Don't Let Yourself Be Upset by the Sutra ~ 44

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event type darshan
date & time 14 Sep 1979 pm
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Not available as such, but there is video with audio.
online audio
video Available, duration 0h 44min 53sec. Quality: good. With permanent noise and background music, possibly from a music group going on. The video is not complete, has various cuts (under revision).
See 1979-09-14 Osho Darshan (film).
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle UPSET44
notes
One of the few videos of darshan sannyas initiation (darshan). The video is apparently, from the opening credits and © at the end, an official OIF video.
synopsis
List of people taking sannyas in this darshan (and their old names), see discussion re Gabriele, Mukund and Lakshminarayan:
Sw Anand Jan (Jan)
Sw Anand Rob
Ma Anand Gabriele (Gabriele)
Ma Anand Dhyano (Marianne)
Sw Krishnanand Bharti (Kanaram)
Sw Ranjit Bharti (Ranjit Sinh)
Sw Premanand Bharti
Sw Mukund Bharti (Mukund)
Sw Swarupanand Bharti (Lakshminarayan)
Sw Rajendra Satyarthi (Rajendra Prasad)
Sw Ramanand Bharti
Ma Tulsi Bharti


text

For this darshan, a (incomplete) video is available. That video has quite a lot of text from Osho that is not in the book, including a section in Hindi.
Therefore we present both the text of the book and the transcript of the video here.


[Source: our Transcript from here]
MUKTA: Blanka.
[Source: 1985 book edition from here]
[Blanka means white, the most paradoxical of colors]
BHAGWAN: In one sense it is a color and in one sense it is not. It is a color because it contains all the colors; the whole spectrum of the rainbow is contained in white. And yet it is not a color at all because it is neither red nor blue, nor green -- it is a transcendence of colors. And so is bliss: it contains all and yet it is empty of all.
Bliss contains pleasure, happiness, joy, and yet it transcends all. It is a state of pure silence, utter silence. And the absolute silence can only be represented by whiteness, hence down the ages white has represented the holy. It is literally the whole, total, and it is also holy in the sense of purity.
To attain to God one has to become white in one's inner being: silent, still, empty, exactly blank. That is the meaning of blanka, utterly blank. Only in that absolute emptiness can God descend. We have to lose all before we can gain all.
Jesus says that if you save you will lose, and if you are ready to lose you have already saved.


[Her four year old son, Jan, shy-seeming]
BHAGWAN (to Blanka): You can keep his mala ...
(to Jan) Coming slowly ...? Look at me ...
(to Blanka) This is his name: Swami Anand Jan. Anand means bliss. Jan is Hebrew; it means God's gracious gift. Bliss is always a gift of God. It is not our achievement. We cannot claim it as our achievement, because before it enters into our being we have to lose our ego. Only in an egoless state is bliss possible, so the ego cannot claim that "I have achieved it." Hence we cannot make a goal of bliss, we cannot desire bliss. When we don't desire at all, bliss is; when we stop seeking all goals, bliss is. When all movement of desire stops, bliss is.
And it is always felt as a gift of God, because it is a gift of God: it comes from the beyond -- we are at the receiving end. Keep his name. Your name, Jan -- keep it with you! Good.


[Anand Rob: light of bliss]
BHAGWAN (to Rob): It becomes famous of its own accord; one need not advertise it. The moment you are blissful a certain vibe is created around you. You are no more the ordinary person you used to be. Something of the divine had penetrated you; you are aflame with it. You cannot hide this flame, you cannot keep it a secret, hence the mystics have called it the open secret. Every mystic has tried to hide it so that he can avoid unnecessary people, so that he can avoid crowds, curiosity-mongers, people who are not really seekers. But every mystic has failed; they have succeeded in attaining bliss but they have failed in hiding it.
It is like the sunrise: how can you hide it? It is like the full moon: where are you going to hide it? It is like Mount Everest: for thousands and thousands of miles it will be seen and known. Hence even in the ancient days when means of communication were not in existence at all, people like Jesus and Buddha were known almost all over the world.
Buddha lived in a very small place in northern India his whole life. He never went out of his province, but his rays penetrated the whole of Asia. They reached faraway lands -- Tibet, China, Korea, Ceylon, Burma and Japan. The whole of Asia was conquered by a man who never went out of a small province in northern India. Pilgrims started coming to him from faraway countries.
If bliss is real it creates its own magnetic energyfield. It attracts the seekers; it becomes an almost irresistible force for those who are really in search. But it has nothing to do with your ego; it is not your fame. It is God becoming famous through you, it is God's fame. All fame is his.


