOWLEDGE. HE WILL NOT HAVE ANY TASTE OF MY WISDOM. HE CANT UNDERSTAND WISDOM; HE UNDERSTANDS ONLY KNOWLEDGE, HE UNDERSTANDS ONLY THAT WHICH CAN BE EXPRESSED THROUGH WORDS, THEORIES, LOGIC. HE WILL BE UNABLE TO SEE THE BEYOND. HE HAS TO BE PITIED. HE COMES AND GOES EMPTY-HANDED. HE COMES TO THE RIVER AND GOES BACK HOME THIRSTY. HE THINKS HE HAS GAINED MUCH, BUT ALL THAT HE HAS GATHERED ARE CRUMBS FALLEN FROM THE TABLE WHILE HE COULD HAVE BEEN MY GUEST -- HE REMAINED A BEGGAR. THE SECOND STAGE IS THAT OF A DISCIPLE -- WHO COMES A LITTLE BIT CLOSER, BECOMES AWARE OF SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS, STARTS FEELING, MOVES FROM THE WORLD OF THINKING TO THE WORLD OF FEELING, SLIPS FROM THE HEAD TO THE HEART. HE WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR NOT ONLY THE WORDS BUT THE POETRY HIDDEN BEHIND THEM. HE WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR NOT ONLY THE WORDS, BUT THE SILENCE CONTAINED IN THOSE WORDS. OF COURSE HE WILL SEE THE SUPERFICIAL TOO, BUT HE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THATS NOT ALL -- SOMETHING MORE IS THERE. HE WILL NOT BE EXACTLY CONSCIOUS OF IT, BUT AN UNCONSCIOUS INTUITIVE FEELING IS BOUND TO BE THERE. IF HE LINGERS HERE A LITTLE LONGER THEN THAT FEELING WILL BECOME MORE SOLID, MORE SUBSTANTIAL. FIRST IT WILL BE ONLY A SHADOW, A GLIMPSE, A VISION THAT HAPPENS ONCE IN A WHILE AND THEN IS LOST, AS WHEN CLOUDS DISAPPEAR AND FOR A MOMENT YOU SEE THE SUN, AND AGAIN THERE ARE CLOUDS AND THE SUN IS NO MORE. THE STUDENT NEVER SEES THE SUN, HE ONLY SEES THE CLOUDS. THE DISCIPLE, ONCE IN A WHILE, IS TOUCHED BY THE BEYOND, MOVED BY THE BEYOND. THE STUDENT LIVES IN THE HEAD, THE DISCIPLE LIVES IN THE HEART. BUT JUST TO REMAIN A DISCIPLE IS NOT ENOUGH EITHER -- BETTER THAN BEING A STUDENT, FAR BETTER, FAR SUPERIOR, BUT NOT ENOUGH. ONE STEP MORE -- AND THAT IS THE STEP OF BEING A DEVOTEE. A DEVOTEE IS ONE WHO NEITHER THINKS ABOUT THE MASTER, NOR FEELS ABOUT THE MASTER, BUT STARTS SYNCHRONIZING WITH HIS BEING; NEITHER FROM THE HEAD NOR FROM THE HEART, BUT FROM THE VERY CORE OF HIS EXISTENCE. HE STARTS PULSATING, HE STARTS LIVING IN THE SAME RHYTHM, HE BREATHES THE WAY THE MASTER BREATHES. HIS HEART DANCES WITH THE BEAT OF THE MASTERS HEART. HE LOSES HIMSELF, HE IS NO LONGER AN OUTSIDER. THE STUDENT IS ABSOLUTELY AN OUTSIDER, THE DEVOTEE ABSOLUTELY AN INSIDER, AND THE DISCIPLE IS IN BETWEEN. THE DISCIPLE IS IN THE MIDDLE, ON THE WAY. IF HE IS COURAGEOUS HE WILL BECOME A DEVOTEE, IF HE IS A COWARD HE WILL FALL BACK AND BECOME A STUDENT. THE STUDENT IS AT EASE, BECAUSE HE IS NOT AWARE AT ALL OF THE REAL; THE DEVOTEE IS AT EASE BECAUSE HE IS IN TUNE WITH THE REAL. THE GREATEST DIFFICULTY IS THAT OF THE DISCIPLE; HE IS IN BETWEEN, PULLED APART IN TWO DIRECTIONS. HE WILL HAVE TO DECIDE SOONER OR LATER EITHER TO BE A STUDENT OR TO BE A DEVOTEE; ONE CANNOT PROLONG THE STATE OF BEING A DISCIPLE FOR LONG, BECAUSE IT IS A STATE OF ANGUISH, IT IS A STATE OF TENSION. THE STUDENT IS RELAXED BECAUSE HE IS UNCONSCIOUS, THE DEVOTEE IS RELAXED BECAUSE HE IS CONSCIOUS, BUT THE DISCIPLE IS VAGUE -- VAGUELY CONSCIOUS, VAGUELY UNCONSCIOUS, THE DISCIPLE LIVES IN THE WORLD OF TWILIGHT, NEITHER DAY NOR NIGHT, NEITHER HERE NOR THERE, IN A KIND OF LIMBO. HENCE I TELL TO MY DISCIPLE -- YES, GLIMPSES HAVE STARTED SHOWERING ON YOU -- NOW BE COURAGEOUS, MOVE A LITTLE CLOSER. DONT ONLY LOOK INTO MY EYES, BUT BE MY EYES. DONT BE A SPECTATOR, BECOME A PARTICIPANT, GET INVOLVED, COMMITTED. DONT LOOK AT ME AS SOMEBODY SEPARATE FROM YOU. THE TIME HAS COME: BECOME INSEPARABLE, SO ATTUNED THAT YOU DONT HAVE ANY IDENTITY OF YOUR OWN. I DONT HAVE ANY IDENTITY OF MY OWN. AND WHEN YOU ALSO LOSE YOUR IDENTITY WE ARE TWO ZEROS COMING CLOSER AND CLOSER AND CLOSER, AND IN A SUDDEN FLASH OF THUNDER THE TWO ZEROS ARE NO MORE TWO, THEY HAVE BECOME ONE. THAT ORGASMIC EXPERIENCE OF ONENESS IS THE FIRST EXPERIENCE OF GODLINESS. THE FIRST EXPERIENCE OF GODLINESS HAPPENS IN BEING