Day: May 29, 2025

No horoscope is bad. And no horoscope is good either! Good and Bad is the play of the Mind. And the MIND is a monkey.

Truth can be very shattering. It is the truth that there is no good, no bad. That nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Everything is as it is, all condemnation, division is futile. – Osho

Always remember you are the CHILD OF GOD. And God loves You. I can understand how you would have felt when you were humiliated by people who said your Kundli (birthchart) is bad -very bad.

But don’t worry, such men and women are fast asleep and those who are asleep cannot help you with the TRUTH. And the Truth is that every Kundli comes with a certain purpose – something has to be done – some unfinished business has to be finished – you are NOT born accidentally- the UNIVERSE has a purpose to met through YOU! AND so then how come you become useless? How come you become bad?

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind. – Ramana Maharshi

Good or Bad – is totally based on situations! If a KNIFE becomes your shield – and you can save yourself – protect yourself, then the KNIFE becomes your savior! And if the KNIFE is used to harm you – then the same KNIFE becomes your killer. Now if you ask me -Whether a KNIFE is good or bad?

The answer is impossible – a conscious person would never LABEL anything or any person as GOOD or BAD – he is perfectly aware that it all depend on what PURPOSE is – if the purpose is GOOD – than even a KNIFE becomes GOD, if the purpose is GOOD than even the most condemned man or woman can prove to be a great savior of mankind!

Once it happened – a young man and what a man he was – simple, hardworking and always helpful to all the people of his village. One day – he lost his wife, she died in an accident. After a few days – he lost his daughter, she fell sick and he was short of money, the doctor won’t come – and the only daughter that he had, took her last breath at midnight when the whole village was fast asleep. She was only 6 years old and now the young man had to take her dead body all the way to the graveyard – all alone. Now there was nobody in his life – everything was lost – everything was gone. People started gossiping – ‘this man must have done many sins in his past life.’ – some would say “this man must be a curse to our village’ – some said ‘what an ill fated this man is’ – and slowly slowly all the villagers started condemning him – they started maintaining distance from him. Now the young man left out by all – took to drinking. He became a drunkard.

And every day he was found with a bottle in his hand, swinging around, walking through the narrow lanes of the village….the villagers decided to kick him out of the village but they couldn’t – law would not let them do so….

And so they all would try by every means and ways – to ridicule him, to insult him – to treat him like an animal – and the young man would laugh – he would simply laugh – and move on……at times a few villagers would beat him – and he would start bleeding – and yet he would not say anything – he would just slip out and keep moving from one place to the other…..

One day – it started raining and the rains were so heavily showering that the village was flooded with the rain water – the rains were not stopping – many houses were flooded, people became homeless – the crying of the women, of the children – the havoc all around….and the young man could not control himself….he could not see the dying children and the plight of the women of his village – and so for the first time in his life – he looked up in the sky and said “GOD – if you stop the rain, I will stop drinking. And that is my word.”

And the miracle happened – the rain stopped! God said “ If by stopping the rains – one good thing is happening – if one man is waking up from his ‘sleep’ – than it is worth it.”

And the rains stopped – and the man started crying – he became one of the greatest lover of God that the world had ever known – the villagers came and said “ You saved our lives – you please stay with us – we will help you in every way we can…”

But the young man was fired up – he was no more the same – he said “ I am now leaving – the call from the mountains has come – God has chosen me and my ‘journey’ has began!”

And it is said that the young man went on to become one of the finest Yogi that the world had ever known! A man who was condemned – a man who has beaten to bleed – a man who was LABELED as BAD – becomes the finest YOGI – everything is POSSIBLE – and I say it to all my followers and readers – everything is POSSIBLE – only if your HEART is pure – only if you are a man of HEART and not of HEAD.

People are shallow. The majority is shallow – they are quick to Judge – rarely they can observe – and observation without evaluation is the highest form of INTELLIGENCE!

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe. A very deep word – the Yogi only observes – deep observation. The Yogi will never label you as BAD – he will simply observe. Through this observation – he may feel sorry for you – he may feel compassion for you – he may try to HELP you and NOT condemn you.

Compassion will cure more evil than Condemnation. – H.W. Beecher

But Astrologers are quick to condemn – quick to LABEL someone as BAD and that is the greatest tragedy of this human world. It is shallow – so shallow that the real Yogi is therefore not found in this crowd – HE moves as an INDIVIDUAL – because he is perfectly aware that TRUTH happens to an Individual and not to a crowd.

Truth happens to Individuals and not to Crowds. – Osho

Your MIND is made to believe that your horoscope is BAD. The second question about finding a gemstone is a by product of your belief and it is belief that becomes the greatest hurdle between YOU and your PROGRESS.

Belief is PURE POISON. Never believe a thing. Experiment, live it thoroughly so that you can say on your own authority that it is true. – Osho

An intelligent man never believes – HE experiments – and then based on his experiments – HIS OWN EXPERIENCE – he comes to the TRUTH of the matter. It is HIS experiences that makes him a REAL MAN – an INDIVIDUAL who never believes but always experiments and enrich his life with experiences.