[Bliss is the last word in consciousness]
BHAGWAN (to Cornelia): It is the highest peak -- beyond it there is nothing. The moment you attain to bliss you have arrived home. Paradise, heaven, and words like those, are just metaphors for bliss.
Bliss is not what we understand by happiness. Yes, something of happiness remains in it, but something is missing also. Happiness is always a mixed phenomenon, mixed with unhappiness. Watch next time you are happy, observe, you will be surprised: it is never pure; unhappiness is always lingering side by side. Even in the happiest moments of your life, unhappiness is just around the corner and sooner or later it takes over. Just as the night is taken over by the day and the day is taken over by night, bliss, as we understand it, is continuously followed by misery.
That is not what is meant by anand. Anand means bliss which is not followed by misery -- bliss means a state which has gone beyond misery, now misery is impossible. Hence it has the flavor of happiness, the flower of happiness, but the thorns that grow side by side are no more there: it is a thornless rose.
Unhappiness is absolutely missing. Hence there is no fear, no clinging. Even if you want to lose bliss you cannot. Once attained it cannot be lost. Happiness you will attain many times and you will have to lose it many times. Even if you don't want to, you will have to lose it; it cannot be retained, it is momentary. Happiness is momentary; it is followed by unhappiness inevitably. Bliss is eternal; it is never followed by anything other than bliss itself.
Hence there is a great silence because the contrary is missing, and without the contrary there can be no conflict, no noise.
The Zen people call it the sound of one hand clapping. Now you cannot create a sound by one hand clapping -- one hand cannot clap. That's the state of bliss, there is no other. The polar opposite is absolutely gone, hence it is a state of peace.
Happiness has some excitement in it; bliss has no excitement in it. It is absolute peace, silence, harmony, and naturally, to attain such peace, such harmony, such ultimate joy, makes one kingly. One may be a beggar from the outside but from the inside one is an emperor.
A Buddha is a beggar, but look into his eyes and you will find the greatest emperor that has ever walked on the earth. Alexander the Great is great as far as possessions are concerned, but if you look into his eyes you will find a beggar. And he knew it! In the last moments he repented.
It is reported that he said that "If I had known before, that all my possessions and all my kingdom could not save me from death, then I would not have bothered about these things." If death is going to take away everything, then you are simply befooling yourself that you possess them. At the last moment, his last wish was that "My hands should be left hanging out of the side of the coffin; when you carry me to the graveyard, let my hands hang out of the coffin."
"Why?" his ministers asked. "This is not convention; nobody has ever heard of it."
He said "For a certain reason: millions of people will gather to see me carried to the grave. Let them see that my hands are empty; I am dying like a beggar."
Bliss makes one a king, a queen. It gives grace, it gives infinite contentment. And naturally when you are full of contentment you have a power -- a power which is not of this world, a power which is not destructive, a power which creates, a power which becomes a benediction to the world, the power of a flower, the power of a song, the power of a dance, the power of love. They are all born out of the source of bliss. One becomes capable of infinite love, one becomes capable of infinite joy, becomes capable of singing, dancing, celebration, because in knowing bliss one knows that God is, and that only God is.