UTTERLY ONE WITH THE MASTER. THE MASTER IS ONLY A DEVICE, REMEMBER, HE IS ONLY A WINDOW TO THE DIVINE. COME CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE WINDOW AND THE WINDOW DISAPPEARS AND THE FRAME OF THE WINDOW DISAPPEARS AND THE WHOLE SKY OPENS UP WITH ALL ITS STARS. AND THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE ME IN THE EYES OF MY SANNYASINS AND IN THE SONG OF THE BIRDS AND IN THE GREEN AND RED AND GOLD OF THE TREES AND IN THE STARS AND IN THE RIVERS -- YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE ME EVERYWHERE. MY DEVOTEE WILL BE ABLE TO FEEL MY PRESENCE EVEN AFTER MY DEATH. FOR A DEVOTEE, MASTER IS ALWAYS PRESENT AND HE CAN TALK TO HIS MASTER. PEOPLE USE TO THINK DEVOTEE HAS GONE MAD. NO, DEVOTEE IS NOT MAD. PEOPLE ARE MAD. DEVOTEE HAS UNDERSTOOD THE POINT. MASTER HAS NOT GONE ANYWHERE? AS MASTER HAS BECOME FREE OF HIS BODY, DEVOTEE REJOICES BECAUSE NOW HE CAN MELT INTO HIS MASTER, INTO UNIVERSALITY OF HIS MASTER. THIS IS THE STATE OF THE DEVOTEE. BUT TO BE A DISCIPLE IS NO MEAN ACHIEVEMENT. IT IS A NECESSARY STEP TOWARDS BEING A DEVOTEE. SO I TELL MY DISCIPLES, ONE STEP MORE -- THEN YOU WILL NOT SAY, I AM LOOKING INTO YOUR EYES, YOU WILL SAY, I AM LOOKING THROUGH YOUR EYES. THEN YOU BECOME MY EYES, THEN YOU ARE NOT STANDING OUTSIDE, YOU STAND INSIDE ME AND YOU START LOOKING AT EXISTENCE AS I LOOK AT IT. AND THEN A GREAT TRANSFORMATION, A GREAT TRANSCENDENCE, A GREAT REVELATION.... HENCE, I SAY TO NEWCOMERS….WHENEVER YOU ENCOUNTER ANY OLD OR YOUNG SANNYASIN OF MINE…..IF YOU SEE HIM JUST AS A THINKING PERSON…TALKING ABOUT ME AS IF I AM A PERSON….GIVING UNDUE IMPORTANCE TO SUPERFICIAL THINGS LIKE SELLING MY WORDS…GIVING UNDUE IMPORTANCE TO FIVE STAR STRUCTURES OF MY COMMUNE…THAT GUY IS A COWARD DISCIPLE FALLEN INTO THE STAGE OF STUDENT……IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THAT GUY HAPPENS TO JAYESH OR HIS TEAM OF THERAPISTS RUNNING MY PUNE COMMUNE…..OR OLDER SANNYASINS GOSSIPING ABOUT ME AS A PERSON ON WWW.SANNYASNEWS.ORG. FIND A DEVOTEE OF MINE…HE MAY BE RARE…BUT HE IS THERE…..HE IS A WINDOW INTO MY BEING….HE IS ONE WITH ME…..HE IS ME……AND IF NOT AT LEAST BE WITH DISCIPLES WHO ARE MOVING ON THE PATH WITH COURAGE…AVOID MY STUDENTS HOWEVER OLD THEY MAY BE….AVOID MY COWARD DISCIPLES HOWEVER OLD THEY MAY BE. HENCE I SAY TO NEWCOMERS….MOVE ON FROM BEING A STUDENT TO THE STAGE OF BEING A DISCIPLE…THEN FROM BEING A DISCIPLE TO THE STAGE OF BEING A DEVOTEE….THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF MY REAL UNIVERSITY AT PUNE COMMUNE. OF COURSE MY REAL UNIVERSITY WILL REMAIN UNRECOGNIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT, IT WILL BE UNRECOGNIZED BY OTHER UNIVERSITIES. AND I CAN UNDERSTAND -- IF THEY RECOGNIZE IT, THAT WILL BE A SURPRISE TO ME. THEIR NOT RECOGNIZING IT IS REALLY RECOGNIZING IT -- RECOGNIZING THAT IT IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF INSTITUTION, WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOT MADE KNOWLEDGEABLE BUT LOVING. THEN I WANT TO ALERT NEWCOMERS ABOUT SOMETHING NASTY GOING ON IN MY PUNE COMMUNE. MY COWARD DISCIPLES WHO HAVE FALLEN TO THE STAGE OF STUDENTS HAVE TURNED OUT MY COURAGEOUS DISCIPLES WHO HAVE FLOWERED INTO DEVOTEES. MY COWARD DISCIPLES CONTROLLING MY PUNE COMMUNE ARE NOW RUNNING MY COMMUNE WITH THEIR IDEA OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG FOR NEWCOMERS AND MY PUNE COMMUNE. THEY CALL IT OSHO GUIDANCE. WHAT OSHO GUIDANCE IS TO ME IS THE SAME AS WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS TO JESUS. IN THE NAME OF JESUS, CHRISTIANITY- SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY FALSE IS EXISTING, AND THE DAY CHRIST WAS DENIED BY THE JEWS THEY BECAME FALSE. SINCE THAT UGLY DAY THEY HAVE NOT LIVED TRULY. HOW CAN YOU LIVE BEAUTIFULLY IF YOU REJECT YOUR OWN CLIMAXES? WHAT MOSES HAD STARTED, A BEAUTIFUL PHENOMENON, CAME TO A CLIMAX IN JESUS CHRIST, AND THE JEWS REJECTED JESUS CHRIST. THAT VERY DAY THEY REJECTED