The Inward Journey In Osho S Guidance

This book is a compilation of Osho's talks which were actually the answers to Ma Anand Urmila's questions asked by her during her stay in Jabalpur - from January 1966 to March 1967. This is the English version of the Hindi book, 'Shanti ki Khoj' published in 1970 by Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, Bombay as instructed by Osho.

I would like to talk about the first step for a meditator, a seeker. What is the first step? A thinker or a lover follow certain paths but a seeker has to travel on a totally different journey. For a seeker, what is the first step on the journey? The body is the first step for a seeker – but no attention or thought has been given to it. Not only at certain times, but for thousands of years, the body has been neglected. The neglect is of two kinds. Firstly, there are the indulgent people who have neglected the body. They have no experience of life other than eating, drinking and wearing clothes. They have neglected the body, misused it, foolishly wasted it – they have ruined their instrument, their veena. If a musical instrument – for example, a veena – is ruined, music cannot arise out of it. Music is an altogether different thing from the veena – music is one thing, the veena is another, but without the veena music cannot arise.

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SELF AWARENESS—ULTIMATE GOAL OF LIFE Ancient spiritual teachers and enlightened spirits have ordained that to know the self is the ultimate goal of one's life. Lord Mahavir said, "One who knows one (self), knows everything else". "One who is awake or aware of the self is the real saint (Muni) and the one who is not awake is not a saint (Amuni”. Socrates and Jesus Christ also said, "Know Thyself". This also means to know and to be aware of the self. Maharshi Patanjali of Yoga fame says, "To be in oneself is 'Kaivalya', the highest gnana (wisdom)." Lord Buddha said, "To end the suffering, you set up yourself in constant awareness. Constant Awareness is enlightenment.". Self-Knowledge- End of Conflict and Suffering According to J. Krishnamurti, one of the most enlightened souls of the twentieth century, self-awareness is the beginning and the end of life. Conflict and suffering exist as long as I do not understand myself. Therefore, understanding self is much more important than knowing how to overcome sorrow and conflict. Most of us are totally unaware of ourselves. We do not observe our own thoughts and feelings The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-Knowledge has no end. It is an endless river. IMPORTANCE OF 'PRESENT' According to Nisargadatta Maharaj, present has the stamp of reality because I am always now, in the present and what is with me now shares in my reality. The past is in memory, the future in imagination." To know one's real self is bliss, to forget-is sorrow. The real is beyond the mind. Seeing the false as false is meditation. This must go on all the time. Exercise in discrimination between the true and the false and renunciation of the false is meditation. Do not undervalue attention (Dhyana). It means interest and also love. Self-remembrance and self-realization are two aspects of the same state. Self-remembrance is in the mind, self-realization is beyond the mind. The obstacles to clear perception of one's true being are desire for pleasure and fear of pain. It is the pleasure-pain motivation that stands in the way. What is the root of the pain? Ignorance of self. What is the root of desire? The urge to find self. All creation toils for its self and will not rest until it returns to it. Harmlessness is most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless. According to Eckhart Tolle, the author of “The Power of Now”, The greatest difficulty in experiencing reality (or having self awareness) is "the identification with mind”. The incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from being (the self). Thinking has become a disease. Mind is a superb instrument, if used rightly. When it is out of our control, it is a disease. As you go more deeply into this realm of no-mind, you realize the state of pure consciousness in which "you are highly alert and aware but not thinking”. This is the essence of meditation. “NOW” – THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF LIFE Pain is self-created till the unobserved mind runs your life. The greater part of the human pain is avoidable. The pain that you create now is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. "Make 'Now' the primary focus of your life. Say yes to life-and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. This will miraculously transform your whole life." Attaining self-awareness is the objective of life and through meditation one can learn the art of living in the present with full awareness. Present is the most important thing. The past, being in memory, and the futur

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The “Power Of Navel Area” book is a gift of Existence to the humanity through me. In preparation for the session of “Amrit Movement” while reading books of my Master of masters, beloved Osho, I was attracted by the discourse on Navel (Nabhi). I liked it very much. I gave some quotations of my Master of the masters in my first CD Title ‘Initiation Into Sound’. I used it many times in conducting the sessions of 'Amrit Movement' at our four ‘Dhams’. Gradually the mystery of this revealed to me. I had not many materials on it. Only two sources one the inspirer my beloved Osho and second myself. In September 2007 in 'Oshodhara Sansad' I was permitted by Sadguru Osho Shailendra Ji to introduce a technique for activation and nourishment of the Navel. After my experiment with all the participants, he told that Osho in the beginning told that the center of being is the Navel and the Master of masters, always emphasized and concluded in all his discourse with its importance. This encouraged me much. Osho always helped me, still now he is helping and guiding directly, through Sadguru Trivir and other Masters through spirit and body. His one lecture, which I read in 'Osho World' magazine, inspired me to work more on Navel and humming sound. After five years of working on not only the Navel but on whole Navel area. Happy, blissful participants in sessions of ‘Amrit Movement’ and in ‘Satsang’ encouraged me to write the present book ‘Power Of Navel Area’. I have worked on dying patients, through humming on Navel Area. It made their death easy comfortable, peaceful and blissful. Also worked on sick, painful, and patients suffering from heart attacks and loss of sleep. It helped them and alleviated their ailments. Now I feel satisfied to write the book. Though it is small one. It is just the beginning and soon another edition will come. This book is due to the blessing of my beloved Osho and Sadguru Trivir. I am presenting this book to the experiments of the seekers and all others who want to take advantage of this book. I am eagerly waiting for their comments and results. I am very much thankful to my wife Ma Osho Sambodhi and two sons Swami Vaikunth Bharati (Dr. Somesh Thakur) and Swami Jeevan Abhay (Rakesh Thakur), and whole family members, who helped me in making this book. Thanks to beloved Manav Ji, without whose effort and help on computer, it was impossible. I would also like to bow to the formless feet of the Existence, which is always inspiring and maintaining my life and others who are in love with me.

Kabir is a 15th-century Indian mystic. Born a lower-caste weaver, Kabir opposed superstition, empty ritualism and bigotry. His teachings include scathing attacks against Brahmanical pride, caste prejudice and the very concept of untouchability, as well as exposing the dogmatism and bigotry he perceived around him. Unusually, even for his time, he was embraced by disciples who had been raised in both Hindu and Muslim traditions, who saw in him the embodiment of a life-affirmative approach that transcended the narrow dogmas that divide people and set them against one another. A poet, weaver, husband and father, Kabir lived his life as a buddha and yet as an ordinary man. His poetic songs tell of the ecstasy and the pitfalls on a seeker’s journey on the path of love. In this book, Osho introduces the reader to this extraordinary mystic and his songs, bringing both to light in such a way as to show how they are both timeless and utterly relevant to our time. The path of love as described by Osho, and though the songs of Kabir, is a journey that seeks out and celebrates the divine that is hidden in the ordinary, the love that becomes not just a feeling one has, but ultimately a state of being that one is. “Each song of the bird, and each cloud floating in the sky, is something like a message, a coded message. You have to decode it, you have to look deep into it; you have to be silent and listen to the message.”