Belief is disastrous because it closes your MIND – once you believe that ‘Cutting your hair on a certain day is bad’ – then no matter what – you will never cut your hair on that specific day! Now there is NO proof of anything bad happening – but just because you have come to believe – you have simply closed your mind. Now even if Jesus comes – Krishna comes – Buddha comes – Mahavira comes – nobody could convince you – because you have simply closed your mind by BELIEVING that hair should not be cut on a certain day – else GOD will get angry at you!

Now what GOD has to do with what you do with your hair! There are millions and millions of people on this planet and God certainly have much better things to do than to watch who is cutting when!

But people fall for beliefs – and that is how they go on missing the many opportunities that God brings on….

If you have a belief and you come against an experience which the belief says is not possible, or – the experience is such that you have to drop the belief, what are you going to choose – the belief or the experience? The tendency of the mind is to choose the belief, to forgot about the experience. That’s how you have been missing many opportunities when God has knocked at your door. – Osho

There are women who are approached by men who are simply awesome – and yet the women go on rejecting them because they are MANGLIK!

There are men who are approached by beautiful well-cultured women and yet they go on rejecting because they belong to different community and marriage with somebody who is outside the community or caste is ‘believed’ to bring miseries to the family!

So you see – BELIEF plays a major role in people’s life – they are well educated but what they follow is BELIEF and NOT experience and that keeps them away from the TRUTH – from LOVE – from GOD!

A young man was in love. It happens – love happens at the most unexpected moment and you can’t help – you just can’t! You cannot ‘manage’ love – it is not politics!

And so the young man fell in love – and what a beautiful woman she was! Her glow, her smile, her grace – her soft voice, her understanding – the young man could not stop himself from falling in love! He was a meditative man…he was aware that he is falling in love – but still he could not stop himself! Love is very powerful – more powerful than electricity!

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity. – Neem Karoli Baba

And so love blossomed – he fell madly in love with that woman. Love is alchemist – you become what you love! And the woman was a strong believer of astrology! The young man also started believing in astrology. And then one day – something strange happened…..

The young woman came and she said “ We need to break up.”

The man was shocked. He said “What happened? Did I do anything that made you upset? Please tell me – you are breaking my heart…..”

The woman said “ There is nothing wrong with you – in fact I have been dating with you for last 10 months and you have been such a gentleman….”

“Then why are you breaking up?” asked the young man.

And the woman said “ Because my astrologer has said that your HOROSCOPE IS BAD and it is so BAD that it should be thrown away in a dustbin.”

The man fainted. She had to call an ambulance – but that was the only day when she met him – they never met again. Never.

You see – she says ‘you are a gentleman – you have been such a gentleman….all the time we were together…..’ – her EXPERIENCE says that the man is a real gem of a person – but it is HER BELIEF that overshadows the EXPERIENCE – the FACTS!

The man went into a trauma for the next 6 months until he was finally out of it!

It is a MYTH that it is only WOMEN who become victims of LOVE and RELATIONSHIPS – the majority is of MEN who suffer more than the WOMEN! On this planet there are more men – who take pills at night to overcome their breakup trauma and depressions than the women!

BELIEF plays role – a major role and not the experience. You can easily come out of the BELIEF that your HOROSCOPE is BAD – only when you put aside the monkey mind and start turning inwards! Just look inward and you become aware of the TRUTH. Then you don’t ask for beliefs. Blind people believe in light. Those who have turned inward – have the ‘eyes’ and they don’t need to believe in light – they simply see it.

But there was one blind man – who believed that there is NO LIGHT. And he was very good at logic. He was a very logical person – and the villagers were fed up of him because he would argue that to experience light – either he has to FEEL the light – smell the light or touch the light!

Now light has no smell, and you cannot feel the light – neither can you touch the light! And so the blind man would laugh at them and say “ There is no such thing as light – you all are blind like me – and you all are just fooling me – there is no light.”

The villagers had no answer. But one day – Buddha was passing by – and the villagers thought that now the moment has come – only Buddha can answer this blind man – and so they took the blind man to Buddha. They said “ This blind man is a logical man and through his logic he has been denying the fact that there is ‘light’ in this world – now only you can help us – please help us.”

Buddha said “ The blind man is right – and you all are wrong. What he needs is eyes to see and not argumentation. You have come to the wrong person – he needs a physician – take him to a good physician.”

The villagers asked “ Do you know any good physician – because we don’t have anybody in our village who can cure this man’s eyes.”

Buddha said “ You can take him to my personal physician.”

A great King had provided a personal physician to follow Buddha – just so that he can take care of Buddha’s body. And so the blind man was brought to Buddha’s physician and Buddha left the village.

After a few months, the blind man’s eyes were cured. It was not that he had lost his eyes – it was just some severe infection that had brought a certain blindness to his eyes and now his eyes were cured. The blind man was no more blind – his joy knew no bounds – the first thing he did was to ask “ Where is Buddha? where is the man who have given back – my eyes….I want to meet him….please tell me where is Buddha – where is the master…..?

Nobody could give him the address of Buddha because Buddha never lived at one place for more than a month. And so they just showed him the road through which Buddha had walked – that was the only time when they had seen the Buddha walking out of their village! And the man took to the path of Buddha – he searched and searched and he would ask everybody at every village – every town – “did you see my master – did you see the Buddha?” And people would just show him the way…they would say “ That was the road we had seen him walking…..”

