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Part VI : Questions about Esoterica
From 1970-1974 Osho gives many discourses on esoteric and occult
subjects, published under the titles: In Search of the Miraculous,
The Psychology of the Esoteric, I Am The Gate, Hidden Mysteries.
These are complex and need to be read in full. After 1974, Osho
does not often speak on these subjects.
You ask me how I am connected with any esoteric group. If you
can be in contact with one, you can be in contact with all. It
is just a matter of tuning. If your radio can work with one station,
there is no difficulty in its working with another. If the mechanism
is working rightly, you can catch any station around the world.
If you can be in contact with one esoteric group, you can be in
contact with all. You may not want to be in contact, you may want
it, but once you know the tuning you can be in contact. And many
times you come across a secret school but you lose the opportunity,
you lose the track.
Whatsoever I am saying is in many ways esoteric. That is why
many times I become very confusing to you. Any exoteric teaching
is never confusing, it is clearcut. It is just like two plus two
equals four, it is always a simple thing. But the esoteric, the
inner, the secret, is difficult to understand, because your understanding
becomes disturbed with any new knowledge which has to be absorbed.
Any knowledge that you know, you can absorb easily. It can become
a part of you; you can easily digest it. Anything which is new
to you is hard to digest. And no esoteric knowledge can be delivered
in mathematical terms. It has to be delivered mystically, it has
to be delivered poetically. Then it becomes living. It means many
things simultaneously.
I have been in contact with many esoteric groups. I have known
many persons who are still alive who belong to some group. I have
known many keys which were delivered by authentic teachers. But
no key of the old tradition is enough, so I am devising new keys.
Because I am devising new keys, I am not directly concerned with
any esoteric group, as each esoteric group is interested in and
is entrusted with a particular key to preserve. I am not interested
in a particular key. I am interested in devising new methods,
new techniques, new keys, because all the old keys have become
in many ways irrelevant.
One thing has to be understood, that all these keys were developed
in a world which was local, always local. For the first time,
we are in a world which is absolutely nonlocal, universal. Really,
for the first time we are in a world. Before, we were always confined
to a particular part of the world. All those keys were developed
for particular local conditions and cultures. Now, for the first
time the world is, in a way, a mixed-up mess. There is no particular
culture, there is no particular conditioning. Everything is mixed
up. And soon this is going to be more and more the case. Soon
there will be a world citizen with no local background at all
but with a universal background. Before this century ends, we
will need - we are already in need of - keys which are
universal….
All local keys developed in a world which was divided. There was
no universal mind - there never has been as far as our so-called
knowledge of history is concerned. Sometimes this phenomenon of
a universal mind has happened, but that is beyond our civilization,
that is beyond our memory. This phenomenon of a universal mind
has happened previously but that has been completely forgotten.
I have known so many esoteric groups - in this life and
before. I have been in contact with many esoteric groups, but
I cannot tell you their whereabouts. I cannot tell you their names,
because that is not permitted. And it is of no use really. But
I can tell you that they still exist, they still try to help….
You can also be in contact with some esoteric group. There are
techniques and methods. But then you will have to do much work
upon yourself. As you are, you can never be in contact. You will
just pass by an esoteric circle but you will not even be able
to detect it. You will have to change yourself, tune yourself
for new dimensions, for new vibrations to be felt; you will have
to be sensitive.
Then you will not ask me, "Have you been in contact with
an esoteric group?" You will know just by sitting near me,
you will know just by looking into my eyes. You will feel just
by hearing my words, or even by hearing my silence. You will understand.
But that will come only if you change yourself, attune yourself
for the new reality - if you open yourself for new dimensions.
Esoteric groups are and always have been there. Only you are
closed - closed in thought, closed in thinking, closed within
yourself, with no opening, no window, no door. The sky is there - just
open the window, and you will know the sky and the stars. Howsoever
far off they may be, just by opening your window, which is so
near, you come in contact with far-away stars. In a way, it is
illogical: by opening such a near window, how can you come in
contact with far-away stars? If I tell you, "Open this window
behind you and then you will come in contact with the whole universe,"
you will say, "It is absurd. Just by opening this window,
which is so near, how can I be in contact with what is so far?"