(to Gabriele)
[Source: our Transcript from here]
BHAGWAN: Good. Come close to me. Just look at me... Good.
This is your name: Ma Anand Gabriele. Anand means bliss. Gabriele means God is my strength.
Bliss is possible only if one surrenders to God. God can be conquered only if you surrender, not by conquest, but by surrendering. That's the way of love. One simply dissolves oneself into God. One stops saying "I", one starts saying "Thou".
There is a famous Sufi poem of Jalaluddin Rumi. A lover knocks at the door of his beloved. From the inside of the house it is asked "Who are you?" and he said "I am your lover; can't you recognize me? -- my voice, my footsteps, my knock?"
And the voice from the inside says "The house of love is very small; it cannot contain two. First be ripe, be mature, and then come again."
The lover went to the desert. Months passed, years passed, and ultimately he attained what was expected of him. He came back, knocked on the same door, and the same voice and the same question "Who art thou?" Now he laughed and said "I am no more -- only you are." And the doors were opened for him.
The doors of love open only when you can say "I am not -- you are." Martin Buber has written a famous book, "I and Thou", and he says that "prayer is a dialogue between I and Thou"; he is utterly wrong. Prayer is not a dialogue between I and Thou; prayer is a surrender of the I to the Thou. It is not a dialogue. The I simply disappears into the Thou, just as a river disappears into the ocean, or a dewdrop evaporates into the sun.
When you can say "God is my strength, God is my being", that is the meaning of Gabriele -- when you can say "God is my soul, I am not", bliss is yours, then the temple of bliss opens its doors to you. Then you have come back home, then you are received back. Just as Adam is expelled from paradise because he disobeyed; and disobedience simply means the beginning of the ego. He said no to God. That means he said "You are not -- I am, and I am going to live my way. I am going to live separately as an independent entity."
That's the meaning of the whole parable: he became knowledgeable, he ate from the tree of knowledge; he had to be expelled.
It is the same Adam when he comes back as Jesus. Jesus says on the cross "Let thy kingdom come, let thy will be done." That is the other side of the story. By saying this, Jesus is getting ready to be received back into paradise. He has canceled Adam's sin. He is the same Adam, but now his back is no more towards God, but his face is towards God. Now he is ready to bow, to surrender, to say yes. He is ready to say "Amen, I'm yours. I am not real, only you are real. I exist because you allow me to exist. I breathe because you breathe in me. You are my life." When one can say this with totality, one is blissful.
How long you will be here?
GABRIELE: Only two more days.
BHAGWAN: Good. Next time come for a longer period. Help my people in Germany.


MUKTA: Marianne.
BHAGWAN: Come here. Close your eyes... Good. Come close to me. Just look at me... Good.
This is your new name: Ma Anand Dhyano. Anand means bliss. Dhyano means meditation.
The present is the only reality there is. The past is unreal because it is no more, and the future is unreal because it is not yet; only the present is real, which is a very tiny moment, now, a small phenomenon. It is crushed between these two unrealities. We go on losing it.
Meditation helps us to be here and now. Meditation is the art of being here and now, the art of being in communion with reality, the art of getting out of the dead past and the unborn future. And the moment you are out of the past and the future, you are in tune with God, because God is reality. God is not a person, God simply means all that is. God is another name for the totality, for the whole. And the door to God opens through the present. Now is the door of God. This is the only moment to enter. You cannot postpone it for tomorrow, because the tomorrow never comes. It is always now and it is always here. Wherever you are, you are always in the now and in the here.
Meditation helps you to become more and more alert of this phenomenon. And the day you are rooted in the present is the day of great benediction, of great blessing. Flowers start showering, the beyond descends in you. That is the meaning of meeting with God. Not that you meet somebody, not that a very ancient, old man comes and meets you. But simply the meeting of the dewdrop with the ocean -- that's what God is all about.
God cannot be worshipped, because worship is a kind of desire. God can only be lived. And meditation is the way to live God, to live your life as divine.
How long you will be here?
ANAND DHYANO: Five weeks.
BHAGWAN: That's good. Do as many groups as possible. Good.


MUKTA: कानाराम
BHAGWAN: करीब आ जायें। बैठ जायें। आँख बंद करें।... ठीक।
करीब आ जायें। करीब आ जायें।.... मेरी तरफ देखें।... ठीक।....
नाम आपका रखते है स्वामी कृष्णानंद भारती।... अब ये ख्याल रखें।....
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लग रहा है?
KRISHNANAND: श्वास, श्वास।
BHAGWAN: बस तो विपस्सना जारी रखें।
रोज एक घंटा दो घंटा जितना समय मिल जाए। सुबह समय मिले सुबह... साँझ समय मिले साँझ। अब ज्यादा से ज्यादा समय ध्यान में लगायें। ठीक।


MUKTA: रणजीत सिंह
BHAGWAN: बैठें। आँख बंद कर लें.... ठीक। करीब आ जायें।... मेरी तरफ देखें।... ठीक।....
नाम तो अच्छा है स्वामी रणजीत भारती।
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लग रहा है?
RANJIT BHARTI: सक्रिय ध्यान।
BHAGWAN: बस तो रोज जारी रखें। और नियम से करें। ठीक।


MUKTA: (illegible)
BHAGWAN: करीब आ जायें। मेरी तरफ देखें।... ठीक।
नाम रखते है स्वामी प्रेमानंद भारती। अब ये ख्याल रखें।
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लग रहा है?
PREMANAND BHARTI: श्वास, श्वास।
BHAGWAN: बस तो उसको जारी रखें पर रोज।... ठीक।


