"I HAVE TO LIVE NOW FOR MY MASTER'S MESSAGE" - An article signifying the essence of Bodhisattva

"I HAVE TO LIVE NOW FOR MY MASTER'S MESSAGE"

Beloved Osho,
Thoughts of death have been a frequent visitor during my disciplehood. How can a disciple die in a master's presence, especially when the
master is physically distant? Osho, is Mahakashyap the only answer?

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The question is not whether or not you are in the presence of the master, but WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE FILLED WITH LOVE AND TRUST FOR THE MASTER.

Physical closeness means nothing. ONLY SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS IS SIGNIFICANT.

Your love, your trust is enough. You can be on the moon and the master will be by your side -- REALLY, THE MASTER WILL BE INSIDE YOU -- because as your love deepens, something of the master, his energies, start melting and merging with you.

The fear of physical distance is the fear of lack of love and trust.

Mahakashyap alone is not the answer. EVERYBODY HAS TO BE AN ANSWER UNTO HIMSELF. Mahakashyap remained with Buddha, and after Buddha's death he died; he could not survive separately. But that is Mahakashyap's uniqueness. It is not the only answer.

I will tell you a few other stories around Buddha so you can understand...

ANANDA LIVED WITH BUDDHA FOR FORTY-TWO YEARS. Nobody else lived with Buddha so long, nobody was allowed to live with him so long. But there was a problem. Ananda was Buddha's cousin-brother, and older than him, and just the Eastern tradition... Before taking initiation -- Ananda was the elder brother -- and he said to Gautam Buddha, "Siddharth" -- Siddharth was his family name -- "Listen: after initiation, whatever you say I will have to do. I will be your disciple, you will be my master. Right now I am your elder brother, you are my younger brother; whatever I say you have to do. Three things you have to remember -- don't forget them when I become a disciple..." It is a beautiful story...

Buddha said, "What are the three things?"

Ananda said, "FIRST, I WILL ALWAYS LIVE WITH YOU; you cannot send me anywhere else to spread the message. Second, if I want anybody to meet you -- even in the middle of the night -- you cannot say no; that is my personal privilege. And thirdly, I will sleep in the same room where you sleep. Even in sleep, you cannot make me stay in a different place."

Buddha promised, and these three conditions were followed for forty-two years.

But Ananda did not become enlightened. You can understand his pain and his anguish -- people who had come long after him became enlightened, and he remained in his ignorance just the same as before. The day Buddha died he said, "What will happen to me? I could not
become enlightened even though I was with you for forty-two years, day in, day out, twenty-four hours a day. Without you, I don't see any hope."

Buddha said, "You don't understand the dynamics of life. Perhaps you will become enlightened only when I am gone; I am the barrier. You take me for granted. The day you had asked those three conditions, I had thought that those conditions were going to be a barrier for you.
You cannot forget that you are my elder brother, even now. You cannot forget that you have certain privilege over others. You cannot forget
that I have agreed on three conditions only for you, for nobody else. Perhaps my death will help."

Buddha died. And after twenty-four hours, there was a great meeting of all the enlightened disciples to write down whatever Buddha had said in these forty-two years. But the problem was that nobody had been with him continuously for forty-two years except Ananda -- but he could not be allowed in the meeting because he was not enlightened. An ignorant man, unenlightened -- you cannot rely on what he is saying, whether he heard it or imagined it, whether he has forgotten something, whether he has put his own interpretation in it. It is difficult.

And the scene is really tragic. The conference is inside a hall and Ananda is sitting outside on the steps crying, because he lived with Buddha for forty-two years; he knows more than anybody else. Each single moment he remembers, but he is unenlightened. Crying, sitting there outside the hall, something transpired. He had not cried his whole life. WITH THOSE TEARS, HIS EGO DISAPPEARED; HE BECAME LIKE A CHILD.

They opened the door to see whether Ananda was still sitting outside -- because they had told him, "You sit outside. If we need some confirmation from you, we will ask you, but you cannot enter the conference."

They saw a transformed being. The old Ananda, the old egoist was gone. An innocent being with tears of joy... AND THEY ALL COULD SEE THE LIGHT SURROUNDING HIM.

They invited him -- "You come in. Now there is no need for us to be worried. But it is strange... you could not become enlightened for forty-two years, and just after twenty-four hours you have attained that state" -- and this was continuously emphasized by Gautam Buddha.

Ananda said, "It was my fault. His death became the death of my ego too."

All the scriptures that are in existence are related by Ananda.

There were other enlightened disciples who did not die with Gautam Buddha. It was asked -- when Mahakashyap died, it became a very
significant question -- it was asked to other enlightened disciples, "If Mahakashyap has died, how are you living?"

