एकांत क्या है~ओशो

“जब भी एकांत होता है, तो हम अकेलेपन को एकांत समझ लेते हैं। और तब हम तत्काल अपने अकेलेपन को भरने के लिए कोई उपाय कर लेते हैं। पिक्चर देखने चले जाते हैं, कि रेडियो खोल लेते हैं, कि अखबार पढ़ने लगते हैं। कुछ नहीं सूझता, तो सो जाते हैं, सपने देखने लगते हैं। मगर अपने अकेलेपन को जल्दी से भर लेते हैं। ध्यान रहे, अकेलापन सदा उदासी लाता है, एकांत आनंद लाता है। वे उनके लक्षण हैं। अगर आप घड़ीभर एकांत में रह जाएं, तो आपका रोआं-रोआं आनंद की पुलक से भर जाएगा। और आप घड़ी भर अकेलेपन में रह जाएं, तो आपका रोआं-रोआं थका और उदास, और कुम्हलाए हुए पत्तों की तरह आप झुक जाएंगे। अकेलेपन में उदासी पकड़ती है, क्योंकि अकेलेपन में दूसरों की याद आती है। और एकांत में आनंद आ जाता है, क्योंकि एकांत में प्रभु से मिलन होता है। वही आनंद है, और कोई आनंद नहीं है।”

~ ओशो~

एक ओंकार

एक ओंकार ( भगवान एक है )
सतनाम ( उसका नाम सच है )
करता पुरख ( वह सृष्टा है )
निर्भू ( वह अभय है )
निर्विकार ( वह दोष रहित है
अकाल ( मृत्यु वह अमर है )
अजुनी (उसका न आदि  है ना अंत है )
साईं भाग ( स्वयं प्रकाशमान है )
गुरू प्रसाद ( वह गुरु कृपा से प्राप्त हो सकता है )
जप  ( उसका नाम सिमरन करो )
आद सच ( वह अनंत काल से सत्य ह )
जुगाड़ सच (वः आज भी सत्य है)
है भी सच (वह आज भी सच है )

नानक होसी भी सच (गुरु नानक देव जी महाराज कहते हैं वह हमेशा सत्य रहेगा)

सतनाम वाहेगुरु

एक ओंकार ( भगवान एक है )
सतनाम ( उसका नाम सच है )
करता पुरख ( वह सृष्टा है )
निर्भू ( वह अभय है )
निर्विकार ( वह दोष रहित है
अकाल ( मृत्यु वह अमर है )
अजुनी (उसका न आदि  है ना अंत है )
साईं भाग ( स्वयं प्रकाशमान है )
गुरू प्रसाद ( वह गुरु कृपा से प्राप्त हो सकता है )
जप  ( उसका नाम सिमरन करो )
आद सच ( वह अनंत काल से सत्य ह )
जुगाड़ सच (वः आज भी सत्य है)
है भी सच (वह आज भी सच है )

नानक होसी भी सच (गुरु नानक देव जी महाराज कहते हैं वह हमेशा सत्य रहेगा)

सतनाम वाहे गुरु

Ik Onkar (God is One)
Sat Nam ( His name is True)

Kartaa Purakh (He is the Creator)

Nirbhau (He is without fear)

Nirvair (He is inimical to none)

Akal-murat (He never dies)

Ajooni (He is beyond births and
deaths)
Saibhang ( He is self illuminated)
Gurprasaad (He is realized by the
kindness of the True Guru)
Jap (Repeat His Name)
Aad sach (He is True in the
beginning, (before the anything
(universe) existed)
Jugaad sach (He was True when the
ages commenced and has ever been
True)
Hai bhi sach (He is also True now)
Nanak hosi bhi sach. (Satguru) Nanak
(says that) he will be certainly True
in the future.) —

एक कहानी ~ओशो (मिट्टी के दीए)