THEIR OWN FLOWERING, THEIR OWN FRAGRANCE. SINCE THAT DAY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN LIVING RIGHTLY. AND THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED JESUS HAVE CREATED SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY AGAINST JESUS. IF HE COMES BACK HE WILL BE NAUSEATED, DISGUSTED, SEEING THE VATICAN AND THE POPE AND ALL THAT GOES ON IN THE NAME OF CHRIST. MY OWN FEELING IS... SOMEBODY WAS ASKING ME, JESUS PROMISED TO COME BACK AGAIN -- WILL HE COME BACK? I TOLD HIM, IF HE COMES BACK THIS TIME, YOU WILL NOT NEED TO CRUCIFY HIM -- HE WILL COMMIT SUICIDE HIMSELF! JUST SEEING THE CHRISTIANS WILL BE ENOUGH -- ENOUGH TO COMMIT SUICIDE. HENCE MY FEELING IS THAT HE IS NOT GOING TO COME. ONCE IS ENOUGH, TWICE WILL BE TOO MUCH. WHEN I WAS ALIVE…A LIVING BUDDHA… THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS, MOHAMED, MOSES, HINDU BUDDHA- THEY ALL REJECTED ME…. SINCE THAT REJECTION THEY HAVE NOT LIVED TRULY. HOW CAN YOU LIVE BEAUTIFULLY IF YOU REJECT YOUR OWN CLIMAXES? WHAT ALL THE MASTERS HAD STARTED, A BEAUTIFUL PHENOMENON, CAME TO A CLIMAX IN MY BUDDHAHOOD, AND ALL THEIR FOLLOWERS REJECTED ME. THAT VERY DAY THEY REJECTED THEIR OWN FLOWERING, THEIR OWN FRAGRANCE. SINCE THAT DAY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN LIVING RIGHTLY. AND THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED ME HAVE CREATED SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY AGAINST ME. IT IS NAUSEATING, DISGUSTING, SEEING MY PUNE COMMUNE AND JAYESH AND HIS TEAM OF THERAPISTS AND ALL THAT GOES ON IN THE NAME OF OSHO GUIDANCE….THROWING OUT MY DEVOTEES BY LABELLING THEM AS MAD....RIDICULING DEVOTION, MY PHOTO, MY SANNYAS, MY MALA, MY LOVE SONGS, MY FULL LENGTH DISCOURSES IN BUDDHA HALL……REDUCING MY BUDDHA HALL INTO A DISCOTHEQUE….REDUCING MY VISION OF JORBA THE BUDDHA INTO JORBA THE JORBA….RIDICULING THE MASTERS… WHAT I HAD STARTED, A BEAUTIFUL PHENOMENON OF NEO SANNYAS, HAS COME TO A CLIMAX IN MY DEVOTEES, AND YET JAYESH AND HIS TEAM OF THERAPIST HAVE REJECTED MY DEVOTEES. MY COWARD DISCIPLES HAVE REJECTED THEIR OWN FLOWERING, THEIR OWN FRAGRANCE. SINCE THAT DAY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN LIVING RIGHTLY REAL EDUCATION CAN ONLY BE BASED ON LOVE, NOT ON KNOWLEDGE. REAL EDUCATION CANNOT BE UTILITARIAN, REAL EDUCATION CANNOT BE OF THE MARKETPLACE. NOT THAT REAL EDUCATION WILL NOT GIVE YOU KNOWLEDGE; FIRST, REAL EDUCATION WILL PREPARE YOUR HEART, YOUR LOVE, AND THEN WHATEVER KNOWLEDGE IS NEEDED TO PASS THROUGH LIFE WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU, BUT THAT WILL BE SECONDARY. AND IT WILL NEVER BE OVERPOWERING; IT WILL NOT BE MORE VALUABLE THAN LOVE. AND WHENEVER THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE, REAL EDUCATION WILL HELP YOU TO BE READY TO DROP YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND MOVE WITH YOUR LOVE; IT WILL GIVE YOU COURAGE, IT WILL GIVE YOU ADVENTURE. IT WILL GIVE YOU SPACE TO LIVE, ACCEPTING ALL RISKS, INSECURITIES; IT WILL HELP YOU TO BE READY TO SACRIFICE YOURSELF IF LOVE DEMANDS IT. IT WILL PUT LOVE NOT ONLY ABOVE KNOWLEDGE BUT EVEN ABOVE LIFE, BECAUSE LIFE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT LOVE. LOVE WITHOUT LIFE IS STILL MEANINGFUL; EVEN IF YOUR BODY DIES IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO YOUR LOVE ENERGY. IT CONTINUES, IT IS ETERNAL, IT IS NOT A TIME PHENOMENON. I ALSO SAY TO NEWCOMERS THAT OSHO GUIDANCE WITH ITS RIGHTS AND WRONGS IS NOT MY TEACHING. DO NOT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THIS GARBAGE OF JAYESH AND HIS TEAM OF THERAPISTS. LIFE IS A FLUX, IT IS CONSTANT MOVEMENT, IT IS CHANGE. EXCEPT CHANGE, EVERYTHING ELSE CHANGES. SO I CANNOT GIVE YOU FIXED IDEAS ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG. I CANNOT DO THAT HARM TO YOU. ALL THE OLD RELIGIONS HAVE DONE THAT; MAYBE IT WAS NEEDED BECAUSE HUMANITY WAS IN A VERY IMMATURE STATE. BUT NOW MAN HAS COME OF AGE. SMALL CHILDREN