Only A Living Master Can Liberate

A master is not like a husband that if you changed from one to another you have betrayed him or you are dishonest towards him. Remember one thing that a Master is for liberating you not for tying you in imprisonment. Anybody who traps you is not a master. You yourself should run away from him. We are on the path of liberation, moksha, which means the ultimate freedom, but we are caught up in small issues. Somebody gets tied to a Master, somebody to religious books or Holy Scriptures or a temple, mosque in the search for salvation. Get up; be aware that a Master is not for holding you back but for liberating you. Neither a master should trap you up, nor a disciple should be ready to be trapped. You should be revolutionary, seeking and searching the truth but always ready to learn. Anybody who can teach you something you should be ready to learn from him. So I shall only request you this much, since you are being blissful here, you are enjoying here. You are here for some days, then you must learn it fully. Do it completely.

Your question is like – a disease has infected me 20 years ago and I got operated from a doctor. Now that doctor is no more but the disease is still troubling me so should I take treatment from you or not? If you would go to a doctor and say this, what will he do to you? Either he will show the way to get out or else he will tell you to follow the prescribed dosage offered by him. You had been operated 20 years ago. That did not work out; that’s why you are here. If you would have been fine then what was the need to be here. And you are saying that just in few days you are enjoying here, you are feeling blissful and want to go deeper into meditation. Is this not enough proof that your condition is improving. Now move ahead on this path.

Now forget about what happened in the past and think of your future. Now leave all those old Gurus, forget about them, they are not holding you but you are getting caught in your trap. Think sensibly that a person who is no more, how he could help you anymore. How can a doctor who does not exist do your treatment? Our ego is very subtle. In case of physical treatment we will go to the doctor who actually is present but in case of spiritual guide, we always worship those who are no more. We regard the dead as higher and ill treat the living ones.

I would like to shake you, wake you up from your sleep and say be alive. Be here and now. Be aware towards what is happening right now. You are saying it you are being blissful in few days then go ahead and dive in it fully. You may also dive in it with the remembrance of your master but then it would be half-hearted. Then your past will be hanging in you. Live in the present moment and search for a living Master. This is one of the most important teachings of Osho. Only then we can be of any help to you.

Meditation for you; INDRADHANUSH DHYAN

1st Step: (Omkaar): 2 min

Please stand up and pronounce thrice the divine sound of OM.

2nd Step: (Shivering): 5 min

Make your whole body shiver on the tunes of the music.

Watch consciously the shivering and the balance.

3rd Step: (Listening): 3 min

Sit down in a comfortable posture.

Listen to the music and also be aware of yourself.

4th Step: (Vipassana): 3 min

Be conscious of the incoming as well as the outgoing breath.

Simultaneously beware of the self.

5th Step: (Gratitude): 5min.

You can be seated or can stand according to your wish.

Keep both your hands on heart and feel the love vibrations of your Master coming towards you and his love is showering.

Swing and dance in ecstasy.

6th Step: (Watching): 3 min

Close your eyes and look into the inner sky. Invite your thoughts.

7th Step: (Contemplation): 3 min

Feel that your Master is present in front of you.

8th Step: (Relaxation): 3 min

Sit down in a comfortable posture or lie down in Shavasan (back touching the ground, one foot apart from the other and palms towards the sky).

Feel that the body is getting calm, breathing is getting poise and mind is becoming peaceful.

9th Step: (Self-Remembrance): 30 min

Close your eyes and look in the inner sky. This is our formless being. As there is water in the vessel, content in the container; similarly there is the formless in the form.

Now just look in this inner space. Gradually get merged with this formless consciousness filled with Divinity.

It Resistance Right?

SOMETIMES I GET CAUGHT IN THE TRAP OF NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND ALSO FEEL MISERABLE AFTER THAT. SO PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I SHALL DO.

If you fight with thoughts, you cannot ever get rid of them. Whoever is your enemy shall be with you forever. Understand this secret of mind very well. The time you made somebody your enemy, you will be tied to that person. The psychologists call this “Law of Opposite Result.” The more you run away from something the more it comes in front of you. You must have learnt riding a bicycle in your childhood. The road is stretched long and wide, may spread about 50 feet, but yet a small child is riding a cycle. He has a fear in his mind that he might hit the light pole standing at an extreme of the road. The moment this thought entered his mind, he himself got hypnotized. The light pole became his entire focus. He could just think of something else. Now when he was looking at it, automatically his hands and handle moved in the direction of the pole. Now seeing that the cycle is moving in the direction of pole, he gets more scared about the same thought that he will dash with that pole now or within a while. The wide road of 50 feet almost disappeared for him. Only the pole of light became the center of his attention and than cycle went ahead and dashed the pole. There is a song in Hindi: “Jisse Darte the wahi baat ho gai” which means the thing that I was scared about that actually happened.