एक दिन संसार के लोग सोकर उठे ही थे कि उन्हें एक अदभुत घोषणा सुनाई पड़ी। ऐसी घोषणा इसके पूर्व कभी भी नहीं सुनी गई थी। किंतु वह अभूतपूर्व घोषणा कहां से आ रही है, यह समझ में नहीं आता था। उसके शब्द जरूर स्पष्ट थे। शायद वे आकाश से आ रहे थे, या यह भी हो सकता है कि अंतस से ही आ रहे हों। उनके आविर्भाव का स्रोत मनुष्य के समक्ष नहीं था।
‘‘संसार के लोगों, परमात्मा की ओर से सुखों की निर्मूल्य भेंट! दुखों से मुक्त होने का अचूक अवसर! आज अर्धरात्रि में, जो भी अपने दुखों से मुक्त होना चाहता है, वह उन्हें कल्पना की गठरी में बांध कर गांव के बाहर फेंक आवे और लौटते समय वह जिन सुखों की कामना करता हो, उन्हें उसी गठरी में बांध कर सूर्योदय के पूर्व घर लौट आवे। उसके दुखों की जगह सुख आ जाएंगे। जो इस अवसर से चूकेगा, वह सदा के लिए ही चूक जाएगा। यह एक रात्रि के लिए पृथ्वी पर कल्पवृक्ष का अवतरण है। विश्वास करो और फल लो। विश्वास फलदायी है।’’
सूर्यास्त तक उस दिन यह घोषणा बार-बार दुहराई गई थी। जैसे-जैसे रात्रि करीब आने लगी, अविश्वासी भी विश्वासी होने लगे। कौन ऐसा मूढ़ था, जो इस अवसर से चूकता? फिर कौन ऐसा था जो दुखी नहीं था और कौन ऐसा था, जिसे सुखों की कामना न थी?
सभी अपने दुखों की गठरियां बांधने में लग गए। सभी को एक ही चिंता थी कि कहीं कोई दुख बांधने से छूट न जाए।
आधी रात होते-होते संसार के सभी घर खाली हो गए थे और असंख्य जन चींटियों की कतारों की भांति अपने-अपने दुखों की गठरियां लिए गांव के बाहर जा रहे थे। उन्होंने दूर-दूर जाकर अपने दुख फेंके कि कहीं वे पुनः न लौट आवें और आधी रात बीतने पर वे सब पागलों की भांति जल्दी-जल्दी सुखों को बांधने में लग गए। सभी जल्दी में थे कि कहीं सुबह न हो जाए और कोई सुख उनकी गठरी में अनबंधा न रह जाए। सुख तो हैं असंख्य और समय था कितना अल्प? फिर भी किसी तरह सभी संभव सुखों को बांध कर लोग भागते-भागते सूर्योदय के करीब-करीब अपने-अपने घरों को लौटे। घर पहुंच कर जो देखा तो स्वयं की ही आंखों पर विश्वास नहीं आता था! झोपड़ों की जगह गगनचुंबी महल खड़े थे। सब कुछ स्वर्णिम हो गया था। सुखों की वर्षा हो रही थी। जिसने जो चाहा था, वही उसे मिल गया था।
यह तो आश्चर्य था ही, लेकिन एक और महाआश्चर्य था! यह सब पाकर भी लोगों के चेहरों पर कोई आनंद नहीं था। पड़ोसियों का सुख सभी को दुख दे रहा था। पुराने दुख चले गए थे--लेकिन उनकी जगह बिलकुल ही अभिनव दुख और चिंताएं साथ में आ गई थीं। दुख बदल गए थे, लेकिन चित्त अब भी वही थे और इसलिए दुखी थे। संसार नया हो गया था, लेकिन व्यक्ति तो वही थे और इसलिए वस्तुतः सब कुछ वही था।
एक व्यक्ति जरूर ऐसा था जिसने दुख छोड़ने और सुख पाने के आमंत्रण को नहीं माना था। वह एक नंगा वृद्ध फकरी था। उसके पास तो अभाव ही अभाव थे और उसकी नासमझी पर दया खाकर सभी ने उसे चलने को बहुत समझाया था। जब सम्राट भी स्वयं जा रहे थे तो उस दरिद्र को तो जाना ही था।
लेकिन उसने हंसते हुए कहा था: ‘‘जो बाहर है वह आनंद नहीं है, और जो भीतर है उसे खोजने कहां जाऊं? मैंने तो सब खोज छोड़ कर ही उसे पा लिया है।’’
लोग उसके पागलपन पर हंसे थे और दुखी भी हुए थे। उन्होंने उसे वज्रमूर्ख ही समझा था। और जब उनके झोपड़े महल हो गए थे और मणि-माणिक्य कंकड़-पत्थरों की भांति उनके घरों के सामने पड़े थे, तब उन्होंने फिर उस फकीर को कहा था: ‘‘क्या अब भी अपनी भूल समझ में नहीं आई?’’ लेकिन फकीर फिर हंसा था और बोला था: ‘‘मैं भी यही प्रश्न आप लोगों से पूछने की सोच रहा था।’’

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF SOMEONE REALLY LOVES YOU?

There are three layers of the human individual: his physiology, the body; his psychology, the mind; and his being, his eternal self. Love can exist on all the three planes, but its qualities will be different. On the plane of physiology, body, it is simply sexuality. You can call it love, because the word ‘love’ seems to be poetic, beautiful. But ninety-nine percent of people are calling their sex, love. Sex is biological, physiological. Your chemistry, your hormones – everything material is involved in it.

You fall in love with a woman or a man. Can you exactly describe why this woman attracted you? Certainly you cannot see her self, you have not seen your own self yet. You cannot see her psychology either, because to read somebody’s mind is not an easy job. So what have you found in the woman? Something in your physiology, in your chemistry, in your hormones, is attracted to the woman’s hormones, her physiology, her chemistry. This is not a love affair; this is a chemical affair.

Just think: the woman you have fallen in love with goes to our doctor, gets her sex changed, starts growing a beard and mustache. Will you be still loving her? Nothing has changed, only chemistry, hormones. Where has your love gone?

Only one percent of people know a little bit deeper. Poets, painters, musicians, dancers, singers have a sensitivity that they can feel beyond the body. They can feel the beauties of the mind, the sensitivities of the heart, because they live on that plane themselves.

Remember it as a ground rule: Wherever you live, you cannot see beyond that. If you live in your body, if you think you are only your body, you can be attracted only to somebody’s body. This is the physiological stage of love. But a musician, a painter, a poet, lives on a different plane. He does not think, he feels. And because he lives in his heart, he can feel the other person’s heart. That is ordinarily called love. It is rare. I am saying only one percent perhaps, once in a while.

Why are many people not moving to the second plane because it is tremendously beautiful? But there is a problem: anything very beautiful is also very delicate. It is not hardware, it is made of very fragile glass. And once a mirror has fallen and broken, then there is no way to put it together. People are afraid to get so much involved that they reach to the delicate layers of love, because at that stage love is tremendously beautiful but also tremendously changing.

Sentiments are not stones, they are like roseflowers. It is better to have a plastic roseflower, because it will be there always, and every day you can give it a shower and it will be fresh. You can put some French perfume on it. If its color fades you can paint it again. Plastic is one of the most indestructible things in the world. It is stable, permanent; hence people stop at the physiological. It is superficial, but it is stable.

Poets are known, artists are known to fall in love almost every day. Their love is like a roseflower. While it is there it is so fragrant, so alive, dancing in the wind, in the rain, in the sun, asserting its beauty. But by the evening it may be gone, and you cannot do anything to prevent it. The deeper love of the heart is just like a breeze that comes into your room, brings its freshness, coolness, and then it is gone. You cannot catch hold of the wind in your fist.