HAVE TO BE TOLD DONT DO THIS.... SO DONT ASK ME, DEAR NEWCOMER, WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG -- IT DEPENDS. ALL I CAN SAY TO YOU, ALL I WOULD LIKE YOU TO BE AWARE OF IS: ANY ACT DONE IN AWARENESS IS RIGHT AND ANY ACT DONE IN UNAWARENESS IS WRONG. THE ACT DOES NOT MATTER AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, MY APPROACH IS CONCERNED, MY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE IS CONCERNED; THE ACT DOES NOT MATTER, WHAT MATTERS IS YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. ARE YOU ACTING UNCONSCIOUSLY OR CONSCIOUSLY? SO THE REAL QUESTION IS SOMETHING WITHIN YOU, NOT WHAT YOU DO BUT WHO YOU ARE. I CHANGE THE WHOLE EMPHASIS FROM THE OBJECTIVE TO THE SUBJECTIVE, FROM THE OUTER TO THE INNER. IF YOU ARE DOING IT CONSCIOUSLY YOU ARE RIGHT -- AND THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE APPROACH OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONES. THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL THING IS TO BE CONSCIOUS AND THEN ACT, AND THEN WHATSOEVER YOU DO IS GOING TO BE RIGHT. BUT PEOPLE ARE UNCONSCIOUS. WHATSOEVER THE CONSCIOUS GOES ON PRETENDING, THE UNCONSCIOUS IS THE REAL SOURCE OF YOUR ACTS, AND UNLESS THE UNCONSCIOUS DISAPPEARS TOTALLY FROM YOUR BEING, YOU CANT DO RIGHT. ONLY ONE TENTH OF YOUR BEING IS CONSCIOUS, NINE TENTHS ARE UNCONSCIOUS. THE UNCONSCIOUS IS ALMOST A CONTINENT UNDERNEATH A SHALLOW LAYER OF WATER YOU CALL CONSCIOUSNESS. THE UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVATES YOU. THE CONSCIOUS ONLY FINDS RATIONALIZATIONS FOR DOING WHAT THE UNCONSCIOUS WANTS TO DO. THE CONSCIOUS IS AT THE SERVICE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS; THIS IS A WRONG SITUATION. LET THE UNCONSCIOUS BE AT THE SERVICE OF THE CONSCIOUS -- AND YOU BECOME A SANNYASIN. THAT IS WHAT SANNYAS IS ALL ABOUT: MAKING CONSCIOUSNESS MORE AND MORE THE CENTER OF YOUR BEING, AND TRANSFORMING MORE AND MORE CHUNKS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS INTO CONSCIOUSNESS, BRINGING MORE AND MORE LIGHT INTO THE INNER DARKNESS. A DAY COMES WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF LIGHT; YOUR WHOLE BEING IS CONSCIOUS. NOT EVEN A CORNER OF YOUR BEING HAS ANY DARKNESS ABOUT IT -- ALL IS KNOWN AND EXPERIENCED THROUGH AND THROUGH. YOU ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH YOURSELF, TOTALLY ACQUAINTED WITH YOURSELF; THEN WHATSOEVER YOU DO, IS RIGHT. RIGHT IS THE FLOWERING OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND WRONG THE FLOWERING OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS. HENCE I SAY TO A NEWCOMER, IF A QUESTION ARISES IN YOU, THAT WHEN JAYESH AND HIS TEAM OF THERAPIST ARE DISTORTING MY MESSAGE SO BLATANTLY, WHY SO MANY OF MY OLDER AND YOUNGER INDIAN SANNYASINS STILL GO ON OBEYING THEM? THE ANSWER LIES IN THEIR INDIAN CONDITIONING OF INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND SLAVE MENTALITY TOWARDS WESTERNERS. IN FACT THOSE WHO HAVE GONE DEEP INTO RESEARCH, THEY SAY INDIAN CULTURE HAS EXISTED FOR AT LEAST NINETY THOUSAND YEARS OR MORE. SUCH A LONG PAST MAKES A COUNTRY VERY OLD, UTTERLY OLD. ITS MIND BECOMES SETTLED AND STAGNANT, IT CANNOT ACCEPT ANYTHING NEW, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT. IT CAN NOT ACCEPT NEW FLOWERING OF MY COURAGEOUS DISCIPLES INTO NEW DEVOTEES AND NEW MASTERS. FREEDOM HAS NEVER BEEN THE GOAL OF INDIAN CULTURE BUT OBEDIENCE: OBEDIENCE TO THE SOCIETY, OBEDIENCE TO RELIGION, OBEDIENCE TO THE SCRIPTURES. THE SAME HAS BECOME NOW OBEDIENCE TO OSHO GUIDANCE, AND WHATEVER MY WESTERNER SANNYASINS (THERAPISTS AND JAYESH) SAY OR DO. INDIA SUFFERS FROM A GREAT INFERIORITY COMPLEX; FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS IT HAS BEEN A SLAVE. WHATSOEVER IS DONE BY THE WEST, INDIA BECOMES SUSPICIOUS THAT IT MUST BE RIGHT. BY THE SAME LOGIC, MY OLDER INDIAN DISCIPLES WHETHER OLD OR YOUNG, THEY GO ON BELIEVING THAT JAYESH AND HIS TEAM OF THERAPIST MAY BE RIGHT. A