Birthday of Indian mystic Swami Ram Teertha
22nd October is the birthday of the Indian mystic Swami Ram Teerth (often spelt as Rama Tirtha) also known as Ram Soami. Born in a Brahmin family in Punjab (part of which is now in Pakistan) in 1873, he became a professor of Mathematics in Lahore University. After meeting Swami Vivekananda in Lahore, he was inspired to become a sannyasin and he left his family and profession in 1899. He toured United States and lectured on Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta. He famously travelled around the world without any luggage or touching money! He is also known for always referring to himself in the third person, a spiritual disciple to help detach oneself from the ego.
Swami Ram is known to have made a significant prediction - “After Japan, China will rise and gain prosperity and strength. After China, the sun of prosperity and learning will again smile at India.” The first part of his prediction has come true. The second part has begun to look very promising lately!
Osho

Birthday of English Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21st October is the birthday of the acclaimed English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He founded Romanticism (a literary movement of the late 18th century born as a reaction to the industrial revolution, rationalism and modernism.) The Romantic Era glorified emotions, intuition, individualism and nature. Coleridge is best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel. These poems have given the English language vivid metaphors like an albatross around one’s neck and colourful quotes like water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Another timeless phrase All creatures great and small is drawn from The Rime by Coleridge:
He prayeth best, who loveth best,
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
Osho often quotes Coleridge in His discourses. Osho says Coleridge was authentically a mystic poet. He completed only seven poems, but even seven poems have made him

The Festival of Dussehra
The festival of Vijayadashamiwill be observed on 15th October this year. Popularly known as Dussehrathis date is celebrated as the victory ofLord Ramaover the demon Ravana and it marks the end of "Ramlila". In southern, eastern, north-eastern India, this day is remembered as the triumph of Goddess Durga over the buffalo demon Mahishasura to protectand restore and the Dharma. It also marks the beginning of preparations forDiwali (festival of lights) which is celebrated exactly 20 days after Vijayadashami.
The Hindu poet and saint Tulsidas has retold the Ramayana (story of the life of Lord Rama) in his epic Ramcharitmanas. Osho says Tulsidas does more justice to Ram than Luke can ever do to Christ! By going deeply into Tulsidas’s words you will relive the whole phenomenon as if time has been transcended; you will again be in the time of Ram. That is why in India we perform the Ram Leela every year; just to create the same milieu again. And it is miraculous that even though year af

Osho on Indian Mystic Shirdi Sai Baba
Sai Baba of Shirdi was revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees. He preached values such as compassion, contentment, forgiveness, love, tolerance, and charity. Little is known about his early life, and he often gave vague and contradictory answers about his parentage and origins. Sai Baba was truly secular in his teachings, encouraging followers to read the Quran or Bhagavad Gita according to their preference. Although he opposed religious orthodoxy and rituals, he promoted prayer, chanting, and reading scriptures. He emphasized tolerance, non-discrimination, and detachment from worldly pleasures.
Osho has spoken on Sai Baba of Shirdi in His discourses. Osho says when a person is involved with millions of people then even after he leaves his body, his energy remains available to his people. It takes a long time for that energy to disperse. Sometimes it goes on and on… This happened with Sai Baba. That's why if you go to Shirdi, to Sai Baba's town, you will still fe

Osho on Silence
BELOVED OSHO,
WHEN I FIRST HEARD YOU SAY, "SITTING SILENTLY, DOING NOTHING, THE SPRING COMES AND THE GRASS GROWS BY ITSELF," MY WESTERN MIND THOUGHT THIS WAS A METAPHOR, AND SOUGHT TO FIND THE MEANING. THEN I THOUGHT YOU REALLY MEANT TO SIT SILENTLY -- AND I FELT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE. NOW, SITTING SILENTLY IN YOUR PRESENCE, DOING NOTHING I FIND IS PURE HEDONISM -- AND THE GRASS IS GROWING BY ITSELF. BELOVED MASTER, I AM AMAZED, AND MY GRATITUDE IS BEYOND WORDS.
The East and the West have gone so far away from each other that there is always misunderstanding: neither the East understands the West nor the West understands the East. But in the final reckoning, the West is the loser. For ten thousand years the East has chosen a path which is not of the mind -- which is not intellectual, which is not rational, which is not logical, which is not scientific. And the West has chosen just the opposite. The West is still far away from reaching the final heights of rational flight.
And perhaps i

