Tuesday, January 13, 2009

OshoSpeak – 2009: #3

From ‘Sing, Dance, Rejoice’ – a Diamond Pocket Books collection

The Egyptian mystics have a saying: When the disciple is ready, the master appears… And Egypt had a few of the most ancient mystery schools. They were connected with those mystery schools which existed on the continent of Atlantis and Lemuria. Those continents are drowned….




………India is not just geography or history. It is not only a nation……a mere piece of land. It is something more: it is a metaphor, poetry………it is vibrating with certain energy fields which no other country can claim.
For almost ten thousand years, thousands of people have reached to the ultimate explosion of consciousness.
Their vibration is still alive, their impact is in the very air, you just need a certain perceptivity……..
It is strange because it has renounced everything for a single search, the search for the truth. It has not produced great philosophers…………no Plato, no Aristotle, no Thomas Aquinas, no Kant, no Hegel, no Bradley, no Bertrand Russell. The whole history of India has not produced a single philosopher – and they have been searching for the truth!
…………In other countries people were thinking about truth…………
India is the only land in the whole world, strangely which has devoted all its talents in a concentrated effort to see the truth and to be the truth.
…………For ten thousand years millions of people persistently making a single effort, sacrificing everything for it……………..it has created………a certain ocean of vibrations around you.
………..If you try to categorize it with other countries……..they have not produced a Gautam Buddha, a Mahavira, a Neminatha, an Adinatha. They have not produced a Kabir, a Farid, a Dadu. They have produced scientists…poets….great artists….painters,……all kinds of talented people. But the mystic is India’s monopoly; at least up to now it has been so.
………It is not coincidental that whenever anybody is thirsty for truth, suddenly he has become interested in India……….
Pythagoras, twenty-five centuries ago, came to India in search of truth. Jesus Christ came to India…….In the Bible there is no record about Jesus between the ages of thirteen to thirty……………those seventeen years Jesus was wandering through Egypt, India, Ladakh, Tibet.
………………in the Old Testament God says,”…………….I am very jealous and I am very angry. And those who are not with me are against me.”
And Jesus says, “I say unto you that God is love.” From where did he get this idea………….Nowhere in the world has there been any record of God being love, except in the teachings of Gautam Buddha.




……….there are only a few women masters in the whole of history………….The most ancient is Gargi. She’s reported in the Vedas. One of the great kings…………ninety thousand years ago according to the Hindu scholars………….one of the great scholars, Lokmanya Tilak, proved beyond any doubt that ‘Rig Veda’ is ninety thousand years old……based on……astronomy




Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neminatha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishabha_(Jain_tirthankar)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Farid


BBC documentary







A clip from a Channel 4 documentary

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