QUESTION MAY ARISE IN A NEW COMERS MIND, WHY JAYESH INSISTS SO MUCH THAT HE HAS BEEN SPECIALLY TRAINED AS CHOSEN ONE TO LEAD MY SANNYAS MOVEMENT. JAYESH AND HIS TEAM MAY HAVE BEEN DISCIPLES IN PAST, BUT THEY LACKED COURAGE AND NOW HAVE FALLEN TO STUDENT LEVEL. THEY HAVE BECOME HYPOCRITES. THEY HAVE HEARD MY GREAT TEACHINGS -- THEY CANNOT FOLLOW THOSE TEACHINGS, BECAUSE TO FOLLOW THEM NEEDS GREAT EFFORT. THEY CANNOT FOLLOW BUT THEY CAN PRETEND; THAT IS CHEAP AND EASY. SO JAYESH AND HIS TEAM OF THERAPISTS HAVE BECOME PSEUDO. ANOTHER QUESTION MAY ARISE IN NEW COMER’S MIND THAT WHY MY DEVOTEES ARE A THREAT TO JAYESH AND HIS TEAM OF THERAPISTS? THEY HAVE TO BE FORGIVEN FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND; IN THEIR OWN MINDS THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING VERY RIGHT. THEY THINK OF MY DEVOTEES AS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, AND IN A WAY THEY ARE RIGHT: MY DEVOTEES ARE BOUND TO TO DESTROY THE WHOLE OSHO GUIDANCE AND OBEDIENCE TO IT. MY DEVOTEES LIKE ME WOULD NOT SETTLE FOR ANY THING LESS THAN FREEDOM AS THE UTMOST VALUE. BUT THERE IS NOTHING TO WORRY. WHEN I WAS ALIVE SLOWLY SLOWLY, THE SENSITIVE, THE INTELLIGENT INDIANS DID COME CLOSER TO ME. THE MOST SENSITIVE OF INDIANS BECAME PART OF MY BUDDHA FIELD. MANY OF THEM HAVE FLOWERED INTO DEVOTEES AND NEW LIVING MASTERS. THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED IN MY PUNE COMMUNE SO THEY ARE CARRYING OUT MY WORK OUTSIDE PUNE COMMUNE. MY WORK CONSISTS OF DESTROYING THE CONDITIONING AND MAKING MAN FREE OF ALL CONDITIONING, MAKING MAN FREE OF OSHO GUIDANCE TOO. THIS HAPPENS EVERY DAY -- NOT ONLY TO INDIANS, TO OTHERS TOO. MY DEVOTEES AND LIVING MASTERS ARE DOING MY WORK EVERY DAY.. DO NOT SETTLE FOR OBEDIENCE IN MY NAME, SETTLE FOR UTTER FREEDOM OF DEVOTEES AND LIVING MASTERS! BE A BUDDHA! [PLEASE NOTE, JAYESH IS A CANADIAN DISCIPLE OF OSHO. HIS LEGAL NAME IS MICHAEL O BYRNE. HE WAS IN RESORT BUSINESS BEFORE COMING TO OSHO. SINCE OSHO HAS LEFT HIS BODY, HE HAS TURNED PUNE COMMUNE INTO HIS PRIVATE RESORT BUSINESS. HE HAS BANNED OSHO PHOTOS, OSHO LOVE SONGS, OSHO FULL LENGTH DISCOURSES, OSHO MALA, OSHO SANNYAS, OSHO AWAKENED DISCIPLES. HE KEEPS HARASSING OSHO DISCIPLES SPREADING OSHO WORK. HE HAS BANNED MANY WAYS TO ULTIMATE TRUTH NURTURED BY OSHO. HE HAS MANY POLICE AND COURT CASES PENDING AGAINST HIM IN INDIA FOR FRAUD AND FORGERY] ********************************** OSHO shares his understanding: The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 5 Chapter #6 Chapter title: Christ: the last Christian 16 October 1979 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES AND THERE IS NO ONE THERE. WHERE ARE YOU? Anand Bhavo, the dewdrop has disappeared into the ocean... now forget the dewdrop and look at the ocean. If you go on searching for the dewdrop, you will miss the ocean; you will remain preoccupied with the dewdrop, you will not be able to see the vastness that has happened. The dewdrop disappearing into the ocean in a sense is no more, but in another sense it is for the first time -- now it has become the ocean. Looking into my eyes, dont try to search for a person; you will not find any person there. The person has disappeared; now there is a presence. Presence is infinite; a person has a definition -- a boundary, a certain name, form, a label. Presence is simply presence. The flower is no more, it has become the fragrance. You can hold the flower in your hand, but you cannot hold fragrance in your hand. To experience fragrance hands are not needed at all. Thats how you should come close to me: you should be more sensitive towards the presence, synchronize with my presence. And the only way to synchronize with my presence is for you also to dissolve your person and become a presence. Only two presences can meet and mingle and merge. If you are a person then there is no possibility of melting and merging with me. You remain a rock and I am a river -- how are you