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Question – How does one feel after the Sahasrar begins to open? Osho – After the sahasrar opens, there should be no feeling but inner silence and void. The feeling…
Osho – There are no degrees of enlightenment. Once it is, it is there. It is just like jumping into an ocean of feeling. You jump, you become one with…
Question – Does an enlightened person always remain enlightened or can he become unenlightened also? Osho – The question is from Deva Swarup Yogiraj. Even an unenlightened person remains enlightened.…
Question – What is Nirvana? Osho – This story is about NIRVANA… this ancient Buddhist story. An exceptionally beautiful young woman, Enyadatta, enjoyed nothing quite as much as gazing at…
Osho – Yes, I know. That too is nothing to be worried about, mm? If it happens next time, think of the hospital as a resting place, as a place…
Question – Since coming to you, living a meditative life has become an easier and more natural phenomenon. However, i have practically given up all hope for enlightenment. Are these…
Question – Am i right to feel that you have travelled the path of gradual enlightenment? Did you dance when the enlightenment happened? Osho – I am still dancing. If…
Osho – This is a paradox, but of tremendous import – that enlightenment becomes possible only when you forget about it. When the desire for enlightenment disappears, only then does…
Osho – A parable… Once in the garden of a Master there lived a monkey. And, as monkeys are curious people, he became very curious about the Master. He saw…
Osho – It is one of the most significant things to understand that the very desire for NIRVANA is the only hindrance. You can desire money, you can desire power,…
Osho -Animals don’t know. Man knows but his knowing is only information, accumulation of facts, accumulation of theories, ideologies, philosophies — it is all borrowed. And the borrowed always becomes…
Osho – Not even there! If you are serious anywhere else, it is not so dangerous. But if you are serious when it comes to enlightenment, then it is absolutely…
Osho – Through all three states – wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep – turiya, the fourth state, runs like a thread through the beads of a mala. Even while you…
Osho – Samadhi is a word very difficult to translate into English; there exists no parallel. But in Greek there is a word which is parallel; that word is ataraxia.…
Question – You suggest that we become fully-merged, that we drown. How can we do this? Osho – I tell you from my own experience that there is no easier…
Question – Beloved Master, What does Enlightenment feel Like? Osho – Prem Geetam, enlightenment is not a thought nor a feeling. In fact, enlightenment is not an experience at all.…
Question – Is it possible to become Enlightened in a Dream? Osho – Not only possible — whenever it happens, it always happens in a dream. Whatsoever you think is…
Osho – The first thing I did after my enlightenment, at the age of twenty-one, was to rush to the village where my grandmother was, my father’s village. She never…
Osho – You have lost the night; you could not wake up in the night. But it can be forgiven: it was night and you slept. But you cannot be…
Question – Is it Possible for a Politician to be Enlightened? Osho – Never heard of it. It has never happened. There are intrinsic problems. The very dimension the politician…
Question – When does the boat reach the other Shore? Osho – Deva Vigyan, there is no other shore, this is the only shore there is. And it is not…
Osho – Samadhi is a word very difficult to translate into English; there exists no parallel. But in Greek there is a word which is parallel; that word is ataraxia.…