Photographs by Swami Natraj taken at Osho Vatika in Rajkot, Gujarat – introduced by Punya
A few weeks ago, when Keerti sent me the information to put together an article about Osho Vatika in Rajkot, he also included some photographs.
Keerti commented that they were taken during the retreat he was leading and that he saw how the photographer, Swami Natraj, “whisked through the people like a breeze, without disturbing anyone.”
So there I was, downloading them from WhatsApp – one by one – until I discovered, to my great shock, that he had sent me almost one hundred of them (to be precise, there were 99). What to do now but keep downloading them? One by one. Then I started noticing how much I enjoyed looking at these beautiful faces – one by one – and how I started feeling more and more relaxed.
That’s when I remembered a quote where Osho describes the effect a Buddha statue can have on the onlooker – that we resonate with the form we are looking at.
I came across the quote while working on a compilation – meant to be called Art through Meditation – where I collected passages in which Osho speaks to artists, poets and sculptors about creativity, about looking and listening. Unfortunately this compilation has never been published, but I might have a copy in my files – and find the quote.
Here it is:
Just watching Mahavira’s statue you may fall into a meditative state. That was their original function. They were not made to be worshipped, they were made to make you aware of a certain state. The statue is of a certain state, not of a certain man; that man is irrelevant. […]
Good music, good poetry, can raise your consciousness. They can create the situation for the entry into the third. Very few musicians have been there, very few poets, very few painters, and very few sculptors are capable of creating such artifacts that can give you a resonance inside you.
Osho, From Misery to Enlightenment, Ch 5
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