Birthday of Labanese poet Mikhail Naimy
17th October is the birthday of the Lebanese poet and philosopher Mikhail Naimy. He is regarded as the most significant spiritual writer of the 20th century made famous by his work The Book of Mirdad.
Osho has spoken on Naimy in His discourses. Osho says The Book of Mirdad is one of the greatest masterpieces of art, beauty, meditation and consciousness. It has been one of my most loved books. Naimy shows tremendous insight, which only a mystic is capable of. This book should made into a film and just watching that film you will feel a great upliftment. This book should be made available to every library, to every university but unfortunately it remains unknown to a vast majority of the world.
Osho says The Book of Mirdad has been created by a man who knows the inner workings of human consciousness. He was not a writer; hence, nobody ever bothered to give him a Nobel prize. He was our contemporary, he died in 1988. His book has not been translated into many lang

Osho on Tears
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT LOVE, TEARS IMMEDIATELY START RUNNING. PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
The tears are the greatest possible prayer. Don't be worried about analyzing them, don't try to interpret them; they are beyond interpretation and beyond analysis. Words will not be adequate to say anything about the tears. Tears come from a deeper source than words. And if tears are coming, all that is needed is not to think about them but to allow them, to give them an intensity, to give them a kind of totality. You will understand those tears only when you are not hesitant about going into them, when you are not somehow holding yourself back. Go into them utterly. Become tears, and when tears come, enjoy. You are overflowing.
Thinking of love if tears don't come then you were not thinking about love. Thinking of God if tears don't come then your thinking is futile, impotent. Listening to me, if your heart does not start overflowing with tears, then you were listening only through the head -- whi

Birthday of German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
15th October is the birthday of the famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A man of extraordinary intellect, Nietzsche’s work as aphilosopher has had a phenomenal impact on modern intellectual history. In his short life of 55 years, he produced revolutionary pieces of work that influenced generations of philosophers to come notably Camus, Heidegger, Jung, Sartre, Weber and Yeats. Whilst his provocative ideas courted much controversy, his concept of Übermensch (Over Man) was misrepresented by his sister to fit with her German nationalistic ideology and came to be usurped by the Nazis. Nietzsche is wrongly criticised as a predecessor to Nazism since he has infact criticized anti-Semitism and pan-Germanism.
“God is Dead” is Nietzsche’s best-known remarks. Osho has spoken extensively on Nietzsche in His discourses. Osho says Friedrich Nietzsche, according to me, is one of the greatest seers of the Western world; his eyes really go penetrating to the

Osho on Laughter
BELOVED OSHO,
COULD YOU SPEAK TO US ON LAUGHTER, ITS MEDITATIVE POWERS, ITS CHEMISTRY ON THE BRAIN, ITS POWER OF TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING... ITS RELATION TO SILENCE, THE GAP, CLARITY, VISION...
ITS CONTAGIOUSNESS, ITS RELATION TO DIFFERENT EMOTIONS... ON HOMO RIDENS -- THE ESSENTIAL HUMAN CONDITION, ON HOW TO RECOGNIZE TRUE, AUTHENTIC LAUGHTER FROM HYSTERICAL, EXHIBITIONIST, OR HYPOCRITICAL LAUGHTER, ON HOW TO BE A CHANNEL OF PURE JOY?
Prem Nistal,
I have just been talking about laughter, its meditative powers and its medicinal powers. It certainly changes your very chemistry; it changes your brain waves, it changes your intelligence -- you become more intelligent. The parts of your mind that have been asleep suddenly wake up. The laughter reaches to the innermost part of your brain, to your heart. A man of laughter cannot have a heart attack. A man of laughter cannot commit suicide. A man of laughter automatically comes to know the world of silence, because when laughter cea

Osho on Mystic Rose Group
I have chosen Leela, one of my therapists, to create a new meditative therapy. The first part will be Yaa-Hoo! -- for three hours, people simply laugh for no reason at all. And whenever their laughter starts dying they again say, "Yaa-Hoo!" and it will come back. Digging for three hours you will be surprised how many layers of dust have gathered upon your being. It will cut them like a sword, in one blow. For seven days continuously, three hours every day... you cannot conceive how much transformation can come to your being.
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then the second part is "Yaa-Boo." The first part removes everything that hinders your laughter -- all the inhibitions of past humanity, all the repressions. It cuts them away. It brings a new space within you, but still you have to go a few steps more to reach the temple of your being, because you have suppressed so much sadness, so much despair, so much anxiety, so many tears -- they are all there, covering you and destroying your beauty, your grac