Osho suggests to a sannyasin in darshan: “Whenever you commit a mistake again, go into the process of it, see why, how, it happens.”
“For a real lover of challenges, success and failure mean nothing,” says Osho to a sannyasin in darshan
“Somebody throws [the responsibility] on God, somebody on karma, somebody on destiny, somebody on the I Ching, but people go on giving it to somebody else.”
During a group darshan, Anand Deva, a physicist from Canada, speaks to Osho about his experiences in the group with astral projection.
In darshan, Osho speaks to the participants of the Arica group, asking them about their experiences. One of them is Bob, a film producer, who becomes Swami Prem Samvada.
“No analyst, nobody from the outside, can interpret, because each individual dreams in his own way.”
Osho talks in a darshan to a sannyasin; “Love is… very delicate. One has to be very very careful and cautious about it.”
“That’s why so many people used to go to the Himalayas: not for the mountains – for the altitude,” says Osho in darshan.
“Surrender is only when even if you are right, you can give in,” explains Osho about work in the ashram.
Akhil and six-year-old daughter Premo are called up in darshan to come forward to sit in front of Osho.
A sannyasin, arriving, says he feels simultaneously very young and very old; and he feels to be alone.
David came to darshan some weeks ago. A friend of the English novelist, Pankaja, David is a potter, and at his first darshan told Bhagwan that he has been involved in Subud, writes Maneesha.
Osho speaks in darshan to Krishna Saraswati; “Jealousy can remain only if you are unconscious of it,” and to Leela; “he should observe – and for you, be involved in things and move moment to moment.”
In a darshan Osho says to Veet Asmi, “Make it a point to remember every day. Whenever you can find a place and a space to be silent, sit, relax the body, and just start going in.”
Answering a question in darshan, Osho declares with regard to saving the environment and ecology from the damages of technology that “the only way left is to go into technology far more deeply but with a new orientation.”
Osho talks in darshan to an art professor: about Objective Art and about banning tourists from sacred places, unless they meditate first.
“Man alone is misery. Man plus god, and all misery disappears; misery is transformed into ecstasy,” states Osho.
“No need to hide, no need to cover oneself. No need to be afraid: God is love and God is the judge,” says Osho to an initiate in darshan.
Osho gives the name Deva Prayoga to the new sannyasin, which means divine experiment. “From the known one has to go always into the unknown and one day from the unknown into the unknowable.”
Vipassana’s body died this afternoon. Most of this chapter contains a description of the death and sannyasins’ reactions to it. Then follows a description of the celebration and Osho’s discourse about her death.
Osho speaks to a new sannyasin very supportively about hypnosis and declares that once a person is capable of going into the past, he becomes automatically capable of going into the future, because the process is the same: “…ordinarily everything about the past and the future of a mechanical man can be known.”
Osho gives Prabhupad, Parmartha’s brother, a name for a center in Ireland: “It is just as when the gardener sees that one of his trees has bloomed – he is tremendously happy.”
A sannyas darshan: “Shreyas … means ‘the ultimate good’ – and that’s the only approach towards God. If you become good you become godly, and when the good becomes total, you become God himself.”
Osho gives sannyas to Anutosh and says, “Nothing ever succeeds with the mind. It can’t afford it, it can’t allow it. It lives in the tension between that which is and that which should be. … To understand this is to get out of it.”
In Samvado’s sannyas darshan Osho says, “Becoming a sannyasin means that now the world of communion starts. Now you will not only be hearing my words but my silence too.”
Sannyas darshan of Veet Nisha, from Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast, Ch 27, dated 27 February 1978: “To open your eyes needs courage because you may have to see things that you never wanted to see in yourself.”
A sannyasin says: I’m going back to pursue my study of astrology and to try to use it as a medium to communicate with people – not for its predictative qualities but just as a psychological tool…. in pointing out blocks and indicating how best we can use our energy.
In darshan, Osho speaks to Prito: “One has to be two things: at the center, bliss, at the circumference, love; inside, bliss, outside, love.
Tonight Sagar came to darshan, telling Osho that Laxmi (the secretary of the organization) has asked him to leave the ashram. He asked Osho if he were really to leave or if this was a message to indicate that he should apply himself more to the work.
Osho gives sannyas to Prem Gathen and explains that his name means a beautiful love story. He then tells him about Tansen, an extraordinary musician in King Akbar’s court.
Osho explains to a new disciple that the people who come to a master can be divided into four categories.
“Down the ages man has been searching to find how to conquer death. And in fact there is no need to search, because death is an illusion,” says Osho
In darshan, Osho says, “A man without meditation never comes to know the blessedness of life. He can only feel complaints against life.”
Osho says to a new sannyasin, “It is the greatest altruistic act one can do – to become aware – because by becoming aware you release awareness into existence…”
Osho says in darshan, “Listen to people. You will learn much about them, about you. Listen to people and you will feel an opening.”
During sannyas darshan, Osho says to Anand Maria (Praveeta), “Rebel against all that is untrue, rebel against that which is imposed by others. Rebel against the status quo, rebel against all the vested interests. Rebel against the past.”