Guru Vandana Week

Ecstasy is our very nature; to be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature.

Where does man come from?

The modern man has a deep trust in science because science more often than not tries to give some logical answers to eternal questions. Recently a genetic study found that the 13th century warrior Genghis Khan was a "prolific lover." It also found that nearly eight per cent of the...

Determination opens many doors

We often say we are seeking truth or searching God and we want our life to be peaceful, content and blissful. We make efforts to attain all this but our efforts don't produce any results. We become more frustrated than before. This is all because our efforts are lukewarm and...

Zorba the Buddha: The Complete Man

The traditional concept of man was that of a materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral person, sinner or saint. A divided man is miserable. He is neither healthy nor whole; the other half that has been denied will go on taking revenge. It will find ways and means to overcome...

Know your being

We make ordinary people heroes and when they fall in our eyes, we crush them to pieces. This is a love-hate relationship and we express both emotions in such way that it becomes a catharsis. When there is too much love, know well there will be eruption of hate too.

Feeling Functions

Life is a process of learning. We stop growing when we stop learning. What we learn from outside sources is tuition. And there's another source within us, that of intuition. The two are distinct dimensions of learning - one from outside to inside and vice versa.

Tea Lounge

Now you have belly and pole vault dancers in Pune's pubs and of course even FTV at home. Therefore, digesting western culture is a lot more easier even for the most conservative Puneite. But then in the mid- 1970s, when the maroon tribe walked into Pune, with Acharya Rajneesh in...

Home-cooked food, but no cricket

For a person who likes to spend his spare time reading books, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani could find little time to catch up with the three authors - John Grisham, Winston Churchill and Osho - that he chose to keep him company in the first phase of the...

Straight Answers

Let me say that Osho has influenced me more subjectively rather objectively. Before discovering Osho, I was carrying too many personalities with me; was wearing too many masks. Osho made me remove all of them and find myself. He made me realise that if I don't like a person doesn't...

Live for today

The simplest definition of enlightenment that Osho offers is that to live one's life here-now: this moment is all. He says: "You never have two moments together in your hands, only one single moment. It is such a small moment that there is no space for thinking to move, no...

Usher in the age of enlightenment

The world has progressed much beyond our imagination. But this progress has been on the outside. Not much has changed in the inner world of the man, he continues to remain almost the same. The same anger, lust, politics and violence remain, only expressions have changed. Now the time has...

We don’t need democracy lessons from US: RSS

Taking strong exception to the US state department report, which has criticised the Indian democracy as flawed and alleged that the BJP government was not providing proper security and justice to the minorities, the RSS on Friday asked the Union government to lodge strong protests with the US for infringing...

Thought for the Day

It is possible to make Osho available to the intelligentsia in Iran also.The ground is ready. There are already 42 Osho books in Persian language being sold in the shops and more are being translated.

Rediscovering Pune

It is possible to make Osho available to the intelligentsia in Iran also.The ground is ready. There are already 42 Osho books in Persian language being sold in the shops and more are being translated.

Dhyan in Iran: Osho For Aryans

It is possible to make Osho available to the intelligentsia in Iran also.The ground is ready. There are already 42 Osho books in Persian language being sold in the shops and more are being translated.

Meet Satyaraj, the philosopher

What do Periyar and Osho have in common? While the former was a rationalist who worked among people to convince them to reject every religion, the latter, a godman preached freedom from every man-made shackle including religion

The way of the Zen: Just being

Marjorie Hansen, the author of The Confident Woman uses a very interesting phrase for people in her book. She calls them Human Doings rather than Human Beings. The enlightened mystics of the East have also talked about these two categories. Doing is our karma, and being is our consciousness. From...

Main hoon na

Relationships are always a big issue in life - the only one. We spend life thinking and worrying how to relate with others, how deeply or superficially we should involve ourselves with them. We often get into all kinds of entanglements. And each relationship promises pleasure in the beginning then...

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