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• Life Comes, Moment To Moment
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• Evolve In Your Own Consciousness
• To Forget Yourself Is The Worst Sin

Every day we confront situations that may, one day, become problems. But they are minor situations, seemingly insignificant and taken care of easily. So we pay them no heed. This gives them the space to grow into monstrous proportions. Then, they consume us! For instance, something goes wrong at the workplace and you get irritated. But you overlook it. Day after day. Soon, it becomes a mechanical pattern. But then, a day comes when it erupts like a volcano!

The world is a mess because we aren’t attentive to situations, from moment to moment. Life comes to us in all its forms only moment to moment and demands our attention moment to moment.

Osho tells a beautiful story: “A man once came and spat on Buddha’s face. His disciples were enraged. Red hot with anger, Ananda said, “This is too much!

Permit me to show this man what he’s done!’ But Buddha simply wiped his face and said, “Thank you, sir. You created a context in which I could see whether I can still be angry or not. And I’m not, and I’m tremendously happy. You also created a context for Ananda. Now, he can see that he can still be angry. Many thanks, we are grateful! Whenever you can have the urge to spit on someone, you can come to us.’

This was such a shock to the man that he couldn’t believe his ears! He’d expected to anger Buddha, and failed. He couldn’t sleep the entire night. Tossed and turned. The idea haunted him --- his spitting on Buddha remaining as calm as he’d been earlier, as if nothing had happened, wiping his face and thanking him...

He remembered the incident again and again. That face. That calm and quiet face, those compassionate eyes. And when Buddha had said thank you, it had not been just a formality, he’d been really grateful with his entire being. So cool, so loving, so compassionate. The man couldn’t forgive himself. What had he done? Spitting on a man like Buddha!

Early the next morning, he rushed back, fell down at Buddha’s feet and said, ‘Forgive me, sir. I couldn’t sleep the whole night.’ Buddha said. ‘Forget it. There is no need to beg forgiveness for something that’s already passed.’ Buddha was sitting on the bank of the Ganges. He said to the man, ‘Look, each moment so much water is flowing down! Twenty-four hours have passed… Why are you still carrying something that no longer exists? Forget it.’

Then Buddha added. ‘And I cannot forgive you because I wasn’t angry with you in the first place. If I had been angry with you in the first place. If you really need forgiveness, ask Ananda. Fall at his feet—he will enjoy it!”

Such is the enlightened behavior of an enlightened human being, who responds to life as it comes, from moment to moment.

- Swami Chaitanya Keerti

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Osho, widely accepted as a Spiritual Master, had given the knowledge holding purity of substance, matter and widely accepted thought-provoking holistic ideas. Osho's inspiring books cover everything from the wisdom of the world's mystics to answers to intensely personal questions about meditation and the inner search. His insights address both the timeless and timely concerns that tend to escape our notice in the clamor and overload of daily life.

Commenting on the much-loved songs of Kabir, Osho immediately takes the reader to the very core of our human misunderstanding – the illusion that we are separate from existence. With his trademark authority, clarity, sharpness and humour he invites us to move inside ourselves and learn the knack of experiencing each and every moment – all that is needed to transform our lives.

He also talks about emotions and being detached from them, aloneness and love, imitation, children and religion, rebellion, living in a balanced way, sex, the generation gap, and more. No matter what the subject matter of the book, the thread that runs through all Osho's words is like a love song that we can suddenly, mysteriously, hear at just the right moment.

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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look! Kabir will tell you the truth: go whenever you like, to Calcutta or Tibet; if you can't find where your soul is hidden, for you the world will never be real! I don't know what sort of a God we have been talking about. The caller calls in a loud voice to the holy one at dusk. Why? Surely the holy one is not deaf. He hears the delicate anklets that ring on the feet of an insect as it walks. When deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

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A Tibetan folk tale says: A band of monkeys lived in a forest, near a well. One night, their leader saw the moon’s reflection in the water and said:

“Look the moon’s fallen into the well. Let’s get it out or the world will be moonless!” The other monkeys agreed and formed a chain, each holding on to another’s tail, and the last one to a tree branch, for support. The branch bent under their weight, as the monkeys lowered themselves into the well, and cracked. The water was disturbed, the moon’s reflection vanished, the branch broke and the monkeys fell into the well! The moral: when the unwise have an unwise leader; they are led to ruin.