going to melt and merge with me? You also become a presence -- thats my whole teaching, my whole message. Let the person die, let the flower disappear, because the person is nothing but a mask. The presence is your essence. The presence is what is meant by godliness. There is no God, only godliness; but because we are persons we imagine God also as a person. Our attitude towards ourselves is bound to reflect in our other attitudes too; our attitude towards existence is bound to be part of our attitude towards ourselves. You are still searching in my eyes for a person -- certainly there is none. Hence you can become afraid, scared, because you will see emptiness, nothingness. There are three stages of being with me. One stage is that of a student who thinks about me as a person. He never looks into my eyes, he never tries to penetrate my being, he remains concerned with the superficial, the formal, my body, my words. He remains an outsider, curious, desirous to know more about me, longing for more and more knowledge, information. But there is an infinite distance between me and him. He will gather a little information about the mysteries of life and will leave. He will become more knowledgeable, more egoistic; in fact he will leave more sick than he had come, more burdened than he had come -- burdened by knowledge. He will not have any taste of my wisdom. He cant understand wisdom; he understands only knowledge, he understands only that which can be expressed through words, theories, logic. He will be unable to see the beyond. He has to be pitied. He comes and goes empty-handed. He comes to the river and goes back home thirsty. He thinks he has gained much, but all that he has gathered are crumbs fallen from the table while he could have been my guest -- he remained a beggar. The second stage is that of a disciple -- who comes a little bit closer, becomes aware of something mysterious, starts feeling, moves from the world of thinking to the world of feeling, slips from the head to the heart. He will be able to hear not only the words but the poetry hidden behind them. He will be able to hear not only the words, but the silence contained in those words. Of course he will see the superficial too, but he will be able to understand that thats not all -- something more is there. He will not be exactly conscious of it, but an unconscious intuitive feeling is bound to be there. If he lingers here a little longer then that feeling will become more solid, more substantial. First it will be only a shadow, a glimpse, a vision that happens once in a while and then is lost, as when clouds disappear and for a moment you see the sun, and again there are clouds and the sun is no more. The student never sees the sun, he only sees the clouds. The disciple, once in a while, is touched by the beyond, moved by the beyond. The student lives in the head, the disciple lives in the heart. But just to remain a disciple is not enough either -- better than being a student, far better, far superior, but not enough. One step more -- and that is the step of being a devotee. A devotee is one who neither thinks about the master, nor feels about the master, but starts synchronizing with his being; neither from the head nor from the heart, but from the very core of his existence. He starts pulsating, he starts living in the same rhythm, he breathes the way the master breathes. His heart dances with the beat of the masters heart. He loses himself, he is no longer an outsider. The student is absolutely an outsider, the devotee absolutely an insider, and the disciple is in between. The disciple is in the middle, on the way. If he is courageous he will become a devotee, if he is a coward he will fall back and become a student. The student is at ease, because he is not aware at all of the real; the devotee is at ease because he is in tune with the real. The greatest difficulty is that of the disciple; he is in between, pulled apart in two