MUKTA: मुकुन
BHAGWAN: मेरी तरफ देखो।... ठीक।
नाम तो अच्छा है स्वामी मुकुंद भारती।
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लग रहा है?
MUKUND: (illegible)
BHAGWAN: बस तो उसको जारी रखो पर रोज।ठीक।


MUKTA: लक्ष्मीनारायण
BHAGWAN: ठीक। करीब आ जाओ।.... मेरी तरफ देखें।... ठीक।
तुम्हारा नाम स्वामी स्वरूपानंद भारती।
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लगा?
SWARUPANAND BHARTI: (illegible)
BHAGWAN: तो बस रोज जारी रखें। ठीक।


MUKTA: राजेंद्र प्रसाद
BHAGWAN: बैठें।... आँख बंद कर लें।... ठीक।... करीब आ जायें।... मेरी तरफ देखें।... ठीक।
नाम तो अच्छा है स्वामी राजेंद्र सत्यार्थी।
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लग रहा है?
SATYARTHI: विपस्सना।
BHAGWAN: बस तो विपस्सना जारी रखें।
SATYARTHI: कुछ पूछना था?
BHAGWAN: हम्म...?
SATYARTHI:पूछना था जी।
BHAGWAN: क्या पूछना था?
SATYARTHI: संकल्प की शक्ति ज़रा कम है मतलब बैठने में भी postpone करते है कि ज्यादा।
BHAGWAN: ध्यान जारी रखें छह महीने में ठीक हो जायेगाI कोई चिंता की बात नहीं।


BHAGWAN: ...ठीक। करीब आ जायें।... मेरी तरफ देखें।...
नाम रखते है स्वामी रामानंद भारती। अब ये ख्याल रखें।
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लगता है?
RAMANAND BHARTI: (unclear)
BHAGWAN: बस तो उसे रोज जारी रखें।
BHAGWAN: मेरी तरफ देखें।... ठीक।
नाम तो अच्छा है मा तुलसी भारती।
कौनसा ध्यान अच्छा लग रहा है?
TULSI BHARTI: कभी ध्यान में उतरी नहीं।
BHAGWAN: तो ध्यान में लगाना शुरू करो जो भी जम जाए। ठीक।


MUKTA: Parmanand Saraswati.


(...)


[At this point people come one by one and get blessings from Bhagwan. The video has some cuts, so the below list of names is incomplete.]
MUKTA: Vidya Bharti, Satya Bharti.
MUKTA: Purva, Yog Pratiksha, Ashutosh.
MUKTA: Nisheeth.
MUKTA: Anand Neeradam.
MUKTA: Anand Girish (inaudible).
MUKTA: (inaudible).
MUKTA: Deva (inaudible).
MUKTA: Ananda Sanjan.
MUKTA: (inaudible) Giresh.
MUKTA: Satyam.
MUKTA: Pragyani.
MUKTA: Anand Rupamam(?).


(...)


BHAGWAN: Keep it with you, and whenever you need me, put it on the heart.


BHAGWAN: When you arrived?
A WOMAN: September the 4th.
BHAGWAN: And how long you will be here?
A WOMAN: Three months.
BHAGWAN: That's good. Do as many groups as possible. Good. (She nods.)


[Energy darshan starts here.]
MUKTA: Anand Giovanni.
BHAGWAN: Savita... You all participate, raise your hands. Close your eyes, start humming and swaying, and go totally in it...
... Good. You have been helpful.


MUKTA: Deva (inaudible), Deva Prageeta.
BHAGWAN: Kavita... Come here. Sit. Back towards me. Closer, come closer to me. Come closer to me. Okay... Chetna, come here... Nirupa, come here... Divya be behind (inaudible)... (inaudible)... Raise your hands, close your eyes. Start moving and swaying...
...Good. You've been...


BHAGWAN: ... Come here. Back towards me... Closer to me. Savita, you will be (inaudible)... Radha be behind her... Aneeta, be behind Radha... Nirupa, come here. Raise your hands, close your eyes. Start moving and swaying...


BHAGWAN: ...Come closer to her... Both hands. Chetna... Champa, you will be behind her... Maitreya, be behind Champa... Savita, be behind Chetna... Maneesha... Radha... Divya, be behind Radha... Radha, come here... Aneeta, be behind Maneesha... Nirupa, come here by the side Chetna... Vasumati, be behind Radha...
Who is left there? (laughter) Come (inaudible)... Come here by the side Chetna... Sagarprem, be behind (inaudible)... Closer to me, Chetna... This is the last. Bring your total energy to explosion. Loud and sway. Don't hold back, go in...
...Come back. (inaudible).


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