For many days and weeks the man searched until one day while walking through a forest – he dropped down, he was thirsty and somebody came from behind and said “ Take some water….you must be thirsty….” and the voice….the voice moved the man’s heart – he remembered the voice, it was of the Buddha – the same conviction – the same depth – the same love – the same care – the man turned around and his eyes were filled with tears – he started crying – he could control himself – looking at the Buddha, he said “ Master……O master I have been searching for you…..look look at my eyes – they are yours – they are a gift of yours – how should I thank you – because of you I got back my eyes and to meet you – to share this joy with you, I have been searching you all this while. “

Buddha said “ Look now, I have come – now you can relax. Whenever my devotee thirsts for me – I come – my legs move towards those who are deeply in love with me – who are thirsty for my love – you relax, now I am with you.”

And the man relaxed – he relaxed so much in the existence that he went into trance – he transcended the moment Buddha touched him with His ‘Presence’ – the man became one of the greatest lover of Buddha and whenever anybody would ask him “What is the reason you love Buddha?

His would answer “Experience.”

Experience matters – not belief. The man experienced the compassion of Buddha. Buddha provided his personal physician to treat the blind man – who would offer his or her personal physician for a complete stranger? But it was Buddha’s compassion – HIS love – HIS grace that moved the blind man – to him – BUDDHA was GODLY – and Godliness is not something that can be proved or disproved by your logic. Godliness is something that only can be EXPERIENCED!

And so before you start BELIEVING that what has been told to you is the TRUTH – my appeal to you and through your question – to all my readers, followers and fellow travelers is that – instead of believing – instead of falling prey to your belief – turn inwards – and EXPERIENCE who you really are by being more and more meditative!

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves. – Osho

Once you become a meditative man – you don’t have to rely on what other’s say about you – then there is a certain depth to your life – a certain music to your life – then everything around you is the same but you are no more the same – then the ‘noise’ on the outside remains but the peace within you remains undisturbed by the noise on the outside – then you are truly transforming – then you are in the true sense – PROGRESSING – GROWING – for the real GROWTH is the GROWTH WITHIN!

When your BELIEF drives your life – you become a coward – you become a closed mind – you become fearful – and than this fear compels you to find some SUPPORT to comfort you! The gemstones that you seek is an outcome of the compulsion that is born out of fear!

And the more you go on believing – the more you would destroy all the possibilities to LIVE YOUR LIFE TO FULLEST.

Life begins where fear ends. – Osho

My whole message through this answer to you and to all my readers, followers, and fellow travelers is that FOCUS ON YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES and DROP ALL YOUR BELIEFS – only then a beautiful person within you will evolve – only then there is a possibility for you all to live a joyous, happy life!

And that is what we all are here for! To live a happy life. But it is our ignorance – our beliefs that come in the way and then you wonder “What is wrong with my life?”

Nothing is wrong with your life – if at all there is anything WRONG than it is WITHIN YOU and unless and until you start turning inwards – unless and until you start meditating – you will continue to live your life by relying on others. You will continue to focus on the outside – and you will continue to miss the fact that NOTHING on the outside can be controlled – but only from WITHIN!

Just watch. Someone today is a friend, tomorrow becomes a stranger. Someone today likes you, tomorrow dislikes you. Someone you have been trusting, betrays you someday. You should never rely on that which is on the ‘outside’ – you have absolutely no control on that which is on the ‘outside’ – people change, situations change, life goes on changing, people come and go – and there are many who will come and go…..you just have to Watch – by being a ‘witness’.

“Meditation is witnessing. To meditate means to become a witness.”

Watch from your inner sky and let the clouds float. Become just a watcher. And remember, clouds will come and go, you can remain indifferent. – Osho

Remain indifferent – remain unmoved – and you will be able to do so – only when you turn inwards – when you meditate.

And so come – come you all and sit down and meditate – what happens when you start meditating – millions and millions of thoughts start creating a lot of noise within you – and while all this happens – what you are suppose to do?

WITNESS. Just WITNESS the many thoughts that come to your mind – you don’t have to entangle your ‘self’ in those thoughts – you don’t have to entertain any of those thoughts – you just have treat all those thoughts as VISITORS – and visitors should not be served with TEA! And so never entertain the thoughts when you meditate – the very base of meditation is the WITNESSING – the more you become a WITNESS – the more you will be able to focus on the SELF without getting distracted by the THOUGHTS. When there are thoughts – it is a distraction – when there are no thoughts – it is meditation says the Bhagavan. Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi!

The key is to WITNESS while you meditate! And the same key also enables you overcome the many challenges of material life as well.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. – Ramana Maharshi

Always remember – that nothing is bad and nothing is good – it is your perception that you go on labeling people as good or bad – in reality there is nothing that can be said as good or bad. It is your INTERPRETATION – you see a flower outside your window – and you say ‘How beautiful is this flower.’ – somebody else who is walking on the road looks at the same flower and says “Looks like a boring flower – no colors, plain white.”

Now the flower exists there in its own authenticity. It has nothing to do with what OTHERS have to say about it or saying about it!

Be like that Flower! Be engrossed in your authenticity – and then millions and millions of people may go on INTERPRETING you as GOOD or BAD and yet it will not make any difference to you – you will become a dance – dancing in the breeze – just the way the flowers dance and swing in the breeze!