But it is so. Open a window in your mind, make a meditative window,
and you will be in contact with so many far-away lights, with
so many happenings which are always around.
Just around the corner, just around you, everything is happening.
But you are blind or asleep or just unaware. I am here; you cannot
conceive of what is happening here. You cannot conceive of it!…
Buddha passes through a village…and no one recognizes
him. His own father does not recognize him; even with his own
wife there is no recognition.
I am here! You cannot recognize what is inside, only the outside
is known. You only become acquainted with the outside. That is
how it should be. You are not in contact with your own innerness,
so how can you be in contact with mine? That is an impossibility.
It becomes easy if you are in contact with your own innerness.
Then you can be in contact with my innerness, or innerness as
such. Otherwise, you will just go on asking me, and I will continue
answering you. Then everything just misses the point.
But I answer you not in order that you should get the answer
from my answer. No, I never hope against hope, I never hope that
my answer can become your answer. I know very well that my answer
is of no use to you. But then why do I go on answering your questions?
I go on answering not in order that my answer will become your
answer, but because if you can listen to me silently, totally,
in that silent listening you will come directly upon your own
innerness. Suddenly it can explode in you, suddenly you can be
in another world that is completely different from any in which
you have been living. And if that happens, then you have come
into a new existence.
That new existence is your own. It is an esoteric, inner secret.
That inner existence has all these things. gate08
In any inner feeling, any inner realization, if you become doubtful
whether it is true or imaginary, then it is certainly imaginary - because
the Truth is so self-evident that you cannot doubt it. The doubting
mind just disappears.
So sometimes someone comes to me and says, "Tell me whether
my kundalini has risen or not. My teacher says my kundalini has
risen, so tell me." So I tell them that unless it becomes
self-evident to you, do not believe anyone. When that phenomenon
happens, you will not go to ask anyone whether it has happened
or not. If someone comes and asks you, "Tell me whether I
am alive or not," what will you say to him? Certainly he
is dead! Even if this has to be asked, then certainly he is dead.
Life is a self-evident fact; no proof is needed. How do you
feel your life? Do you have any proof of it? Is there any proof?
How do you feel your life? How do you know you are alive? Is there
ever a doubt whether "I am alive or not"? ultal110
The lines traced on the body are a very superficial phenomenon.
Deep within is the mind. The mind with which you are familiar,
however, does not exist deep down; it is superficial. Deep down
there is a mind which you do not know at all. The centers that
exist deep within this body alone, which Yoga calls chakras, are
the accumulated forms of many lives. One who knows can, by placing
his hand on a particular chakra, discover how active it is. By
touching your seven chakras, it can be known whether you have
ever experienced them or not.
I have experimented with the chakras of hundreds of people,
and I have been surprised to find that at the most one or two - and
only rarely three - chakras have begun to be activated; generally,
they remain dormant. You have never used them, but they are your
past. If a man who has experienced them comes to me and I can
see that all his seven chakras are in motion, then it can be said
that this is his last birth. Then there will be no next birth,
because if all seven chakras are in motion, then there is no possibility
of a next life. This life will be nirvana, this life will be liberation.
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You ask: Is reincarnation a part of your teachings?
I don't talk much about doctrines. I am not very interested in
intellectual gymnastics. Reincarnation is a fact, but I don't
talk much about it. I may help you to remember your past lives,
but I don't make a doctrine out of it. If you can remember them
than it is okay. If you don't remember them, that too is okay.
But I don't talk about it. It is useless. quest09
Someone was here to meet me a few days before. He said, "I
am very much advanced, so don't start with me from ABC."
This is the mad type of man.
So I asked, "First relate to me how much you have advanced.
What have you gained?"
So he said, "I see visions of Krishna. Sometimes I dance
with him in my visions. I have visions of very beautiful places - lakes,
hills."
Whatsoever he said was just dreaming, so I said, "If this
is what you mean when you say that you have advanced very much,
then it is very difficult to even proceed because you are simply
dreaming. You have not even taken the first step."
The first is the most difficult: to recognize this, let this
fact penetrate deep. Howsoever painful, welcome it - only
then can something be done. If you recognize it you will become
humble, if you recognize it you will become simple, if you recognize
it you will become childlike - then there is much possibility,
then much opens. ultas117
One man came to me in Bombay. He brought a very big suitcase
with him; he received messages from god every day. He said, "Nobody
listens to me and people think I am mad. My wife takes me to the
psychiatrist. I heard about you and I thought you are the right
person; you will understand. Now look!"