Around us, we see many leaders – not only political but also religious – with massive followings. Millions have people become followers of one leader or another.

They find it convenient to follow somebody, as they don’t want to think and resolve their own problems. It’s easier to believe in someone who claims to have found solutions. Many ‘leaders’ understand and exploit this weakness.

The mob psychology functions in fear and greed. People are afraid, so they look for someone fearless. He may just pretend to be fearless but that’s okay for those who don’t want to think for themselves. They want someone else to free them from fear. Those who fear are also greedy. Somebody comes along promising good fortune – in this life or the next—and they are tempted.

Osho says: “your relationships are out of fear: Fear is overwhelming, like a dark cloud covering your life, making you say and do things you don’t want to. Fear compels you. Millions worship stones as Gods.

It must be out of great fear, because where can you find God? The easier way is to carve a God in marble. Nobody finds this inane because everybody else is doing it too, in different ways—in temples, in mosque, in synagogues. The essence is the same—your prayers reek of fear.”

Sufi mystic Rumi made a revolutionary statement. “Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.” Why not move playfully? Why be serious? Why not move laughingly? Like kids running after butterflies for no reason at all. Just because they are so very happy.

Find a few fearless moments, in which you aren’t asking for reward or worrying about punishment. It may seem difficult but as you move inwards, you become automatically joyful, playful, and prayerful. A unique gratitude arises in you and an infinite space opens up—your inner sky, as vast a universe as you see outside. You just stand between two universes—one outside you containing things, one inside you full of consciousness, bless, joy.

Move within, but do it alone, minus fear. Not only can you not take anyone, you cannot take anything either. No wealth, no power, no prestige, no fear.

- Swami Chaitanya Keerti

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The Vatican has recently listed seven new sins of the modern times--polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich, drug dealing, abortion, paedophilia and causing social injustice. Spiritualists, moralists and philosophers have often discussed their concepts of sin but have not agreed on its definition.

The Christian thinker Fosdick was once asked, “What is sin?” He said, “Sin is three things, for its three letters. ‘S’ stands for stinking stupidity, stubbornness, scepticism. ‘N’ stands for nagging negativity, nervousness, neurosis, narcissism, nihilism. Between ‘S’ and ‘N’ is ‘I’, the ego.” Once you drop the ‘I’, sin disappears. But ‘I’ is very reluctant to go!

Osho has a different view: “The original Hebrew word for sin is very beautiful. By translating it as ‘sin’, Christians have missed the very message of Jessus. The original Hebrew word for sin is so totally different from your idea of sin that it will be a surprise to you. The root word means ‘forgetfulness’. It has nothing to do with what you are doing. The whole thing is whether you are doing it with conscious being or out of unconsciousness. Are you doing it with a self-remembering or have you completely forgotten yourself?”

Any action of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful façade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin. It is because of this that Jesus has a tremendously significant saying. He says, “If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away. It is much better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body throw into hell.”

Now, if you don’t understand the real meaning of sin, you are bound to misinterpret the whole statement and Jesus will look too harsh, too violent. Saying, “If you right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away,” does not look like his statement. A man of profound love and compassion, he cannot say this, he cannot be so violent. But this is how Christians have interpreted him.

What he means is this: Whatsoever causes you to forget yourself, Even if it is your right eye… That is just to emphasize the fact. It is simply a way of talking, an emphasis: “If your right eye causes you to forget yourself, then take it out and throw it away.” He is not saying anything that has to be taken literally; it is a metaphor. He is saying that it is better to be blind than to be forgetful of yourself, because the blind man who remembers himself is not blind, he has the real eye. But if a man who has eyes forgets himself, what is the use of having eyes? He cannot see even himself; what ELSE can he see?

- Swami Chaitanya Keerti

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