Be a flower – be a dance – let the belief drop out and let your experience become your guide and then the whole universe will be available to you – then nobody can disturb you – then you no more remain a limited version – you become unlimited – then you start resonating with the higher realms of consciousness – then you get the ‘wings’ to fly – and then there is no looking back – the sky is clear and you are ready to fly.

Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Confidence comes when you focus on the SELF.

SELF is represented by the SUN. SUN is the source of consciousness – the greater the consciousness the greater is the realization of the SELF.

Consciousness is within all of us – the SUN is within all of us!

There is a sun within every person. – Rumi

Righteousness is represented by JUPITER. It is through the planet Jupiter that you come to the realization of WHAT IS GOOD and WHAT IS BAD for you. People who make wrong decisions – often have an afflicted Jupiter in their birth charts – simply because they cannot realize what is truly good to their progress in life. They generally make wrong decisions in the early stage of their life – but with time – they mature and start making decisions that are well-balanced.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. – Malcolm Gladwell

COURAGE is represented by MARS and KETU. It is through MARS and KETU that you are able to show COURAGE and LEAD the pack. COURAGE comes only when you have CONFIDENCE in your ‘SELF’.

Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic. – Brene Brown

SELF is at the root of one’s confidence. And so SUN is the key – the essential key to – confidence.

Low confidence and negativity has to do more with what path you choose to walk upon. A Truthful man, a truthful woman has nothing to FEAR – for many births and rebirths – such a soul has always been walking on the PATH of TRUTHFULNESS – such a man – such a woman is beautiful – they never have to fear – they don’t know what is fear – they remain strong when the ‘tide’ is low – and they remain humble when the ‘tide’ is high!

Once you start following the TRUTH – once you start becoming a part of the TRUTH – then – then CONFIDENCE comes, then the whole world is available to you – then you are no more the same – you have TRANSFORMED into a beautiful butterfly – the ugly caterpillar has TRANSFORMED into a beautiful butterfly!

But a question may arise – How to get started?

And the answer is simple – get started with ‘Friends’ who LOVE the TRUTH!

COMPANY matters. With whom you are – matters and it matters significantly. SANGHA – or – SATSANGHA enables you to gain confidence. Listening, reading the words of TRUTH – the WORD of GOD – following the light of consciousness – brings a tremendous change and a push to your confidence level. Then you start realizing that – YOU TOO CAN CHANGE – YOU TOO CAN EXPERIENCE THE HIGHER ALTITUDES – that….YOU TOO CAN LISTEN to the melodious ‘MUSIC’ of this wonderful journey called – Life!

Many times alone you may not be able to gather that much courage, alone you may feel hopeless. But when you see many people dancing, singing, rejoicing in their ‘journey’ – great courage arises in your heart, great trust, confidence arises in yourself. You become confident that it is possible in this life to be a Buddha. – Osho

Only a man, a woman who is following the WORD of GOD – can live his or her life with confidence, with dignity, with love.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. – John 1:1 (Biblical verse)

A woman who has been cheating her husband/lover – cannot gain confidence – she may move around with a fake confidence – like a ‘sheep’ in the disguise of a lioness – but she is not the real lioness – the confidence of a ‘LIONESS’ never exists in her – it never can!

A man who has been fooling around the town cannot gain the confidence of a LION – he too is a ‘sheep’ that roams in the disguise of a lion!

CONFIDENCE COMES ONLY WHEN THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO FEEL ASHAMED OF – NOTHING TO HIDE – NOTHING TO MANIPULATE! YOU simply are as you are – you have ACCEPTED yourself in totality. And only a man -who ACCEPTS himself – becomes beautiful! He is NOT afraid of his reality – he is not hiding anything – he lives his life with absolutely no regrets – such a man always wins in the end – such a man is the real man – the real being – he is an ‘individual’ and not just a personality!

My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has- courage. He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions – into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is. – Osho

Yesterday a young man came and he said “ A girl loves me – but today she told me everything about her past – she has a ‘past’ and I got to know about it when she told me everything…..”

I told him “ She *is* the girl that you should not let go – because she loves you, she has shown the courage to tell you the truth – and a person who is truthful – is rare to find. She is worth it. Do not let her go – let her become a part of your life and your life will definitely blossom into a beautiful flower….”

To be with a truthful woman, a truthful man – is what can make your life a garden of bliss!

And TRUTH requires tremendous courage. The FEAR of losing is always there – the nature of clinging prevents you from being truthful – but then what is the value of such a life – a life lived with lies and fear?

FEAR exists – LOW CONFIDENCE exists – when you are TRYING TO BECOME – when you are NOT happy of BEING YOURSELF.

If you Want to be Trusted – BE HONEST.
If you Want to be Honest – BE TRUTHFUL.
If you Want to be Truthful – BE YOURSELF. – Buddha

The first step towards gaining CONFIDENCE is to declare to the skies – your REALITY without feeling ashamed of anything – without hesitating to open up in totality.

Only an open man can be truthful – a closed man is a man of many lies – he is a man who goes on suppressing his feelings, the truths and in the process becomes more miserable than otherwise.

You have to be with an open man – a man who is moving towards the beyond – but such a man may not be appealing to a woman – who is yet to meditate – yet to turn inward!