Very few people are so courageous as to live with a moment-to-moment, changing life. Hence, they have decided to fall into a love on which they can depend. I don’t know which kind of love you know – most probably the first kind, perhaps, the second kind. And you are afraid that if you reach your being, what will happen to your love? Certainly it will be gone – but you will not be a loser. A new kind of love will arise which arises only perhaps to one person in millions. That love can only be called lovingness.

The first love should be called sex. The second love should be called love. The third should be called lovingness – a quality, unaddressed – not possessive and not allowing anybody else to possess you. That loving quality is such a radical revolution that even to conceive it is very difficult.

Journalists have been asking me, “Why are there so many women here?” Obviously, the question is relevant, and they are shocked when I answer them. They were not expecting the answer. I have said to them, “I am a man.” They looked at me, unbelieving. I said, “It is natural that many more women will be here, for the simple reason that whatsoever they have known in their life before was either sex, or in rare cases, perhaps a few moments of love. But they have never come to know the taste of lovingness.” I have told these journalists, “Even the men you see here have grown many feminine qualities in them which have been repressed in the outside society.”

From the very beginning a boy is told, “You are a boy, not a girl. Behave like a boy! Tears are okay for a girl, but not for you. Be manly.” So every boy goes on cutting his feminine qualities. And all that is beautiful is feminine. So finally what is left is just a barbarous animal. His whole function is to reproduce children. The girl is not allowed to have anything with manly qualities. If she wants to climb a tree she will be stopped immediately, “This is for boys, not for girls!” Strange! If the girl has the desire to climb the tree, that is enough proof that she should be allowed.

All old societies have created different clothes for men and for women. This is not right; because each man is also a woman. He has come from two sources: his father and his mother. Both have contributed to his being. And each woman is also a man. We have destroyed both. The woman has lost all courage, adventure, reasoning, logic, because those are thought to be the qualities of a man. And the man has lost grace, sensitivity, compassion, kindness. Both have become half. This is one of the greatest problems we have to solve – at least for our people.

My sannyasins have to be both: half man, half woman. That will make them richer. They will have all the qualities that are available to human beings, not only half. At the point of being, you simply have a fragrance of lovingness. The journalists have asked me, “Do you love Sheela?” I said, “Of course. But I love so many women that I don’t know even their names. And not only women – I love so many men, because they are also half woman.” In one million sannyasins around the world, I cannot point to a single person and say, “This is the person I love.” I can simply say, “I love.” Whoever is ready to receive my love...it is available. So don’t be afraid. Your fear is right: what you think of as love will be gone, but what will come in its place is immense, infinite. You will be able to love without being attached. You will be able to love many people because to love one person is to keep yourself poor. That one person can give a certain experience of love, but to love many people....

You will be amazed that every person gives you a new feeling, a new song, a new ecstasy. Hence, I am against marriage. In my vision, marriages in the commune should be dissolved. People can live together their whole life if they want, but that is not a legal necessity. People should be moving, having as many experiences of love as possible. They should not be possessive. Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

All human beings are worthy of being loved. There is no need to be tethered to one person for your whole life. That is one of the reasons why all the people around the world look so bored. Why can’t they laugh like you? Why can’t they dance like you? They are chained with invisible chains: marriage, family, husband, wife, children. They are burdened with all kinds of duties, responsibilities, sacrifices. And you want them to smile and laugh and dance and rejoice? You are asking the impossible. Make people’s love free, make people non-possessive. But this can happen only if in your meditation you discover your being. It is nothing to practice.

I am not saying to you, “Tonight you go to some other woman just as a practice.” You will not get anything, and you may lose your wife. And in the morning you will look silly. It is not a question of practicing, it is a question of discovering your being. With the discovery of being follows the quality of impersonal lovingness. Then you simply love. And it goes on spreading. First, it is human beings, then soon animals, birds, trees, mountains, stars. A day comes when this whole existence is your beloved. That is our potential. And anybody who is not achieving it is wasting his life.

Yes, you will have to lose a few things, but they are worthless. You will be gaining so much that you will never think again of what you have lost. A pure impersonal lovingness which can penetrate into anybody’s being – that is the outcome of meditativeness, of silence, of diving deep within your own being. I am simply trying to persuade you. Don’t be afraid of losing what you have.

【Osho, From Death to Deathlessness, Talk 】

*मुहब्बत सी नशीली चाँदनी*,~ *ओशो*(मरो हे जोगी पुस्तक से)

ह्रदय को मोहती है,प्रणय संगीत जैसी
नयन को सोहती है, सपन के मीत जैसी,
तुम्हारे रूप जैसी, वसंती धूप जैसी
मधुस्मृति सी रसीली शरद की चाँदनी है।
चाँदनी खिल रही है तुम्हारे *हास* जैसी,
उमंगें भर रही है मिलन की आस जैसी,
प्रणय की बाँह जैसी, अलक की छाँह जैसी
प्रिये, तुम सी लजीली शरद की चाँदनी‍ है।
हुई है क्या ना जाने अनोखी बात जैसी
भरे पुलकन बदन में प्रथम मधु रात जैस‍ी 
हँसी दिल खोल पुनम, गया अब हार संयम
वचन से भी हठीली शरद की चाँदनी है।
तुम्हारे नाम जैसी, छलकते जाम जैसी
मुहब्बत सी नशीली, शरद की चाँदनी जैसी 

~Stillness speaks~

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
~Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks~

Gems of Ammachi~Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi)

"When you take each step with good thoughts and a smiling face, all goodness will come to you and fill your being. Then God cannot possibly stay away from you. Divinity will embrace you." 

