English translation of a letter by Osho to Mr Ashvani Kumar Saini, then a student at the Engineering College, Jabalpur
Osho speaks on the sutra, ‘Intone a sound, as Aum, slowly. As sound enters soundfulness, so do you…’ from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
“Alexander the Great, or others of his category – are perhaps searching for something else, and are not aware of it. They are searching for greatness – but greatness does not come from acquiring an empire. Greatness comes from becoming your real self, bringing your potentiality to actualization.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; ““We are always in the present… We can project in the future great illusions, but still we are here-now.”
“…of dropping the mind, of moving from the bridge, moving into the unknown, taking a jump into the mysterious.” (with audio)
“The moment a synchronicity happens… between the heart of the man of the vertical and the heart of the man who is not yet vertical… you also start moving vertically.”
“You should be faithful only to love, not to the lover. Both should be faithful to love, as long as it lasts. If it lasts your whole life, good. If it does not last your whole life that is even better!”
“Not only Buddha, nobody has come down from the seventh heaven, ever. But a few people get obsessed, identified with their reflections.”
Osho speaks on ‘Decision’ in a darshan; “Whenever it is a question of choosing between the old and the new, always choose the new.”
“Trusting me you will be able to trust yourself, because trusting me, for the first time you will start tasting what trust is.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Be a witness to it all and you will know something that is beyond birth, beyond death…”
“This is a man who lives in the here and now: This cake is delicious. Even death is irrelevant. The next moment is meaningless. This moment this cake is delicious.”
“Whenever you want to try to understand me, don’t bring in what I have said in the past; that is not going to help. The latest has to be taken into account.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “The greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core! Don’t be stagnant, don’t remain in one inner space. Move!”
“It is an appeal to the individual soul: You take responsibility in your own hands. Don’t be contented, because there is so much more potential in you.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Belief’; “There is turmoil within every believer and he is afraid, really afraid to come across something which may disturb his belief.”
“When your senses are unable to see… even then you are a witness. And to perceive the inner witness the senses are not needed.”
“Whatsoever appears in the mind, just watch it. Watch it appearing, watch it being there, watch it disappearing.”
Osho, I find myself mostly attracted to women and very rarely deeply to a man. I am a little bothered about it. Could you please say something about it?
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Take life very playfully. Then you can have both the worlds together, you can have the cake and eat it too.”
A handwritten note from Osho where he replies to the question, “What is meditation, and what is the method to do it?”
“Tantra says that the first thing is to be available to joy,” states Osho commenting on a sutra by Saraha
‘Freedom from’ is political… ‘Freedom for’ is artistic, creative, scientific. And ‘just freedom’ is religious.
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “The mind grows old, the body grows old but the being knows nothing of time…”
Osho speaks on ‘Synchronicity’; “The whole scientific world is based on the causal relationship. Synchronicity has no place in it. But in human life everybody who is a little alert may have found it.”
A handwritten dedication by Osho to Jayshree Gokhani from Dwarka, Gujarat, on the opening page of his book Satya Ka Sagar, Shunya Ki Naav (सत्य का सागर, शून्य की नाव)
Tagore’s insight “that the moon is the moon whether you have a very beautiful mirror or a very ordinary mirror.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your very being has to be musical, it has to become harmony. A man can exist as a chaos or a cosmos. Music is the way from chaos to cosmos.”
Osho replies in writing to the question: ‘Can one meditate on a formless entity? And if so, will the formless remain formless?’
“Pravira means one who is very courageous. And the greatest courage in life is to live totally, in spite of all the priests and all the people who want you not to be joyous, not to be living totally.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Friendship’ by commenting on Pythagoras’ sutra: “Choose for thy friend, the friend of virtue; yield to his gentle counsels, profit by his life; and for a trifling grievance never leave him.”
A handwritten note (𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟼-𝟼𝟽) by Osho, published in Naye Sanket, and translated in Wings of Love & Random Thoughts
“Whatsoever you believe becomes effective,” says Osho. “You see only that which you are looking for.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your heart is beating now. It cannot beat in the past; it cannot beat in the future. The heart knows only the present, hence it is utterly pure…”
“When the disciple touches the feet of the master, it is not only what you see, something else is happening.”