Once it happened – a young man and he was a meditative man fell in love with a beautiful woman. And love happens – you cannot help. It happened with this young man but after few days he comes to the master and says “ My Girlfriend says – I am cold. I am not hot. She says ‘ I don’t know nothing about love’. She may be right. But please guide…”

Now read those words again – the young man is concluding – he says “She must be right.”

The master smiles and says “She is NOT right, because you are not cold, you are COOL. And it is NOT true that you don’t know love. But people are accustomed to a Hot Love, and in their mind there are only two possibilities – either you are hot about them, or you are cold. They cannot relate to the balanced state – they simply miss.”

A man of meditation – a man of awareness NEVER becomes cold and never remains hot either: he becomes cool, calm and quiet. His love takes a totally new dimension, which will appear to ordinary people as indifference. To those who understand, his love becomes less noisy, less stupid, less retarded, less biological, but starts having a flavor of spirituality, which needs an understanding otherwise the other person – your partner or lover is bound to think you have become cold. – Osho

Why the Girlfriend of this young meditative man thinks that ‘he is cold?’

Because the young man has gone way ahead – through meditation he has moved on to the higher altitudes of love – while his girlfriend has been left behind! She is not growing in meditation – the young man is growing and so the ‘distance’ is growing between them – either the girlfriend has to catch up by being more meditative or the distance can eventually lead to a break up – because when there is NO RANGE – the ‘call’ always disconnects!

But the matter does not END here – because the young meditative man had said that ‘Maybe she is right.’

It seems that the girlfriend has become more powerful in making him think – that she is right – it is indeed a very unfortunate situation for a man who is growing in meditation but is giving up to a woman who knows nothing about meditation!

Now either he can help her to move into meditation or else she will destroy him in totality. And convincing her to move into meditation is not an easy task – every woman – every girlfriend in the very beginning throws many tantrums – she will throw pillows on you – she will try to disturb your meditations because she understands that you are slipping out of her hands – she cannot possess you anymore – meditation has given you a freedom that is beyond her understanding and she just can’t stand it – Socrates’s wife also used to disturb Socrates when he used to teach his students. Socrates was a meditative man, deeply meditative. One day his wife pour boiling water on his face – and burnt his half face for his whole life. He was teaching his students – and you will now understand what ‘coolness’ is – he simply wiped the water on his face and continued with what he was teaching.

Now the students who were witnessing all of this were shocked – they thought – how can this woman behave like this? And even if she had to – she would have done it when we were gone – at least not before us! And so now all the questions that they had come up with were forgotten and the only question that remained in their head was – WHY? WHY the master – Socrates – such a great wise man has not taken any note – of this strange behavior of his wife? Why he has not reacted or responded. Why and how can he be so COOL?

And Socrates smiled and said “ “Whatever she is capable of doing she has done. And whatever I am capable of I am doing. Our capacities are different – this nobody’s fault.”

Socrates is not angry with his wife, on the contrary he is very compassionate.

He further says “Any woman would have done the same – because I am continually concerned with my students, with philosophers coming from faraway places to visit me, and I am discussing things in which is not interested at all. Sometimes the whole day passes and I don’t have any time for her. She is a poor woman and she is behaving just as any unconscious human being is supposed to behave.”

It happens. It always happens – when the partners are not at the same level of consciousness – the friction happens – and it is always one sided – because the other side – is always COOL – compassionate and understanding!

But when both the partners – the husband and wife or the girlfriend and boyfriend are meditative beings – than the BALANCE blossoms – the relationship becomes more beautiful – then there is a song to it ,a dance, then life becomes a garden of bliss!

When you and your partner grow together in meditations – then it has a beauty of its own. No conflict is seen. When couples grow together – hand in hand, dancing the same dance – singing the same song – as they grow together the understanding also grows – then there is no trouble. But IF they both are not growing together then the one who is left behind feels offended – then he or she goes on creating troubles.

The young man realized his mistake. At least he should have tried to help his girlfriend grow along with him – at least he should have helped her to initiate meditations – because when you are in a relationship – you should try to see there is a BALANCE – and BALANCE is possible only when you and your partner – both meditate – both self realize the significance of meditations!

When you become meditative, when you become a prayerful man or woman, when you devote a certain time to your daily meditations and when you remain FIRM on the path of TRUTHFULNESS – Confidence comes naturally – the greater the willingness to remain DETACHED – the greater is the depth of SELF-CONFIDENCE.

It is only when you remain ATTACHED that you FEAR of losing – and this FEAR then prevents you from BEING TRUTHFUL – and once you move away from the path of truthfulness – you start losing on confidence – and your body then starts attracting negativity.

Always remember – Life is a flow. In this flow – one comes across many experiences – one goes through many relationships – many people – many situations – DO NOT SUPPRESS those experiences – Suppression is Suicide – Expression is Life.

When you express yourself freely – when there is absolutely no HIDING – then LIFE is STRAIGHT – and a STRAIGHT PATH always makes everything STRAIGHT in your life!

A young woman had been through multiple relationships – they all failed – but she remained open – she would not hide her past – only that woman hides her past who is NOT willing to FACE and ACCEPT her failed relationships. She is afraid of sharing her failures and so she goes on suppressing herself – which in turn impacts her confidence levels.

A woman who has ACCEPTED her PAST – has nothing to HIDE – she opens up – she looks confident – there is absolutely NO GUILT – such a woman understands life – she succeeds in her life because whatever she have been through – she never REPRESSES – she never HIDES – she ACCEPTS – and only a person who ACCEPTS her or his PAST can move on – and it is only when you move on that you can progress in life with confidence.