"The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place."

"The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.Inner peace always follows in the wake of pain. To teach the state of joy, you first have to experience pain. Pain in the beginning and lasting happiness at the end is far superior to happiness in the beginning and long-lasting pain at the end. Pain is an unavoidable part of life. Without having suffered in some way, you cannot experience and appreciate peace or happiness."  ~Ammachi~

"In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies."

"The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible."

"One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.”

“As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.”

“In today’s world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.”

"Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world."

👉 आत्मचिंतन

● मेरे कारण दूसरों का भला हुआ-यह सोचना मूर्खता है। हमारे बिना संसार का कोई काम अटका न रहेगा। हमारे पैदा होने से पहले संसार का सब काम ठीक ठीक चल रहा था और हमारे बाद भी वैसा चलता रहेगा। परमात्मा उतना गरीब नहीं है कि हमारी मदद के बिना सृष्टि का काम न चला सके।

● हम प्रथकतावादी न बनें। व्यक्तिगत बड़प्पन के फेर में न पड़ें। अपनी अलग से प्रतिभा चमकाने का झंझट मोल न लें। समूह के अंग बनकर रहें। सबकी उन्नति में अपनी उन्नति देखें और सबके सुख में अपना सुख खोजें। यह मानकर चलें कि उपलब्ध प्रतिभा सम्पदा एवं गरिमा समाज का अनुदान है और उसका श्रेष्ठतम उपयोग समाज को सज्जनतापूर्वक लौटा देने में ही है।

● गिरे हुओं को उठाना, पिछड़े हुओं को आगे बढ़ाना, भूले को राह बताना और जो अशान्त हो रहा है उसे शान्तिदायक स्थान पर पहुँचा देना यह वस्तुतः ईश्वर की सेवा ही है। जब हम दुःख और दरिद्र को देखकर व्यथित होते हैं और मलीनता को स्वच्छता में बदलने के लिए बढ़ते हैं तो समझना चाहिए यह कृत्य ईश्वर के लिए-उसकी प्रसन्नता के लिए ही किये जा रहे हैं। 

COSMIC LOVE CONSCIOUSNESS Quote

Cosmic love is the pneumato-romantic interactions between two energy beings, bodied or disembodied.
When two etheric bodies unite, they have an energy exchange. The two become connected by an invisible energy cord, and as a result what happens to one, is felt by the other as well in the same intensity.
If the etheric body has a physical body in this 3D world, the person feels what the other body feels in the etheric world. If there are two people  with their etheric bodies interacting in the other world, they will feel the same intensity in this world, irrespective of age, gender, distance etc.
Energy attracts energy. Similar vibrations tend to cluster togather. Energy always seeks out other energy of same ftequency to resonate togather. This often leads to euphoric experiences and open up many closed doors of psychic abilities among the humans experiencing such things.
Cosmic love is an extremely powerful spiritual experience leading to yet another aspect of consciousness awareness.
Cosmic love consciousness sows the seeds of an intimate relationship with the Universe, in the soul of both the persons involved, and amplified at the same time.

~Quotes~By~Swami Yogananda ~

Unrealistic expectations are poison for relationships. Remember, it is only you, not others, who can make you happy or sad. Problems arise when someone can see no further than their own needs and desires. That’s why meditation, and the expanded understanding it gives us, can be so helpful.
The fewer demands you make, the better. Always respect another person’s right to be himself, and to think and feel a certain way. There is a subtle law of magnetism between people. If you want a person to change, don’t criticize what is wrong. Instead try to create a “magnetic opening”
In fact, don’t try so much to change another as to bring out the best in him or her. Think first of how you can help strengthen a person and only then, of how you can improve a situation. True intimacy develops only in an atmosphere of trust. It is only when people feel secure that they are able to change.
Share uplifting experiences: Your bonds with others will be greatly strengthened if you share experiences that are uplifting and expansive

 He who is wise does his best to overcome difficulties, but he smiles, first, last, and all the time. There is no better panacea for sorrow, no better revivifying tonic, than smiles . There is no greater power with which to overcome failure than a real smile. There is no more beautiful ornament one can wear than a genuine smile of peace and wisdom glowing on the face.

The mind, by constant worries, grows old quickly and makes the body appear old and unhealthy. A smile that cannot be extinguished by any adverse financial, social, or physical condition helps to keep the body looking young, with firm flesh, even if it becomes aged. You are the Infinite, which has become the body. The body, as a manifestation of Spirit, is the ever-youthful Spirit.

 When two souls come together and bring out the wholeness in each other and ultimately unite with Spirit, that union is a true marriage between soul mates. Soul companions, being primarily united in Spirit and love, find the ever-new joy of God as the breath of their existence. The more strongly they become united in Spirit the less they concentrate on sex life. Soul companions in perfect marriage—even if they have sexual union for the propagation of spiritual children to bring good souls to earth—have their minds primarily engaged and engrossed in the perfect love of God. 

When a man and wife are united as true soul mates they will be one flesh, they will act in harmony and unison in body, mind, and soul; their souls will not act with different ideals, but as two bodies, two minds, two souls, with one ideal.

The culmination of marriage between soul mates is distinguished by the fact that the husband and wife no longer live on the sexual plane—not by forced abstinence, but in transcendence. Being together in perfect love, they become united with God. Any so-called soul mates who have not yet extinguished their sexual appetites are not truly united as soul mates. A marriage that is very harmonious but without God-realization may be a moral marriage, an ideal socioreligious relationship on the human level, but falls short of being an actual spiritual marriage between soul mates, the end of which is liberation in God. 