One of the disciples, Moggalayan, said, "I HAVE TO LIVE NOW FOR MY MASTER'S MESSAGE. I am not living anymore -- I DIED WITH HIM; NOW HE IS LIVING IN ME." That was one way, the way of Mahakashyap -- to dissolve in Gautam Buddha. This is another way. "I have also dissolved, but dying is not going to help anybody. And there are so many blind people in the world who need eyes, there are so many people in darkness who need light. I will live. I will live as long as it is possible; I will live for Buddha."

So it is not a question of one person being decisive. Each person has to be unique in his own way. Somebody dies for the master, somebody lives for the master, and you cannot say who is greater -- perhaps no comparison is right. Both are themselves.

Just remember one thing -- your love. Then wherever you are, space and the distance in space does not matter. And at a certain depth,
EVEN TIME DOES NOT MATTER.

And when time and space both are immaterial, then you have really touched the feet of the master.

Then whatsoever transpires in you -- to live for the message or to die, whatever comes naturally and spontaneously -- let it happen.

OSHO
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Kaash yeh Pal - JAL (Music I love)

Jhinjhoti - CHINMAYA DUNSTER

Moonsong - CHINMAYA DUNSTER

If an American jail cannot take my bliss away from me, then no hell can take it from me - Osho

When Osho was arrested in America

" In my Twelve Days in American Jails, one day in an English jail, one day in a Greek jail, I loved it. I loved it for the simple reason that it was not affecting me at all. I was as blissful as ever; that gave me a tremendous confirmation that my bliss cannot be taken away from me.

If an American jail cannot take it away from me, then no hell can take it from me — that’s what I said to the Ameri

can jailer in whose jail I was for the first three days. He was surprised that I was not worried; in fact I had never had such a time — twenty-four hours of meditation, no disturbance.

I said, “Why should I be disturbed? Just because chains are on my hands, chains are on my legs, chains are on my waist — why should I be disturbed? My body is a jail, on that jail you have put a few more ornaments. I am perfectly happy.” My bliss was absolutely confirmed, because an American jail is the most refined way of torturing people.

I said, “You have freed me from the idea that if I fall into hell there will be a problem. If I can manage an American jail there is no reason why I cannot manage an old, out-of-date bullock cart type hell where no improvement has happened since the beginning. I would love to visit it.”

I was perfectly happy, but I was certainly not happy about millions of people who are in jail and suffering for no reason except that they are black. Now the difference between a black man and a white man is so small. In the old days the difference used to be near about four anas. Now prices have gone high — it may be a difference of one rupee. And remember, that difference is in favor of the black man. The black man has a pigment of color which makes him worth one rupee more than the white man. That black pigment of color protects him from the sun, the white man is unprotected. God seems to be more concerned to protect the black man than the white. The white man’s body is weaker, the black man’s body is stronger.

It was a surprise to me, whenever I entered a jail in America there were black people behind bars who had seen me on the television, because in every jail there are televisions. And they were showing me the two fingers of victory. They were talking in their own languages which I don’t understand, but this language I can understand. They were saying,”Your victory is our victory and we are going to be victorious,” because all the sins are on the white man. He has tortured the whole human earth for three hundred years, sucked its blood, has been a parasite. He should understand it, confess his guilt, be humble and help these people whom he has made poor.

These black people in American jails filled me with tears; those tears were for their freedom. We have done enough harm to them, it is time they should be compensated. But as far as I am concerned I was absolutely blissful; just as I am blissful here, I was blissful there. Space makes no difference in your state of being, nor does time make any difference, nor life, nor death. "

New Moon (Buddha Moon) - CHINMAYA DUNSTER

Bhairavi - CHINMAYA DUNSTER

Arunavachana - CHINMAYA DUNSTER

Sadhguru speaks about how distorted perceptions have crept into culture and tradition, creating a bias against women on the spiritual path.

Sadhguru:

 Indian spirituality has always been a rich mixture of men and women reaching the heights of their consciousness. A woman is as capable as a man when it comes to inner nature. It is only the peel, the body, which you call as a man or a woman. What is within is the same. The peel is not going to decide what one’s spiritual capabilities are.

In ancient times, women also wore the sacred thread because without it, they could not read the scriptures. Like a man, she could live within the marriage for ten to twenty years, and when she had the urge to become spiritual, she could renounce the family. However, when barbarian hordes invaded India, women slowly lost their freedom. The rules started changing. Maybe it was necessary for a certain period of time, because the physical situation was such that some restriction had to be placed on women for their own safety. But unfortunately it became the law. The first let down for a woman was when they declared that she cannot wear the sacred thread. It was also said that the only way she can attain mukti, or her Ultimate Nature, is by serving her husband. It was fixed that only a man could renounce.