It all begins with being TRUTHFUL. If you had done certain mistakes – so what? You simply accept your mistakes – learn from it and move on…

To commit mistakes is NOT wrong – commit as many mistakes as possible, because that is the way you will be learning more – you will evolve. BUT don’t commit the same mistake again and again, because that makes you stupid. – Osho

By being TRUTHFUL to yourself – you are able to being TRUTHFUL with others and that makes a huge difference in your life – a significant positive difference.

People are looking into horoscopes to find out the REASON for their LOW confidence – their NEGATIVITY – and this is the GREATEST IRONY of mankind.

Horoscopes are nothing but a REFLECTION of WHAT YOU ARE. Horoscope is just a representation of – WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING FROM MANY BIRTHS AND REBIRTHS – repeating the SAME mistakes again and again and again – until a day comes in your life – when you start turning inwards – when the divine intervention of the benevolent master – brings AWARENESS to your being – then – only then the repeating cycle of mistakes stops – the vicious cycle of IGNORANCE is finally brought to end – and with this end – the new beginning – the new sun rise – the new direction to your life comes and then there is no looking back – the road is clear and you are ready to walk the talk.

Once it happened, a young prince came all the way to meet the Mahavira. And Mahavira used to live in a forest, beneath a tree – and there was no question of having any clothes because he roamed naked. There was no question of food because a little help from the forest trees was enough to take care of his body. And there was nobody with him, he lived alone….nobody knew about his whereabouts – but the young prince had found the way, it happens , it always happens – when the master wants you – you find HIS way! And so the young prince had found the way towards the master, he came, he bowed before the master and said “ I have renounced everything – now I have decided to not to go back to my Palace – I have left behind all the luxuries of the Palace, all the pleasures…..I have left forever…..now please don’t let me go back, I don’t want to go back, I had enough, now I want to live the rest of my life at your holy feet…..Master…..”

Mahavira was listening but his eyes were closed. A certain fragrance lingered around Him….his glow, his peace…..his aura – the young prince was deeply touched by just being in the omnipresence of the Mahavira.

Mahavira smiled. He said “ If that is what you want then be it so. You can stay with me.”

The young prince’s joy knew no bounds – there was nothing else that he had wished for. His wish was granted, he was let in.

But life in the forest is not an easy one! In that forest, the young prince somehow spend the first two nights. But it was becoming difficult – sleeping on the hard ground – and there were mosquitoes – many mosquitoes! And in the night the fearful voice of the wild animals….that was too scary….

After spending four sleepless nights – the young prince started missing his luxurious life, the beautiful maids, the servants, the royal bed….

On the fifth night, the young prince could not control himself – he got up – he decided to leave the master…..and as he was about to leave – suddenly the master – Mahavira – appeared before him…..

The prince was take aback – he wondered how the master came all of sudden! He bowed before Mahavira and said “ I cannot live such a difficult life….master….I came to stay with you…..but now I want to leave…..”

Such was the state of his being that his eyes became wet – life in the forest is indeed a very hard life – especially for someone who have been living a luxurious life.

Mahavira smiled, it was understandable. Mahavira also had been a Prince – A prince of a very rich kingdom. He could understand. HE touched the young prince – just a soft touch on the forehead and then left.

The next morning, when Mahavira was seated beneath the tree -the young prince came rushing towards HIM. The prince fell upon the feet of the master and started crying…..

Mahavira – the master asked “Why you cry? You have’t yet left?”

Upon listening to the words of the master – the prince said “ How can I leave you? How benevolent you are, how compassionate….yesterday with your gracious touch – I went into deep trance and in that state I went through my past births and then I realized that in my past birth also I had left you – because I wasn’t able to live the forest life. For luxurious life – I left you last time and this time also I was about to leave you ——but it was your divine intervention – your compassion that prevented me from committing the same mistake again. How can I thank you? Even if I give my whole life to you still it will be not enough…..master…all I am, all that I have – I lay them down before YOU. I will never ever leave you again. Never.” And the young prince never left the master. It is said that he went on to become one of the greatest saint that the world had ever known – AWARENESS can CHANGE YOUR LIFE. It always can.

Life goes on repeating like a WHEEL – unless you become aware – unless you become conscious of your actions.

You have to raise the level of your consciousness by being more faithful,more meditative, and more truthful.

Horoscope is simply the naked truth of all that you have been doing in the last births – this birth and the many births to come.

Horoscope is just a medium that lets you KNOW about your Journey so far and the journey beyond this human life.

The word is – KNOW. Remember this and I appeal to all my followers, – remember this – the word is – KNOW. Whenever you KNOW something – it is known through Knowing.

It is through KNOWING that you KNOW. And so KNOWLEDGE has three dimensions – KNOWER. KNOWN. And KNOWING.

You are standing before a rose plant. You are focused on the rose – you are able to KNOW the ROSE. But you it is one sided – the focus is only on the outside – the focus is only on the ROSE – you may succeed in KNOWING the ROSE – but you remain unknown to your SELF – as long as you remain pointed towards the outside world – the rose – you may know the world – you may know the rose – but that will not help in letting you know about YOUR SELF.