Resist not the Evil
This is how our mind is. The situation or a thing, which you want to stay away, you get stuck in the same. If you tried to fight the negative thoughts so as they should be finished then you will be badly caught up in them. Fighting or resisting something is itself a negative process. I am telling you a new direction start doing something positive. Do not be against the thoughts. Start developing good vibes, feelings. Don’t fight with negativity, but inculcate something positive. Wherever there is a chance of anything good just direct your life energy in that direction. Give it a new way.

opposition will never fetch you victory over them. For an instance, if there is a dark room and I instruct you to remove darkness from there. Then what will you do? Will you hit darkness with your hands and legs? Or else will you get a gun or a stick or a knife? Or will you wrap darkness in a cloth and throw it out? Not really. Nothing can be done to darkness, as it does not have existence of its own. Darkness simply means absence of light. It does not have its own existence. And one who does not has its own existence how will you fight with it? Thus, nothing can be done to darkness; whatever is possible is with the light, which is positive by its nature. Yes, you can light up a candle or a bulb as they have it in their own nature. We can turn a bulb on and also off. There is no possibility of doing something with darkness. It does not mean that the darkness is too powerful. But if you try to fight and push it out of the room then it is certainly more powerful than you and you shall be tired and finally loose from it. It is so because basically there is something wrong. In opposing the negative we shall always loose. This is the reason why I never suggest fighting with anger, lust, fear or negative thoughts. According to me, give birth to something positive. Divert your attention towards it. Let your energy flow towards creating something better. Gradually, the direction will change. Light will bright up the entire room and darkness will vanish.

God without Samadhi?

I WANT TO KNOW THAT IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WITHOUT HAVING A DIVE IN SAMADHI?

Samadhi means experiencing Godliness. And you are asking is it possible to know God without being in Samadhi. Try to ask your question once again by replacing the term Samadhi with God or godliness. It would be – is it possible to know Godliness without knowing Godliness. Now, you will understand how non-sensible your question in itself is. This is all what you have been trying to ask. Now, it is simple and clear that as Samadhi means – to dive in Godliness, to experience Godliness, to feel the shower of the Godliness so there is no other way out. So, it is utterly impossible without having a jump into Samadhi to know Godliness.

Right meditation

AFTER BEING IN THE SAMADHI PROGRAMS HERE WHEN WE GO BACK HOME AND HAVE TO FOLLOW THE SAME ROUTINE LIFE, FAMILY, AMBITINS AND SO FORTH. PLEASE BLESS US SO THAT WE DON’T HAVE TO WASTE TIME IN THIS AND WE CAN GO DEEP IN SAMADHI FOR TEN TO TWELVE HOURS.

No, that will not be a blessing but a curse.

In the eight-fold path of Gautama Buddha the last one is Right Meditation. He adds ‘Right’ even with meditation. It’s ‘Right’ to go in Samadhi for one and a half hours to three hours. Live in this world for the rest of the time otherwise you will turn against this world. There is duality in your mind. You think of this world and the divine as opposites. Sanyas means ‘Right Distribution’. You don’t have to leave this world. Live in this world and also in divinity.

You have twenty-four hours in a day. Out of this eight hours are spent in sleep; another eight are spent in earning your livelihood. You can divide rest of the eight hours in two parts – four hours for taking care of yourself, your family and other social formalities; and the other four hours for your Samadhi, meditation. It wont be appropriate if you go in Samadhi for more than that.

I am in favour of ‘Right Meditation’. Don’t go for any kind of extremes. It’s like if you take excessive medicine it could become poison. Samadhi is also a medicine and should not be taken in excess. Excess of everything is bad.

Why does a man drink?

Just try to think, why does a man drink? He may be living a miserable, just to forget his sorrow he drinks. Instead of stopping him from drinking, we must do some positive efforts that shall help the misery, pain, sorrow, unhappiness and problems of his life to be reduced or finished. If he is able to live a happy life again than why shall he drink? The basic quality of alcohol is it helps to forget. And thus by drinking we tend to forget our sorrow. But when we are happy… Neither of us would like to drink and forget those joyful moments.

I would like that you should not hate him nor instruct him nor stop him. Do not try to make him understand. You love him, respect him, and accept him the way he is. Do not look at him with the eyes fill with hatred towards him. Always do not raise you finger against him. Might be, if he gets your love and respect he would agree to give his life a new start in a new way. When we respect somebody then he too thinks that how shall he continue to be respectful? He will refrain him from doing those things that can bring down his respected image. Thus, I would wish from you to create an environment of love, understanding and respect in your home.

When he will live with happiness in home, receive your love and affection; his pain and problems will be reduced, his tensions will be lowered and than automatically he will stop drinking. This would be an indirect of making him to stop drink. If you directly say somebody that you must stop drinking, he would not listen. That’s what you have been trying since many years and it did not brought any fruitful results. So, for sometime try what I am saying to you.
Don’t ever raise the topic of alcohol. You just love and respect your husband. Tell your kids and other family members also to do the same. Then you shall see a gradual change arising in him. Possibly send him here for a nine-day program of Dhyan or Bhakti Samadhi. When a person starts meditating, he will feel the shower of bliss on him. And a blissful, doesn’t ever drinks.