The Mystery beyond Mind

Talks on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Vol. 3 of the Series: Yoga: The Science of the Soul
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Osho infuses new life into the ancient sayings of Patanjali, and shows how a meditative approach can make everyday situations opportunities for awareness.

“Life has no meaning; it simply exists, and exists so beautifully without meaning that there is no need.”

The Mystery beyond Mind
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Osho infuses new life into the ancient sayings of Patanjali, and shows how a meditative approach can make everyday situations opportunities for awareness.

“Life has no meaning; it simply exists, and exists so beautifully without meaning that there is no need.”


Excerpt from: The Mystery Beyond Mind, Chapter 5

      “Patanjali – I call him the scientist of the religious world, the mathematician of mysticism, the logician of the illogical. Two opposites meet in him. If a scientist reads Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras he will understand immediately. A Wittgenstein, a logical mind, will immediately feel an affinity with Patanjali. He’s absolutely logical. And if he leads you toward the illogical, he leads you in such logical steps you never know when he has left the logic and taken you beyond it.

      “He moves like a philosopher, a thinker, and makes such subtle distinctions that the moment he takes you into nirvichara, into no-contemplation, you will not be able to see when the jump has been taken. He has cut the jump into many small steps.

      “With Patanjali you will never feel fear, because he knows where you will feel fear. He cuts the steps smaller and smaller, almost as if you move on the plain ground. He takes you so slowly that you cannot observe when the jump has happened, when you have crossed the boundary. And he is also a poet, a mystic – a very rare combination.

      “There are mystics like Tilopa, there are great poets like the rishis of the Upanishads, there are great logicians like Aristotle, but you cannot find a Patanjali. He is such a combination that since him there has been no one who can be compared to him. It is very easy to be a poet because you are out of one piece. It is very easy to be a logician – you are made of one piece. It is almost impossible to be a Patanjali because you comprehend so many opposites – and he combines them all in such a beautiful harmony. That’s why he has become the alpha and the omega of the whole tradition of Yoga.

      “In fact, it was not he who invented Yoga; Yoga is far more ancient. Yoga had been there for many centuries before Patanjali. He is not the discoverer, but he almost became the discoverer and founder just because of this rare combination of his personality. Many people had worked before him and almost everything was known, but Yoga was waiting for a Patanjali. And suddenly, when Patanjali spoke about it, everything fell in line and he became the founder. He was not the founder, but his personality is such a combination of opposites, he comprehends in himself such incomprehensible elements, he became the founder – almost the founder. Now Yoga will always be associated with Patanjali.” Osho

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