Knowledge reveals only the Known. The knower (your self) remains unrevealed.

And the whole essence of meditation is to help you know the knower (your self)!

The Buddha way is to forgot the ‘rose’ and focus on the ‘knower’ (yourself)!

When you look at the rose – you REMEMBER who is looking at the rose. And when you start remembering your self – the focus on the rose changes from outward to inward – and when you turn inwards – a time comes when the KNOWING (rose) is forgotten and the KNOWER (your self) is also forgotten and that is the ultimate stage of Buddha hood – a deeply meditative state of experiencing ONENESS – advait!

Buddha encourage this way of meditation – in the modern world it was again re-introduced in the form of ‘self-remembering’ – when you remember your self – the focus changes from KNOWING to KNOWER and that is the real beginning of your spiritual journey – that is when the ‘buds’ within you start flowering – start blossoming….

Like the rose – your focus is too much on your HOROSCOPE. And that is where you all go on missing. The focus should change from KNOWING to KNOWER – and that is YOUR SELF! The focus should be to look within – because what is on the outside is NOT REAL – what is in the inside is REAL and my whole effort is to help you all bring face to face with the REAL – YOUR ‘SELF’.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world? – Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

But people don’t get it. And the majority is shallow. They keep on emailing me asking about this house and that house – why this house and why that yoga. They are simply focused too much on the ROSE (Horoscope) – they are focused too much on ‘KNOWING’ – and in this futile process of ‘knowing’ they have completely missed to KNOW THE SELF – themselves! And they should not be blamed for this – because nobody has ever let them realize the fact that KNOWING is secondary – REALIZING THE SELF – is primary! And so they have been following the ROSE – and have completely lost the TOUCH – with themselves – now tell me and I ask to my close followers – tell me – how can I respond to their emails – they will not understand my language.

But to you all – my close followers, readers and men of meditations – to you all – I say and I say it again and again that the FOCUS should not be in KNOWING – the FOCUS should be on the KNOWER – that is YOUR SELF.

The human world has always been focusing a lot on the logical mind – the conscious mind – the intuitive mind is always ignored. It becomes headache for me when people with razor sharp logic come to me and start analyzing everything with their sharp logic – the essence is lost – it is simply lost.

With their RATIONAL MIND – the go on dissecting every part and parcel of astrology – of human life – of religion – of spiritualism and then they ask “ Why am I not getting the ‘answers’? Why am I not being able to experience GOD?

How will you? When your whole life you have been spending on rationalizing everything – analyzing everything…..

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. – Albert Einstein

You miss to realize the GIFT of GOD – the gift of consciousness and you go on focusing on the OUTSIDE – how will you ever be able to realize the TRUTH – there is absolutely no chance – because the way is not on the outside but inside!

And so come you all – come and focus on the inside – real growth happens always when you focus WITHIN – when you start turning inwards – when you start meditating – when you start transforming into a prayerful person – then everything comes your way – then you are no more interested to KNOW the horoscope placements and what is good and what is bad – then you are simply interested to KNOW yourself – then you simply focused in knowing the knower – and that is YOU – your SELF!

How beautiful is all this – life is short – and with days passing by – it is becoming shorter – do not let this life pass by focusing on the outside world – by focusing on the planets and the yoga and what not – the mind is super calculative – but I am for the HEART – the HEART is beautiful – your heart is also beautiful – everybody’s heart is beautiful – what comes in between you and your heart is the MONKEY MIND – the DIRTY MIND – the CUNNING MIND.

And so I am for all those who think less and FEEL MORE, you cannot deceive a man of heart – he quickly realizes who is REAL and who is FAKE!

And the whole story of this human life is to SELF REALIZE THE REAL. And the REAL is within each one of us – the more you ‘swim’ within – the more you would become REAL and the society always dislikes the REAL – because the REAL can make you wise – and the society would never want to have wise men and wise women – because then how can they exploit you – how can they loot you?

Before Buddha, the religious search was not concerned with the within but with the without; it was extrovert, and when the religious search is extrovert it is not really religious. Religion begins only with introversion, when you start diving deeply within yourself. – Osho

Always remember – there is no teacher and there is no student, there is no teaching. I am not here to teach anything – I am here to simply share something beautiful that which has happened with me – those who can relate – can benefit – those who cannot – will continue to condemn me – it is the old tradition of this human world – the TRUTH has always been condemned – though it is only the TRUTH that has remained.

Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching. – Papaji

The ‘SELF is the GURU’ says the Bhagavan – Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. This SELF is consciousness – and the divine master is also the CONSCIOUSNESS! The moment you realize the SELF – the CONSCIOUSNESS – you connect with the master. THE SELF is the GURU – beautiful – as always the compassionate master shares one of the rarest of rare diamond with us and it is truly beautiful! Touched.

People want the TRUTH – but when the TRUTH is shared they CANNOT digest it – because their MIND won’t let them. TRUTH needs NO INTELLECTUALISM – it simply needs a HEART that loves – a HEART that drives the MIND – and the HEART is intelligent – it can FEEL – and it is only when you FEEL that you start transforming into a beautiful flower!

No thoughts. No thinking. No Mind – and then you can FEEL.

You are TOO MUCH into your head – and I am saying this to all my followers – you have been taking everything that you come across – with so much of seriousness that you have forgotten the fact that life is not static – it goes on changing – CHANGE IS CONSTANT. Unburden yourself – breath – just breath and enjoy the moment – because life flows through moments – you always remember the moments and not the days!

