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Hindustan Times
Inner Voice
6th may 2004

Transforming Emotions Through Control
Swami Chaitanya Keerti

Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, was a great enlightened master of the modern times. Though he was not educated, he had several intellectual disciples, such as P.D. Auspensky and Catherine Mansfield. Often the disciples found it hard to work with him even though they were intelligent. 
He would create situations to arouse all kinds of emotions in the disciples and they were asked the emotions in the face. He would create a situation where a new person would lose his/her temper, without realising that Gurdjieff had created the situation. 
Osho calls it a group device. 
Such situations can be created, but only in a school where many people are working on themselves. And when Gurdjieff would shout, "Remember! Remain undisturbed," one would immediately know that this was a 'created' situation. The disturbance cannot disappear so suddenly because it has physical roots. 
Osho explains: "Anger cannot disappear so immediately. Even now that you had come to know that you had been deceived, that no one was insulting you and no one meant anything by it, it would be difficult to do anything. The anger is there, your body is filled with it - but suddenly your temperature cools down. 
The anger remains only on the body. At the centre you cool down, and you know that a point exists within you which is undisturbed. You start laughing. Your eyes are red with anger; your face is violent, but you start laughing. You know two things - a point which is undisturbed and a periphery which is disturbed.


The Hindustan Times
New Delhi, 13 may, 2004

Spirituality of money and love                                                     Back to top  
Swami Chaitanya Keerti

For long India has been considered a poor country. This is a fact even today, though it now has a sizeable middle class. This may be music to many ears but there's better news. 
India is the richest in spirituality. The same is becoming evident to the world. I do not want to sound nationalistic. For me, it is just the recognition of a fact. Despite the presence of a large number of religious fundamentalists, India continues to be the right place for spirituality. 
During my recent visits to the West Asian countries, I did not find any Sufis. Their presence was not so prominent even in their places of birth. But here in India, Sufism is spreading. Buddhism is thriving and Jainism is also attracting people. There are Bhakti festivals of Hindus, Sikhs and Christians all over the year. In a nutshell, spirituality is flourishing like never before. 
Besides, the new generation is coming up with different kinds of spiritual packages like 'The Art of Living', 'The Art of Relaxing', 'The Art of Being' and 'The Art of Loving'. They seem to be diluting spirituality to make it more acceptable and saleable. Though all these are not exactly spiritual - they rather seem commercial - but are based on demand and supply. 
Says Osho in his Zen discourse No Water No Moon: "There are only two ways to live your life, only two ways to be: one is the right way, the other is the wrong way. The right is to give, to share and to love. The wrong is to snatch, to exploit and to accumulate. Love and money are the symbols of these two ways. Love is the right way and money is the wrong way. When love becomes artificial, money becomes important."