He opened his suitcase. There were thousands of pieces of paper.
I looked at them - all kinds of nonsense - and he said
they were 'special information'. Two plus two is four - that
is special information that has come to him. And anything, whatsoever
comes to his mind, he writes, and he thinks it is special information.
Forget all this! It is time to get out of it otherwise you will
be wasting your life. shore05
A friend came yesterday. He is an intelligent person and has
great regard for me. He told me, "Why do you not perform
some miracle like Sai Baba? Thousands will flock to you."
What use are these thousands of people? What shall I do with them?
They come not because of Sai Baba but because of the miracles.
If even one came for the sake of Sai Baba it would be more fruitful.
One who comes for miracles is not a theist. A theist is one
who says, "Everything in this world is a miracle. There is
nothing that is not a miracle A seed turns into a tree; clouds
move in the sky; the sun comes out, there are stars; there are
birds and animals; there is man - everything is a miracle!"
He who sees no miracle in all this is impressed by the ash that
comes out of the hands of a miracle-man. That the sun comes out
is no miracle to this blind man, but a little ash drops from this
man's hand and he is impressed!
The intelligence that believes in this ash is not the intelligence
that can go God-ward. Lakhs of people are bound to gather, but
this crowd will be the crowd that gathers to watch a magic show.
It has nothing to do with religion.
The stories woven around Mahavira, Christ or Rama are downright
false but the devotee, out of sheer frustration invents them.
Otherwise his God does not look distinctive from the rest of mankind.
So he says, "When Mohammed walked, even on the sunniest day
a cloud moved along with him. The devotee has to say all this
because his logic is the same as the atheist's; he has the same
intelligence.
One who sets out to look for miracles does not have the heart
of a devotee. Is there anything in this world that is not a miracle?
Show me a single thing that is not a miracle! This whole world
is a miracle!
Is it not a miracle that you are? There is no reason why you
should be. The world would have no complaint if you were not.
But you are - a complete living entity. It never occurs to
us that there is no reason why we should exist. The world would
have got on just as well without us. Yet we are! We do not know
who creates us; we do not know who destroys us, who brings us
into existence, who takes us out of it. We do not know. Is this
not a great miracle that is taking place every moment of our existence?
And here are we flocking to see a man who takes a little ash out
of his hands! Lack of intelligence makes such things appear like
miracles. If man is intelligent, the whole world appears to be
a miracle.
Otherwise, we have to invent devices to prove that Rama is God,
Krishna is God. I do not say they are not. What I mean to say
is that everything on this earth is God. Everything here is divine.
There is nothing on this earth which is not God. way204
Fools are always searching for something esoteric - only
nonsense appeals to them. And sometimes I talk nonsense, because
I am not here only to help those who are not fools. I am also
throwing my net wider and wider; some fools have to be caught
by me too. They are good people!…
There is a deep urge in man to know things which are worthless,
to know things which make you feel special - because only
you know those things and nobody else does. Man wants to be special,
and nothing makes you more special than so-called esoteric knowledge.
That is why esoteric knowledge remains important. All kinds of
rubbish go on in the name of esoteric knowledge - that the
earth is hollow, that inside the earth there are great civilizations.
And there are people who still believe in it, and in many more
such stories.
Man lives such a dull and drab life that he wants some sensation.
Those who are a little wiser, they read scientific fiction or
detective stories. Those who are not so wise, they read spiritual
fiction.
And these things were said by me when I was surrounded by a
certain group of fools. They were not interested in anything else.
And I have to respond to you; as you grow, my responses will be
higher and higher. The day you have understood the whole stupidity
of the human mind I will not need to talk to you; just sitting
silently will be more than enough.
These things were told by me to a certain group of people who
were only interested in those things. It would have been absolutely
pointless to talk about anything else with those people. Now that
they have almost disappeared, and now that a totally different
quality has come here, I can go more into the world of the truth.
But still I have to use words, and words distort.
Only silence communicates the truth as it is. wisdom10
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