The concept of soul mates is entirely misleading without knowledge of the basic truth that it is only on the plane of creation, where the law of relativity prevails, that a soul identified with a form (jivatman) may be considered as being a male or female "half-soul." The true nature of the Self (the pure

atman) as a reflection of Transcendent Spirit beyond the delusive requisites of the created worlds is free from sex and duality. 

Sometimes even a chance meeting between soul mates fills one with a sense of completeness and pure love that wholly vanquishes all sense of need for physical union. This is true of relationships that have evolved through past lives as soul helpmates. 

Soul mates living on different parts of the earth, or even if one is on earth and the other in the astral world, may come together in a liberating union of God's love. The ideal man or woman who does not live on the sexual plane develops a spiritual magnetism by which he or she can attract the right soul mate on the earth plane or the dream plane or astral plane or the plane of conscious visions experienced in deep meditation. In the meeting of one's soul mate by whatever means, there will be no further desire to live according to worldly norms on the material plane. The reunion of masculine-feminine, positive-negative, reason and feeling, brings forth the immutable image of God in the soul. There is no necessity for physical marriage at all. It will be consummated right within one's heart. 

There is an even higher way of fulfillment than spiritual union of soul companions on the physical plane: union with God by divine communion in meditation and ecstasy. Seeking soul liberation through union with a soul mate is a spiritually dangerous course for those who are not already advanced in wisdom, for temptation may cause them to sink into the delusion of wrong living that will take them away from God into the karmic bondage of further reincarnations. But once the soul of man or woman is united with God, the Consummate Soul Mate, that soul never can fall from liberation. This is why Jesus, Swami Shankara, and other saviors have shown this highest path of liberation by uniting their souls directly with God alone. 

Love versus sexuality

" When you are in sexuality you don’t bother much to whom you are making love — any body will do. You just need a woman or a man, any body will do. You just need the other’s body. In love, any body won’t do, anybody’s body won’t do. You need a person who is in deep love with you, who has a certain affinity and harmony with you, in whose presence your heart starts singing, a deep bell starts ringing… in whose presence you feel a blessing. Then only is it possible for you to make love to the other person. To make love is possible only if the meeting — the inner meeting — has happened. Otherwise it is simply impossible to think, even to imagine that you are making love to a person you don’t love. " Osho

अमर प्रेम【 "ओशो" से गहन प्रेम की एक अमर प्रेम कथा 】

आइये आज आपको भगवान "ओशो" से गहन प्रेम की एक अमर
प्रेम कथा बताते हैं ।
सू एपलटन जिसे बाद में सन्यास का नाम मिला "विवेक" । वे जर्मनी में
पैदा हुई थी,
पेसे से वकील थी, अमीर थी,
सफल थी, प्रतिष्ठित थी, पर सब
कुछ होते हुये भी जीवन में कुछ अधूरापन लगता था ।
जर्मनी के उसके घर में एक बार एक भारतीय अनायास
ही उसके घर के अन्दर चला आया । नाम था रवि ।
सू ने पूछा : कहिए कैसे आना हुआ ।
तो उसने बोले : "बस मन किया तो अंदर चला आया"
उसने गले में एक माला पहन रखी थी ।
उस के लॉकेट में ओशो की एक सुंदर सी
तस्वीर थी ।
जो सन्यास के समय ओशो अपने सन्यासियों को देते थे ।
जैसे ही सू ने उस तस्वीर को देख, देखती
ही रेह गयी..!
उसे लगा जैसे उसके अन्दर का सूना पन भर गया हो ।
सू ने पूछा ये किसकी तस्वीर है ?
रवि ने बताया - ये रजनीश हैं उसके गुरु ।
सू ने पूछा : ये कहाँ मिलेंगे..?
रवि ने बताया "पूना, इंडिया में "
सु को मंजिल का पता मिल गया था । अगले ही दिन सू
भारत जा रही थी ।
परिवार के लोगों ने पूछा कहाँ जा रही हो ? क्यों जा रही
हो ? कब आओगी ?
सू बोली : कुछ पता नहीं । गुमसुम पैकिंग
करती रही ।
सू पूना पंहुचती हैं ।
सू ने ओशो को बहुत दूर से देखा, वो प्रवचन कर रहे हैं,
सू को हिंदी समझ नहीं आती...पर वो
मनमोहक आवाज़ जैसे कई जन्मो से जानी-पहचानी
है ।
प्रवचन समाप्त होने के बाद ओशो मुस्कुराते हुए सभी का अभिवादन
करते हुए कार की तरफ बढ़ रहे हैं, भीड़ ने उन्हें
घेर रखा है, जैसे जैसे सू ओशो के नजदीक बढ़ रही
थी उनकी धड़कने तेज होती जा
रहीं थी । सू जैसे अलग ही दुनिया में
पहुँच गई थी । ये दिव्यता, ये ऐहसास, क्या है ये..?
उन्हें लाग रहा था की कहीं वह बेहोश न हो जाए...
उफ़ ये रोशनी..!
वह बिजली की तरह भीड़ को
चीरती हुई ओशो के
सामने पँहुच जातीं हैं और उनसे लिपट जाती है ।
सभी आवाक रेह जाते हैं !!!
जैसे वक़्त ठहर गया हो ।
ओशो सू से केहेते हैं : " कब से बुला रहा हूँ...अब आई हो,
इतनी देर कर दी"
किसी को कुछ भी समझ नहीं आता है ।
सू उन कालजयी आँखों में डूब गयी...वक़्त जैसे २३
साल पीछे चला जाता है ।
बात उन दिनों की है जब ओशो को घर के लोग प्यार से
राजा नाम से पुकारते थे ।और सू है गाडरवार शहर में ओशो के घर के पास
ही रहने वाली "शशी" जिसे
सभी प्यार से "गुडिया" केहेते हैं । वह राजा को बहुत प्यार
करती है ।
राजा 12 साल के हैं और "गुडिया" 8 साल की हैं ।
राजा जब खेलकर थक जाते हैं तो गुडिया उन्हें अपने घर से लाई खीर
खिलाती है । लेकिन होनी को न जाने क्या मंजूर था गुडिया
जब सिर्फ 9 साल की थी, एक दिन उसे तेज बुखार आया
। उसे टायफाइड हुआ था । गुड़िया की तबियत बिगडती
ही जा रही थी । जब गुड़िया को लगा
की वो अब नहीं बचेगी तो उसने ओशो से 2
वचन लिए 1- किसी और से शादी नहीं
करोगे, 2- अगले जन्म में मै जहां कही भी
होऊगी..मुझे अपने पास बुला लोगे ।
सू को 1 पल में सब याद आ गया था । वह भीगे नेत्रों से
अपने राजा को देखती रेहती है, ओशो मुस्कुराते हुए सू
से
विदा लेकर कार में बैठ जाते हैं. कार चल पड़ती है
कुछ दिनों बाद सू का सन्यास होता है उसे सन्यास का नाम मिलता है "विवेक"
प्रेम जिसे मृत्यु भी धुंधला न कर पायी थी ।
ओशो के शरीर त्यागने से ठीक 6 माह पूर्व इस
मीरा (विवेक) ने
स्वेक्षा से शरीर छोड़ दिया था..!
(अमृता प्रीतम  )

"Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Osho"
Amrita Pritam

Foot reflexology

Foot reflexology or foot massage is commonly used for the indulgence and relaxation of feet. Self-care is must for getting attractive feet. Foot reflexology is regularly used in several cultures. Reflexology can help in improving entire health. Certain acupressure points are present on feet. Massaging or pressing these points can help in improving overall health, maintaining proper functioning of body organs and curing the existing illnesses. Some common benefits of reflexology and foot massage are:
Stimulates nerves and muscles
Reduces stiffness
Improves circulation of blood
Removes fatigue and stress
Improves immunity
Better sleep
Clears energy flow
Boosts metabolism
Assists to decrease blood pressure
Stimulates lymphatic system
Regularizes body functions
Relieves pain, migraines and headaches
It is quite easy to do foot massage. Just follow these basic steps:
1. First wash your feet as it will help in cleaning and warming them.
2. Lubricant is often used in best massages for making it easier. Adding necessary oils gives advantages of that particular oil. You can add 2-3 drops of peppermint, lavender, tea tree, or eucalyptus essential oils in your skin lotion. You can also add coconut oil or almond oil.
3. Begin with toes. Press, pull and twist every toe individually, moving from largest to smallest toe and from joint to tip.

4. Use both of your thumbs for doing foot massage by moving from top to bottom. Apply strong pressure on each spot for few seconds. Focus on your pains and aches.
5. Massage achilles areas, heels and ankles.
6. Also do massage on tops of feet.
7. Repeat the same steps for other foot.
Foot Reflexology Chart
As per the recommendation of experts, give foot massage on daily basis at night time to get best results. Start doing this simple foot massage from today.
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Why is love so painful?

Love is painful,because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new; with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless. Hence, fear arises, and leaving the old, comfortable, safe world, the world of convenience, pain arises. It is the same pain that the child feels when he comes out of the womb of the mother. It is the same pain that the bird feels when he comes out of the egg. It is the same pain that the bird will feel when he will try for the first time to be on the wing. The fear of the unknown, and the security of the known, the insecurity of the unknown, the unpredictability of the unknown, makes one very much frightened. And because the transformation is going to be from the self towards a state of no-self, agony is very deep. But you Cannot have ecstasy without going through agony. If the gold wants to be purified, it has to pass through fire.

Love is fire,
It is because of the pain of love, millions of people live a loveless life. They too suffer, and their suffering is futile. To suffer in love is not to suffer in vain. To suffer in love is creative; it takes you to higher levels of consciousness. To suffer without love is utterly a waste; it leads you nowhere, it keeps you moving in the same vicious circle. The man who is without love is narcissistic, he is closed. He knows only himself. And how much can he know himself if he has not known the other, because only the other can function as a mirror? You will never know yourself without knowing the other. Love is very fundamental for self-knowledge too. The person who has not known the other in deep love, in intense passion, in utter ecstasy, will not be able to know who he is, because he will not have the mirror to see his own reflection.

Relationship is a mirror, and the purer the love is, the higher the love is, the better the mirror, the cleaner the mirror. But the higher love needs that you should be open. The higher love needs you to be vulnerable. You have to drop your armor; that is painful. You have not to be constantly on guard. You have to drop the calculating mind. You have to risk. You have to live dangerously. The other can hurt you; that is the fear in being vulnerable. The other can reject you; that is the fear in being in love. The reflection that you will find in the other of your own self may be ugly; that is the anxiety. Avoid the mirror. But by avoiding the mirror you are not going to become beautiful. By avoiding the situation you are not going to grow either. The challenge has to be taken. One has to go into love. That is the first step towards God, and it cannot be bypassed. Those who try to bypass the step of love will never reach God. That is absolutely necessary because you become aware of your totality only when you are provoked by the presence of the other, when your presence is enhanced by the presence of the other, when you are brought out of your narcissistic, closed world under the open sky.