directions. He will have to decide sooner or later either to be a student or to be a devotee; one cannot prolong the state of being a disciple for long, because it is a state of anguish, it is a state of tension. The student is relaxed because he is unconscious, the devotee is relaxed because he is conscious, but the disciple is vague -- vaguely conscious, vaguely unconscious, the disciple lives in the world of twilight, neither day nor night, neither here nor there, in a kind of limbo. Anand Bhavo, you are in the state of being a disciple. Yes, glimpses have started showering on you -- now be courageous, move a little closer. Dont only look into my eyes, but be my eyes. Dont be a spectator, become a participant, get involved, committed. Dont look at me as somebody separate from you. The time has come: become inseparable, so attuned that you dont have any identity of your own. I dont have any identity of my own. And when you also lose your identity we are two zeros coming closer and closer and closer, and in a sudden flash of thunder the two zeros are no more two, they have become one. That orgasmic experience of oneness is the first experience of godliness. The first experience of godliness happens in being utterly one with the master. The master is only a device, remember, he is only a window to the divine. Come closer and closer to the window and the window disappears and the frame of the window disappears and the whole sky opens up with all its stars. And then you will be able to see me in the eyes of my sannyasins and in the song of the birds and in the green and red and gold of the trees and in the stars and in the rivers -- you will be able to see me everywhere. Ramakrishna was dying, one of the greatest modern masters. He was suffering from cancer of the throat. It had become impossible for him to eat anything, even to drink water was impossible. For the last three days of his life he could not eat or drink anything. Vivekananda fell at his feet and said, If you ask God, just for the asking -- the miracle is bound to happen. Why dont you ask him to take this cancer away? At least you can say, Allow me to eat and drink. Ramakrishna said, If you say so, I will do it. I never thought of it. Your idea is good. I will try. He closed his eyes. Tears started flowing from his closed eyes, his face became full of light. All the anguish of the cancer, all the pain -- intolerable was the pain -- suddenly disappeared. He opened his eyes. Vivekananda was very happy, the other disciples were very happy, that something had happened, something miraculous. But they were not aware of what it was, they thought God had taken the cancer away, or at least had allowed Ramakrishna to eat and drink. But that was not the real miracle. Ramakrishna opened his eyes, he was ecstatic; for a few moments he could not utter a single word. Then he said, Vivekananda, you are a fool! You suggest such stupid things to me, and you know that I am a simple man, a villager, so I accept. I said to God, I cant eat, cant drink -- why cant you allow me at least to eat and drink? And he said, Ramakrishna, have you gone crazy? Now you can eat from the mouths of your disciples, now you can drink from others throats -- why do you cling to your own throat? And that released me from my body. Thats why I cried in joy. Yes, thats true! -- all throats are mine. I can eat, I can drink from others throats. When he was dying, his wife Sharda asked him, What am I to do when you die? because death was so imminent and so certain. In India when the husband dies, the wife has to drop all her ornaments. In Bengal particularly, the wife has never to use any colored clothes, she can only use white, no ornaments. Sharda asked, What am I to do? Should I wear white and no ornaments when you are gone? Ramakrishna said, But I am not going anywhere! I will be here! You will be able to see me in the eyes of those who love me. You will be able to feel me in the