Absorbed in this world you’ve made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. – Rumi

The WORLD is nothing but an EXTENSION OF YOUR MIND! YOUR MIND IS YOUR WORLD. Rise above your MIND and you will be able to RISE ABOVE THE WORLD – then there will be no burden – because the very feeling of being burdened is of the MIND – overcome the MIND – and you find your freedom. Then you will be able to FEEL more – and it is only when you can FEEL that you can relate to the Master. If you go to a master with all kinds of thoughts, those thoughts will function as Walls and not Bridges. To connect with the master – you need to build bridges and not walls – as long as you think too much – you may go on missing. Only those who feel can connect. And once the contact starts happening, then it takes you on the greatest journey of your life – the greatest adventure – the greatest ecstasy. And it is beautiful….

Move from thinking to feeling – it will be enough. Then from feeling to intution it is very easy. The relationship between a master and a disciple is NOT a rational thing. It is more of feeling than of thinking.Those who think too much may go on missing. Only those who FEEL – can connect with the Master. – Osho

Life always gives you a CHOICE – you can either be like Judas or you can either be like Jesus! You can either go on THINKING and THINKING and putting your HEAD in every matter of life – OR – you simply go on feeling – vibrating with the existence!

When Marry Magdalene pours the most expensive perfume on Jesus’s feet – Judas objects. He is a man of intellect – he cannot understand – he cannot relate to the deep love that Marry Magdalene has for Jesus! He argues with Jesus – he says “ The money from this expensive perfume would have feed the whole town.”

Jesus says “ In deep love, she has pour the perfume on my feet – I cannot stop her – I couldn’t stop her. The town will be there even when I am gone – but I will not be in physical form forever – in deep love – not finding a way to express her love – she has expressed it by pouring this perfume – I could not stop her.”

Jesus could feel. Judas could not. This human world is divided in two parts – Jesus and Judas! And it is up to you all to decide on which side you are! What you choose is what you become!

Meditation is the journey from the Mind towards your heart. It begins from the MIND – the mind should be turn inwards and then slowly slowly the mind merges with heart and then the work is over – it is a long journey – the journey from Mind to the Heart – someday it has to begin – millions and millions of souls are born every moment around this world – and millions die without knowing the essence – the true purpose of this human life. Even one in a million WAKES UP – it is enough – even one ‘candle’ is enough to bring ‘light’ to other ‘candles’ that are yet to be en- lightened!

Always remember – the cause of your miseries is your FEAR. This FEAR goes on killing you everyday. FEAR kills. You have not lived until you have overcome the fear that is within you. It is a chain, a vicious chain. Fear comes due to the nature of clinging. Attachments. Than this Fear gives birth to Doubts. And Doubt is Death. Life begins where Fear ENDS. How will this Fear end?
By letting in more FAITH.

The Greater the FAITH – the lesser the space is for any fear!

Let your FAITH become GREATER than your fears. Let there be more love than doubts. Only then there is a possibility to experience God – only then there is a possibility to live life with self-confidence.

Confidence comes, positivism comes, love comes only when you learn to live your life by being TRUTHFUL – by walking on the path of TRUTH.

GOD is TRUTH. And you begin in lies. Life is TRUTH and you begin in Hypocrisy. If you go on missing, it is no wonder. – Osho

When you walk the talk – when you live by following the TRUTH – when your communion is with those who love God, who are truthful beings, devoted beings – only then there is a possibility for you all to GROW. SAT SANGHA – is the key to your transformation – it is said that company matters – with whom you live matters – with whom you are friends with – matters, whom you follow – matters – because at the end of the day – it is the ‘vibrations’ that you receive is what is going to make you or break you.

The satsang is – within the mass culture – like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a Hindu and a Buddhist, come together; doesn’t matter, because those are paths. They’re paths to the One. But those satsangs are what the world needs. And as I say – heart to heart – that’s what satsang is. – Ram Dass

Mohan asked “ For SAT-SANGHA (communion) How to identify real men of values, men of heart?”

The answer is simple – for that first you have to get REAL! And to get REAL – you have to first JUMP WITHIN – look within and change the focus from OUTSIDE to INSIDE – only then can you find real gems in your life – only then you can listen to the ‘music of your life’ that others can’t – only then can you change your life – t all begins from YOU – YOU have to let change happen – YOU cannot change yourself – the old cannot change itself – it has to give way to the OTHER – and so it is only when YOU SURRENDER to your lord – your master that the change within you is initiated – this is how it happens, this is the way of its happening – the larger question that you all should ask yourself is that – ‘Are you ready to surrender?

If you are – then let me tell you from the bottom of my heart – nobody can stop you from being what you are – nobody can block you – the whole essence is in living your life in total surrender – that is what Arjuna did – that is what Ananda did, that is what Sariputa did – that is what Peter did – that is what John the baptist did – and that is what you can also do…..everything is available – and everything is possible – only if you are willing to take one step towards HIM – only if you are willing to take the backseat and let HIM drive your life.

It is only when you live your life in total surrender – that you can meditate. And it is only when you meditate that you can come to your own self realization.

You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important. – Ajahn Chah

The need of the hour is to meditate.

Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.