Love is an open sky,
To be in love is to be on the wing. But certainly, the unbounded sky creates fear. And to drop the ego is very painful because we have been taught to cultivate the ego. We think the ego is our only treasure. We have been protecting it, we have been decorating it, we have been continuously polishing it, and when love knocks on the door, all that is needed to fall in love is to put aside the ego; certainly it is painful. It is your whole life's work, it is all that you have created -- this ugly ego, this idea that "I am separate from existence." This idea is ugly because it is untrue. This idea is illusory, but our society exists, is based on this idea that each person is a person, not a presence. The truth is that there is no person at all in the world; there is only presence. You are not -- not as an ego, separate from the whole. You are part of the whole. The whole penetrates you, the whole breathes in you, pulsates in you, the whole is your life. Love gives you the first experience of being in tune with something that is not your ego. Love gives you the first lesson that you can fall into harmony with someone who has never been part of your ego. If you can be in harmony with a woman, if you can be in harmony with a friend, with a man, if you can be in harmony with your child or with your mother, why can't you be in harmony with all human beings? And if to be in harmony with a single person gives such joy, what will be the outcome if you are in harmony with all human beings? And if you can be in harmony with all human beings, why can't you be in harmony with animals and birds and trees? Then one step leads to another.

Love is a ladder,
It starts with one person, it ends with the totality. Love is the beginning, God is the end. To be afraid of love, to be afraid of the growing pains of love, is to remain enclosed in a dark cell. Modern man is living in a dark cell; it is narcissistic. Narcissism is the greatest obsession of the modern mind. And then there are problems, problems which are meaningless. There are problems which are creative because they lead you to higher awareness. There are problems which lead you nowhere; they simply keep you tethered, they simply keep you in your old mess. Love creates problems. You can avoid those problems by avoiding love. But those are very essential problems! They have to be faced, encountered; they have to be lived and gone through and gone beyond. And to go beyond, the way is through.

Love is the only real thing worth doing. All else is secondary. If it helps love, it is good. All else is just a means, love is the end. So whatsoever the pain, go into love. If you don't go into love, as many people have decided, then you are stuck with yourself. Then your life is not a pilgrimage, then your life is not a river going to the ocean; your life is a stagnant pool, dirty, and soon there will be nothing but dirt and mud. To keep clean, one needs to keep flowing. A river remains clean because it goes on flowing. Flow is the process of remaining continuously virgin. A lover remains a virgin. All lovers are virgin. The people who don't love cannot remain virgin; they become dormant, stagnant; they start stinking sooner or later -- and sooner than later -- because they have nowhere to go. Their life is dead. That's where modern man finds himself, and because of this, all kinds of neuroses, all kinds of madnesses, have become rampant.

Psychological illness has taken epidemic proportions. It is no more that a few individuals are psychologically ill; the reality is the whole earth has become a madhouse. The whole of humanity is suffering from a kind of neurosis. And that neurosis is coming from your narcissistic stagnancy. Everyone is stuck with one's own illusion of having a separate self; then people go mad. And this madness is meaningless, unproductive, uncreative. Or people start committing suicide. Those suicides are also unproductive, uncreative. You may not commit suicide by taking poison or jumping from a cliff or by shooting yourself, but you can commit a suicide which is a very slow process, and that's what happens. Very few people commit suicide suddenly. Others have decided for a slow suicide; gradually, slowly, slowly they die. But almost, the tendency to be suicidal has become universal. This is no way to live, and the reason, the fundamental reason, is we have forgotten the language of love. We are no more courageous enough to go into that adventure called love. Hence people are interested in sex, because sex is not risky. It is momentary, you don't get involved.

Love is involvement; it is commitment. It is not momentary. Once it takes roots, it can be forever. It can be a lifelong involvement. Love needs intimacy, and only when you are intimate does the other become a mirror. When you meet sexually with a woman or a man, you have not met at all; in fact, you avoided the soul of the other person. You just used the body and escaped, and the other used your body and escaped. You never became intimate enough to reveal each other's original faces.

Love is the greatest Zen known. It is painful, but don't avoid it. If you avoid it you have avoided the greatest opportunity to grow. Go into it, suffer love, because through the suffering comes great ecstasy. Yes, there is agony, but out of the agony, ecstasy is born. Yes, you will have to die as an ego, but if you can die as an ego, you will be born as God, as a Buddha. And love will give you the first tongue-tip-taste of Tao, of Sufism, of Zen. Love will give you the first proof that God is, that life is not meaningless. The people who say life is meaningless are the people who have not known love. All that they are saying is that their life has missed love.

Let there be pain, let there be suffering. Go through the dark night, and you will reach to a beautiful sunrise. It is only in the womb of the dark night that the sun evolves. It is only through the dark night that the morning comes. My whole approach here is that of love. I teach only love and only love and nothing else. You can forget about God; that is just an empty word. You can forget about prayers because they are only rituals imposed by others on you. Love is the natural prayer, not imposed by anybody. You are born with it. Love is the true God -- not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis.

Love is a tariqa, a method, to kill you as a separate individual and to help you become the infinite. Disappear as a dewdrop and become the ocean, but you will have to pass through the door of love. And certainly when one starts disappearing like a dewdrop, and one has lived long as a dewdrop, it hurts, because one has been thinking, "I am this, and now this is going. I am dying. " You are not dying, but only an illusion is dying. You have become identified with the illusion, true, but the illusion is still an illusion. And only when the illusion is gone will you be able to see who you are. And that revelation brings you to the ultimate peak of joy, bliss, celebration.

~Osho~

Prison of making

"I was reading in the Facebook, somebody wrote:

‘One of the biggest prisons human-beings suffer is what others think about themselves.’ 

I tell you, No! 

There is a bigger prison – WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT YOU! 

What you think about you is the bigger prison than what others think about you. 

What others think about you is able to give you suffering because what you think about you gets altered based on what others think about you. 

If what you think about you stays stably, what others think about you will never be a prison for you.  Because, what you think about you is so lucid, and lose it, what others think about you becomes a prominent prison. 