wind, in the rain, in the sun. A bird on the wing and suddenly you will remember me, and I am there! A beautiful sunset and you will remember me and I am there! You are not going to become a widow; you are married to me forever and forever. This marriage is not of time, it is of eternity. He is talking about the marriage between a devotee and a master. Sharda was a devotee, not only his wife -- that was secondary. And thats how it happened. Ramakrishna died, Sharda never even wept; she continued her way of life as if Ramakrishna was still alive. Every night she would prepare the bed for Ramakrishna, as she used to prepare it before. She would put up the mosquito net and she would tell Ramakrishna, Now you go to sleep, it is already too late. She would prepare the food that he used to like, she would bring the THALI, would sit by his side and tell Ramakrishna, Look what I have prepared for you. People used to think that she had gone mad. No, she was not mad. People were mad. She had understood the point. When she was dying, her last words were... she told all the disciples that had started loving her as their master, in the absence of Ramakrishna -- they started crying and weeping -- she said, Wait, what are you doing? Have you forgotten what Ramakrishna told me? That he was not going anywhere? I am not going anywhere either. Feel blissful, feel happy that I am also getting free of the body. Rejoice because now I can melt into Ramakrishna, into his universality. This is the state of the devotee. But to be a disciple is no mean achievement. It is a necessary step towards being a devotee. Anand Bhavo, one step more -- then you will not say, I am looking into your eyes, you will say, I am looking through your eyes. Then you become my eyes, then you are not standing outside, you stand inside me and you start looking at existence as I look at it. And then a great transformation, a great transcendence, a great revelation.... The second question: Question 2 BELOVED MASTER, YOU TALK SO OFTEN OF WONDER AND OF LOVE. HOW IS BEING IN A STATE OF AWE AND CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE RELATED TO BEING IN A STATE OF LOVE? Anand Nur, wonder and awe are the greatest spiritual qualities. Wonder means you function from a state of not knowing. The knowledgeable person never feels wonder; he is incapable of feeling wonder because he thinks he already knows. He knows all the stupid answers, he may know the whole ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA; hence every question is already answered in his mind. When a question is such that there is no answer to it, that it is unanswerable; not only today, but forever; not that it is unknown, but it is unknowable -- when one encounters the unknowable, unanswerable, one experiences wonder. One is in a state of awe, as if the heart stops beating, as if you dont breathe for a moment. The experience of wonder is such that everything stops. The whole world stops; time stops, mind stops, the ego stops. For a moment you are again a child, wondering about the butterflies and the flowers and the trees and the pebbles on the shore, and the seashells -- wondering about each and everything, you are a child again. And when you can wonder and can feel the immense beauty of existence which can only be felt in awe, when suddenly you are possessed by existence, overwhelmed, you can dance, you can celebrate that moment, you can say Aha! and you dont know anything else to say, no word, just an exclamation point...! The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. Everything is so tremendously deep and profound that it is impossible to know it. Knowledge is impossible. When this is experienced then your whole energy takes a jump, a quantum leap, from the mind to the heart, from knowing to feeling. When there is no possibility of knowing, your energy does not move in that direction anymore.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:47:37 +0000