As only Osho can put
it !
If you are lucky to get silent co
passengers, travel in a second AC compartment across India can be fun. If it is
a Rajdhani or a Duranto (to think that it was actually meant to mean Turanth
–immediate, but the fickle impetuous Mamata would not have it) then even the
hawkers are absent.
Today I am partly lucky. The two
co passengers are in their thirties, decent in their concern and hence with the
decibel levels under control. J is wrapped up
on a Wilbur Smith, and I got to read Osho for the zillionth time.
“Krishna” was written when
Rajneesh was very much a Hindu. With evolution and insight he gradually threw
aside all religions in later years. “Krishna”
is in the form of a dialogue, answers to questions posed by his devotees. In
the first question he highlights the relevance of Krishna to modern times.
Oshospeak
It is really arduous to understand Krishna.
·
It is easy
to understand that a man should run away from the world if he wants to find
peace, but it is really difficult to accept that one can find peace in the
thick of the marketplace.
·
It is
understandable that a man can attain to purity of mind if breaks away from
attachments, but it is really difficult to realize that one can remain
unattached and innocent in the very midst of relationships, that one can remain
calm and still alive in the midst of a cyclone
·
There is
difficulty in accepting that the flame of a candle can remain steady and still
in a place well secluded from winds and storms, but how can you believe that a
candle can keep burning steadily even in
the midst of raging storms and hurricanes?
The trick says Osho is to
accept the inevitability of opposites, and the truth of oneness. Krishna , says
Osho can only be understood “...if we
clearly understand the concept of adwait, that only one is-one without the
other. You can call him God or Brahman or what you like.
Why is this relevant? What is the
relevance?
The What
What is relevant is the fact that
opposites exist – Joy goes with sorrow, birth goes with death, success goes
with failure, ups goes with downs, heights goes with the lows. There is no
Everest, if there is no valley 28000 feet below. There is no i- Pad, if there
is no sacking of Steve Jobs a few years ago. There is no happiness if it is not
compared with an earlier period of sorrow.
Krishna symbolises acceptance of the
opposites altogether. And he alone can be whole who accepts the contradictions
together. One who chooses would be incomplete, because the part he chooses
would continue to delude him , and the part he denies would continue to pursue
and haunt him He can never be rid of what he rejects and suppresses.
The WHY
Two years ago I got my dream job
offer, and I rejected it. That is history. As long as I continue to reject the
fact that it is gone and let it haunt me, I can never live in the present.
Likewise as long as I let a failure haunt me rather than accept the
inevitability of its opposite sometime in the future, I will never be mentally
fully present to face the current challenges.
26APR13- On board the AP Express
to Delhi