Be very clear, if what others think about you is a prison in which you are stuck, what you think about you is the cell inside the prison where you are stuck!  It is much more suffocating!  Much more suffocating! 

What others think about you, if you think that is a prison, what you think about you is a cell inside the prison where you are locked! 

Please understand, what others think about you impacts only your external life.  What you think about you impacts directly your body, your mind."

~Sri Nithyananda Swamiji.

Turning filth into fragnance

🌻Turning Filth into Fragrance🌻

Sadhguru:
          "The first thing is you arrange yourself in such a way that you are a beautiful human being. How someone else sees it is their business."
Right now, you have to be there. So many times, not just you – every one of us is trapped with people and situations we definitely do not want to be in.
Where we are is never entirely our choice. But what we make out of it is entirely our choice.
Exercise it.
If you exercise it, the outside will also slowly become a choice.
Over a period of time, you will see that naturally, situations will arrange around yourself in a most beautiful way.
My experience of the world is too fantastic. Wherever I go, people are in tears of love and joy.
What more do I want?
I know that is not the reality for the whole world, but the world arranges itself like that around me.
This is because I have taken time to arrange myself in such a way that no matter where I am, I am like this only.
Slowly, the world is imitating what I am. You also do this.
Do not worry whether the world arranges itself in a certain way or not – it will invariably happen over a period of time.
The first thing is you arrange yourself in such a way that you are a beautiful human being. How someone else sees it is their business.
Right now, they want to walk in the gutter – let them walk for some time,
till they get tired of it.
Live in such a way that when they look at you, even the gutter people see at some point that it is worth being the way you are. It will not elude them.
They are bitter because their experience of life is bitter and unfulfilled, and this bitterness comes out in the form of conflict.
Set an example for them that there is a way to live differently.
In yoga, one of the most enduring symbols has always been that of a lotus flower, because a lotus flower grows best wherever the slush is thick – the filthier, the better.
Such filth transforms into such ethereal beauty and fragrance.
This is spiritual process.
Getting allergic to slush is not spiritual process.
Becoming a part of the slush is not spiritual process.
Transforming the slush into fragrance is spiritual process.

Your Heart Is Just a Blood Pumping Station

"Your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your sentiments, all are centered in your head. It is just a fallacy to think that your feelings are in the heart. Your heart is just a blood pumping station.

"When we are talking about the empty heart, we are really talking about the empty mind. Buddha has used the word heart instead of mind because mind has become associated with the idea that it is only the process of thinking, and the process of feeling is in the heart, and the heart is deeper.

"These ideas have been created by the poets. But the truth is, you can call it empty mind or you can call it empty heart; it is the same. Emptiness – you are just a watcher and all around there is nothing with which you are identified, there is nothing to which you are clinging. This non-clinging watchfulness is the empty mind, no-mind, or empty heart. These are simply words. The real thing is emptiness – of all thoughts, feelings, sentiments, emotions. Only a single point of witnessing remains."

Osho, The Buddha: The Emptiness of the Heart, Talk #8

Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community By "Sobonfu Some"

In West Africa, in the nation of Burkina Faso, there is a tribe called the Dagara and they believe every mother dreams her child into being. In her book, Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community, child development author, Sobonfu Some, describes how, for the Dagara, the life of a child doesn’t begin the day they are born. Nor does it begin just after conception. Instead a child is “born” the day it first becomes a thought in the mind of its mother. Once a woman feels it’s time for her to have a child, she walks off by herself and finds a tree. Under its shade, she sits and waits, until she hears the song of her child. Soon as she’s heard it, she returns to her village and finds the man who will be the father of the child. She teaches him the song. And while they make love, together, they sing their child’s song, inviting it into this world.After the woman becomes pregnant, the mother teaches her child’s song to all the other women of the village.

When a woman is ready to give birth, she will be accompanied by a group of women outside the homestead. They will assist her during her labour. Immediately after the child is born, the women return to the homestead. The mother and child then spend a week at a special shelter built to the side of the headman’s hut, near the sacred fire, under special protection of the ancestral spirits. After the week has passed, the child is brought to the sacred fire and introduced to the spirits of the ancestors by the headman. The child is given names from the patrilineal and matrilineal lines, ensuring that the origins of the child are known

 On the day her child pushes out of her womb, all the women gather together and sing the child’s song, welcoming it into this world. As it grows up, whenever the child gets hurt, any villager can comfort the child by singing their song to them since each member of the tribe knows everyone’s song. Later, when the child is older and has done something worthy of praise, the tribe will sing the child’s song to him or her. And when they’re ready to undergo the rites of puberty, the tribe will gather and sing the child’s song. When a child becomes an adult, and they get married, the bride and groom’s songs are sung together as a way of linking their lives. Finally, at the end of their life, as the child prepares to die, the tribe gathers and sings the child’s song to him or her, for the last time.  【Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community

By Sobonfu E. Some

This is an amazing book ,In it, Sobonfu Some shares some of the ancient traditions and rituals of her Dagara tribe - mostly around child-bearing and -rearing - and also offers some modern ways to implement the rituals here in the West to help renew a sense of connectedness and community.You will love the idea that a baby is "spirit" coming "home," and that a family needs to prepare a place for spirit and welcome it. 】

-Sobonfu Some’s book on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Welcoming-Spirit-Home-Teachings-Celebrate/dp/1577310098

Oh beautiful krishna

 O Krsna, the sight of Your beautiful lotus-face is the perfection of the eyes. Splendidly decorated with many garlands, You appear very beautiful in the midst of the cowherd boys.
 
O Krsna, the pious flute continuously drinks the nectar of Your lips, and Vrndavana has become glorious because it bears the markings of Your beautiful lotus-feet.

[ From "Caksuh Saphalya Sampadi Srimad" by Sanatana Goswami ]