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.