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Janmashtmi brings celebration with prayers, songs, dance and sweets in the modern day. Looking
back, unlike Buddha or Mahavira, who left the world behind, Krishna stayed, in the palace, in
love, in life, and remained inwardly untouched. Complete within, complete without. He lived
fully, without guilt, proving that totality, not renunciation, can be the deeper spiritual path.
This informs Neo Sannyas. Osho asked His sannyasins to stay in the marketplace, in work and
relationships, and grow aware within it. The marketplace itself becomes the temple.
This issue also remembers Mahaparinirvana, the passing of Osho's father. Death and celebration
are not opposites; awareness of impermanence makes life more precious.
September holds many such days, meaningful only when they turn us inward. Reading can stir us,
but only meditation lets us taste what it points to. Join us at Osho Dham, and return to life
more awake.
Wishing you well.
Book to Read
Geeta Darshan
Who was Krishna- dancer, lover, warrior, statesman; all at once? In Krishna Smriti Osho unveils Krishna not as a distant myth, but as life lived fully, contradictions embraced. Through a rare series of discourses, the playful flute-player and the genius statesman merge into one complete being. A rich, contemplative journey into Krishna's mystery awaits. Click below to bring this masterful portrait home today!
Meditation for this month
A method to move systematically from mind to simply being
For whenever you have 30 minutes or so to spare
If you have never meditated, or tried in the past and given up on it, this particular method is excellent. It leads you step by step into meditation, rather than dropping you in the deep end immediately.
You start off using the mind (for counting). In this way, in subsequent stages it doesn’t feel excluded and so keep trying to poke its nose in where it is not needed. This helps you experience what ‘witnessing’ or being the internal observer is. Then by the final stage you can relax into simply being – present, alert and relaxed. At home.
MAHAPARINIRVANA DAY
OSHO, WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR FATHER'S DEATH YESTERDAY?
Vivek,
IT WAS NOT A DEATH AT ALL. Or it was the total death. And both mean the same thing. I was hoping that he would die in this way. He died a death that everybody should be ambitious for: he died in samadhi, he died utterly detached from the body and the mind.
He Died in Samadhi
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Choosing The Blissful Part
He invited the whole village for a feast. I loved that idea! The whole town laughed saying "This is sheer nonsense: your house has collapsed, everything is feeling miserable about it!" And he called all the people of the town -- it was a small town -- for a big feast, to thank god for helping us. Just four days more and the whole family would have died!
This is what I call choosing, in every situation, the blissful part.
Source: The Miracle (Darshan) #21
NEO SANNYAS
What is Neo-Sannyas?
The only secret there is
STORY OF A DISCIPLE
Search Finds The Master
By Swami Dhyan Pulak
A Disciple of Osho
Homage to Osho
By Dr. Lavlin Thadani
Chairperson of Muskan Productions
New Delhi, India
Jalaluddin Rumi
The Rebellious Spirit
Zarathustra
Zarathustra The Laughing Prophet
Osho On
Extraordinary Lives
Eminent People on Osho
Let Us Reflect
On Significant Days of September
Haiku
Where thought stops, the haiku begins.
Haikus are pictures, visualize them. They are not poetries in the ordinary sense. Just visualize:IN SNOW-WHITE MIST
WHERE SEA AND SKY ARE ONE,
A SINGLE DISK OF RED -- THE RISING SUN.
These haikus have come out of meditation.
Perhaps Shiro was meditating by the seaside, and as he opened his eyes
IN SNOW-WHITE MIST WHERE SEA AND SKY ARE ONE,
on the horizon, suddenly
A SINGLE DISK OF RED -- THE RISING SUN.
Something Serious
Mulla Nasruddin
Laughter, the Mark of Humanity
Osho on Gen Z
The Energy of Youth and the Need for Conscious Leadership
By Swami Dhyan Upageya
Osho always had a deep trust in youth. He saw youth not merely as a stage of life,
but as a quality of consciousness—fresh, questioning, rebellious, intelligent and
unwilling to accept the past simply because it is old. For him, the greatest hope for
humanity rested in the capacity of the new generation to question inherited
structures and create something better.
A Cup of Tea
Sip slow and savour deeply
Love.
You have asked me about sense of humour.
We can talk about it in detail when we meet
but first of all:
the sense of humour should be directed towards
oneself –
it is a very great thing to laugh at oneself and he
who can laugh at himself
gradually becomes full of concern and compassion
for others.
In the entire world
no event, no subject, invites laughter
like oneself.
About the truth of dreams as well
we shall have to talk in detail.
Some dreams are definitely true.
As the mind quietens down
glimpses of truth begin to appear in dreams.
Dreams are of four kinds
– those concerned with past lives,
– those concerned with the future,
– those concerned with the present
– and those concerned with repressed desires.
Contemporary psychology knows something about the
fourth type only.
I am glad to know that your mind moves towards
being at peace.
Mind is what we want it to be,
peace and restlessness are both our own creations.
Man binds himself with his own chains
and so he is always at liberty to become free of
the mind.
Letter 43; page 37, A Cup of Tea
Bodh katha
Once there was a great king who asked his magician to find him a courageous man for a dangerous
mission. After a long search, the magician brought four men before his master. The king, wishing
to choose the most courageous of the four, asked the magician to arrange a test.
The king, the magician and the four men went to the edge of a large field, on the other side of
which stood a barn. The magician gave instructions: "Each man shall have his turn. He is to walk
to the barn and bring forth what is there inside."
The first man walked across the field. Suddenly a storm came up: lightning flashed, thunder
rolled, the ground shook. The man hesitated. He was frightened. As the storm increased, he fell
down in fear.
The greatest love affair on earth
In His Presence
QUESTIONER: WHAT ARE THE DISTINGUISHING VIRTUES OF KRISHNA THAT MAKE HIM RELEVANT TO OUR TIME? WHAT IS HIS SIGNIFICANCE FOR US? PLEASE EXPLAIN.
Krishna is utterly incomparable, he is so unique. Firstly, his uniqueness lies in the fact that although Krishna happened in the ancient past he belongs to the future, is really of the future. Man has yet to grow to that height where he can be a contemporary of Krishna's. He is still beyond man's understanding; he continues to puzzle and battle us. Only in some future time will we be able to understand him and appreciate his virtues. And there are good reasons for it. The most important reason is that Krishna is the sole great man in our whole history who reached the absolute height and depth of religion, and yet he is not at all serious and sad, not in tears.
Read MoreKrishna: The Man and His Philosophy
Futurology
Be Aware.
Be In The Present
These Sun Sign are not about prediction, but about awareness.
Each sign is seen as an energy, an opportunity to understand yourself more deeply.
Choose your Sun Sign read the guidance for this month.