Unfortunately, this sometimes continues even today. A woman is told that she has been born only to serve her father or her husband. People talk about the non-duality of existence and say, “Everything is one, but women are less.” In spite of the fact that a man knows that his existence depends upon her, if he cannot even accept her, his accepting all the dualities in the existence is simply out of question. The question of inferiority or superiority comes only in a prejudiced mind. It is just a question of two qualities. If a woman, out of whom a man is born, is inferior, how can man be superior? The possibility just does not arise. This problem is universal. It is not just about one gross man thinking like this. It has become a man’s way of life, a part of his very culture and religion.

Once, a certain social reformer went to Vivekananda and asked, “It is great that you also support women, what shall I do? I want to reform them. I want to support this.” Then Vivekananda said, “Hands off. You do not have to do anything about them. Just leave them alone. They will do what they have to do.” This is all that is needed. It is not that a man has to reform a woman. If he just gives room, she will do what is necessary.



Source Link : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/yoga-meditation/demystifying-yoga/women-on-the-spiritual-path/

Main to piya se naina laga aayi re - Hazrat Amir Khusro - Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan

Kishori Amonkar Raga Rageshree - Villambit Teental + Drut Ektal + Tablas, Harmonium, 3 tambouras. A gem for India classical music lovers.

Sadhguru talks on music, has an opportunity of evolution

 The origin of Indian classical music has been dated as far back as the Vedic times. In today’s article, Sadhguru talks to us about the difference between the two major forms – Hindustani and Carnatic – in terms of the use of sound and emotion. He also talks about perceiving music beyond entertainment, as an opportunity for evolution.

 

Sadhguru:

In terms of understanding sound and using it to influence the human system, I have personally studied this aspect in all my travels. Nowhere else in the world has sound been looked at with the kind of depth as in Hindustani music.

Thyagaraja

Within Indian classical music, there are two basic groups: Carnatic music, which is of the South, and Hindustani, of the North. Hindustani music is more about the sound; Carnatic is based on emotions. It is not that they have no understanding of sounds, definitely they do, but there is more emotion involved. It may not have been so earlier, but in the last four hundred years, Carnatic music has become more emotion based because of the bhakti movement, the devotion movement that happened in southern India. Most of the existing Carnatic music was written by devotees like Thyagaraja or Purandara Dasa, so a lot of emotion was brought into the music.

Hindustani music, however, avoided emotion and simply used sound the way it needs to be used. Within Hindustani there are different segments of music, highlighting the various ways that music can be used. If you really want to appreciate Hindustani music – not to learn, not to perform a concert – you would need at least one or two years of training. This is just to be able to appreciate the intricacies of this form of music. They have used sound in such ways that if you are willing to open up, it can do miraculous things to you.

What does sound mean? In yoga we say Nada Brahma, which means Sound is Divine. This is because the basis of existence is in vibration, which is sound. This can be experienced by every human being. If you enter a certain state within yourself, the whole existence becomes sound. This music evolved out of such an experience and understanding. If you observe people who are deeply involved in classical music, you will see they are naturally meditative. They become sage-like; almost like saints. So, this music was not viewed as entertainment. It was a device for the spiritual process. The ragas were used to evolve a person into higher dimensions of perception, experience, and evolution from within.

The simplest thing you can do to get started is to go for contemporary publications on classical music. These are slightly modified so that people with no training can appreciate this type of music. The Music Today series, for example, has a particular collection of ragas for the morning, afternoon, evening and night. You could also purchase the music of some very wonderful musicians and top artists, many of whom have been to the yoga center. We have concerts twice a year, here at the Isha Yoga Center.

Source Link :  http://blog.ishafoundation.org/lifestyle/isha-living/music-entertainment-or-more/

Vidyarambam - Introducing the child in the process of learning

Vidyarambam is a traditional ceremony, which introduces young children into the world of knowledge, letters, and the process of learning. It is exclusively designed for children to begin their education and brings forth the wealth of true knowledge. One of several rituals to benefit the growth and well-being of the child, this can be scheduled on any day at the Linga Bhairavi temple.

This year, over 200 children took part in this ceremony at Linga Bhairavi Temple on Vijayadashami, the last day of the Navaratri festival. Traditionally this day is considered to be a very auspicious day for any commencement of education, more so with art, dance and music. This is the first time the Vidyarambam was conducted for such a large group of people.

Various offerings and rituals are conducted in the temple to allow devotees to benefit from the Devi’s abundant Grace. The temple offers unique rituals that assist in every step that one takes in one’s life, from birth to death, to everything in-between. These rituals are designed to ensure that every life situation becomes a possibility to be touched by the Divine. Particular rituals can be performed to fulfill one’s desires, needs, and ambitions, or address specific problems in one’s life. 

 

For more information, please contact us at +919442504720 / +91 422 2515 627 or mail us at temple@lingabhairavi.org.



 Source Link : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/consecrated-spaces/isha-yoga-center/vidyarambam-at-linga-bhairavi-temple/

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